Not set in NYC?
if it's true and this movie plays in a small town - doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
shareWhy wouldn't they be priced out of New York?
Their old firehouse costs $20K a month now!
In the original ghostbusters, the story had them getting kicked out of the university in order to play up anti-establishment themes. I doubt getting kicked out of NYC by "greedy Jewish landlords" could be part of any story line today. So if they are in a small town now, it will probably be for quirky or inexplicable reasons, which is a shame. The original was very politically incorrect.
shareToday's greedy NYC landlords aren't typically Jewish, that politically incorrect old trope can be allowed to die a long-overdue death.
As for the story, there's a million ways they could take it outside of NYC. They could take the team to LA or Boston or Chicago, big cities other than NY. Or smaller cities, like the "most haunted" cities of Savannah and New Orleans. Or they could accept an invitation to go bust ghosts in Japan or China before retiring, some country where Hollywood has been selling a lot of tickets recently. The ghostbusters could accept a Reality TV gig, and live out of an RV as they moved from haunted place to haunted place, or they could run their business out of an RV and go wherever they're needed. The possibilities are endless.
But as for New York real estate... well, someone told me that a lot of storefronts in the more fashionable districts of Manhattan are standing empty, because the landlords want something like $50,000 a month rent. And the guy went on to say "No business could possibly come up with that kind of money, unless they sold cocaine at retail. And even then, they'd probably only break even.".