Jimmy Breslin

Ask someone what makes a good bar and you'll likely get a wide range of answers. So when we set out to identify Connecticut's best bars, we knew we had to break it down across different categories to appeal to different tastes. From humble watering holes to high-end cocktail lounges, historic jewels to ...

Jimmy Breslin's 1969 comic novel, “The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight,” is all the funnier because it is based on the real-life failures of incompetent mobsters. Scranton has been saddled with its own gang that couldn't shoot straight but there is nothing funny about the Scranton School Board. It blithely ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jimmy Breslin died in March, the New York Daily News, the paper he'd worked on for a decade, failed to mention in its coverage that he'd ever written for its tabloid rival, the New York Post, where he worked briefly in the late Sixties. The Post made sure to omit that ...

From the start, there appeared to be something slightly off about the street sign unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio in late May in honor of Jimmy Breslin, the muckraking journalist and Queens-born columnist for The Daily News. It was green, while two others at the intersection in Midtown Manhattan — one ...

Keith Joyner, who works in the sign shop of the city's Department of Transportation in Manhattan, stood on a step ladder and slid a white sheath over a new street sign honoring Jimmy Breslin, the irreverent newspaper columnist who worked for a number of New York newspapers — among them The Daily ...

Last Wednesday, I sat down to write a piece about the late Jimmy Breslin, the newspaper columnist whose blunt yet eloquent and crafted prose captured New York and its environs as no one has since Damon Runyon. Jimmy died a little more than a week ago and I wanted to say a few words to note ― as ...

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 jagged-glass wit, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88 and, until very recently, was still pushing ...