Dakota Building

The Dakota Building ( The Dakota ), is a building of New York builds between the October 25th 1880 and the October 27th 1884. It is located at the north-western corner of the 72e street and Central Park West with Manhattan. It was drawn by the architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also carried out the Plaza Hotel, for the account of Edward Clark, the leader of Singer Corporation. It is known to have been the residence of John Lennon and the place where it was assassinated.

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At the time to adapt to the screen the novel with success Rosemary' S baby of the author Will go Levin and with an aim of illustrating the enigmatic one and malefic residence New Yorkaise inhabited by the " Woodhouse" , the realizer Roman Polanski chose the Dakota building. Only some external plans were turned near Dakota, the remainder having been realized in Californian studios. However, in the credits of introduction to film, the overflight of the roofs of the city was seized by the top of a building facing Dakota; thus clarifying this last. This introduction will impregnate already film of a singular atmosphere, one will note that for the needs for film, the Dakota building will become the building " Bramford".

This building is used in the film Vanilla Sky , with the whole beginning of film, as place where David Aames saw, the heir.

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