| World / USA / New Jersey / West New York, 1 km from center | Coordinates: 40°46'36"N 73°58'34"W |
Luxury apartment building. Constructed in the early 1880's by Edward Clark, the architect of the Plaza Hotel, and considered a financial "folly" because it was built so far out in the country and away from the core of the city that it "might as well have been in the Dakota Territory." Clark thumbed his nose at his critics by naming the building "The Dakota."
Residence of Yoko Ono "Beatle" John Lennon and their son Sean. On December 8, 1980, at 10:50 pm, John Lennon was shot four times by Mark David Chapman as he passed through the archway on the 72nd Street side of the building. Lennon died a short time later at Roosevelt Hospital.
Other famous tenants have included composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein; actors Lauren Bacall, José Ferrer, Judy Garland, Judy Holiday, Boris Karloff and Jason Robards; news anchor Connie Chung and her TV host husband Maury Povich; dancer Rudolf Nureyev; musical stars Roberta Flack and Paul Simon; and football coach/announcer John Madden.
Setting for the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby."
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