Floyd Bennett Field - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In his best-selling novel Netherland, Joseph O'Neill locates the site of the character Chuck Ramkissoon's proposed New York Cricket Club and ground at Floyd Bennett Field. The character and events are based on reality.
  • The field appears in the 2007 crime drama We Own The Night.
  • The field is used as a makeshift headquarters for Delta Force in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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