The Dakota building is best known for a dark and sombre episode in pop history. It was here where John Lennon lived with his wife Yoko Ono, and it was in front of this building where Lennon was shot. But the building has played parts in many illustrous stories.
The Dakota around 1880
Long before the Lennons bought their apartment, or rather, apartments as they bought several, the buiding was used as filming location for the intense adaptation of Ira Levins novel Rosemary’s baby. In the movie from 1968, the building was portrayed as The ‘Bramford’, the brooding Gothic building where newlyweds Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse (played by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) set up home.
Farrow and Cassavetes at the entrance gate
Still today an apartment in the Dakota is something only the immensely rich can afford. This 6,5 room apartment (half of an original) is on the market for a mind blowing $7.500.000…..
for sale for $7.500.000
You do get your money’s worth obviously as Central Park is just across the street. The apartment itself is not too big though. The kitchen could even be referred to as small-ish. And I always wonder why Americans often don’t have separate toilets. Here you have to go through either the master bedroom, or the library which will likely end up being used as 2nd bedroom.
And I am not sure if Yoko Ono as a neighbour is a selling feature.
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Very cool!
Wonderful post! Thanks. I didn’t know any of that stuff. One of my uncle’s best friends lives in the bldg. right next door and she gave me some of the facts about that area, but none of that stuff.
For the kind of money John/Yoko paid to buy their apartments there, you’d think there would’ve been better security. What a sad, horrible situation his murder was. Bothers me 28 years later.
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