It is.... thats where the NY Mets play.

I think De Niro and LLC should have a fist fight to decide who the toughest skinny person is on the BB.

Cool pics man. The one with you and Lennon is the best.

And where would that be?

Central Park, silly girl!

Central Park West and 72nd Street, right?

Good memory. Lennon was shot outside his apartment building, The Dakota, there.

As SC pointed out, it's currently used as the home field for the NEW YORK METS baseball team. However they are building a brand new stadium next door called Citi Field which is being modeled after the old Ebbetts Field, home of the old Brooklyn Dodgers before 1957.

So if you plan on coming to the states and seeing Shea Stadium, you have two years left to do so before they knock it down.

DE NIRO, are you planning a trip to the states anytime soon?

Why are they knocking the Shea Stadium down?

Oh, and which stadium is it that features in the opening montage of Woody Allen's Manhattan? Is that the same one?

It's just time, that's all. Shea is over 40 years old, which nowadays is ancient for a baseball stadium.

One of Gordon Willis' first cinematography jobs was THE BEATLES AT SHEA STADIUM (1965). He also worked on Woody Allen's MANHATTAN.

Oh yeah, those Godfather movies, too.

Aside from gaining popularity due to the various celebrities that have lived there over the years, it became well known when it was used as the apartment building that Mia Farrow and John Cassavettes lived in, in the Roman Polanski movie 'Rosemary's Baby.'


There is a lot of HISTORY in that building.

When I was a kid, my great aunt Frances lived in that building until she passed away.

Believe it or not, it was actually affordable (rent control, etc...) until the mid 70's.

Was that reference a coincidence, or was it a subtle hint of an answer to my question regarding that stadium and that film?

More images of STRAWBERRY FIELDS

Coincidence!

And I never believe in coincidences, Mick.

Gordon Willis

Nor me, unless if I'm walking my dog through graveyards!

The movie reviewer, Rex Reed, lived there. Years ago when I was driving the taxi we sometimes had packages to deliver (got an extra $5 plus no mouthy customers...it was a good deal).... anyway, I had to deliver an envelope to someone in The Dakota. As I'm walking through the gates I literally bumped into Reed (quite hard). He just let out an "Ooooof" but it felt like the Pillsbury Doughboy as my arm went into his gut.

To this day he still reminds me of a puffy Tom Hanks and I laugh when I remember his "Ooooof".

I'll have you know that I'm 125 pounds of pure man.

I'm 125 pounds too dude! We have soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much in common!

Yeah. Only I'm about five inches taller than you, so I look like a POW.

I don't like either one of you.

Nah Beth, LLC is a good kid.

VERY disturbed, but a good kid.

Yoko Ono still lives there. I believe their apartment is on the 4th floor correct? I wonder what they look like on the inside. From the outside there's nothing really grand about it. You'd never know it was The Dakota except for the tourists all getting their pictures taken in front of it. Present company included.

I love you.

Is that Aunt Jessie I see by the window?

You have a picture of yourself in front of The Dakota? Lets see it!!

I haven't been inside of it since I was a kid. From what I remember, it was nothing special.

That's the thing about Manhattan, especially the Upper West Side, an exceptionally "artsy" neighborhood. There's really nothing special about alot of the apartments themselves.

But hey, it's New York, right?

Stick with me kid. I'll fatten your skinny as up.

Please feed me.