 The Transit Authority (TA) of New York at first refused to allow the  film to be shot on the actual New York subway. They feared it would  lead to imitative crime (it didnt, but their position was shown to  be reasonable when the later film _Money Train (1995)_ (qv)  apparently did). Associate producer Stephen F. Kesten (qv) was  equally adamant that no other citys subway could be credibly used  (and he was apparently right: see the goofs entry for the remake  _Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1998) (TV)_ (qv)). The TA  finally did cooperate after Mayor John V. Lindsay (I) (qv)  intervened, but they required United Artists to buy anti