A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York’s "New Yorkiest" writer – Atlanta Journal Constitution

He still awakens at 4:30 or 5 a.m., and announces to his sleeping wife, Ronnie Eldridge, “That’s it. I’m up.” He rumbles around the apartment, spilling coffee. He calls his editor at Newsday, John Mancini, and asks, “What’s out there? What do you have?”

A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York’s "New Yorkiest" writer – Atlanta Journal Constitution