Popular Culture
- The entertainment film The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), starring Jimmy Stewart, features Charles Lindbergh's historical flight to Paris from Roosevelt Field in Garden City in 1927. Its first few scenes occur at the Garden City Hotel, where Lindbergh and the press corps covering the event spent the night prior to his flight. The opening shot of the film's first scene shows the hotel's front exterior and sign. Subsequent scenes take place in Roosevelt Field.
- Musician John Tesh's fourth album, released in 1989, is titled Garden City (Cyprus Records), an homage to his hometown, and includes a song with the same title. The record company he created in 1995 and currently owns is Garden City Records.
- In episode 7.8 of the television comedy series All in the Family (titled "Beverly Rides Again"), originally broadcast on 11/6/76, Archie Bunker tries to impress a fellow Queens resident by falsely introducing the "blind date" he chose for him as a Garden City resident. (Archie's gesture is actually a prank of revenge, as the classy "date" is a female impersonator.)
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