By Stan Brooks’s reckoning, he spent more than 50 years on “the 50-yard line of history.”
Brooks, who became one of New York’s defining news radio voices over a half century on WINS 1010-AM, died Monday at home. He was 86 and had been diagnosed with cancer.
He filed his last story Nov. 21, and he never officially retired.
He and his wife Lynn “talked about [retiring] for years,” Brooks said in an interview last year. “But I always said, what else would I do? It became a joke between us. I could cut back to three days a week, but what would I do with two extra days?”
“He was a treasure,” WINS News Director Ben Mevorach said in a tribute Monday. “And he was treasured by all who were fortunate enough to circle within his constellation.”
Speaking about Brooks’ 50th anniversary at WINS in 2012, Mevorach marveled that despite being 85, “He still beats reporters half his age to the scene of a story.”
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