He was a vicious scumbag in the Bernhard Goetz subway shootings.
He and his dirtbag Ronald Kuby.
Maybe my memory is even worse than I think...but I have always blamed him for the beginning of the victimization of the feral “teens” who now rule the streets.
Breslin was an adequate reporter who seemed to never fail to aggravate me each and every day. I would read him just to rail against him. A new York sop who would luxuriate in reporting on others troubles. A left of St. Patrick Irish mope who pretended to be the Lord Mayor of Dublin himself.
A passable writer, but he couldn’t shine either Damon Runyon or Bob Considine’s shoes. Throw in Dorothy Kilgallen for that matter.
Yup! He claimed that Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur had merely "asked" for $5 while surrounding the seated Goetz.
And don't forget how his beloved ferals left him beaten, in his underwear in a street phone booth where he had to be rescued by the otherwise absent NYPD during the Crown Heights riots.
I would see him many a night draped over a barstool at Moochie's Bar 100 at Market Slip and South St. In later years his haunt was the Part II on Queens Blvd. He lived in the same building so he didn't have to crawl too far to get home.