Notable Residents
- Damon Runyon was a resident of Riverside Drive.
- George Gershwin occupied a penthouse at 33 Riverside Drive.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff owned a townhouse at 33 Riverside Drive.
- Uwe Johnson,German author, lived with his family from 1966 till 1968 at 243 Riverside Drive, today The Cliff Dwelling apartments.
- Hannah Arendt lived at 370 Riverside Drive from 1959 until her death in 1975.
- Saul Bellow lived at 333 Riverside Drive in the 1950s.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer and his family lived at 155 Riverside Drive on 88th Street.
- Will Truman, (fictional), main character from the NBC show, Will & Grace
- Paul Krugman bought an apartment with his Nobel prize in economics money.
- Oscar Madison: (fictional) the living room of Oscar's "large eight-room affair on Riverside Drive in the upper eighties" is the setting of the 1965 Neil Simon comedy, The Odd Couple.
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