In Popular Culture
- The New York Naval Shipyards are featured in the 2008 video game Tom Clancy's EndWar, as a playable battlefield. In the game, the Shipyards are constructing a new aircraft carrier called the USS Reagan.
- The Shipyards are featured in 2000 video game Deus Ex, as a playable level in which the protagonist must scuttle a freighter docked at the base.
- The Shipyards are parodied in the 2008 video game, Grand Theft Auto IV, where the game's version of the Shipyards are known as the Broker Navy Yard.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)