In Popular Culture
- Bob Randall's play 6 Rms Riv Vu, tells the story of a married advertising copywriter and a discontented housewife who both end up looking at the same Riverside Drive apartment. The door is locked accidentally, trapping them inside, and a connection slowly develops as they begin to share the details of their respective lives.
- In the concert Liza with a Z, Liza Minnelli performs the number 'Ring The Bells' about a woman who meets her dream man while traveling in Europe despite the fact that, initially unbeknownst to them, they'd been living next door to each other at 5 Riverside Drive.
- In the sitcom Will & Grace, Will lives at 155 Riverside Drive, as do Grace and Jack (Sean Hayes) at times throughout the series.
- Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) of the sitcom 30 Rock lives at 168 Riverside Drive.
- In the novel Illuminatus, the character, Joe Malik, lives in a brownstone on Riverside Drive.
- In the movie You've Got Mail Joe Fox lives at 152 Riverside Drive using the screen name NY152.
- In the TV show Mad Men, copywriter Freddy Rumsen lives at 152 Riverside Drive.
- The hard rock band Tora Tora have a song called Riverside Drive on their debut album Surprise Attack.
- In the USA Network series White Collar, Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) lives in the 4th floor studio of a mansion owned by elderly widow June (Diahann Carroll), located 351 Riverside Drive (the Schinasi Mansion)
- In some novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child there is a house in Riverside Drive where Agent Pendergast's (one of the novel's characters) uncle Enoch Leng lived and where Pendergast with his ward Constance Greene live now.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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