Brooklyn’s Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist, has died
Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist and native Brooklynite whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and nonfiction, died Wednesday morning. He was 85.
Hamill, who grew up in Park Slope, which was then a working-class Irish stronghold, died at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital from heart and kidney failure, his brother Denis confirmed in an email.
“Pete was truly one of the good guys,” Denis Hamill said.