In Culture
- Robert McCloskey's 1941 children's book Make Way for Ducklings features a mother duck leading her eight ducklings across Beacon Street, with the help of four members of the Boston Police Department.
- The Beacon Street Girls series of preteen books is set around Beacon Street in Brookline.
- Nanci Griffith's 1987 album Lone Star State of Mind has a song called Beacon Street.
- Beacon Street is the location of the fictional pizza parlor "Beacon Street Pizza" during the first season of the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl.
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