An apartment inside the building famously used as the exterior of Dana and Louis Tully’s home in the original 1984 film Ghostbusters has hit the market for $8.9 million. The apartment sits at 55 Central Park West in New York City, a building movie fans have long nicknamed Spook Central.
According to Ghostbusters News, an apartment inside 55 Central Park West has hit the market for $8.9 million.
Property records reviewed by Ghostbusters News list the residence as being marketed by Lisa K. Lippman of Brown Harris Stevens, though the outlet's report is the only source establishing that connection. It is worth noting that a separate seventh-floor unit at the building, identified as 7EG, is listed through Prevu at $7.9 million, a price that reflects an $850,000 reduction after 81 days on the market. The Prevu listing describes that unit as a 3,800-square-foot combination of two apartments forming a four-to-five-bedroom home with four bedrooms and five bathrooms — smaller and differently configured than the residence described in the seed report, so it is not clear whether the two listings refer to the same apartment or two distinct units on the same floor.
A Building Best Known for Ghosts, Not Ghostwriters
The building's Hollywood pedigree is well documented. Per 55centralpark.com, its cultural significance was cemented by its role in the 1984 film, where it was depicted as “The Shandor Building” or “Spook Central.” The production used the real building only for exterior shots, adding extra floors to the facade and relying on studio sets for the apartment interiors seen on screen.
As The A.V. Club has reported, filmmakers made the building appear taller than it actually is by extending its silhouette with a matte painting. “What they did with that was build it higher on a matte painting,” according to The A.V. Club. The building's onscreen legacy has stuck: CityRealty still refers to it as the “Ghostbusters Building” in its own listings copy.
Doorman Service, a Roof Terrace, and a History That Depends on Who You Ask
Residents of 55 Central Park West have access to a landscaped roof terrace with panoramic park and city views, according to CityRealty, whose building page also notes a wet bar and vegetable garden on the terrace. The cooperative provides 24-hour doorman service and a live-in resident manager, the same source notes.
The building's own history gets murkier the deeper you dig. 55centralpark.com describes it as a 110-apartment cooperative completed in 1930, while CityRealty separately describes it as a 20-story, 109-unit cooperative — a discrepancy in unit count. Current listing inventory is similarly inconsistent across platforms; Corcoran's building page states plainly, “There are no active units in this building,” even as other listings for the property, including the $8.9 million unit and the $7.9 million 7EG listing, appear elsewhere.
Not the First Big-Ticket Listing at the Address
High asking prices are nothing new at this address. The Real Deal reported that hedge funder Marc Lasry listed his penthouse co-op at 55 Central Park West for $42 million in October 2025, a price working out to roughly $8,400 per square foot. Marc and Cathy Lasry had purchased that four-bedroom unit in 2013 for $33 million, per The Real Deal.
A ninth-floor apartment in the same building carried an asking price of $8.35 million in 2023, according to the same seed reporting on the current $8.9 million listing. Between the penthouse sale, the ninth-floor comp, and the two competing seventh-floor listings now on the market, 55 Central Park West continues to command attention from buyers willing to pay a premium for both Central Park frontage and a piece of movie history.
