[6] During India's independence movement, this street was previously considered as "communally sensitive" neighbourhood of the city.

[7] On 1 April 1930, The Vancouver Sun newspaper reported— "four more were killed in rioting this afternoon in Harrison Road, which is the usual storm quarter in this region.

Road runs from Sealdah Flyover (Vidyapati Setu) in the eastern limit to the threshold of Howrah Bridge in the west.

The lines of the poem were— Howrah-r bridge chole mosto she bichhe, Harrison road chole tar pichhe, pichhe (the approximate English translation: The Howrah Bridge is moving as if a large centipede and the Harrison Road moves behind it).

[11] Saradindu Bandopadhyay's famous fictional character, Byomkesh Bakshi - India's putative foremost detective, lived on Harrison Road in the second floor of a three-storied building along with his friend and associate Ajit Banerjee and domestic help, Putiram.