Touring the "Ghostbusters" Movie Locations in New York

Columbia University, main quadrangle, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

In approximate order of appearance:

At right is the north side of the main quadrangle at Columbia University.

Take the #1 subway north to 116th Street.

Or, for more scenery, the M4 or M104 bus.

Columbia University, main quadrangle, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

At left is the south side of the main quadrangle at Columbia University.

Columbia University Department of Parapsychology, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

Schermerhorn Hall is where you find Columbia University's School of Psychology and Parapsychology

Only psychology is mentioned on the campus maps, presumably because they are somewhat old.

Columbia University Department of Parapsychology, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

The offices of Doctors Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are here in Schermerhorn Hall somewhere in the School of Psychology and Parapsychology.

Columbia University Department of Parapsychology, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

The sign says:
"Behavioral Research Lab Participants Enter Here"

Watch out for those electrical shocks!

New York Public Library at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

The main building of the New York Public Library is on 5th Avenue between 42nd and 41st Streets. Most any subway line and many of the buses get you to within a few blocks of here.

This is the site of the symmetrical book stacking incident, just like what was seen in the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

Ghostbusters headquarters in a current New York Fire Department station.

Ghostbusters headquarters is at 10 North Moore Street.

Take the #1 subway to Franklin Street. Exit by the stair at the rear of the southbound platform, and you're right across the street where this picture was taken.

Ghostbusters headquarters in a current New York Fire Department station.

Ghostbusters headquarters at 10 North Moore Street is currently an active NYFD station.

New York MTA subway entrance, Lincoln Center on Broadway at 66th Street, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

New York MTA subway entrance, on the #1 train running up Broadway at 66th Street. This is the Lincoln Center Station. Lincoln Center is across Broadway to your left in this view.

Lincoln Center, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

Lincoln Center is on Broadway at 62nd through 66th Streets. Take the #1 subway to its 66th Street station, shown above, or take one of the buses running up and down Broadway.

55 Central Park West and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

55 Central Park West, at right, is the site of the apartments of Dana Barrett and Louis Tully.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, at left, has been fully restored since its damage by Gozer the Destroyer.

These are on Central Park West between 65th and 66th Streets, just a couple of blocks from Lincoln Center.

55 Central Park West, Dana Barrett's apartment building as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

Looking north up CPW past 55 Central Park West and the apartments of Dana Barrett and Louis Tully.

Entrance of 55 Central Park West, Dana Barrett's apartment building as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

At right is the entrance to 55 Central Park West.

Upper structure of 55 Central Park West, Dana Barrett's apartment building as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

The upper structures of 55 Central Park West.

Unseen in this picture is the magnesium-tungsten alloy used in the building's construction.

Tavern on the Green, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

Tavern on the Green is in Central Park, just across Central Park West from Dana and Lewis' apartments.

55 CPW is visible beyond and to the right.

Tavern on the Green, as seen in the movie Ghostbusters.

Tavern on the Green, in Central Park.


Tom's Restaurant, as seen in Seinfeld

While you're there...

Tom's Restaurant, the restaurant you always see in "Seinfeld", is just down Broadway from Columbia at 112th Street. That's the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Amsterdam visible where 112th tees into Amsterdam Avenue.

Tom's Restaurant, as seen in Seinfeld

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