Knickerbocker
A Knickerbocker is a person from Manhattan (New York City, before 1898). A modern synonym is “New Yorker”.
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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 popularization
Writers
- Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Washington 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 Crisis, three-week financial crisis in the United States in 1907
- Knickerbocker storm, 1922 blizzard that demolished Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC
- Knickerbocker Case, late 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, a "one hit wonder" American pop/rock music group best remembered for their 1965 hit "Lies"
- "Knickerbocker", a 2008 song by Fujiya & Miyagi
- "Hey, Mr. Knickerbocker", a children's song about a man who likes to "boppity-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
- Knickerbocker Apartments (Kansas City, Missouri), listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (demolished in 2020)
Organizations
- 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
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