New York · shot summer 1975 · released 1976
Martin Scorsese filmed it on the streets it shows. Most of them have changed out of all recognition. Flag the cab and run the meter between the places that are left.
The fare map
In the summer of 1975 a New York cab charged 65 cents for the first sixth of a mile and 10 cents for each sixth after: the 1974 rate, which held until 1977. Today a yellow cab charges $3.00 to start and 70 cents for each fifth of a mile. Pick a pick-up and a drop-off; the meter runs both, as the crow flies.
Choose a pick-up
Vacant
0.00 of 0.95 miles · The Belmore Cafeteria site → Times Square
The drum clicks every sixth of a mile.
Drop-off · Broadway and Seventh Avenue, 42nd to 47th Streets
Travis and Betsy walk through the theatre district.
Broadway there is now closed to cars and is a walkway.
Open all night, every night. Broadway at 45th Street, where Travis and Betsy walk, is now a pedestrian plaza.
Through the glass · Broadway at 45th Street
Travis and Betsy walk through the theatre district at 45th Street and Broadway. Broadway there is now closed to cars and is a walkway.
In the 1970s the drug trade deeply affected Times Square, says the district’s own history.
Open all night, every night. Broadway at 45th Street, where Travis and Betsy walk, is now a pedestrian plaza.
Travis takes Betsy to a Swedish film at the Lyric on 42nd Street, and the date goes badly.
The Lyric had been an opera school, a playhouse and then a cinema showing adult films.
A working Broadway theatre: the arched 42nd Street front is the old Lyric’s.
Travis tries to talk to the woman at the concession stand of a cinema here, the Show & Tell, at 737 Eighth Avenue.
Like every such cinema of the 1970s, the Show & Tell no longer exists.
An ordinary Midtown block now. Walk it on the way to the theatres on 46th Street.
The Palantine campaign
The campaign Betsy works for is fiction; its corners are real. Pin a badge to visit each one.
0 of 4 pinned · The Palantine office site
Cybill ShepherdBetsy, the campaign worker
1886 Broadway, at West 63rd Street
Travis first sees Betsy at the campaign office.
The Charles Palantine campaign headquarters, where Travis first sees Betsy, was at 1886 Broadway, on the south-east corner of West 63rd Street.
Martin Scorsese has a cameo here, sitting on the stoop.
The campaign office is gone. Stand at Dante Park across Broadway and look at the south-east corner of 63rd Street.
Columbus Circle · Tue–Sun · adults $20
The museum at 2 Columbus Circle, on the circle where the last rally is filmed.
Plan a visitPark Avenue South · West 57th Street
Belmore Cafeteria28th & Park Av S
Five holes, five things about the cabbies’ cafeteria.
Travis applies for and gets his job as a cab driver at a garage here, on West 57th Street.
The garage site is now VIA 57 West, a luxury apartment building. Robert De Niro had been driving a taxi to prepare for the role.
The garage is gone. See the sloping apartment block from West 57th Street or the Hudson River Park path behind it.
East 13th Street, between Second and Third Avenues
The film’s last act was shot on a single East Village street. These are homes now: look, don’t knock.
202 · East 13th Street
202 · Between Second and Third Avenues, East Village
Travis meets Sport in a doorway on East 13th Street.
The doorway at 202 East 13th Street, which Iris walks towards, is still there.
Homes and shops: walk the pavement and leave the doorsteps to the people who live there.
Midtown
The hotel where it ends, the lobby he calls from, the cinema where it goes wrong.
Paul SchraderPaul Schrader wrote it, Michael Chapman shot it, and Bernard Herrmann wrote the score, dying the day after he finished it. (Photographed in 2018.)
The line is quiet. Dial 1, 2 or 3.
Midtown
The hotel where the film ends, at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, running for more than a century, with the King Cole Bar off the lobby.
Check roomsManhattan · Daily · adults $65
Two and a half hours by bus past more than 60 filming spots, the St. Regis among them. Leaves from Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 51st and Broadway.
See the tourTribeca, 5 June 2026
At the 50th anniversary at the Tribeca Festival on 5 June 2026, De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster and Paul Schrader were together on one panel, and De Niro said the line again for the crowd.
Switch the roof light off to end the shift.
