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==In popular culture== {{popcruft|section|date=October 2023}} ===Book publishing=== *Bridge & Tunnel Books is a literary press in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania. * ''New York Times'' reporters [[Jodi Kantor]] and [[Megan Twohey]] described [[Debra Katz#Irwin Reiter|Irwin Reiter]], vice president for accounting and financial reporting at the [[Weinstein Company]], as having a "'bridge-and-tunnel' cadence to his speech."<ref>''She Said,'' page 108 (2019), Penguin Press, New York</ref> ===Film=== *In ''[[Boiler Room (film)|Boiler Room]]'' (2000) reference is made to a group, while celebrating Seth's Series 7 in New York, about trying to impress the "bridge and tunnel crowd." *The movie ''[[Loser (film)|Loser]]'' (2000) makes a reference to bridge and tunnel girls when one of Jason Biggs's character's ex-roommates calls his girlfriend by that term. *In ''[[Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'' (2008), Norah makes a reference to Nick's being "bridge and tunnel", to which Caroline replies, "If he's bridge and tunnel, what does that make us?" *In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' (2008), the [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] tricks Gotham into escaping via ferry by having his hostage declare on the news that "...{{nbsp}}the bridge and tunnel crowd are sure in for a surprise." *In ''[[Greenberg (film)|Greenberg]]'' (2010), Roger Greenberg, who resides in New York City, doesn't want to go to a bar in Los Angeles on a Friday night because it's "probably full of bridge and tunnel people. Or whatever the L.A. version of bridge and tunnel is."<ref>[http://www.focusfeatures.com/mediaroom/video/greenberg_berlin_press_conference focusfeatures.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722130746/http://www.focusfeatures.com/mediaroom/video/greenberg_berlin_press_conference |date=2011-07-22 }}</ref> *In ''[[Paranoia (2013 film)|Paranoia]]'' (2013), Emma makes a reference to Adam's being "bridge and tunnel", after her attempt to lose Adam after their one night stand. * ''[[Bridge and Tunnel (film)|Bridge and Tunnel]]'' (2014) is a feature film written and directed by [[Jason Michael Brescia]], set on Long Island. === Gaming === * The term was used in the game to describe the crowd of the Bahama Mamas nightclub in [[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony]]. ===Music=== *Bridge and Tunnel are a New York City-based punk/post-hardcore band, with a number of releases on the [[No Idea Records]] label. *[[The Honorary Title]], a New York City-based rock band, released a song called "Bridge and Tunnel" as a single from their 2004 album ''Anything Else but the Truth''. *[[Holy Ghost!]], a Brooklyn synthpop duo, have a song called "Bridge and Tunnel" on their 2013 album ''Dynamics''. *[[Sun Kil Moon]]'s [[Mark Kozelek]] refers to fans of the band [[The War on Drugs (band)|The War on Drugs]] as being bridge and tunnel people in a 2014 rhetoric song surrounding an on-stage festival incident between the two bands, titled "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/56989-here-it-is-mark-kozeleks-song-called-war-on-drugs-suck-my-cock/|title=Here It Is: Sun Kil Moon's Song "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock"|last=Minsker|first=Evan|publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]]|date=October 7, 2014|accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref> *The 2018 single [[Four Out of Five]] by [[Arctic Monkeys]] also features the term in the song's lyrics: "Mr. Bridge and Tunnel on the Starlight Express".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genius.com/14545456|title=Mr. Bridge and Tunnel on the Starlight Express|website=Genius|language=en|access-date=2018-08-01}}</ref> ===Television=== *In the first season of the television comedy ''[[30 Rock]],'' [[Liz Lemon]]'s boyfriend is referred to as being "a little bridge and tunnel." *In the episode "The War at Home" of ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'', [[Robert Goren|Detective Goren]] refers to two types that attend the particular night club that the victim did as "Bridge and Tunnel" and Military. *In the pilot episode ("Flowers for Your Grave") of the television show ''[[Castle (TV series)|Castle]]'', Rick Castle tells Beckett that she's "not bridge and tunnel [because there is] no trace of the boroughs when you talk." *''[[Bridge and Tunnel (Agent Carter)|Bridge and Tunnel]]'' is the name of an episode of Marvel's [[Agent Carter (TV series)|Agent Carter]] television series. *In the episode "[[D-Girl (The Sopranos episode)|D-Girl]]" of [[The Sopranos]], an obnoxious patron at a Manhattan bar calls [[Christopher Moltisanti]] a "bridge and tunnel boy." *In the episode "Kimmy Kidnaps Gretchen!" of [[Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt]] Titus Andromedon calls Mikey a "bridge and tunnel tadpole". *In the episode "Victoria" of [[Human Target (2010 TV series)|Human Target]] Christopher Chance tells Princess Victoria "I believe the term is: Bridge and Tunnel" *In the episode "The Anniversary" of [[Red Oaks]] Skye tells David that an art friend of hers said he was "bridge and tunnel". *In the episode "Citizen Ship" Of [[Broad City]] Iliana and Abbi make fun of "bridge and tunnel bros". *In the episode "Mother of the Year" of [[Pose (TV series)]] Elektra refers to customers at Indochine as the "bridge and tunnel crowd". *In the episode "Haven is for Real" of [[Future Man (TV series)]] Wolf says to Tiger about Haven "Tiger, this place is bridge and tunnel. Let's bounce." *In the episode [[Father and the Bride]] of [[Gossip Girl (TV series)]] [[Blair Waldorf]] tells Beatrice "I have never been so happy to be surrounded by bridge-and-tunnel types" while partying at Panchito's for her bachelorette party. * In the opening episode of season 4 of You, the main character Joe makes reference to the ‘bridge & tunnel crowd’ via his internal monologue whilst walking through London. * [[Bridge and Tunnel (TV series)]] is a 2021 American comedy drama television series written, directed and produced by [[Edward Burns]] for Epix that ran for two seasons. *In the episode "Mazel, Meredith" of ''[[The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City]]'', [[Lisa Barlow]] refers to [[Britani Bateman]]'s nail gems as "a little bridge and tunnel". The show's chyron translated the phrase to mean "unsophisticated". *In the first episode of ''[[2 Broke Girls]]'', Peach Landis, the Manhattan socialite diva main character Max Black babysits for, tells her "Oh, thank God, you're here! There's a bridge-and-tunnel smell over by the babies that's stressing me out." ===Theater=== *''[[Bridge and Tunnel (play)|Bridge & Tunnel]]'' is the title of a 2006 critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning Broadway play
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