Popular film locations in NYC

"I love this town." Those are the last words before the final credits in Ghostbusters, shouted by a marshmallow-covered Winston Zeddemore, the only non ‘doctor’ among the ghost fighters. (Think of it as a bowdlerized spin of the famous line J.J. Hunsecker spouts in The Sweet Smell of Success: "I love this dirty town.") And think of this as a selective look at some family-friendly movies set in New York City—and a companion of sorts to our previous look at kid lit. Many films have indelible moments that become inexorably associated with a place: say, the piano-playing scene at FAO Schwarz in Big or, a few decades earlier, Kris Kringle at Macy's and the workers sorting Santa's mail at the general post office in Miracle on 34th Street. The locations and films we touch on here might offer some help in creating an itinerary for you and your young ones to explore. Or you can just picture the moments in your mind and turn your imagination loose—that's what movies are for anyway. Listed below are a few of the movies where you can see a fair chunk of New York.