19th-Century Development
Dakota Apartments
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Dakota Apartments, ca. 1895. Gelatin silver print on printing-out paper
Museum of the City of New York, Prints and Photographs Collection, X2010.11.1587
When the Dakota Apartments opened on Central Park West and 72nd Street in 1884, New Yorkers ridiculed it as Clark’s Folly, poking fun at its developer, Edward S. Clark. AR