Senator Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for the late award-winning singer Tony Bennett to have his own day in his hometown and across the country.
Schumer sat at a bench in Central Park inscribed with the Queens’ native’s name on July 23, mere days after the beloved artist passed away — just weeks short of his 97th Birthday on Aug. 3. Holding a photo of the late Bennett, the senate majority leader declared that Aug. 3 should be known as “Tony Bennett Day.”
“Tony Bennett would have loved taking a stroll here in Central Park and he would have talked and greeted people and everything else, and we miss him dearly,” Schumer said. “We’re here today at his bench, Tony Bennett’s Central Park bench to make an announcement in honor of a man so many of us have come to love, and so many of us dearly miss.”