Robert De NiroTravis Bickle
Martin ScorseseDirector
Jodie FosterIris
Paul SchraderWriter
13 places you can visit or see from the street. 226 East 13th Street is a private home: it is named here and left off the map. Five of the places are gone, replaced by towers, condominiums or empty pavement; the map shows where they stood.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open all night, every night. Broadway at 45th Street, where Travis and Betsy walk, is now a pedestrian plaza.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working Broadway theatre: the arched 42nd Street front is the old Lyric’s.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An ordinary Midtown block now. Walk it on the way to the theatres on 46th Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. See the marquee from Broadway at 53rd Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working hotel. The King Cole Bar is off the lobby.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A busy Garment District corner. The giant needle and button sit a block north at 39th Street.
Broadway and Seventh Avenue, 42nd to 47th Streets
Travis and Betsy walk through the theatre district at 45th Street and Broadway.
Open all night, every night. Broadway at 45th Street, where Travis and Betsy walk, is now a pedestrian plaza.
213 West 42nd Street
Travis takes Betsy to a Swedish film at the Lyric on 42nd Street, and the date goes badly.
A working Broadway theatre: the arched 42nd Street front is the old Lyric’s.
737 Eighth Avenue, between 46th and 47th Streets
Travis tries to talk to the woman at the concession stand of a cinema here, the Show & Tell, at 737 Eighth Avenue.
An ordinary Midtown block now. Walk it on the way to the theatres on 46th Street.
1697 Broadway, at 53rd Street
Travis makes his apologetic phone call to Betsy from the lobby of the Ed Sullivan Theater building.
See the marquee from Broadway at 53rd Street.
2 East 55th Street, at Fifth Avenue
The film ends outside the St. Regis, with Travis and Betsy.
A working hotel. The King Cole Bar is off the lobby.
The Garment District
A second Palantine rally is filmed on Seventh Avenue at 38th Street; a glass building now stands on the corner.
A busy Garment District corner. The giant needle and button sit a block north at 39th Street.
Stay
The hotel on Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, with the King Cole Bar off the lobby.
Midtown
The hotel where the film ends, at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, running for more than a century, with the King Cole Bar off the lobby.
Check roomsGo there
A bus tour that stops by the St. Regis, the museum on Columbus Circle, and live marketplace tours.
Manhattan · Daily · adults $65
Two and a half hours by bus past more than 60 filming spots, the St. Regis among them. Leaves from Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 51st and Broadway.
See the tourColumbus Circle · Tue–Sun · adults $20
The museum at 2 Columbus Circle, on the circle where the last rally is filmed.
Plan a visitNew York
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An original 1976 US one-sheet and a 1982 German poster from our store, Schrader’s screenplay, Scorsese on his films, and Herrmann’s score.
An original 1976 US one-sheet, 27 x 41 in, art by Guy Peellaert; very good condition, stored rolled, previously folded.
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View posterA German A1 poster from 1982, 23.4 x 33.1 in, near mint; stored rolled, previously folded.
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View posterPaul Schrader
The screenplay, in Faber’s Reel Classics series, 2000.
Find the bookMartin Scorsese
The director on his films, Faber & Faber, 2004.
Find the bookBernard Herrmann · LP, Arista, 1976
Herrmann’s score on the 1976 US LP. He died the day after he finished it.
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Find a copyBernard Herrmann · CD, Arista, 1998
The 1998 Arista CD of the score.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
14 of 14 places · 14 of 14 Moments
623–629 West 57th Street
Travis gets a job driving a cab.
407 Park Avenue South, at 28th Street
Travis sits with the night cabbies at the Belmore.
1886 Broadway, at West 63rd Street
Travis first sees Betsy at the campaign office.
Broadway, Eighth Avenue and Central Park South
The last Palantine rally, at Columbus Circle.
Broadway and Seventh Avenue, 42nd to 47th Streets
Travis and Betsy walk through the theatre district.
213 West 42nd Street
Travis takes Betsy to the wrong kind of film.
737 Eighth Avenue, between 46th and 47th Streets
Travis tries to make conversation at a cinema’s concession stand.
1697 Broadway, at 53rd Street
Travis rings Betsy from a theatre lobby to apologise.
2 East 55th Street, at Fifth Avenue
Travis meets Betsy again outside the hotel.
The Garment District
A Palantine rally in the Garment District.
Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn Heights
A Palantine rally at Cadman Plaza.
Between Second and Third Avenues, East Village
Travis meets Sport in a doorway on East 13th Street.
East Village
The final scene at Iris’s building.
110 Third Avenue, between 13th and 14th Streets
Iris tries to leave in Travis’s cab.
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