New Yorkers still worship legendary crooner Tony Bennett at considered one of his favorite places in the town.
Notes and flowers appeared Saturday on a Central Park bench that is called after Bennett, who died Friday on the age of 96.
The enduring park janitors left a touching note on the perch, barely tweaking the lyrics of their 1953 song “Please Driver (Once Across the Park Again)” to read “Please, Tony, another time across the park… We won’t consider you are gone…”
“RIP, Central Park icon, Tony Bennett,” they wrote.
Tourists were seen taking pictures of the numerous bouquets and notes on the bench, which is situated on Center Drive near Central Park South and Sixth Avenue.
The jazz singer was a frequent visitor to the park and was seen in his later life being pushed around the attractive greenery in a wheelchair.
Originally from Astoria, he lived in Central Park South for 25 years.
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He also sat in the park and painted his favorite spot in watercolor.
“I even have a lot of places in the park that I like,” he said New York Times in 2015. “I at all times paint nature. Nature is the boss.”
The Grammy Award winner said on the time that the park inspired his art and he sketched or painted about 800 different scenes from it, from men rowing boats to taxis driving in the rain.
He normally went to Central Park early in the morning to avoid detection or socialized with other friends who liked to color.
“I live in the town, but once I enter the park, I’m in the woods,” he said.
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Bennett painted often as a child and even learned to color in highschool on the High School of Industrial Arts on the Upper East Side. In highschool, he painted Central Park for homework, the Times reported.
Several high-profile New Yorkers remembered the singer on Friday.
“A working-class kid from Queens, Tony Bennett, sang our song to the world. Don’t let the lyrics idiot you – he left his heart here in New York. May he rest in peace,” Mayor Eric Adams tweeted.
“I’ll at all times be thankful for his outstanding contribution to the art of latest music. Working with him was a pleasure. His energy and enthusiasm for the fabric he was doing was contagious,” Billy Joel, a native of Long Island, wrote on social media, posting several photos of them working together.
“He was also considered one of the nicest people I’ve ever known.”
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Bennett was a regular on the Brooklyn Diner on West 57th, across the corner from his Manhattan home.
“He was the sweetest, nicest guy you’d ever wish to socialize with for a couple of hours. There couldn’t be a nicer New York guy,” restaurant owner Shelly Fireman told The Post.
“It’s sad for America; it’s sad for New York and we’ll miss it a lot.”
Gerard Renny, who owned Lucky’s Bar and Grill on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, one other place in Bennett’s neighborhood, bought considered one of the singer’s works – a Las Vegas cityscape – for his then-pregnant wife.
“Once he came upon I purchased it, at some point I show up and my manager hands me an envelope with an autographed photo, thanking me and wishing me the perfect for the infant.”