[oh8eleven]

Excellent, excellent writer. If you want to know him I highly recommend his 1994 memoir “A Drinking Life.” If you want to know about NYC history I recommend his "Downtown: My Manhattan." He also wrote dozens of novels.

[LottieDah]

May he rest in peace.

[dp0622]

I’m glad I didn’t bash in haste.

I could swear I read a hamilton in the 90s that was hard left.

But I could swear about a lot of things from that generation that I got wrong :)

[Zhang Fei]

[Excellent, excellent writer. If you want to know him I highly recommend his 1994 memoir “A Drinking Life.”]

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He was the classic wino who moonlighted as a reporter. Great journo that no one thought would live to this age. RIP.

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t remember any particular memorable columns he wrote, but he was a New York institution. I was once working at a project site in NYC and he just happened to walk past us on the sidewalk.

[SE Mom]

Oh wow- a classic New Yorker. Godspeed, Mr. Hamil.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There was an English teacher in my high-school named Pete Hamill. I remember he used to get exasperated telling certain people over and over that he did not write these columns.

RIP.

[depressed in 06]

...“his kidneys and heart failed him,”...

Sounds like COVID-19 to me,

[Dr. Ursus]

I got to talk to him about that book. Quite interesting! He was a great writer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.