Ghostbusters Film Locations - New York City

Being the GEEK that I am, I took full advantage on a family trip to New York to scope out some of the filming locations on one of my all time favourite teen movies, Ghostbusters!

Dana's Apartment Building - South East Central Park

Your Girlfriend Lives In The Corner Penthouse... Of Spook Central!

The Real Spook Central
Somewhat Shorter And More Crowded In Real Life

As you can see above, Dana's apartment building on the south side of Central Park. Not quite as massive and forboding as it appears in the movie. The building itself and the structures around it were heavily edited in the movie using Matte Painting, and hence why I didn't do a long shot from further back in central park. You just wouldn't have been able to see the building. Still a creepy looking place though! (And yes it had just poured down. And yes I am soaked!)

New York Public Library

Back Off Man! I'm A Scientist!

Listen! Can you smell something?

New York Public Library - The one and only!

On to the New York Public Library, where our Ghoul fighting team experience their first ghost. I didn't go in as the interior of the Library in Ghostbusters was filmed in a completely different Library in California so nothing to see.

Ghostbuster Head Quarters

OK, So I was so GUTTED about this next one!!!

24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week, No Job is too big, No Fee is too big!

In Real Life - Under Renovation...

Ghostbusters HQ - At the Front Doors

I managed to walk past the building twice before realising that it was the Ghostbusters Fire house. I was sooo gutted that it was all covered up and a completely lost photo opportunity. (Good excuse to go back as far as I'm concerned).

Ghostbuster Head Quarters - December 2022 Update

So it was such a good excuse to go back, that I did just that, and this time its not under renovation.

At last. The real deal

Ghotsbusters II - Art Museum

Being miserable and treating other people like dirt
is every New Yorkers God-given right!

The Ghostbusters 2 Art Museum In Real Life
aka The National Museum of the American Indian

So strictly speaking, a Ghostbusters II film location however this building was the Art Museum that the possessed picture of Vigo resided in. It looks very different not covered in Pink Slime though!

Rockefeller Plaza

Rockefeller Plaza - In The Movie

As close as I could get because of the ice rink...

I managed to miss a picture opportunity even though I was in the right place.

The restaurant across the road from "Spook Central" (Tavern On The Green) where Louis gets attacked by the beast had a lot of security standing around it meaning I couldn't get a photo at the back of the place where Louis is attacked. It is however right across the road from Spook Central (Dana's Apartment Building).

Once again, a great reason to go back!

Tavern On The Green