Life at the Dakota

A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times –bestselling author of “Our Crowd” . When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation’s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissance–st