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===Filling in the river===
Filling in part of the river was also proposed in 1867 by engineer James E. Serrell, later a city surveyor, but with emphasis on solving the problem of Hell Gate. Serrell proposed filling in Hell Gate and building a "New East River" through Queens with an extension to [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]].<ref name=unbound127/><ref>[[New York Public Library]] (1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=MpZJAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22James
Variations on Serrell's plan would be floated over the years. A pseudonymous "Terra Firma" brought up filling in the East River again in the ''Evening Post'' and ''[[Scientific American]]'' in 1904, and [[Thomas Edison|Thomas Alva Edison]] took it up in 1906. Then Thomas Kennard Thompson, a bridge and railway engineer, proposed in 1913 to fill in the river from Hell Gate to the tip of Manhattan and, as Serrell had suggested, make a new canalized East River, only this time from [[Flushing Bay]] to [[Jamaica Bay]]. He would also expand Brooklyn into the Upper Harbor, put up a dam from Brooklyn to [[Staten Island]], and make extensive landfill in the Lower Bay. At around the same time, in the 1920s, Dr. John A. Harriss, New York City's chief traffic engineer, who had developed the first traffic signals in the city, also had plans for the river. Harriss wanted to dam the East River at Hell Gate and the Williamsburg Bridge, then remove the water, put a roof over it on stilts, and build boulevards and pedestrian lanes on the roof along with "majestic structures", with transportation services below. The East River's course would, once again, be shifted to run through Queens, and this time Brooklyn as well, to channel it to the Harbor.<ref>Koeppel (2015), pp.221–226</ref>
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North of the power plant can be found [[Socrates Sculpture Park]], an illegal dumpsite and abandoned landfill that in 1986 was turned into an outdoor museum, exhibition space for artists, and public park by sculptor [[Mark di Suvero]] and local activists. The area also contains Rainey Park, which honors Thomas C. Rainey, who attempted for 40 years to get a bridge built in that location from Manhattan to Queens. The [[Queensboro Bridge]] was eventually built south of this location.<ref name=concrete89 />
In 2011, [[NY Waterway]] started operating its East River Ferry line.<ref name=":10" /> The route was a 7-stop East River service that runs in a loop between [[East 34th Street Ferry Landing|East 34th Street]] and [[Long Island City|Hunters Point]], making two intermediate stops in Brooklyn and three in Queens. The ferry, an alternative to the New York City Subway, cost $4 per one-way ticket.<ref name=":10">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/nyregion/east-river-ferry-service-begins-with-7-stops.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/nyregion/east-river-ferry-service-begins-with-7-stops.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited|title=East River Ferry Service Begins|
In February 2012 the federal government announced an agreement with [[Verdant Power]] to install 30 [[Tidal power|tidal turbines]] in the channel of the East River. The turbines were projected to begin operations in 2015 and are supposed to produce 1.05 megawatts of power.<ref>{{cite web|title=Turbines Off NYC East River Will Create Enough Energy to Power 9,500 Homes|url=http://energy.gov/articles/turbines-nyc-east-river-will-create-enough-energy-power-9500-homes|author=[[United States Department of Energy]]|access-date=February 13, 2012}}</ref> The strength of the current foiled an earlier effort in 2007 to tap the river for [[tidal power]].<ref>{{cite news |title=East River Turbines Face Upstream Battle |first=Dave |last=Hogarty |url=http://gothamist.com/2007/08/13/east_river_turb.php |newspaper=[[Gothamist]] |date=August 13, 2007 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521082250/http://gothamist.com/2007/08/13/east_river_turb.php |archive-date=May 21, 2011 }}</ref>
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==In popular culture==
*[[Brecker Brothers|The Brecker Brothers]] performed a song named after the river that is featured on their album ''Heavy Metal Be-Bop'' (1978)
* 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>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicman-net.com/relay/86-3.html |title=第86回
* 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.
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