Ghostbusters (1984)

Three recently unemployed parapsychology professors decide to open a "ghost busting" service to rid New Yorkers of their ghost problems. Their first big case comes when a woman finds that her apartment has been turned into a gateway to an evil dimension that threatens to destroy the entire city. A combination of locations in New York City and Los Angeles were used to portray the Big Apple.

The film's opening scene takes place at the New York Public Library at 455 5th Avenue.

This is the actual reading room inside the library.

The library basement, however, was filmed inside the Los Angeles Central Library at 630 West 5th Street.

An establishing shot of the South Lawn at Columbia University in New York City, from the steps of Low Memorial Library looking across to Butler Library to the south.

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"Weaver Hall," home to the Department of Psychology, is actually Havemeyer Hall on the northwest part of the Columbia campus.

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Professors Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Venkman (Bill Murray) walk and talk while Spengler (Harold Ramis) follows along the path on the NW side of Low Memorial Library. Butler Library can once again be seen behind them.

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They hash out their idea above the steps leading down to the South Lawn from Kent Hall.

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Next thing we know they are walking out of the Manhattan City Bank at 489 5th Avenue, across the street from the New York Public Library. The entrance to this building has been renovated and looks much different now, but the buildings behind them in this shot serve as landmarks.

Easily the most recognizable location in the film is the fire station they choose to buy to house the new venture, the Hook and Ladder #8 at 14 North Moore Street in New York.

The interior of the fire station was actually a different one: Fire Station #23 at 225 East 5th Street in Los Angeles.

Looking north across the Sheep Meadow in Central Park toward 55 Central Park West, centered in the shot. The building has been extended with a matte painting.

Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) is seen exiting a taxi then crossing the street to her apartment building at 55 Central Park West.

After getting settled into their new home, the guys waste no time trying out their sweet new ride the "Ecto-1." The original car from the film is on display at Sony Pictures Studios at 10202 West Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles. If you take the guided studio tour, chances are good you'll be able to see it.

They arrive at their first big gig, the "Sedgewick Hotel," actually the Millennium Biltmore Hotel at 506 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles. Note that this is the entrance on South 5th Street, not the more commonly seen one on South Olive Street.

The hotel ballroom where they capture Slimer was originally known as the Biltmore's "Music Room" but today is the main lobby of the hotel.

During the montage, the Ecto-1 is seen driving past the original Umberto's Clam House at 129 Mulberry Street in Little Italy. This is now Da Gennaro Restaurant.

We also see the guys carrying a trap past the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center. Later, Slimer pops out of a hotdog stand here.

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They also drive by the old Saks building at the corner of 5th Avenue & West 50th Street.

Venkman meets with Dana by the fountain in Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center in New York.

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Louis (Rick Moranis) runs out of Dana's apartment building, across the street and over the wall into Central Park where he tries to get help at the famous Tavern on the Green restaurant. In 2010, the restaurant shut down but has since been turned into a visitor's center.

The Ecto-1 is seen driving into Manhattan via the Manhattan Bridge, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance.

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Ghosts fly from the City Hall subway station entrance, at approximately 250 Broadway.

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Slimer bursts out of a hotdog stand in front of the McGraw-Hill Building on the west side of Avenue of the Americas in Rockefeller Center.

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The Ghostbusters go to meet with the mayor at New York City Hall.

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The giant "Stay Puft" marshmallow man terrorizes Columbus Circle, entering the south side on Broadway.

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Closer shots of the street cracking open in front of Dana's apartment were done on a backlot set in Los Angeles, using a replica facade of the building.

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