The Dakota

The Dakota (also called the Dakota Apartments) is a cooperative residential apartment building located at 1 West 72nd Street, at the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. Designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and developed by Edward Cabot Clark, the building was constructed between 1880 and 1884 in a German Renaissance style. It was one of the first large developments on the Upper West Side and is identified as the oldest remaining luxury apartment building in New York City. The Dakota is listed as a National Historic Landmark, is a designated New York City landmark, and is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District. The supplied research notes contain no information about paranormal phenomena, hauntings, apparitions, or associated supernatural entities. No eyewitness accounts, folklore, or explanatory frameworks for hauntings were provided in the sources used for this entry. As an active cooperative apartment building, interior access is controlled by the co-op and the building functions as private residences while retaining protected historic status.