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Article: Strawberry fields forever
- Article from:
- The Malay Mail
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright 2001 The Malay Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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TUCKED away in a westerly corner of New York's Central Park is a
small garden, planted and tended with a loving care that the
surrounding urban grassland never receives.
Above it loom the Gothic towers and mildew-green roof of an
apartment building more like some grim Victorian institution or
orphanage than one of the smartest addresses in uptown Manhattan.
The building is known simply as The Dakota because when it was
built in the 19th century, this part of Central Park was considered
as remote and inaccessible as far-off North or South Dakota.
It has sheltered many famous and eccentric tenants over the
years, but will be known forevermore as the place where former
Beatle John Lennon was ...