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  1. In October 1986, Breslin landed his own twice-weekly late night television show on ABC, Jimmy Breslin's People, in which he was seen interviewing poor New Yorkers at home, as well as some who were incarcerated.

  2. Mar 20, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Breslin scored one of his best-remembered interviews with President John F. Kennedys grave-digger and once drove straight into a riot where he was beaten to his underwear.

  3. Mar 19, 2017 · Jimmy Breslin, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a...

  4. Mar 20, 2017 · Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Breslin, whose long career as a columnist for New York City newspapers and tabloids embodied an endangered form of journalism.

  5. Mar 19, 2017 · Jimmy Breslin, an award-winning New York Daily News columnist celebrated for his insights into the lives of everyday New Yorkers, died Sunday, the outlet confirmed. He was 88.

  6. Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1928, Queens, New York, U.S.—died March 19, 2017, Manhattan) was an American columnist and novelist who became known as a tough-talking voice of his native Queens, a working-class New York City borough, during his long newspaper career.

  7. Mar 19, 2017 · NEW YORK --Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker, died Sunday...

  8. Mar 19, 2017 · Jimmy Breslin, the iconic and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who mesmerized New Yorkers with simple but stirring prose for almost a half-century, died Sunday at his Manhattan home.

  9. Mar 19, 2017 · Pulitzer-Prize winning New York City newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died Sunday morning from complications of pneumonia. He was 88 years old, and his death was confirmed by his physician ...

  10. Mar 20, 2017 · The newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died over the weekend. He was 88. He wrote for the New York Daily News and for Newsday.