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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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“But popular rage,
Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down.
None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part
Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)