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Breslin: Imperfect Man A Perfect Voice for City

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/27/17

One spring afternoon in 1989, Jimmy Breslin was looking to buy a home out in the Rockaways and he responded to an ad placed by my friend Russell, who lived in Belle Harbor and occasionally posted such notices because he wanted to see whether anyone would knock him over with an offer.

So Jimmy and his wife, Ronnie Eldridge, stopped by, and he engaged Russell in a conversation that rather quickly brought to the fore the many political issues on which the two of them disagreed. Russell owns a kitchen-installation business and is a natural salesman, so they kind of hit it off—at least to the point where Jimmy kept the conversation going rather than deciding that he didn’t want to buy his house at any price.

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