What 1979 film follows a Coney Island gang pursued across New York City?

The 1979 film following a Coney Island gang pursued across New York City is The Warriors.

Directed by Walter Hill, the film begins when the Warriors travel from Coney Island to a Bronx meeting called by Cyrus, leader of the powerful Gramercy Riffs. After Cyrus is murdered, the Warriors are falsely blamed and must cross the city to reach their home territory while rival gangs hunt them.

The film was adapted from Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel, though Hill transformed the story into a stylized urban adventure with elements drawn from classical mythology, especially the wandering structure of Homer’s Odyssey. Its gang uniforms, subway journeys, radio announcer, and exaggerated street-world atmosphere became central to its enduring cult reputation.

A common mix-up is confusing The Warriors with The Wanderers, another New York-centered youth film released in 1979. The Warriors is specifically the one built around the escape from the Bronx to Coney Island after Cyrus’s assassination.