The Dakota

Excellent apartment building with world class amenities in an ace location. I really love living here. Taking one star off though because my downstairs neighbors are practicing satanists.

Service was very poor! Felt like you were putting the staff out when making simple requests. Wow, will not return. Too bad, the food was really good.

I’ve been here numerous times. First being 3 days after that tragic night John was killed .
It’s a beautiful building, even down to the ornate metal rail which encircles the 72^nd St. /​8^th Ave portion .
The combination of building styles all together really makes it stand alone. I use the term Gothic to describe it best .
Again, a NYC landmark, but when you’re. standing in front of that archway, you get a surreal feeling. A sadness. This is where it happened, one says to oneself … RIP John .
Don’t forget to cross 8^th Ave & visit Strawberry Fields in Central Park. Beautiful, place. One cannot help but to feel the peace there.

It is a building worth seeing.
1) Nice area.
2) Nice architecture.
3) Nice building next to Central Park.

It looks a little like a big olé’ haunted gothic co-​op (if such a thing exists). And given its history (it was used as the apartment in Rosemary’s Baby, and John Lennon was killed here) it does seem appropriate.
I only took pictures from a hill across the street in central park, partially because 1.) It seemed wildly disrespectful on a number of levels to go poking about the entrance way taking pictures and 2.) The entrance and the whole lower part of the building seemed to be under some sort of renovation project. For some reason from pictures, I imagined it faced the opposite direction?
Around the block was a place called the Dakota bar.
Haunted looking or not, it is sort of beautiful, especially with the backdrop of central park and when you look at more modern sort of buildings. Not a lot to see here, but it is a gorgeous building to see, especially from central park.

first off… RIP john lennon… i just wanted to take a photo of the outside. i didnt wanna take the pic becuz he was shot here! he LIVED here. it was his home. i wanna remember that. beautiful building. i know other ppl lived here too that were famous. looks like great place to live.

We have a friend who lives next door to the Dakota and enjoyed looking at it out our window. It’s hard to imagine John Lennon was killed here 33 years ago.

Ich gehe immer mal wieder vorbei und erinnere mich, wie maßlos glücklich John Lennon mich einst oft gemacht hat.

My friend, Lauren and I were fortunate to have the opportunity to attend a party hosted by a couple that lives in The Dakota. We took the E Train Uptown and got off the W 72^nd Station. Up the stairs and high above 1 W. 72^nd on the roof is at statue of the Dakota Indian watching over us!
Slowly two giant gates open to a courtyard. The staff asks for your name and checks with security. Once past the gates, we walked in the greenery filled courtyard, past a large fountain to a mahogany lift that took us up to the apartment. The host told us that The Dakota was built in French style of the late 1800’s and no two of them are alike. The party was held in a huge two-​bedroom place with at least 12′ ceilings, separate living/​dining rooms, a den, and a full sized kitchen. The floors were inlaid with mahogany, oak, and cherry woods. The place was filled with art work and a grand piano.
The party was great and the experience in The Dakota was breathtaking.

Für Beatles-​Fans ein MUSS !!! Das Gebäude in dem John Lennon mit Yoko Ono und dem gemeinsamen Sohn Sean lebte. Am 08. Dezember 1980 wurde der Ex-​Beatle in der Einfahrt zum Dakota Building erschossen. Sicherlich ist es makaber einen solchen Ort als Sehenswürdigkeit hervorzuheben, aber er gehört zur Geschichte der Beatles, wie der Zebrastreifen der Abbey Road oder die Hamburger Stammkneipe der Beatles, Gretel & Alfons

Beautiful!
I used to walk a friend’s dog after work and would always make a point to walk by here!
I love old historic NY!

