Topic: Jimmy Breslin

A Dazzling Collection Of Newspaper Columns

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And so with spring comes another episode of "Murphy's Law.". . After delivering a summation that tops anything in "The Lincoln Lawyer," or any of...

Mighty Quinn: March 23

E-mail from column contributor Aunt Shecky (sadsack59@hotmail. com):. . "Hi, Mighty, loved that Sunday's paper had a nice excerpt from Jimmy...

PVB fiasco in 1986 nearly toppled Ed Koch

The mushrooming CityTime payroll probe is an eerie echo of a 1986 scandal that stripped the clean government veneer off the administration of...
Born in 1930, Breslin often gets a pass because people say he is from a generation when things were different and people acted a different way because of a radically different world view. He then further stated that he was Jimmy Breslin ...

Steve Dunleavy one of a kind reporter

Well before Australia shared with the world a plethora of leading men, the Land Down Under lent us another sort of matinee idol who in 1975 took...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jimmy Breslin's daughter dies after collapsing at NYC restaurantThe daughter of writer Jimmy Breslin has died after collapsing at a New York City restaurant four days earlier.Bellevue Hospital Center spokesman Stephen Bohlen says Kelly Breslin died at ...
Jim Bellows, editor who spiced up struggling papers and 'Entertainment Tonight,' dies at 86Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make " He ...

Events Roundup: Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Robert Kahn will sign copies of his new book, Movies: The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School will host a discussion with Professor Robert Shiller to discuss his upcoming book, Animal Spirits: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette ...

Clay Felker’s National Monument

New York Stories: Just as Pat Moynihan became the best friend the American city ever had in the U.S. Senate, Clay Schuette Felker restored and enriched urban values in the largest, liveliest, gaudiest and most embattled American metropolis.When Felker died ...