Appearances in Popular Culture
- The bridge was featured in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind.
- The bridge has appeared in the HBO prison drama Oz.
- The bridge has appeared in the background on a few episodes on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
- The bridge was featured in the 2005 science fiction film, War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise, appearing in the background several times in the scenes set in the lead character's Bayonne home, and is destroyed in an attack by aliens.
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