06/12/2026
The New York Knicks take their name from the term "Knickerbocker," used to refer to New Yorkers for a couple of hundred years. We're going to have to go all the way back to 1809, when Washington Irving (yes, the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") wrote a historical book titled "A History of New York," told by the fictional a character Diedrich Knickerbocker. Such was the popularity of the book that the name Knickerbocker became synonymous with New Yorkers and eventually a way to refer to those who lived in the city.
Jump to 1906 and the opening of The Knickerbocker Hotel in Times Square and at its ornate barroom worked a bartender named Martini di Arma di Taggia who some say (likely apocryphally) revolutionized cocktail culture when he created the iconic dry martini, when he served one to John D. Rockefeller in 1906, within months of the hotel’s opening.
Our version of the classic cocktail (pictured above) is decidedly wet, and also briny but we named it in homage to the supposed birthplace of the original and, more importantly, in celebration of all things in a New York State of Mind.
Come in to Louie’s and enjoy $10 Dirty Knickerbockers in anticipation of game 5 of Knicks vs Spurs.
