The pre-title credits begin with a shot of the marble lion outside the New York Public Library (below) at 455 5th Avenue where the first super-natural experience takes place before Ray Parker Junior’s famous title song (which I did as a gap-fill activity in Halloweeen lessons a couple of years back) kicks in.

Columbia University (below) on 2960 Broadway is first seen during the opening credits but its first proper appearance is after 14 minutes when Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) explains to Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) on the steps of the Low Memorial Library that it was their destiny to get “thrown out of this dump” so they can go into business themselves.

They get their loan on 15 minutes from Manhattan City Bank which in reality is the Irving Trust Building seen below. It’s at 1 Wall Street in lower Manhattan.

Along with Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) they set up their paranormal exterminator service in a retired firehouse and so ‘Ghostbusters‘ is born. This building (below) is better known as Hook & Ladder Company #8 and actually is a real firehouse at 14 North Moore Street and was the first location on my list when I knew I was going to New York. There is a sign painted on the pavement in front of it which is not too dissimilar to the Ghostbusters sign. The firehouse is seen on 15, 20, 22, 29, 45, 60, 64 and 68 minutes as well as in the sequel ‘Ghostbusters II‘ where one of my screenshots is from.

Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and Venkman meet by chance on 42 mins at the Lincoln Centre (below) where they dicuss the information he’s found on her apartment and why it may be haunted. This place also appeared in the award winning 2010 film ‘Black Swan‘ and is located on Columbus Avenue between West 63rd and 64th Streets.

The Ghostbusters vehicle gets a police escort on 78 minutes along Centre Street and Chambers Street (below) as the four-some have a “date with a ghost” at Barrett’s  haunted apartment.

That apartment is on 55 Central Park West (below) and is actually first seen on 17 minutes when Barrett encounters paranormal activity which eventually leads to her hiring the Ghostbusters team. This place is pivotal in the films climax as, after ascending to the roof of the building, they eventually come up against the giant Stay Puft marshmallow man.

Just a couple of bonus New York locations to add to this from the 1989 sequel ‘Ghostbusters II‘ which sees the team arrive at the Manhattan Museum of Art. This is the old US Customs House on 1 Bowling Green at Broadway. It is now the National Museum of the American Indian (below) and also featured in ‘Batman Forever‘.

The movie ends with an event to say ‘Thank-you Ghostbusters’ which is held right next to the Statue of Liberty (below) on Liberty Island where the Mayor and the people of New York give the paranormal exterminators the key to the city as a plan is made to restore the famous statue after it was used (and no doubt damaged) to break through something or another towards the films end.