Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123

This is simply a database of the location of each exterior changeable successful New York City from the classical 1974 crime movie The Taking of Pelham 123.

Most of the film, which concerns a subway hijacking, return places underground, but location are astir 40 exterior shots successful Manhattan. The filmmakers evidently took attraction to usage existent locations that lucifer the action successful the movie (i.e., erstwhile the subway train is parked adjacent the 28th Street station, the aboveground constabulary section bid was filmed astatine 28th Street and Park Avenue), pinch only a fewer continuity breaks. Despite the transition of 50 years, astir each the exterior shots are still easy identifiable successful the modern city.

Timestamps are from the YouTube video, which is free to watch pinch ads arsenic of July 2026.

Highlights

• 56:26–59:58 A constabulary convoy transports the ransom money from the Federal Reserve Bank successful Lower Manhattan to the section office astatine 28th Street, passing done the Financial District, Civic Center, SoHo, and the East Village.

Comprehensive list

Entering the subway

• 1:41 Lexington Avenue and 59th Street, facing north; Bloomingdale's section shop astatine correct (StreetView)

Subsequent interior shots successful the subway are the existent Lexington and 59th Street station.

Gracie Mansion

• 32:19 Gracie Mansion connected the Upper East Side (the mayor's charismatic residence)

FDR Drive

• 40:08 FDR Drive conscionable northbound of the Manhattan Bridge, facing southbound (StreetView)
• 40:12 FDR Drive conscionable southbound of the Williamsburg Bridge (StreetView)
• 40:43 Just northbound of the Brooklyn Bridge, facing southbound (StreetView)
  • Minor continuity break: the car is heading northbound but this location is southbound of erstwhile shots.
• 40:51 Probably by Corlears Hook Park connected the FDR Drive, facing southbound (StreetView)
• 41:01 Just southbound of the Williamsburg Bridge connected the FDR Drive, facing southbound (StreetView), past conscionable northbound of the span astatine 41:11 (StreetView)
• 46:18 FDR Drive astir 51st Street, facing northbound – perchance taken from the footbridge (StreetView)

Field office astatine 28th Street

• 40:30 and 41:08 Park and 28th facing westbound (StreetView)
• 1:02:25 Back astatine Park and 28th (StreetView)
• 1:19:55 Park and 28th again, panning to a broader position of the thoroughfare (StreetView)

Transporting the ransom money

• 49:36 Interior courtyard of the Federal Reserve Bank successful the Financial District
  • Labeled arsenic such, though I don't spot a courtyard aliases outer vehicular entranceway connected the existent building, nor tin I lucifer the building seen successful the inheritance to immoderate of the surrounding buildings.
• 56:26 uncertain
  • The "Italian Line" building appears to beryllium this one astatine Platt and William, but I can't find a position that matches the shot.
• 56:36 Pine Street and Pearl Street (StreetView)
• 56:43 Pine Street facing west, betwixt Pearl and William (StreetView)
• 56:56 uncertain
• 56:57 Nassau Street conscionable southbound of Beekman Street, facing northbound (StreetView)
• 57:05 Park Row astatine City Hall, facing west, pans northbound to the Manhattan Municipal Building (StreetView)
• 57:28 Wall Street and Broad Street (StreetView)
  • Continuity break: This is good southbound of the erstwhile shot.
• 57:30 South extremity of Foley Square, facing northbound (StreetView)
  • I fishy the thoroughfare has narrowed aliases been somewhat rerouted since the 1970s arsenic I cannot recreate the nonstop position successful the shot.
• 57:37 Centre Street and Worth Street, facing northbound (StreetView)
• 58:29 Centre Street and Broome Street, facing northbound (StreetView)
• 58:41 Cleveland Place conscionable northbound of Kenmare Street, facing northbound (StreetView)
• 58:44 Cleveland Place and Spring Street, facing southbound (StreetView), past astatine 58:57 facing northbound (StreetView)
• 59:49 Lafayette Street betwixt 4th Street and Astor Place, facing northbound (StreetView)
  • In the film, the policeman radios that they are crossing Houston Street, but the changeable is really a fewer blocks northbound of that: announcement Colonnade Row astatine the contiguous left.
• 59:58 Lafayette Street astatine Astor Place, facing northbound (StreetView); later facing southbound astatine 1:00:02 (StreetView) and facing northbound again astatine 1:01:01 (StreetView)

The pursuit

• 1:17:51 Park Avenue and 17th Street, facing southbound (StreetView), past facing northbound astatine 1:17:58 (StreetView)
• 1:19:58 14th Street astatine the southeast area of Union Square, facing westbound (StreetView)
• 1:20:15 and again 1:21:06 Back astatine Park Avenue and 17th Street, facing south
• 1:25:13 Broadway conscionable southbound of 4th Street, facing northbound (StreetView)
• 1:27:06 Broadway astatine Bond Street, initially facing northbound (StreetView) past turning eastbound down Bond (StreetView)
• 1:29:26 Astor Place again, panning northbound (StreetView)
• 1:30:21 Union Square East facing westbound (StreetView)
• 1:30:36 Same location, facing southbound and past panning north