Having grown up just down the avenue from The Dakota I’ve seen it since I was a little kid. Later in life I come to find out that it was one of the original apartment buildings of the entire Upper West Side, not to mention infamous as the site of the John Lennon assassination.
This beautiful National Historic landmark is located on the Northwest corner of 72^nd Street and Central Park West and was designed, due to the commission of the head of the Singer Sewing Company, Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, by the same firm that created the designs for The Plaza Hotel on 59^th Street.
Always a home for the «who’s who» in New York, you can’t even walk into the driveway, much less the building itself, as there are guards at the entrance ²⁴⁄₇.
Yoko Ono still lives there 30+ years after her late husband’s murder and is seen from time to time entering and exiting the building on her way across the street to visit Strawberry Fields (the area of Central Park she still to this day pays for the upkeep of).

C’est le bâtiment, là où habitait John Lennon, c’est une résidence privée, on peut juste poser devant l’entrée où précisément ce génie est décédé.

This is a really beautiful building by central park. Our tour actually started here when I took a tour of Central Park.
Yoko does still reside here and I learnt that as a fact from our tour guide. Some celebrities actually live here too and it’s a pretty interesting sight especially if one is around Central Park. I remember my tour guide telling us if we wait long enough at the entrance we have a chance of seeing a celebrity.
The torches were really cool by where the securities are at the entrance.
Also when I heard this place is bad expensive I don’t believe it.
I still believe that Beverly Hills is the place, if I’m in that argument.

Famous as the former residence of John Lennon, the Dakota has been home to dozens of celebrities. The old photos show it was one of the first buildings erected in the area. It’s still an elegant place, worth a moment to stop and stare on your upper west side walk.

It’s hard to walk by The Dakota and not look at it. Its exterior ornamentation, stonework, gables, and arches evoke something grand and noble and are quite distinct from the comparatively sterile façades of the typical Manhattan skyscraper. Therefore, almost without fail, passersby will take a glance or even stare at the building with some intent.

Those with knowledge of The Dakota’s historical significance might linger just a bit longer and, even, somewhat morbidly, snap souvenir photos of themselves while standing at the main gate (as if it were the north lawn of the White House or the famous zebra crossing outside the Abbey Road studios in London).

The Dakota’s main gate, of course (leading into the building’s covered entranceway) is where John Lennon, the legendary founder and de facto leader of the Beatles, was so tragically killed on the night of December 8, 1980 (as he arrived home, disembarked from his limousine, and attempted to walk upstairs to his apartment).

From my perspective, visiting The Dakota because of its connection to Lennon’s murder, even as a subdued and respectful fan, is a rightly unfulfilling venture. The apartment itself (as it has always been) is still very much an active and private residential property with hundreds of current tenants (including Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow). It’s not like Graceland, Elvis’s mansion, which is no longer an actual residence and which has been transformed into a shrine and museum where the adoring public can go, pay admission, and tour to their heart’s content.
Because of this, The Dakota is really a mere curiosity and, invariably, just a convenient piggyback excursion for fans who may have also visited the nearby Strawberry Fields Memorial, which is right across the street (a block away in Central Park).

In the end, the building’s place in history, like the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, is set (and is stamped more by infamy than by admiration). As such, fans (myself included) should just let the site be and know that it’s a great place to come home to (for the rich and famous who desire the privacy and who can afford it); but, to visit The Dakota otherwise is to court an empty promise and leave with a bad taste in one’s mouth.

(Voir photo ci-​dessous)
J’ai pris cette photo il y a quelques années sans savoir que ce bâtiment était connu pour avoir été la résidence de John Lennon et que c’est là qu’il a été assassiné le 8 décente 1980.
En effet, je viens d’apprendre le nom de ce batiment, le Dakota en regardant aujourd’hui le film Chapitre 27 avec Jared Leto.
Il se trouve tout près de Central Park
Pour en savoir sur le bâtiment c’est ICI (
)
Pour vous balladez et découvrir les environs, avec StreetView, c’est ICI (
) quand vous allez cliquer attendre un peu avant d’avoir l’image nette. A ce moment là vous pourrez soit zoomer sur le batiment avec double clic, soit vous dirigez avec les flèches de direction, soit monter et descendre la caméra avec la petite console ronde en haut à gauche de l’image, il y a une forme d’une main.

