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New York City is a large international city located in the state of New York in the United States. It is the country's largest city and its financial center. It is home to Wall Street, the United Nations and the Metropolitan Museum of Art among several other world famous landmarks. It is also known as "the media capital of the world" and is home to several media giants including Time Warner, Viacom, and Hearst. New York is home to the headquarters of the four major U.S. Broadcast Television Networks, NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX as well as several cable networks.

Actors, writers, and musicians make their way from all over the country and the world to New York City to work and fulfill their dreams in the various sectors of the city's vast entertainment industry.

Contents 1 Haunted New York 2 Famous in Film 2.1 Films Set in New York 3 External Links

Haunted New York

The following locations in New York City are reputed to be haunted.

• Algonquin Hotel – haunted by members of the Round Table
• Amsterdam Theater – haunted by ghost of a Ziegfeld follies chorus girl
• Bridge Hotel – haunted by pirates
• Belasco Theater – haunted by the ghost of David Belasco
• "The House of Death" – Haunted by twenty-two former residents including Mark Twain
• Manhattan Bistro – Haunted by the ghost of Elma Sands murdered in December 1799
• Morris-Jumel Mansion – Haunted by Eliza Jumel
• Old St. Patrick's Cathedral – Haunted by the ghost of Bishop Dubois and Pierre Toussaint

Famous in Film

New York has been immortalized in hundreds of films. It has been the setting of several iconic science fiction films like King Kong, Spider-Man and Soylent Green. Some locations, while famous in their own right, have been made more so by their appearance in popular films. In turn, New York City locations and culture add an intangible yet invaluable character to the films that manage to capture its essence.

• 240 Central Park South – Lois Lane's apartment in the Superman films. Superman also features The Daily News Building, and Grand Central Station.
• Grand Central Station – appears in several films including Unbreakable
• Continental Plaza – appears in The Devil's Advocate
• Municipal Building Subway station – appears in The Devil's Advocate
• Hook and Ladder Company 8 – used as the headquarters of the Ghostbusters
• Peter McManus Cafe – appears in the film Highlander
• The Flatiron Building – the location of the Daily Bugle in the movie Spider-Man and its sequels. The building also appears in Armageddon
• Madison Square Garden – Featured in many films, the arena appears in the opening scenes of the movie Highlander
• Empire State Building – Famous in its own right, the building was made more so when King Kong climbed it in both the 1933 original and the 2005 remake.
• New York Public Library – A major New York landmark, the building appears in several films including 13 Going on 30, Day After Tomorrow, Ghostbusters, and Spider-Man.
• The Dakota – The apartment building was home to Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby
• Times Square – famous the world over, has appeared in several films including Spider-Man and Vanilla Sky.

Films Set in New York

• King Kong 1933, 1976, 2005
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947), (1994),
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962), (2004)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Escape From New York (1981)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• *batteries not included (1987)
• Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Freejack (1992)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
• Devil's Advocate (1997)
• Men in Black (film) (1997)
• Mimic (1997)
• Godzilla (1998)
• End of Days (1999 movie) (1999)
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
• Frequency (2000)
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
• Kate and Leopold (2001)
• Vanilla Sky (2001)
• Men in Black II (2002)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Elf (2004)
• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
• Fantastic Four (movie) (2005)

External Links

• The World Trade Center in Movies
• New York in the Movies
• Haunted in New York – About.com
• Spooks of New York City

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