If you've ever wondered how the New York Knicks got their name, it turns out it all began with author Washington Irving, famous for 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle.'
Dec 8, 2020 8:58 PM"A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker""A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker"You probably know that the full name of the New York Knicks—one of our beloved, disastrous local basketball teams—is actually the New York Knickerbockers.
At that time, there was very little historical scholarship about the city: "Irving found that most New Yorkers were totally ignorant of details of the city’s Dutch history, even that it was once called New Amsterdam, which gave him a lot of room to play fast and loose with the facts, for laughs," said Charles Cuykendall Carter, Assistant Curator at the New York Public Library.
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