11 Facts About The Knickerbocker

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865.

The Knickerbocker was devoted to the fine arts in particular with occasional news, editorials and a few full-length biographical sketches.

The Knickerbocker was one of the earliest publications of its type to pay its contributing writers.

The Knickerbocker later had been associated with the poet, Nathaniel Parker Willis, as associate editor of the New York Home Journal from September 1854, until Willis' death, then became chief editor and sole proprietor.

At the time, "The Knickerbocker" was a term for Manhattan's aristocracy.

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The Knickerbocker was an imaginary personage created by Washington Irving to promote his new book at the time, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.

However, though people soon realized it was a hoax, Diedrich The Knickerbocker became a much-loved character and legend for those of the city of New York.

The Knickerbocker is the namesake of the New York basketball team, The Knicks.

However, the second issue was published with the title changed to The Knickerbocker including another conversation with Diedrich The Knickerbocker in which he says "I wish thee to restore my name to its original spelling as it stands in my celebrated History; so as fortune has given immortal glory to what some would consider a discreditable mistake I will even take it as it came and add the 'O' to the end of time.

The Knickerbocker was devoted to the fine arts in particular with occasional news and editorials.

Some famous works first published in The Knickerbocker that have influenced environmental thought include:.