Short Stuff: The Dakota

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Dakota is one of New York City's great buildings. And its backstory is pretty great to boot.

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0:28.5	you get your podcasts. Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're
0:37.3	going short stuff architectural styles, specifically architectural style from the mid to late 19th century,
0:45.2	specifically in Manhattan and the Upper West Side, specifically about the Dakota. That's right.
0:52.3	Can I say something very quickly, since this is short stuff? Sure. Right before we recorded,
0:57.2	you said Dakota fanning and that reminded me. I just got back from New York and I had six celebrity
1:04.1	sightings, one of which was L fanning. Oh yeah. Yeah. She's in the lobby of a hotel. I go on that
1:11.6	hotel to pee. I'm always got my head on a swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies.
1:18.0	Sure. And I was like, hey, that's Dakota fanning and I was like, she was sitting with people.
1:21.9	I was like, there's got to be somebody else famous. Went to the bathroom, came out, sitting next to
1:26.2	Jessica Chastain. Wow. Pretty major sighting. Then at one of my pavement shows, I saw
1:35.0	Noah Bombak and Greta Gerwig and they're married. Wow. Power couple. Yeah. I mean, he co-wrote
1:44.9	Barbie with her and Dean Wareham of Luna, they're all good friends and they're all together. So
1:50.0	that was a three-banger and one and this lady near me was jumping up and down like screaming it
1:56.4	at Greta Gerwig and she was very sweet from up above in the balcony and like made the little
2:01.0	heart symbol and like said she loved her. It was very sweet. Oh, that's sweet. And then
2:05.2	sat next to Tiffany Haddish on the flight home. Wow. Like she was across the aisle from me.
2:10.8	Did you, did you bugger the whole time? No, I didn't say anything.
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