BROOKLYN DISCOVERY

On Thursday, June 24, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Council Member Brad Lander unveiled the new Pete Hamill Way, on 7 th Avenue between 11 th and 12 th streets in Park Slope. Hamill, who was born and raised on the block that now bears his name, had a storied four-decade career as a newspaper journalist, columnist, editor, and author in New York City... At the ceremony, Borough President Adams and Council Member Lander were joined by members of Hamill's family, including his widow Fukiko Aoki and his brother Denis Hamill, as well as famed civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, one of his admirers... "Pete Hamill captured the grit, spirit and people of New York City like no one else, and weaved together a tapestry of stories from every corner of the city," said Council Member Lander. "He started delivering the Brooklyn Daily Eagle when he was 11 years old, and he never stopped telling the stories of New Yorkers. He knew there was ‘no one New York, but many New Yorks.' He..