The New York Public Library (New York City)

New York Public Library
476 Fifth Ave. & 42nd St. New York, NY 10018-2788

The New York Public Library has locations in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. The "main library" (formally known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Library) is here at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
The library was used as filming locations in the movies Ghostbusters and the Day after Tomorrow.
From about 1860 to 1905, the library site was occupied by the "Croton Aqueduct", really a reservoir for the New York Water Supply System. It had walls about 40 feet high and occupied the entire site.
More information:
spookcentral.cjb.net/loc_ny_library.htm (the image came from this site's Computer Downloads/Wallpaper page)
www.nypl.org/research/chss/index.html