FDNY Hook & Ladder Company 8 (New York City, New York)

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14 North Moore Street, in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York, is a 3-story Neo-Renaissance firehouse completed in 1903. Designed by Alexander H. Stevens, the building is one of the first generation of firehouses built after the 1898 consolidation of New York City. The building was originally constructed as a fifty-foot wide building adjacent to a storage yard. Due to the widening of Varick Street, in 1914 the western portion of the building was moved thirty-five feet to the east and a new east wall was erected.

The neo-Renaissance style of the brick building features a smooth limestone base with one arched vehicular entrance in the North Moore facade. The formal design of the main facade features window groups in a 2-story, keyed segmental surround; simpler 2-story keyed surrounds frame the windows of the side facade. A broad limestone cornice with elongated brackets crowns the red brick facades. The name "8 Hook & Ladder 8" appears in the frieze above the vehicular entrance; the company has remained the only occupant of the building. A narrow storage yard remains to the east of the building. A wrought-iron gate encloses the area to the south of the building.

This still in-use firehouse was used for the exterior shots of the Ghostbusters headquarters in both Ghostbusters films and the film "Hitch" with Will Smith. Interior shots were also used in John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China".

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