A review by imyourmausoleum
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address by Stephen Birmingham

informative slow-paced

4.0

 This book was suggested to me by similar Amazon purchases, so I picked it up with my Audible credit. I love books about historical buildings of all kinds. I actually became aware of the Dakota through a podcast episode about Mark David Chapman murdering John Lennon outside of it. I had no idea that this building was built by Edward Clark, Singer sewing machine magnate. The story of construction wasn't terribly interesting to me, but how the building wound up with the name Dakota was neat. I also had no idea that Roberta Flack was the first African American resident of the Dakota. There were a lot of famous names mentioned in this book with stories and anecdotes about them. If you are interested in celebrities, this might be a book for you. I have a couple of other books of similar topic, and I am looking forward to reading them as well.