LAO TZU....

 

         

            “If you are depressed you are living in the past.

             If you are anxious you are living in the future.

             If you are at peace you are living in the present.” 

                                                     Lao Tzu                                                                                   

THE DAKOTA...

This eclectic building (German Gothic, English Victorian, French Renaissance), was the first residential luxury apartment house in New York, built by Edward Clark, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

When people found out that he had decided on an uptown site, many nicknamed the project, “Clark’s folly". Why not in Dakota, in the far west? asked one of his friends. Clark kept the name and had the building decorated with arrow heads, ears of corn and an Indian head over the main entrance.

Designed by the architect who later designed the plaza, The Dakota is regarded as an architectural gem and one of the city's most desirable addresses.  In 1968 Roman Polanski used it as the setting for his film Rosemary's Baby.

The Americans, singer Roberta Flack, conductor Leonard Bernstein, and actress Judy Garland, all lived here; but this building today is actually best known because of was John Lennon's last address. In 1980 he was shot dead by a misfit as he stood under the building awning. His wife Yoko Ono , still lives here at the Dakota.
The Dakota building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono in front of the Dakota building located at 72nd Street and Central Park West.

IMAGINE A STRAWBERRY FIELDS IN NEW YORK...

Strawberry Fields is a living memorial dedicated to the memory of Beatles member John Lennon who was murdered in New York on December 8 of 1980.
This  Landscape section located in New York City's Central Park, at West 72nd Street, is named after the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields For Ever ".
In this tranquil place, which has a sense of somber atmosphere, the focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song "Imagine".

It is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful mind...

Flowers arranged to form a peace sign at the memorial.

WITH THE ROCKETTES...

Merry Christmas, from New York, to every member of this FADDISH family. That God bless everyone with a prosperous and healthy new year.

THE MOST FADDISH CITY IN COLOMBIA...

Medellin, the most FADDISH city in Colombia, is now one of the three finalist, with New York and Tel Aviv,  to become the most innovative city of the year.
Medellin has a comprehensive transport system used by more than 500,000 residents and tourists compound by  the air train, tram, Metroplus (buses) and metrocable modern, connecting the high communes with the main lines of the metro train. Besides the public bike system to own and tourists can use to explore the city on bike paths.

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