Place
The Dakota
1 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023, USA
Gabled German Renaissance apartment house from 1884, site of John Lennon's murder.
This guide to The Dakota in New York City opens on the December evening John Lennon and Yoko Ono returned home through the building's great arched entrance. It steps back to 1884, when architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh built the apartment house on land so undeveloped it earned a joking nickname, and to the roster of tenants it drew over the decades, from Leonard Bernstein to Lauren Bacall. Roman Polanski even chose the building's imposing facade as the setting for Rosemary's Baby.
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