<P> In the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three hijackers take over a subway train car and demand $1 million for release of the car and 19 passengers, and the city must deliver it to the train car within one hour or the hijackers will start executing passengers at the rate of one per minute until it's delivered . The money for the ransom, to be provided in bundles of used $50 and $100 bills, is frantically assembled by workers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York while a police cruiser waits at the front entrance for it to be assembled for delivery . </P> <P> The Federal Reserve Bank of New York plays a prominent role in the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, starring Bruce Willis and Jeremy Irons . The Federal Reserve Bank is the setting for a major heist of the gold by Jeremy Irons' character, Simon Gruber . The vault is penetrated under the pretense of construction work and the gold bullion transported via dump trucks to a location outside the city . </P>

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