Pugnacious, Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin was bade farewell Wednesday at an Upper West Side church packed with pals and pols.

Mourners included Tony Bennett, Bill Moyers, Malachy McCourt and ex-NYPD Comissioner Ray Kelly.

“Their true north was the common man,” Gov. Cuomo said of Breslin and his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, longtime friends.

Breslin, 88, was writing until the end, said wife Ronnie Eldridge. “He never wanted to let a day go by without working,” she told the Church of the Blessed Sacrament crowd.