Pete Hamill, Journalist and Author Who Captured Spirit of New York, Dies at 85

A fire that tore through celebrity chef Rachael Ray's upstate New York home started in a fireplace chimney, officials announced Friday. The state Office of Fire Prevention and Control said the Aug.

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Pete Hamill, the New York newspaperman who went to bat for the disenfranchised and became a larger-than-life personality during the city's last great era of print journalism, has died. He was 85.

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Hamill died at a Brooklyn hospital from heart and kidney failure, his brother Denis confirmed in an email to the Associated Press.Hamill's career included stops at the old, the, and the, which was once America's largest-circulation newspaper.Numerous journalists paid tribute to Hamill on Twitter, many of them naming him as a mentor, and the quintessential New Yorker. Gov.

announced in the New York Daily News, where he once worked as an editor. According to the paper, which cited Hamill’s brother and fellow former Daily News columnist Denis Hamill, the longtime newspaperman fell on Saturday and sustained a hip fracture.

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.

baseball, politics, murders, boxing and riots to wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Ireland. 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.

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