Yoko Ono leaves New York after 50 years and moves to a farm bought with John Lennon.

Yoko Ono was the last to declare that she was done with New York.

The 90-year-old decided to spend the rest of her life on a rural farm in upstate New York that she and her late husband John Lennon bought together in 1978, according to the Daily Mail.

For the past 50 years, Ono has called home the exclusive Dakota Building, located on West 72nd Street and known as America’s first ever luxury apartment building. Lennon was shot outside in the Dakota Arch on December 8, 1980.

During the pandemic, Ono decided to move to her sprawling 600-acre farm near Franklin, New York, in the Catskills full-time, with no plans to return to her Upper West Side abode, the publication reported.

The legend of Ono and The Beatles originally purchased the farm for retreat and raising Holstein dairy cows.

Now Ono is living a “peaceful life” without attracting public attention, sources say, adding that only 340 people live in the small town.


The farm is located in upstate New York and covers a whopping 600 acres.
The farm is located in upstate New York and covers a whopping 600 acres.
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Main house.
The main house has four bedrooms.
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The sprawling estate’s main house has four bedrooms and two bathrooms, and outside, Ono grows his own vegetables. A farmer’s market and a pizzeria are nearby.

Philip Norman, in his book John Lennon: A Life, writes that the English singer at one point bought a herd of 122 cows and 10 bulls for the farm.

Back in 2013, the farm became the subject of contention when Ono and her son Sean spoke out against fracking in New York State. There is a growing threat to a farm atop the Marcellus Shale, a rock estimated by geologists to contain trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.

“I have always been lucky,” Lennon wrote in an article for the New York Times, “to live on dry land. [my father] dearly loved.”


Elliot Mintz, Yoko Ono's publicist, shared an image from home to celebrate her 90th birthday last week.
Elliot Mintz, Yoko Ono’s publicist, shared an image from home to celebrate her 90th birthday last week.
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One of several buildings on the farm.
One of several buildings on the farm.
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Even though her health has been confined to a wheelchair in recent years, Ono recently revealed that she goes on 4-mile walks to beat her depression.

It never remarried after Lennon’s murder.

In 2017, Sean, 47, pushed Ono in a wheelchair to win the National Music Publishers Association Centenary Song Award.

“I have learned so much from this illness,” Ono said during her acceptance speech. “I’m grateful I got through it.”


John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and Yoko Ono, both in leather jackets and berets, pose outside the Dakota apartment where they lived, New York, New York, November 21, 1980.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, both in leather jackets and berets, pose outside the Dakota in 1980.

It’s still unclear what illness she was referring to, but in 2020, a source close to her staff told The Post that the avant-garde artist needed round-the-clock care. Before moving to her farm, the source added that she rarely left her spacious Dakota apartment.

Ohno was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1933 to a banker’s family that suffered from famine during World War II. They were often forced to trade household items for food while they sought shelter from Allied bombing raids.

“She’s a special being,” close family friend and publicist Elliot Mintz told The Post in 2020. “In those 87 years, she lived 400 years.”

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