Jimmy Breslin, Columnist for Gritty New York, Dies at 88
- He won Pulitzer for columns that ‘champion ordinary citizens’
- Recipient of letters from serial killer known as Son of Sam
Columnist Jimmy Breslin in 2002.
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Jimmy Breslin, the newspaper columnist who remained true to New York City’s beat cops and bureaucrats, hustlers and homeless, immigrants, blue-collar workers and outer-borough commuters even as he became famous and wealthy as a morning must-read, has died. He was 88.
He died Sunday at his home in Manhattan, Emily Eldridge, his stepdaughter, said by telephone. The cause was complications from pneumonia.