Knickerbocker

Knickerbocker or Knickerbockers may refer to:

People

• Knickerbocker (surname), including a list of people with the surname

Writers

• Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Irving and other frequent contributors to The Knickerbocker
• Cholly Knickerbocker, a pseudonym used by a series of society columnists writing for the New York American and the New York Journal-American
• Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving
• Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, American writer and journalist
• Suzy Knickerbocker, a pseudonym for columnist Aileen Mehle

Places

• Knickerbocker, Texas, a community in the western part of the state

Historical events

• Knickerbocker Case, late 1940s investigation of antisemitism at the City College of New York
• Knickerbocker Storm, event which demolished the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC
• Knickerbocker Crisis, a three-week financial crisis in the United States

Arts and media

For writers, see § Writers.

Film, television, and theatre

• Knickerbocker Holiday, a 1938 musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
• The Knick, an American television drama series at the Knickerbocker Hospital
• The Knickerbocker Buckaroo, a 1919 American silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks

Music

• The Knickerbockers, a "one hit wonder" American pop/rock music group best remembered for their 1965 hit "Lies"
• "Knickerbocker", a 2008 song by Fujiya & Miyagi
• "Mr. Knickerbocker", a children's song about a man who likes to "bobbity-bop", popularized on the children's television show Barney & Friends

Publications

• The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine (1833–1865), a literary magazine founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman
• The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of books for children by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books

Buildings and infrastructure

New York

• Knickerbocker Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a New York City subway station
• Knickerbocker Field Club, an historic tennis clubhouse located in Flatbush, Brooklyn
• Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages, two attached stone buildings on Hudson Avenue in central Albany, New York
• Knickerbocker Mansion, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
• Knickerbocker Hospital, Harlem, New York, closed in 1979
• The Knickerbocker Hotel (Manhattan), New York City
• Knickerbocker Village, a housing project in New York City
• United States Post Office–Knickerbocker Station, a historic post office in New York City
• Times Union Center, formerly the Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York

Elsewhere

• Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington), a building listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
• Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge, a bridge across the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.), demolished by the Knickerbocker Storm
• Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles), now Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments
• Knickerbocker Hotel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), also known as Knickerbocker on the Lake

Organizations

For sports teams, see § Sport.

• Knickerbocker Club, private male-only social club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Greys, afterschool program in New York City
• Knickerbocker Ice Company, an ice company based in New York State during the 19th century
• Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988
• Knickerbocker Press, a division of publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Knickerbocker Sailing Association, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender sailing club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Trust Company, a bank whose failure triggered the Panic of 1907
• Knickerbocker Yacht Club, a defunct yacht club in Port Washington, New York
• SKDKnickerbocker, a public affairs and political consulting firm

Sport

• Knickerbocker Athletic Club football team, an early-20th-century American football team
• Knickerbocker Rules, an early formalization of the rules of American baseball
• New York Knickerbockers, one of the first baseball teams
• New York Knicks (short for "Knickerbockers"), a National Basketball Association team
• Westchester Knicks, a minor league basketball affiliate of the New York Knicks
• Warwickshire Knickerbockers, a cricket team that participated in first game of cricket in France
• Knickerbocker Handicap, a grade III thoroughbred turf race at Belmont Park

Other uses

• Knickerbockers (clothing), men's or boys' baggy knee trousers
• USS Knickerbocker (SP-479), a United States Navy tug, minesweeper, and dispatch ship in commission from 1917 to 1919
• Knickerbocker glory, a layered ice cream sundae
• A resident of New York City
• Manhattanite, a resident of Manhattan
• Knickerbocker, a New York Central night train from St. Louis to destinations in New York City and Boston

See also

• Knickers, underwear worn by women
• New Yorker (disambiguation)