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Agloe, New York, is a key plot point in John Green's 2008 novel Paper Towns and its film adaptation. The novels also references the fictitious entry "Lillian Mountweazel" with the name of the Spiegelman family's dog, Myrna Mountweazel.
New York Empires – Clubhouse [7] New York Empires – Take Me Out (play) New York Goats – The Horse That Played Center Field by Hal Higdon; New York Hilltoppers – The House of Daniel by Harry Turtledove; New York Knights – The Natural [8] New York Lions – The Last Great Season by Donald Honig; New York Loons – Rhubarb by H. Allen Smith
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New-York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley. Diedrich Knickerbocker is an American literary character who originated from Washington Irving's first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809).
Sidd Finch is a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated.
Hugo N. Frye, a fictional figure, purportedly the founder of the Republican Party in New York State, made up by Cornell University students in 1930 as a prank designed to embarrass several state politicians. Anthony Godby Johnson, (probably) fictitious author of Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story.
Some New York editors recalled that "calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk". [12] Trump stopped using the pseudonym after he was compelled to testify in court proceedings that John Barron was one of his pseudonyms.
Colchester, New York Agloe was originally a fictional hamlet in Colchester , Delaware County, New York , United States, that became an actual landmark after mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement , an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street , added to the map to catch plagiarism.