- Typically only responded with "Name" when asked for his name; a few members of the Warhol circle knew him as Billy. Hence the sobriquet "Billy Name".
- Referenced in the The Velvet Underground song "That's The Story Of My Life"; "But Billy said/That both those words (wrong and right) are dead... That's the story of my life."
- He returned to his hometown, Poughkeepsie, New York, after hitchhiking around the U.S. After returning to Poughkeepsie, he went back to college and got a graduate degree in business administration.
- In August 2002, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring a photograph by him of Andy Warhol.
- He met Andy Warhol while working as a waiter at Serendipity 3 at their original location at 234 East 58th Street.
- Is portrayed by James Lyons in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
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