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The Dakota
The Dakota Review
One of the first residences built on the Upper West Side, the château-style Dakota (1884) remains an architectural fixture with its lovely gables, gaslights, copper turrets, and a central courtyard. Celebrity residents have included Boris Karloff, Rudolf Nureyev, José Ferrer, Rosemary Clooney, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, Gilda Radner, and Connie Chung, but none more famous than John Lennon, who in 1980 was shot and killed at the Dakota's gate by a deranged fan.
- Address: 1 W. 72nd St., at Central Park W, Upper West Side, New York, NY, 10023 | Map It
- Subway: B, C to 72nd St.
- Location: Upper West Side
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