Yoko Ono Is Leaving The UWS And The Dakota For An Upstate Farm

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Yoko Ono, one of the Upper West Side's most famous residents, has moved out of The Dakota building to live in a farm in upstate New York, as first reported by the Daily Mail.

The now 90-year-old singer has lived in the building at 1 W. 72nd St., first with her late husband John Lennon, and then on her own, for the last 42 years. Lennon was famously shot and killed in front of the Upper West Side building in 1980.

Ono is relocating to a 600-acre farm near Franklin, New York, which she bought with Lennon in 1978, reported the DailyMail. Ono reportedly left her Dakota building apartment during the pandemic, and has not returned since.

Ono has no plans to sell her Upper West Side apartment, reported the DailyMail.

There are currently four units for sale within The Dakota, ranging from $4.5 million to an eye-catching $20 million double unit that has 15 rooms and five bedrooms.

In total, The Dakota has 93 units within its nine stories and was constructed in 1884.

"Regarded as New York City’s first luxury apartment, The Dakota was built in 1884 and designed by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh, who also designed the Plaza Hotel," reads a description on StreetEasy.

Leonard Bernstein and Judy Garland are other celebrities that have called The Dakota home.

Vanity Fair posted a video in 2014 about The Dakota building that included Ono.