![]() ![]() ![]() He also wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone and New York Magazine. ![]() He penned columns for the Post for 12 years and worked as a columnist for Newsday, Village Voice and the New York Daily News. In 1960, the high school dropout began working as a reporter for the Post where he “began to learn his craft,” according to his online biography. Hamill was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn to Northern Irish immigrant parents, Billy and Anne. He was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital - the same place he was born - when “his kidneys and heart failed him,” the brother said. Hamill fell at his Brooklyn home Saturday after returning from dialysis, his brother, writer Denis Hamill, told The Post. Pete Hamill, the consummate New York newspaperman and novelist whose 15-year career at the New York Post included stints as a columnist and editor, died Wednesday, his family said. Park Slope street to be named after legendary Post columnist Pete HamillĮvery New York team had their own Horace Clarke Pete Hamill Way: Park Slope street named for late Post columnist and editor ![]()
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