Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Literature

• In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway traverse the bridge on their way from Long Island to Manhattan. "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge," Nick says, "is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world".
• In E.B. White's novel Charlotte's Web, Charlotte tells Wilbur that the bridge took eight years to build, while she could have built a web in a night.

Music

• The Simon & Garfunkel song "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" uses the bridge as its namesake.
• It is also cited in the Jack's Mannequin song, "Diane, the Skyscraper," on the Dear Jack EP.
• It is also mentioned by rapper and Queensbridge resident MC Shan in his song "The Bridge".

Film

• In the 1932 Paramount Pictures light comedy film titled No Man of Her Own, starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Lombard's character looks out of her hotel window to a view across the East River and the Queensboro Bridge, and refers to "Blackwell's Island", now known as Roosevelt Island.
• In the 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, it is seen several times as backdrop to the city dump where the "forgotten men" live.
• In Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan, Allen's and Diane Keaton's characters relax on a bench in front of it at dawn; it became the film's poster image.
• It has been used as the backdrop of scenes in 1981's Escape from New York.
• The climax of the 1985 film Turk 182! takes place on and around the Queensboro Bridge.
• It has been used as the backdrop of scenes in the 2002 film Spider-Man.
• In the 2003 slapstick comedy film Anger Management, Dave Buznik (played by Adam Sandler) and Dr. Buddy Rydell (played by Jack Nicholson), stop their car in the middle of the bridge to sing "I Feel Pretty".

Television

• It has been shown in the credits of the television series Archie Bunker's Place, The King of Queens, Taxi, and Alphas.
• It is referenced in the opening theme of The King of Queens, in the line "...sitting here in traffic, on the Queensboro Bridge tonight."
• It is referenced in The Simpsons episode "You Only Move Twice", when Hank Scorpio destroys it to show that he's not bluffing.