New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue
Free to visitMidtown
The lions, the steps and Fifth Avenue out front have been in more films than most actors.
- Time there
- 30 minutes
- Best time
- Weekday morning, when the Rose Reading Room opens
- Cost
- Free
- Good to know
- Bryant Park, behind the library, has public restrooms and kiosks.
Filmed here
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Holly and Paul walk up Fifth Avenue to the library on their day of doing things they have never done; the reading room was a studio set.
Ghostbusters (1984)
The opening: the building, the lions and the first ghost in the stacks. The stacks were filmed in Los Angeles.
Spider-Man (2002)
Uncle Ben drops Peter off outside and talks about great power and great responsibility.
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