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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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The poet will prevail to be popular in spite of his faults, and in spite of his beauties too. He will hit the nail on the head, and we shall not know the shape of his hammer. He makes us free of his hearth and heart, which is greater than to offer one the freedom of a city.”
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