Call received · Ladder 8 · Tribeca
New York · Los Angeles · 1984, 1989, 2024
Ivan ReitmanDirector · 1984
Bill MurrayVenkman · 1989
Dan AykroydStantz · 1982
Sigourney WeaverDana · 1985
A New York film built in two cities. The firehouse is half a building in Tribeca; its insides were shot 3,936 km away in Los Angeles. Sweep the city, slide the pole, and count what was really there.
The bay door on North Moore Street. What is behind it is in another city.
The sweep
11 places from Bowling Green to Morningside Heights, 15 km in a line. The needle jumps when you pass one. Trap it.
1000.00 km north
Containment: 0 of 11
Locked · One Bowling Green · 1989
The Custom House plays the Manhattan Museum of Art.
The building now houses the National Museum of the American Indian.
Home to the National Museum of the American Indian: check the Smithsonian’s website for opening before you go.
Half a firehouse, in two cities
The front door is on North Moore Street. The rooms behind it were filmed in an old fire station on Fifth Street, Los Angeles. Take the pole.
NEW YORK
LOS ANGELES
0of 3,936 km west
Ladder Company 8 is the firehouse the Ghostbusters take over as their office; in Frozen Empire the gang reclaims it.
What you see is half the 1904 building.
Manhattan · Daily · adults $65
Two and a half hours by bus past more than 60 locations, with a photo stop at Hook & Ladder 8. Leaves from Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 51st and Broadway.
See the tourTribeca
A Tribeca hotel at 2 Sixth Avenue with 201 rooms, a jazz club and its own small cinema. Not a filming location: it is simply in the firehouse’s neighbourhood.
Check rooms
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
The film opens here: a ghost pushes books from the shelves and gobbles up papers in the stacks, and Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler are called in.
Six books, one on top of the other, neatly.
Columbia University
At the start of the film the three are fired from Columbia’s fictional parapsychology department. In Ghostbusters II Sigourney Weaver walks into a fictional institute that is really Columbia’s Avery Hall.
The Morningside campus is open only to Columbia ID holders, registered alumni and approved guests: the public cannot walk in.
Bill Murrayas Peter Venkman · photographed 1989
Dan Aykroydas Raymond Stantz · photographed 1982
Harold Ramisas Egon Spengler · photographed 2009
55 Central Park West
00 Street level. Start building.
Dana Barrett lives in this Upper West Side building in the film; NYC Tourism calls the Art Deco co-op an architectural landmark.
Its bricks run from dark purple at street level to lighter purple, then pale yellow near the top, so that the sun always seems to be shining on it. The extra eight floors, the rooftop temple and the gargoyles in the film were never here: they were built on a sound stage in Hollywood.
Schwartz & Gross designed the eighteen-storey building; it went up in 1929–30 and has been a co-operative since the late 1940s.
A private co-op: look up at it from Central Park West or from the park side of the road.
Sigourney WeaverDana Barrett, the tenant · photographed 1985
Columbus Circle to Dana’s door
Step 1 of 4 · 0 m from Columbus Circle
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man plods through Columbus Circle.
The building in clear view, 2 Columbus Circle, was home to the New York City Convention and Visitors Bureau when the film was made; it is now the Museum of Arts and Design.
Now the Museum of Arts and Design: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–6pm, Wednesday 12–8pm, closed Monday. Adults $20; pay what you wish 5–8pm on the first Wednesday of the month.
Central Park · Adults $45
Two hours on foot through the park, past Tavern on the Green, ending at Columbus Circle.
See the tourColumbus Circle · Tue–Sun · adults $20
The museum now inside 2 Columbus Circle, the building in shot as the marshmallow man walks by.
Plan a visitUpper West Side
An Upper West Side hotel near Lincoln Center, with suites and a large rooftop bar. Not a filming location. Pictured: the Revson Fountain.
Check roomsDowntown
2 of 4 downtown places in Ghostbusters.
The Ghostbusters face Walter Peck before the mayor.
Tours take in the landmarked rotunda, the City Council Chamber and the Governor’s Room.
Tours every week by reservation only, limited to 20 people: book on nyc.gov.
Ray and Winston talk about judgment day on the bridge.
Completed in 1909, it carries a pedestrian walkway and a separate bikeway.
Ernie HudsonWinston Zeddemore · photographed 2017
Walk it: the path starts on the Bowery between Canal and Bayard Streets.
Not in this film.
The building now houses the National Museum of the American Indian.
Home to the National Museum of the American Indian: check the Smithsonian’s website for opening before you go.
Not in this film.
Stanford White’s marble arch was dedicated in 1895; the park calls itself a battleground for chess enthusiasts.
A public city park: come for the arch, the fountain and the chess tables.
City Hall Park · Weekly · book ahead
The rotunda, the City Council Chamber and the Governor’s Room, where the film’s meeting with the mayor is set. Reservation only, 20 people a tour.
Book a tour
14 North Moore Street
The gang reclaims the firehouse with the next generation of Spenglers. In 2021 a Buffalo fan club gave the firefighters a weatherproof sign to hang outside on special occasions; the original was nearly 40 years old and had lost a finger.
