Living room

AT HOME WITH

Tony Danza

Step inside the entertainer’s Upper West Side apartment.

By Addie Morfoot Photography by Stefano Ukmar

Aug. 28, 2024

Tony Danza does not have a housekeeper. He said he prefers to “deep clean” his two-bedroom Upper West Side apartment once every week while singing Frank Sinatra tunes.

“Drinking again, and thinking of when, when you loved me. I’m having a few and wishing that you were here. Making the rounds, accepting a round from strangers. Being a fool, just hoping that you’ll appear,” Mr. Danza crooned.

The song? “Drinking Again,” featured in Frank Sinatra’s 1967 Reprise album, “The World We Knew.”

As he sang, Mr. Danza, 73, stood beside his 1988 Yamaha Disklavier — a piano controlled by a computer, which propelled the instrument’s keys to depress according to instructions coded onto a floppy disk. It was midafternoon, but he had been belting out Sinatra’s lyrics throughout his 1,046-square-foot apartment that is filled with art, including signed prints by Joan Miró, since early morning in preparation for his new cabaret show “Tony Danza: Sinatra & Stories,” which will kick off the Café Carlyle’s fall season on Sept. 10.