![]() ![]() But he would always look back to the New York he grew up in, a pre-digital age best remembered through the dreamscape of black and white photography - a New York of egg creams and five-cent subway rides, stickball games and wide-brimmed hats, when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn and there were more daily papers than you could count on one hand. ![]() ![]() His topics ranged from baseball, politics, murders, boxing and riots to wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Ireland. ![]() Well-read, well-rounded and very well connected, Hamill was at ease quoting poetry and Ernest Hemingway, dating Jacqueline Onassis or enjoying a drink and a cigarette at the old Lion's Head tavern in Greenwich Village. Pete Hamill was one of the city's last great crusading columnists and links to journalism's days of chattering typewriters and smoked-filled banter, an Irish-American both tough and sentimental who related to the underdog and mingled with the elite. "Pete was truly one of the good guys," Denis Hamill said. Hamill died at a Brooklyn hospital from heart and kidney failure, his brother Denis confirmed in an email. NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist 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. Longtime New York City newspaper columnist and author Pete Hamill, seen here in 2007, passed away today. ![]()
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