In the opening of Robert Wise's classic chiller
The Haunting, Richard Johnson's Dr. Markway ponders whether a house can actually be "born bad". One might suspect it can, at least when it comes to the Dakota, the opulent but eerie looking luxury apartment complex on 72nd Street in Manhattan. Movie-goers were first introduced to the Dakota as the setting for
Rosemary's Baby - and a decade later as the site of John Lennon's murder. Writer Bob Greene looks at how the house is now synonymous with reel life horror and real life horror.
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