Peter Jennings Owns This Block
In what was no doubt an emotional — yet perfectly coiffed — ceremony yesterday, the block of West 66th Street between Central Park West and Columbus was dubbed Peter Jennings Way, in honor of the late ABC News anchor who died of lung cancer last August (the block is home to ABC News' headquarters). The ceremony was quite the who's who event, with Elizabeth Vargas, Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer, David Westin, and Mayor Bloomberg in attendance.
"It's a wonderful public way to tip our hats," said Vargas, as she waited for the ceremony to begin. "This is the way we enter every day and [the way] Peter entered for 23 years."
And when that underpaid, bedraggled PA goes out for his lone cigarette break for the past six hours, he's really going to appreciate that hat-tipping.
In a Peter Jennings Way [Jossip]
ABC News Location Named Peter Jennings Way [ABC]