# Knickerbocker

Knickerbocker or Knickerbockers may also refer to:

## People

* Knickerbocker (surname), including a list of people with the surname, and an explanation of the term's 19th-century popularity

### Groups

* Knickerbockers, an imagined New York aristocracy said to descend from the Dutch colony of New Netherland; invented by Washington Irving in A History of New York
** Specifically, as a demonymic nickname: A denizen of the borough of Manhattan, New York City

### Writers

* Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Washington Irving and other frequent contributors to The Knickerbocker literary magazine
* Cholly Knickerbocker, a pseudonym used by a series of society columnists in 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 of columnist Aileen Mehle

## Historical events

* Knickerbocker Crisis, a financial crisis in the United States in 1907
* Knickerbocker storm, a 1922 blizzard
* Knickerbocker Case, a 1940s investigation of antisemitism at the City College of New York

## Arts and media
### 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, an American music group best known for their 1965 hit "Lies"
* The Knickerbockers, an alias of Ben Selvin and His Orchestra
* "Knickerbocker", a 2008 song by Fujiya & Miyagi
* "Hey, Mr. Knickerbocker", a children's song popularized on 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 children's books by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books
* Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988

## Buildings and infrastructure
### New York

* Knickerbocker Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a New York City subway station
* Knickerbocker Field Club, a tennis clubhouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn
* Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages, two stone buildings on Hudson Avenue in 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 post office in New York City
* Times Union Center, formerly the Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York

### Elsewhere

* Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington), a building
* Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge, a bridge across the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon
* Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
* Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles), now Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments
* Knickerbocker Hotel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), also known as Knickerbocker on the Lake
* Knickerbocker Apartments (Kansas City, Missouri), demolished in 2020

## Organizations

* Knickerbocker Club, a private male-only social club in New York City
* Knickerbocker Greys, an afterschool program in New York City
* Knickerbocker 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 consulting firm

## Sport
### Sports teams

* Knickerbocker Athletic Club football team, an early-20th-century American football team
* Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York, 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

### Other uses in sport

* Knickerbocker Rules, early rules of American baseball
* Knickerbocker Stakes, a horse race at Belmont Park

## Other uses

* Knickerbockers (clothing), baggy knee trousers
* USS Knickerbocker (SP-479), a US Navy tug, minesweeper, and dispatch ship in commission from 1917 to 1919
* Knickerbocker glory, a layered ice cream sundae from the United States and United Kingdom
   * Knickerbocker (Zamboanga), an ice cream dessert with various fresh fruits from the Philippines
* Knickerbocker, a New York Central train from St. Louis to New York City and Boston
* Knickerbocker, Texas