Hamill received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2005. In 2010 Hamill received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from St. John's University.[48][49] In 2010 he was presented the Louis Auchincloss Prize from the Museum of the City of New York.[50] In 2014 Hamill received the George Polk Career Award.[51]
Hamill was a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.[52]
Hamill and Jimmy Breslin were interviewed for the 2019 HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, which details both the friendship and competition between New York City's two most read columnists of their era.[53]
A stretch of Seventh Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is named "Pete Hamill Way."[54]
