The Merritt Parkway in Popular Culture
- Jennifer Jones was returned home by the State Police who found her walking on the Merritt Parkway after running out of gas in the 1956 film The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit starred Gregory Peck as Jones's husband.
- Willem de Kooning painted a large oil canvas titled "Merritt Parkway" in 1959. It is owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Richard Shindell wrote an instrumental piece entitled "Merritt Parkway, 2 AM." The song can be found on his album, Somewhere Near Paterson, which was released in 2000.
- One of Denise Levertov's poems is about the parkway.
- JD Salinger mentions the Parkway in his story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut".
- The parkway is mentioned in the Titus Andronicus song "A More Perfect Union".
- The Road Taken...The Merritt Parkway, a 2008 documentary film by Lisa Seidenberg
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