Yoko Ono leaves NYC after 50 years, moves to farm purchased with John Lennon
Yoko Ono is the latest to say she’s done with New York City.
The 90-year-old is choosing to spend the rest of her life in a rural upstate New York farm that she and her late husband, John Lennon, purchased together in 1978, .
In the last 50 years, Ono has called the exclusive Dakota building — located on West 72nd Street and known as the first-ever luxury apartment building in America — her home. Lennon was shot outside, in Dakota’s archway, on Dec. 8, 1980.
During the pandemic, Ono opted to move to her expansive 600-acre farm near Franklin, New York, in the Catskills, full-time — with no plans of returning to her Upper West Side abode, the outlet reported.
Ono and The Beatles legend had purchased the farm initially as a retreat — and to raise Holstein dairy cows.
Ono now lives a “peaceful life,” out of the public spotlight, sources say, adding that the small town has a population of just 340 people.
The main house on the sprawling estate has four bedrooms and two bathrooms — and outside, Ono grows her own vegetables. Nearby are a farmers’ market and a pizza restaurant.
Philip Norman, in his book, “,” writes that the English singer bought a herd of 122 cows and 10 bulls for the farm at one point.
Back in 2013, the farm became a subject of contention, when Ono and her son, Sean, protested fracking in the state of New York. There was a rising threat to the farm that sits atop the Marcellus Shale — a rock🍎 formation geologists estimate holds trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
“I have always felt lucky,” Lennon wro𒆙te in an op-ed for , “to live on land [my father] loved dearly.”
Despite being wheelchair-bound with her health declining in recent years, Ono recently revealed that she goes for 4-mile walks to beat depression.
Ono never remarried f🐬ollowing the assassination of Lennon.
In 2017, 🦂now 47-year-old Sean pushed Ono in a wheelchair to receive the Nation🧔al Music Publishers’ Association’s Centennial Song award.
“I’ve learned so much from having this illness,” Ono said during her acceptance speech. “I’m thankful I went through that.”
It still remains unclear what illness she was referring to, but in 2020, a source close to her staff told The Post that the avant-garde artist requires round-the-clock care. Before moving out to her farm, the source added that she rarely left her sprawling apartment in the Da🔴kota.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1933, Ono was born into a banking family who suffered from starvation during World War II. They were often force𒁏d to barter household items for food while they sought refuge from Allied bombing raids.
“She is a particularly special being,”💧 Elliot Mintz, a close fami꧋ly friend and publicist, told The Post back in 2020. “In these 87 years, she’s lived 400.”
