In Popular Culture
- 1984: The bridge played a large role in the Steve Martin romantic comedy film The Lonely Guy, in which it is a popular spot for lonely guys to commit suicide, and the meeting place for Martin and Judith Ivey.
- 1984: The bridge is featured prominently in director Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America.
- 1994: In The Cowboy Way, the two main cowboy characters chase a B train over the bridge to rescue a friend in grave danger.
- 1995: The villain Two-Face uses the bridge's Brooklyn anchorage for his hideout in the film Batman Forever.
- 1999: In Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, the Manhattan Bridge is one of many NYC landmarks to be destroyed by the earthquake that devastates Manhattan.
- 2005: The bridge is featured prominently in Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong.
- 2006: Construction of the Manhattan Bridge appears as a sub-plot in Jed Rubenfeld's novel The Interpretation of Murder.
- 2007: The film I Am Legend shows the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges with their center spans destroyed. A flashback reveals they were hit by missiles to stop the exodus from a quarantined Manhattan.
- 2009: In the remake of the film The Taking of Pelham 123, the final showdown between Ryder and Walter Garber takes place on the south pedestrian deck of the Manhattan Bridge.
- 2009: The bridge was featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, in which the bridge is named "Algonquin Bridge".
- 2012: The bridge, placed in a fictional Gotham City, is destroyed along with neighboring Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and several fictional bridges in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
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