If you are a Beatles fan, then you have to visit this place. To be honest there’s not a whole lot to do when you get there… you just kind of stand at it and look at it… but going there as a serious Beatles fan can actually be a really great experience, albeit somewhat difficult. It’s right across from Strawberry Fields in Central Park, and the whole area is kind of a haven for Beatle fans for obvious reasons. But like I said, if you’re a Beatles fan, that makes it pretty rewarding. You can meet a lot of really great people this way, particularly on Sundays, when everybody’s out and about. This was the first place I went when I moved to New York and I was feeling really lonely, and I’m glad that I did because I already felt welcome somewhere. This is particularly interesting if you check it out on John’s birthday or the anniversary of his death. Yoko still owns an apartment in this building, though I don’t know anyone who’s actually seen her here.
Of course it has other history, but uhhh, mostly I went because of the Beatles. Rating it does seem kind of weird since it’s not like you can go inside unless you live there. In a purely real estate sense, I’d do ridiculous, disgusting things to live in this building. It’s a beautiful place, built by the same people who built the Plaza Hotel, it’s right out front of Central Park, and it’s housed all number of celebrities, old and new, and even some fictional ones. It’s pretty awesome, and if you get there and you realize you just made a pilgrimage to visit a building, you can always pretend you were just walking by and then go hang around Central Park.

There are plenty of morbid reasons why people view this building but put all that nonsense aside and this really is a beautiful architectural monument. It is elegant and strong, the essence of old NY sophistication.
I dream of crown moldings from 1880…

Truly a beautiful building. Even if it were not for the Lennon/Ono/Rosemary’s Baby/​Holden Caulfield connection, this is something that you must see. I enjoy architecture, I’ve read a couple of books on it, and this is probably one of the most gorgeous buildings in all of New York. And that’s saying something in a city that had the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. I couldn’t go and gawk at the actual place where Lennon was shot because it made me feel uncomfortable but we got some shots of the entire building from across the street. I like to think of Yoko making her music here and being happy so this makes me happy!

An amazing building. Visit at night when most windows are dark. An eerie gothic feel. It seems like another world. Not just the world of the exlusively wealthy, but a different time and place.
For added fun, think of John Lennon living here with his fur coats. Try to sing «Imagine no possessions» at the same time.

Didn’t see Holden, or the ghost of John Lennon. I would describe the building’s pragmatic beauty, but it feels weird to heap aesthetic praise on such a depressing place.

Conhecido por ter sido o cenário do assassinato de John Lennon é um prédio imponente, cheio de seguranças que não te deixam passar de um determinado ponto para tirar fotos. Historicamente, foi o primeiro prédio de luxo da cidade. São 65 apartamentos. A Yoko ainda mora lá, quem sabe você não a encontra dando uma volta na região ou indo visitar o Strawberry Fields (no Central Park)

El edifico Dakota es donde mataron a jhon Lennon, ese es todo su interes, no tiene mas, aunque paren todas las escursiones.

Now THIS, unlike Strawberry Field, is a REAL NY site.
Not only is it a landmarked building, so named bec it was once in the far reaches of Manhattan, which was built from downtown up, but it has hosted numerous big names, including the Lennon-​Onos.
ROSEMARY’s BABY was filmed, or at least, set, here.
Most inane reason to see it: Lennon’s murder.
Hate to see the gawkers photographing the spot where Lennon was killed.

Designated a national landmark, this Nineteeth Century neo-​Gothic building was one of Manhattan’s first luxury high-​rise apartment buildings. Widely recognized by filmgoers as the place where Rosemary gave birth to her devilish baby, its place in pop-​culture history was established when John Lennon was murdered on its doorstep by deranged fan Mark David Chapman. Leonard Bernstein once lived here, and among the current residents in its dozens of balconied apartments, built around a central courtyard and with spectacular views of Central Park, are Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, actress Lauren Bacall, singer Roberta Flack, and critic Rex Reed.