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Happy Ghostbusters Day to all who observe! Having recently returned from the Big Apple, I can confidently say that you’ve never really traveled through New York City until you’ve driven through Manhattan and part of Central Park in an Ecto-1.
As a massive fan of the film, it was very surreal to see and hear as NYPD officers, EMTs and nearly every random New Yorker in the street greets you with an enthusiastic thumbs up, waves, dances, pulls their phones out to snap a photo or screams out “Who you gonna call?!” “Ghostbusters!” — or D, all of the above.
I will forever be grateful to @polatronic_martin for “crossing the streams” of two nonprofits to make it happen as @instantfilmsociety had partnered with @nycghostbusters for a tour-meets-photo-walk with an afternoon of shooting at several filming locations of the classic movie.
During some legs of the PolaWalk, @andyo7 and I rode in a replica of the “Ghostbusters” (2016) Ecto-1 — a red-and-white 1984 Cadillac Fleetwood hearse — while that unmistakable oscillating, wailing siren call that we all know and love echoed through the city’s streets.
Just as the original “Ghostbusters” film begins at the iconic New York Public Library, we met at 11 a.m. on the library’s steps near the lion statues (named Patience and Fortitude).
After lingering there to snap some frames, we trekked over to what’s known as “Spook Central” — 55 Central Park West, which is shooting location for the apartment of Dana Barrett and Louis Tully, and the site of the film’s climactic roof-top showdown. The building sits right next to the real-life Holy Trinity Lutheran Church from the “Nobody steps on a church in my town!” scene. Several other unforgettable scenes were shot at that intersection — where Tully runs screaming for help while pursued by a hellhound, jumping the iconic stone wall lining Central Park West before he sprints over to the Tavern on the Green.
I was so excited that I shot a pack and a half of @polaroid SX-70 film.
{{ Video by @benjamburk }}
@pola.con @instantfilmsociety #polaconnyc
As a massive fan of the film, it was very surreal to see and hear as NYPD officers, EMTs and nearly every random New Yorker in the street greets you with an enthusiastic thumbs up, waves, dances, pulls their phones out to snap a photo or screams out “Who you gonna call?!” “Ghostbusters!” — or D, all of the above.
I will forever be grateful to @polatronic_martin for “crossing the streams” of two nonprofits to make it happen as @instantfilmsociety had partnered with @nycghostbusters for a tour-meets-photo-walk with an afternoon of shooting at several filming locations of the classic movie.
During some legs of the PolaWalk, @andyo7 and I rode in a replica of the “Ghostbusters” (2016) Ecto-1 — a red-and-white 1984 Cadillac Fleetwood hearse — while that unmistakable oscillating, wailing siren call that we all know and love echoed through the city’s streets.
Just as the original “Ghostbusters” film begins at the iconic New York Public Library, we met at 11 a.m. on the library’s steps near the lion statues (named Patience and Fortitude).
After lingering there to snap some frames, we trekked over to what’s known as “Spook Central” — 55 Central Park West, which is shooting location for the apartment of Dana Barrett and Louis Tully, and the site of the film’s climactic roof-top showdown. The building sits right next to the real-life Holy Trinity Lutheran Church from the “Nobody steps on a church in my town!” scene. Several other unforgettable scenes were shot at that intersection — where Tully runs screaming for help while pursued by a hellhound, jumping the iconic stone wall lining Central Park West before he sprints over to the Tavern on the Green.
I was so excited that I shot a pack and a half of @polaroid SX-70 film.
{{ Video by @benjamburk }}
@pola.con @instantfilmsociety #polaconnyc
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