In Popular Culture
- Some scenes in the 1974 cult classic film Death Wish, including the infamous climatic gun battle, were filmed in Riverside Park
- The "Baseball Furies", one of the more memorable street gangs from the 1979 film The Warriors hail from Riverside Park. The park itself featured in two scenes from the film. Once where it was meant to be Van Cortlandt Park, another as the actual park when the Warriors are being chased by the Furies.
- The promenade at 91st Street in the park is where Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meet at the end of the 1998 movie You've Got Mail.
- The Seinfeld episode "The Frogger" revolved around Jerry not wanting to go near a girlfriend's apartment near Riverside Park because of a serial killer named "The Lopper" who killed in the area.
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