In which city was John Lennon killed?

John Lennon was killed in New York City. On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Yoko Ono returned to The Dakota, their apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. As Lennon walked through the building's archway, Mark David Chapman shot him with a .38 Special revolver.

Police rushed Lennon to Roosevelt Hospital in a patrol car, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m. He was 40 years old. The Dakota, a landmark apartment building near Central Park, became permanently associated with the crime and with Lennon's final moments.

A common mix-up is confusing the location of the shooting with the place where Lennon died medically. The shooting occurred at The Dakota in Manhattan, New York City, while Roosevelt Hospital—now Mount Sinai West—was where doctors declared him dead. The city later became a major site of public mourning, including vigils at Central Park's Strawberry Fields memorial.