Tributes
Miami Beach honored Gleason's contributions to the city (and its tourism) in 1987 by renaming the Miami Beach Auditorium (where he had produced his television show after moving to Florida) as the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts. As of May 2010, the theater was scheduled to be razed as part of a convention-center remodeling project and replaced by a hotel. New York's Omni Park Hotel, where Gleason maintained a suite from 1953 to 1957, named his suite the "Jackie Gleason Suite" shortly after his death. A city park (with racquetball and basketball courts and a children's playground) near his home in the Inverrary neighborhood of Lauderhill was named "Jackie Gleason Park".
Signs on the Brooklyn Bridge advising drivers they are entering Brooklyn have the Gleason phrase "How Sweet It Is!". He is also mentioned (and seen) on the 1955 TV in the 1985 film Back to the Future when Marty McFly watches television with his (future) grandparents.
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“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)