Faux Ghostbusters Invade the New York Public Library [VIDEO]

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Last week, we brought you a video of an adorable dog skateboarding through the library via our weekly YouTube roundup, but the ghostly subject of today's video is more likely to elicit an "Ahhhh!" than an "Awwww!"

While these videos feature decidedly divergent subject matter, they were both made for the same purpose. The NYPL is currently dealing with some serious budget cuts, so they approached Improv Everywhere (of Pantless Subway Ride fame) to draw attention to the building's plight.

Although the library came to the improv group this time around, the jokesters have dropped in uninvited in the past -- they held a faux protest there in 2002 for a fictional group called Writers Against Piracy.

This time, a cadre of sheeted spooks invade the Rose Main Reading Room, followed closely by a troop of Ghostbusters. The whole thing was filmed by a group of operators with DSLR cameras, who blended nicely into the throngs of picture-taking tourists, who (unsurprisingly) were the most beguiled by the ordeal.

The New Yorkers, for the most part, look utterly unimpressed. And can you really blame them? When your morning commute includes some break-dancing guy accidentally kicking you in the face on the L train, a pirate nonchalantly reading The New York Times and the occasional suspicious package, what's one more dude in a costume?

Check out the video below. We've added the original under that for your reference.

Anyone else totally want to watch Ghostbusters now?

Disclosure: Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere, will be speaking at the Mashable Media Summit 2010