As any visitor to New York probably knows, the rich and famous live in the rows of large luxury apartment buildings that face the park on its east and west sides. The museums are there, too - the Guggenheim, the Museum of the City of New York, the Whitney Museum, and the Met.

Perhaps the most famous of those apartment buildings is the Dakota.

Located where 72nd Street meets Central Park West, it sits in elegance and splendor - the object of bus tour stops and sightseeing, and of plenty of stories. The most infamous of these stories is of the death of John Lennon near its gate, where he was assassinated by "fan" Mark Chapman. Across the street from it is the entrance to Strawberry Fields, an understated memorial to John, in the part of the park where apparently he and Yoko liked to take strolls.

So it was sort of odd that when I looked up at its walls from the bus as we drove past, I wondered not about Lennon, but about which floor Myron Bolitar's very interesting fictional friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III, resided. Or more accurately, would reside if he were real.

I'll bet I was the only person on the bus and in the vicinity that day wondering about Win instead of reflecting on John Lennon (of whom I am a huge fan, make no mistake!).