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

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

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

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

Sports teams

 * Knickerbocker Athletic Club football team, an early-20th-century American football team
 * 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

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