Journalist and author Pete Hamill, who spent over 40 years covering New York City, has died after being hospitalized following a fall. He was 85.
Pete Hamill was born in 1935 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to Irish immigrants. The oldest of seven children, he dropped out of high school and worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard before going to art school.In this Dec. 20, 2002, file photo, columnist and best-selling author Pete Hamill is shown.After a stint in the U.S. Navy ended in 1957, Hamill worked as an art director for a local Greek paper and frequently wrote letters to the New York Post.
Hamill joined the New York Post in 1960 and covered a variety of stories from local crime to national politics. Over the next three decades, he worked at several New York papers, including the Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, the Village Voice and New York Newsday.that New Yorkers eagerly read Hamill's articles and it had an impact on all of their lives.
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