Where Was Lois Lane’s Apartment in 'Superman: The Movie'?

The tagline for “Superman: The Movie” was ‘You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly!’

OK, we’ll buy a guy in tights can fly and move “faster than a speeding bullet.” What we can’t wrap our heads around is the fact that any newspaper reporter – even one for a fictional paper like The Daily Planet – could ever afford a lavish bachelorette pad like the one Lois Lane had in the 1978 blockbuster.

The apartment that doubled as her not-so humble abode sits atop the building at 240 Central Park South in midtown Manhattan.

240 CPS is a pre-war rental building that went up in 1941, and is considered the first apartment house in the city to make extensive use of balconies. Facing Central Park and overlooking Columbus Circle, it was designed by the architectural firm Mayer & Whittlesley. Aside from Ms. Lane, real-life famous faces such as Renee Zellweger have been tenants, as well as Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of “The Little Prince.”

The building has made cameos in several films and TV shows, including 1984’s “Ghostbusters,” during the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man’s rampage.

Apartments on that ritzy block in the real world often sell for $2,000 per square foot. The wraparound terrace surrounding “Lois Lane’s apartment” had more square footage than the average New York apartment.

Then again, real estate plausibility obviously wasn’t a big concern for director Richard Donner. After all, Lex Luthor’s gaudy hideout was beneath Grand Central Station.

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