New Masonic Temple, 3681 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis

The columned Masonic temple stood in for the New York Public Library that Plissken searches for the President. The Masons sold the building in 2014 and it has been converted to apartments.

See it on the live map Every Escape from New York (1981) location

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