The late Italian-American crooner really stood up for fellow New Yorkers.
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but he left a legacy of love in his native New York City.“He gave me my first stand up job,” Danza told The Post on Friday, following Bennett’s death“The first time I ever got up to do stand up and a little tap dancing, was opening for him in Hawaii. I was so bad, and he was so nice to me.”
Bennett used to sing at the Copacabana on East 60th Street, where mobster Frank Costello was a partner., who was Costello’s “personal errand boy,” recalled the first time he met Bennett at the famed nightclub in 1959. “I was 16. I was there for all the band rehearsals. He was so nice to me,” said Russo, who lives on the Upper East Side.They reconnected when Russo’s and Bennett’s bands played at the Rainbow Room for General Electric’s holiday party — and their paychecks that evening were very different.
“They paid me $25,000 and I found out later they got $250,000,” he said. “I’m saying to myself, ‘I got the tax on it.'”, and was a regular at the Brooklyn Diner on West 57th.Fireman Hospitality Group “He was the sweetest, nicest guy you’d ever want to socially spend a couple of hours with. There couldn’t be a nicer New York kind of a guy,” said the restaurant’s owner Shelly Fireman.He was so respected at the eatery that they
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