Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticPete Hamill, the Brooklyn-born journalist whose street-savvy writing style and editorial hand lent an authentic, even quintessential voice to city tabloids The New York Post and The Daily News over a 50-year-career, died today in his native borough.
He was 85.His brother, the writer Denis Hamill, told The New York Times that Hamill fell at home on Saturday after returning from a dialysis treatment.
He was taken to Brooklyn’s Methodist Hospital were he died apparently from kidney and heart failure.Hamill began his newspaper career at the Post in 1960.
Over the next decades he would write for the Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone and.
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