Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) landscaped section in New York City's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after The Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever".
The Central Park memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy . Strawberry Fields was dedicated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by New York Mayor Ed Koch and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono , who had underwritten the project. The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street , directly across from the Dakota Apartments , where Lennon had lived for the later part of his life, and where he was murdered in 1980. The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: " Imagine ". This was a gift from the city of Naples . [1] Along the borders of the area surrounding the mosaic are benches which are endowed in memory of other individuals and mai...