It is still an active firehouse. Lt. Vincent G. Halloran of the company did not come back from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.
A working FDNY firehouse: look from the pavement, keep the bay doors clear, and find the paintings on the sidewalk out front.
12 places you can visit or see from the street. 55 Central Park West is a private co-op and Columbia’s campus is closed to the public: both are on the map for the view from outside.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working FDNY firehouse: look from the pavement, keep the bay doors clear, and find the paintings on the sidewalk out front.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Tours every week by reservation only, limited to 20 people: book on nyc.gov.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk it: the path starts on the Bowery between Canal and Bayard Streets.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Home to the National Museum of the American Indian: check the Smithsonian’s website for opening before you go.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public city park: come for the arch, the fountain and the chess tables.
14 North Moore Street, Tribeca
Ladder Company 8 is the firehouse the Ghostbusters take over as their office; in Frozen Empire the gang reclaims it.
A working FDNY firehouse: look from the pavement, keep the bay doors clear, and find the paintings on the sidewalk out front.
City Hall Park, Broadway and Murray Street
The Ghostbusters face the EPA inspector Walter Peck here, in front of the mayor and the archbishop.
Tours every week by reservation only, limited to 20 people: book on nyc.gov.
Enter on the Bowery between Canal and Bayard Streets
Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore talk about judgment day on the bridge as the climax approaches.
Walk it: the path starts on the Bowery between Canal and Bayard Streets.
One Bowling Green
In Ghostbusters II it plays the Manhattan Museum of Art, where a portrait brought out of storage causes trouble.
Home to the National Museum of the American Indian: check the Smithsonian’s website for opening before you go.
Greenwich Village
Ghostbusters II has a New Year’s Eve scene here.
A public city park: come for the arch, the fountain and the chess tables.
Stay
A Tribeca hotel in the firehouse’s streets, and one on the Upper West Side for the Central Park West end.
Tribeca
A Tribeca hotel at 2 Sixth Avenue with 201 rooms, a jazz club and its own small cinema. Not a filming location: it is simply in the firehouse’s neighbourhood.
Check roomsUpper West Side
An Upper West Side hotel near Lincoln Center, with suites and a large rooftop bar. Not a filming location. Pictured: the Revson Fountain.
Check roomsGo there
A bus past the firehouse, a walk through the park to Columbus Circle, City Hall’s own tours and the museum in 2 Columbus Circle.
Manhattan · Daily · adults $65
Two and a half hours by bus past more than 60 locations, with a photo stop at Hook & Ladder 8. Leaves from Ellen’s Stardust Diner, 51st and Broadway.
See the tourCentral Park · Adults $45
Two hours on foot through the park, past Tavern on the Green, ending at Columbus Circle.
See the tourCity Hall Park · Weekly · book ahead
The rotunda, the City Council Chamber and the Governor’s Room, where the film’s meeting with the mayor is set. Reservation only, 20 people a tour.
Book a tourColumbus Circle · Tue–Sun · adults $20
The museum now inside 2 Columbus Circle, the building in shot as the marshmallow man walks by.
Plan a visitNew York
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The 1984 film with its score played live, uptown at the United Palace.
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Take it home
An original 1984 one-sheet from our store, the visual history and the screenplay, the single and the soundtrack.
An original 1984 one-sheet, 27 x 41 in, near mint; stored rolled, previously folded.
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View posterA small Czech poster from the 1988 release, in very good condition.
In stock
View posterDaniel Wallace
The making of the films, in pictures.
Find the bookDan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, edited by Don Shay
The screenplay, with notes and anecdotes from Ivan Reitman and others, 1985.
Find the bookRay Parker Jr. · 7" single, Arista, 1984
The title song on a 1984 US single.
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Find a copyVarious Artists · Soundtrack, Arista, 1984
The 1984 soundtrack album.
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Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 17 of 17 Moments
14 North Moore Street, Tribeca
They take over a Tribeca firehouse as their office.
The gang reclaims the firehouse with the next generation of Spenglers.
225 East Fifth Street, Los Angeles
The firehouse interiors are filmed in Los Angeles.
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
A ghost throws books from the shelves and the three scientists are called in.
The library returns in Frozen Empire.
Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights
The three are fired from Columbia’s parapsychology department.
Avery Hall plays a fictional research institute.
Central Park West at 66th Street
Dana Barrett’s building becomes the centre of the haunting.
Central Park West at 67th Street
Louis Tully, chased through the park, cannot get into the restaurant.
Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center
The Lincoln Center plaza and its fountain appear in the film.
Columbus Circle
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man plods through Columbus Circle.
City Hall Park, Broadway and Murray Street
The Ghostbusters face Walter Peck before the mayor.
Another City Hall encounter, with the Spenglers centre stage.
Enter on the Bowery between Canal and Bayard Streets
Ray and Winston talk about judgment day on the bridge.
One Bowling Green
The Custom House plays the Manhattan Museum of Art.
Greenwich Village
A New Year’s Eve scene in the park.
The park’s chess tables appear in Frozen Empire.
The collection continues in each film. Individual film pages become available here when published.
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