Yoko Ono fell in with the New York art crowd in the late 1950s, befriending composers La Monte Young and John Cage, Fluxus founder George Maciunas, artist Nam June Paik and filmmaker Jonas Mekas. In the 1960s, she started organising artistic events in her Manhattan loft. Ono and Lennon moved back to New York in 1971, where they lived in an apartment in The Dakota Building, overlooking Central Park. It was outside The Dakota that John Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman in 1980.