In Popular Culture
- The Brecker Brothers performed a song named after the river and is featured on their 1978 album Heavy Metal Be-Bop.
- Kramer decided to swim in the East River for exercise in the Seinfeld episode "The Nap".
- In the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the Russian Navy had taken control of the river as part of their invasion of the East Coast of the United States in the fictitious Russo-American War.
- According to words of its author Yasushi Akimoto, one of the best known Japanese songs Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni ("swan song" of the famous singer Hibari Misora) also was inspired by this river.
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