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* According to its author, [[Yasushi Akimoto]], the noted Japanese song "[[Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni]]" – the "swan song" of the noted singer [[Hibari Misora]] – was inspired by the East River.<ref>[http://www.musicman-net.com/relay/86-3.html "''第86回 秋元 康 氏''" ("86th Yasushi Akimoto")] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304200606/http://www.musicman-net.com/relay/86-3.html |date=March 4, 2014 }} {{in lang|ja}}</ref>
* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode [[The Nap (Seinfeld)|"The Nap"]], [[Cosmo Kramer]] takes up swimming in the East River.
* In the 2004 film ''[[Spider-Man 2]]'', [[Doctor Octopus]]'s run down lair is situated on the East River. This is also where the final battle between him and [[Spider-Man]] takes place and also where he sacrifices himself to stop the fusion reactor he created which would threaten all of New York City.
* In ''[[Forever (2014 TV series)|Forever]]'', the immortal Dr. Henry Morgan is reborn naked in the East River each time he dies.
* In the final ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and the Olympians]]'' novel, ''[[The Last Olympian]]'', the East River appears as a river spirit in the form of a telkhine. The East River Spirit is a rival to the Hudson River Spirit, but assists the Demigods in the Battle of Manhattan by sinking the Titan's ships.
==Views of the river==
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File:Shot factory, East River, Manhattan.jpeg|A
File:Blackwells Island East River 1862 crop.jpg|''[[Blackwells Island]] from [[86th Street (Manhattan)|Eighty Sixth Street]]'', [[Currier & Ives]] (1862); Blackwell's Island is now known as [[Roosevelt Island]]
File:Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges on the East River, New York City, 1981.jpg|[[Manhattan Bridge]] (top) and [[Brooklyn Bridge]] (bottom); Manhattan is on the left, Brooklyn on the right (1981)
File:East River Park in Fall 2008 number 3.jpg|The East River passes children playing [[American football|football]] in [[East River Park]] (2008)
File:Powells Cove BWB jeh.jpg|Powell's Cove, in [[Whitestone, Queens]]<br>(2009)
File:East River 59 jeh.JPG|The East River flows past the [[Upper East Side]]<br>(2009)
File:USA-NYC-East River.jpg|The East River with [[Brooklyn Heights]] in the background, Topsail Schooner Clipper City (2013)
File:USA-NYC-Lower Manhattan from East River.jpg|The East River and [[Lower Manhattan]] (2013)
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