Knickerbocker

Knickerbocker or Knickerbockers can refer to:

Arts and media

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

Publications

• The Knickerbocker (1833–1865), a literary magazine
• 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 in Albany
• Knickerbocker Mansion, Schaghticoke
• Knickerbocker Hospital, Harlem, closed in 1979
• 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

Elsewhere

• Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington), a building on the National Register of Historic Places
• Knickerbocker Apartments (Kansas City, Missouri), demolished in 2020, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Knickerbocker Building (New Rochelle, New York), an industrial building on the National Register of Historic Places
• Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge, a bridge across the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon

Businesses and organizations

Sports teams

• New York Knicks (short for "Knickerbockers"), a National Basketball Association team
• 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
• Warwickshire Knickerbockers, a cricket team that participated in first game of cricket in France

Social organizations

• Knickerbocker Club, a private male-only social club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Greys, a youth cadet corps located in Manhattan founded in 1881
• Knickerbocker Sailing Association, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender sailing club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Yacht Club, a defunct yacht club in Port Washington, New York

Other businesses

• Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, now Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments
• The Knickerbocker Hotel, New York City
• Knickerbocker Hotel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Knickerbocker Ice Company, based in New York State during the 19th century
• Knickerbocker Press, a division of publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
• Knickerbocker Trust Company, a bank whose failure triggered the Panic of 1907

People

• Knickerbocker (surname), including a list of people and a fictional character with the surname or pen name
• An obsolete nickname for Anglo-Dutch "old line" families of New York City, Manhattan's elite or residents of New York City

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, an unincorporated community
• Knickerbocker Stakes, a horse race at Belmont Park

See also

• All pages with titles containing Knickerbocker
• Knickerbocker Case, a 1940s investigation of antisemitism at the City College of New York
• Knickerbocker Crisis, a financial crisis in the United States in 1907
• Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Washington Irving and other frequent contributors to The Knickerbocker literary magazine
• Knickerbocker Rules, early rules of American baseball
• Knickerbocker storm, a 1922 blizzard
• SKDKnickerbocker, a public affairs and consulting firm