The Dakota is one of the first luxury apartment building constructed in New York. It's located at the corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West (8th Avenue).
Like most buildings facing the Park, the Dakota is one of those buildings where really wealthy people live. People like Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Judy Garland or Boris Karloff have lived in the Dakota. But nowadays the Dakota is famous worldwide as the building where John Lennon used to live, and in whose door Lennon was killed on December 8th, 1980, it will be 27 years ago soon. Yoko Ono still keeps the apartment in the Dakota.
As a memorial to Lennon, the Central Park area across the street from the Dakota is called Strawberry Fields. In it you can find the monument to Lennon, a round mosaic with a geometric motif around the word "Imagine". People go there every day to revere Lennon. As you can see, the day I went there were some plants making a peace symbol, and also a guitar and few white paper peace doves.
I would like to remember Lennon and these verses from Imagine, in my opinion one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
