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"Central Astoria in Queens is about a twenty-minute walk from the East River."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"All that day Maria thought of fetuses in the East River, translucent as jellyfish, floating past the big sewage outfalls with the orange peels."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"In a fashionable apartment overlooking the East River, I face an elegant silver-haired man."