New ghost buster movie12/19/2023 ![]() Also note that a gate has been put up, preventing you from going into the area where they have most of their conversation.Īfter deciding to go into business for themselves, the crew takes a trip to the generically-named “Manhattan City Bank” to take out a mortgage on Ray’s childhood home (“Everyone has a third mortgage nowadays”). Other than some noticeable differences in foliage, Columbia continues to look the the same.Īs they continue their conversation, you get a reverse view, and again, you can see the difference in student centers. I was shocked to see that Columbia has not installed a plaque on this block announcing that “Bill Murray drank here.” If there was one single scene in a film that made me think “drinking is what the cool kids do” as a child, it was this. Here’s the full building, located in the north-western portion of the campus:Īfter getting booted from the university, Peter and Ray have a life-altering conversation on the east side of the campus. In comparing the two pictures, you can see that we’ve come so far since the ’80’s – we now recycle, and we no longer believe in handicap access! (just kidding, I’m sure there’s an alternate entrance somewhere). In reality, Weaver Hall is actually Havemeyer Hall, a classroom building primarily dedicated to science and math (in fact, this building has what I consider to be New York’s finest lecture hall – you can see it repeatedly in the Spider-man films nice to know Peter Parker and Peter Venkman hung out in the same building). When we first meet the Ghostbusters, they’re working out of “Weaver Hall,” the “Department of Psychology.” ![]() Other than there seeming to be much less smog than in 2009, little has changed, a rarity in New York. Today, like the New York Public Library, the campus is essentially the same, although the building on the right in the Ghostbusters picture, Ferris Booth Hall, was demolished in 1996 to create the much larger Alfred Lerner Hall, the current student center. I’m not sure if it’s a matter of color correction, a bad film transfer to DVD, or that New York was simply much smoggier back in the day, but I’ve never seen the campus look so dingy… ![]() Next up is Columbia University, shown beneath the logo. While the main reading room was shot on location, the stacks were actually filmed in LA. Today, the library is yet again under restoration – the top portion is covered in canvas, and the bottom right area is blocked off. Nevertheless, this shot reveals the extent of the work… One of Reitman’s goals in shooting was to focus on New York statuary, and it seems appropriate to start off the film with one of the city’s most iconic symbols.Īt the time of shooting, the Ghostbusters crew was disappointed to find that the library was going through restoration work, and had to shoot tight to avoid showing too much scaffolding. …which seems to be thankfully unchanged all these years later. The first image of the film cranes to one of the NYPL’s lions… The film opens at the New York Public Library, which has a ghost residing in its stacks. How much has New York changed a quarter of a century later? Let’s have a look… ![]() It seems like a struggle just to cross the street. The New York of 1983 is very different from the post-Giuliani city of today – it feels dangerous, gritty, dirty, tough, angry, and exciting. Yet in those short four weeks, director Ivan Reitman and team managed to capture enough of the city to make Ghostbusters an iconic “New York” movie. Ghostbusters was shot in New York over a four week period beginning in October ’83, then returned to L.A. Unfortunately, I only set first set foot in the city in 2000, and by then, New York was a completely different place. The public library, the university, the firehouse, Dana’s apartment building…New York seemed completely different from Boston, the only city I knew as a kid. I had never been to New York City at the time, but the film made me desperately want to go. Watching guys trapping ghosts with backpack nuclear accelerators was like a child’s fantasy come to life, and I defy you to find a kid of the ’80’s who will not confirm the magic Ghostbusters carried in their youth. I watched it over and over, to the point where I could recite the entire film. I first saw Ghostbusters when I was about 8 years old and instantly fell in love with it. Though there are many movies I’m excited to cover for “New York, You’ve Changed,” I had no choice but to start with the movie that first introduced me to New York City… ![]()
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