Where is ghostbusters set

While the New York location was a working firehouse, a decommissioned building was needed for interiors. This was found on the west coast, in downtown Los Angeles. Built , the station has been closed since the Sixties. Atlas of Wonders is looking for wonderful Filming Locations all around the world. We are constantly updating and improving our posts with new details and images. Follow us here:. All comments are reviewed prior to publication.

Filming Locations: Where was Ghostbusters filmed? Image courtesy of Columbia Pictures. The building is occupied by the Kaze Shabu Shabu Japanese Restaurant , and their owners may have won the lottery or not, depending how fans behave.

With Ghostbusters we learned that if you find a phantom, you have more chances of ending up full of slime than an alien egg. Dogs and cats living together. Image by Beyond My Ken. The iconic old headquarters of the first Ghostbusters , the Firehouse in Tribeca neighborhood in New York, also served as a set for exterior scenes. Walter Peck : All right, all right, all right! Peter Venkman : Well, that's what I heard! Sign In. Play trailer Action Comedy Fantasy. Director Ivan Reitman.

Top credits Director Ivan Reitman. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Bill Murray Dr. Peter Venkman as Dr. Peter Venkman. Dan Aykroyd Dr. Raymond Stantz as Dr. Raymond Stantz. Harold Ramis Dr. Egon Spengler as Dr. Egon Spengler.

David Margulies Mayor as Mayor. Slavitza Jovan Gozer as Gozer. Alice Drummond Librarian as Librarian. Timothy Carhart Violinist as Violinist. Tom McDermott Archbishop as Archbishop. Ivan Reitman. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. As they are kicked out of the University, they really understand the paranormal and go into business for themselves.

Under the new snazzy business name of 'Ghostbusters', and living in the old firehouse building they work out of, they are called to rid New York City of paranormal phenomenon at everyone's whim. They make national press as the media reports the Ghostbusters are the cause of it all. When the building opened in it had apartments ranging from three to nine rooms, the largest of which had four bedrooms. The apartment living rooms featured a dropped living room, developed by the Earle brothers, which set the interior apart from most others constructed around the same period.

An original rental brochure shows the dropped living room nearly entirely open to the entrance gallery; traditionally the gallery was held as a different room. The six apartments on the top five floors of the building are considered the most desirable. Two apartments in particular, 19 and 20F, are the most highly sought after.

Together the two units form a 4,square-foot m2 penthouse, sporting eleven-foot ceilings, two functioning fireplaces and a 1,square-foot 93 m2 terrace.

The exterior of the building is also somewhat non-traditional. As the brick facade rises from the ground it changes shade from a deep purple to a yellow-white. Color was being widely used during the s as a tool in architecture for overall effects. Indeed, the rental brochure touted the exterior features of the building, "new modernistic design of exterior with beautiful shaded color scheme," it stated.

The New Yorker's architecture critic, George S. Chappell, praised the building's use of color, saying, "the total effect is exhilarating. A life-size replica of the entrance to 55 Central Park West and road outside the building was constructed to allow the filmmakers to show that the road had been destroyed and for a brief moment of suspect, consumed the Ghostbusters.