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NYC carriage drivers leave touching note on Tony Bennett’s Central Park bench: ‘Once around the park again’

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who died Friday at age 96.The park’s iconic carriage drivers left a touching note on the perch, slightly tweaking the lyrics to his 1953 song “Please Driver (Once Around the Park Again),” to read: “Please, Tony, once around the park again…We can’t believe you’re gone…”“RIP, Central Park icon, Tony Bennett,” they wrote.Tourists were seen taking pictures of the multiple bouquets and note on the bench, which is located on Center Drive near Central Park South and Sixth Avenue.The jazz singer often visited the park and was seen in the later years of his life being pushed around the beautiful greenery in a wheelchair.

The Astoria native lived on Central Park South for 25 years.He also would sit in the park and paint his favorite spot in watercolor. “I have many spots I like around the park,” he told the New York Times in 2015. “I always paint nature.

Nature is the boss.”The Grammy winner said at the time that the park inspired his art, and he sketched or painted around 800 different scenes from it, from men rowing boats to taxis driving in the rain.

He would usually go to Central Park early in the morning to avoid any detection or would meet up with other friends who liked to paint. “I live in the city, but when I enter the park I’m in the forest,” he told the outlet.

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