Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address

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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address

A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Timesâ€“bestselling author of â€œOur Crowdâ€.

When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattanâ€™s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed â€œthe Dakotaâ€ for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nationâ€™s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissanceâ€“style castle, with its intricate faÃ§ade, peculiar interior design, and gargoyle guardians peering down on Central Park, was an immediate hit, particularly among the cityâ€™s well-heeled intellectuals and artists.
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Over the next century it would become home to an eclectic cast of celebrity residentsâ€”including Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, singer Roberta Flack (the Dakotaâ€™s first African-American resident), and John Lennon and Yoko Onoâ€”who were charmed by its labyrinthine interior and secret passageways, its mysterious past, and its ghosts. Stephen Birmingham, author of the New York society classic â€œOur Crowdâ€, has written an engrossing history of the first hundred years of one of the most storied residential addresses in Manhattan and the legendary lives lived within its walls.

Country	USA
Author	Stephen Birmingham
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781504026314
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Open Road Media
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
NumberOfPages	242
PublicationDate	2015-12-01
Publisher	Open Road Media
ReleaseDate	2015-12-01
Studio	Open Road Media

Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address

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