The Dakota
Gabled German Renaissance apartment house from 1884, site of John Lennon's murder.
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This guide to the Dakota, on Seventy-Second Street in New York City, begins on the afternoon of December eighth, 1980, when John Lennon stopped on the pavement outside to sign an album for a fan. It takes in the great double-height arch, the vaulted passage behind it and the private courtyard it was built to protect, and the people who worked this entrance. Best heard from the pavement across the street, with the arch in view.
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