Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer-winning reporter and columnist whose life was as outsized as the New York City characters he depicted and exposed in print, died Sunday at the age of 88.
He died in his Manhattan home from complications from pneumonia, according to the New York Daily News.
The Queens native — who never shook his accent from that borough — became a fixture of big-city journalism, primarily for the New York Daily News, by championing the little guy.
He also was the source of both scoops and controversy through the years. In the summer of 1977, he reported on letters he received from “Son of Sam” serial killer, David Berkowitz.