Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist, has died

FILE - In this June 5, 2007 file photo, Pete Hamill responds during an interview at the Skylight Diner in New York. The longtime New York City newspaper columnist and author has died. His brother Denis Hamill said Pete died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 in Brooklyn.

A Brooklyn-born high school dropout, Hamill was a columnist for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York magazine and Esquire. He wrote screenplays, several novels and a bestselling memoir, “A Drinking Life.” Rupert Murdoch eventually purchased the paper, leading to Hamill’s dismissal. A few years later, Hamill spent a short stint as editor-in-chief of the Post’s archrival, the New York Daily News. He also worked for a few months in 1987 as editor of The Mexico City News.

Hamill found his way onto President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.” In a column, Hamill said the president shared the blame for the 1970 shootings at Kent State University by calling campus dissenters “bums.” Vice President Spiro Agnew called the column “irrational ravings,” and Hamill borrowed the phrase for the title of a 1971 collection of his columns.

I grew up hearing 'Just the facts, Ma'am' R.I.P. Pete Hamill

Learned about Pete Hamill through his appearances on 'Imus in the Morning'

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This guy was amazing! RIP

And he loved baseball.

It is impossible to overstate the loss suffered to both NYC and Irish-American culture today with the loss of Hamill. I doubt we'll ever get to read someone who understood the city as he did ever again. RIP

He was always the writer I aspired to be. My generation lost a piece of itself today.

RIP Pete

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RIP

Rest in Peace

RIP, 😢💔

Rest in peace sir, Condolences to your family. You will be missed

R.I.P. Pete. My Prayers and Sincere Condolences

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R.I.P. Pete

RIP Pete. Didn’t always agree with him but he was a true liberal in the best sense Of the word.

Dam! Covid got another!

Thought it said Mark Hamill

Loved Pete’s work. Beautiful prose. Love story’s to his city. A great talent. RIP.

donwinslow 💔

RIP

What a lovely man...sad day.

_Images Clips of him (and also of the late John Lewis) can be seen in 'Bobby Kennedy for President' on Netflix.

Loved reading Pete while growing up in NY. The quintessential NY journalist and author. Loved the NY he grew up in and loved each stage of its evolution into what it is today. Born in Brooklyn, died in Brooklyn. RIP Pete. Your words will be missed.

RIP Pete

RIP 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

AP - In a pandemic you gotta list cause of death in the tweet. We lost Pete to heart & kidney. RIP

Rest In Peace 🙏🏻

Noooo!!! My favorite book of all time by him is titled Forever!!!! Please read it if you live history!! Amazing! RIPPeteHamill

johncusack he was a giant among men. God speed Pete

Rest In Peace 🙏🏽❤️

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Sad. 😥

I really enjoyed reading his book, Forever. It remains a favorite. Rest In Prose PeteHamill

I loved Pete Hamill.

He lived one hell of a life!

🌹😇 Prayers.Sent.😇💗

Mr. Hamill also wrote the novel 'Forever' (2003) from which the series 'New Amsterdam' stemmed from. (The one with Nikolaj Coster Waldau about the immortal cop). Lovely novel about immortality and humanity. 🕯️

His mother is turning over in her grave over this bullshit: 'Parents were immigrants from Northern Ireland'.

No!!!!! ugh, RIP Pete Hamill. Thanks for everything you've ever written. You were amazing.

indeed a legend. Brooklyn style. I read A Drinking Life on top of a rooftop in Brooklyn overlooking Manhattan one summer a long time ago. Another old schooler lost. RIP, Pete.

Thank you, Mr. Hamill. You helped save what is left of our democracy. PeteHamill

A New York treasure. RIP sir

They really don’t make columnists like that anymore… Herb Caen, Jimmy Breslin, Bob Green… That type of writing just doesn’t exist anymore

mortgageconsult Pete Hamill epitomized NY. Condolences to his family.

RIP

You were one of the Greats and will be sorely missed. RIP, Pete. 🥀

Sad he's gone and sadder that journalists are only being replaced by dim wits with no nose for the truth.

I loved his books!!

Live long and Prosper sir 😟

I like this Peter Hammill better because you can dance to him, but that doesn’t mean NY Pete won’t be missed.

May he rest in peace. 🙏❤️

God rest his soul....Pete Hamill was a very exciting man.🙏🏼

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Can we please stop using the descriptor “legendary”? If somebody is legendary it isn’t needed. If used, it indicates that the person was not legendary.

May he rest in peace

Loved reading his work. ' A Drinking Life' was a wonderful read. RIP Mr. Hamill.

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Legend.

Growing up in Brooklyn all I have are memories of the Daily News Riding the subway to work the first thing you grabbed was a DN Sunday mornings with the bagels always wanted to see what Pete & Breslin were going to write about. My father worked For the Journal American & NY Post

This is so sad. Growing up he was the quintessential New Yorker I loved him and his articles... I want a refund for 2020.

RIP and my condolences to his family and loved ones. 🙏

He was my favourite in Star Wars

Rip/ may the lord be with him and his family/ he will be missed but never ever forgotten

RIP. He was youthful-looking for 85.

Rip sir 😿

Rest In peace...

such a shame. Loved him in Star Ward

“A Brooklyn-born high school dropout, Hamill was a columnist for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York magazine and Esquire. He wrote screenplays, several novels and a bestselling memoir, “A Drinking Life.”’ Inspiring journalist!

I loved him in Star Wars

An inspiration & hero to generations of young folks believing in the power & promise of newspapers. A blessing to spend time with him, talking Brooklyn, baseball, Sinatra, comic books, SnowinAugust May his memory be a blessing.

A great journalist whose columns I read growing up in nyc, RIP

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He looks so young....COVID?

RIP

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