In the popular children's novel, Number the Stars, the road Østerbrogade is featured in this book in which the Annemarie and her friends are running down Østerbrogade but are then stopped by a Nazi soldier.
Together with Ravnsborggade, its continuation to the south, it forms the backbone of a small neighbourhood bounded by The Lakes to the east, Blegdamsvej to the west, Nørrebrogade to the south and Østerbrogade to the north.