{"id":336885,"date":"2026-09-03T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:36:10","slug":"ny-state-lawmakers-want-to-honor-dolly-parton-by-renaming-9-25-9-to-5-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336885\/","title":{"rendered":"NY state lawmakers want to honor Dolly Parton by renaming 9\/25 ‘9 to 5’ day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superstar Dolly Parton\u2019s<\/a> workday anthem \u201c9 to 5\u201d has resonated<\/a> with generations of New Yorkers grinding out a living. Now, State Senators Erik Bottcher and Jeremy Cooney are working to rename 9\/25 into \u201c9 to 5\u201d day to honor the country music icon.<\/p>\n

Bottcher and Cooney are slated to announce plans on Thursday to introduce a bill that would establish the day to celebrate her legacy.<\/p>\n

\"DollyDolly Parton performs at Austin City Limits Live during Blockchain Creative Labs’ Dollyverse event during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/p>\n

Parton, the legendary singer and songwriter, passed away last week at age 80 after a short battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

Bottcher told the Daily News in an interview that Parton\u2019s<\/a> outspoken support for the LGBTQ+ community made him feel seen while growing up in a small upstate town as a young closeted gay person.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can recall Dolly Parton speaking out for the LGBT community,\u201d Bottcher said. \u201cIt was a big deal to me and I\u2019m sure for millions of others. She was one of those rare people who seemed to belong to everyone and she also had deep ties to New York City. She lived part time in New York, and a lot of her best work was created in New York and set in New York \u2014 so it\u2019s only fitting that Sept. 25 be designated as 9 to 5 day across New York state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers plan to introduce the legislation when the New York State Legislature reconvenes in January.<\/p>\n

\"DollyDolly Parton sings in front of New York’s City Hall on Monday, Aug. 22, 1978. The singer performed a lunchtime concert for New Yorkers after receiving a key to the city from New York’s Mayor Ed Koch. (AP Photo\/ Marty Lederhandler)<\/p>\n

Similar efforts to honor Parton<\/a>\u00a0with a \u201c9 to 5\u201d day are also underway in Tennessee, California and Pennsylvania, and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman\u2011Sigal proclaimed Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Appreciation Day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Although Parton, a Tennessee native, called that state home, she had various connections to the Big Apple, including an apartment on Fifth Avenue in the 1980s and another on York Avenue in the 2000s. She wrote the score for \u201c9 to 5: The Musical,<\/a>\u201d which opened at the Marquis Theatre in Manhattan in 2009 and earned her a Tony nomination, and her charitable work.<\/p>\n

\u201cDolly\u2019s impact extends far beyond her musical talent, with her Imagination Library providing free monthly books to over 170,000 children in New York, supporting childhood literacy and bringing joy to families,\u201d Cooney said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m proud to join Senator Bottcher in celebrating Dolly\u2019s legacy and continuing her work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Superstar Dolly Parton\u2019s workday anthem \u201c9 to 5\u201d has resonated with generations of New Yorkers grinding out a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":["post-336885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}