Brooklyn Eagle
Circulation 15,000 (as of 2017)[1] | | |
Website | (Current publication) (Archived issues maintained by the Brooklyn Public Library) |
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The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat,[2] later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.
At one point, the publication was the afternoon paper with the largest daily circulation in the United States.
The paper, added "Daily" to its name as The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat on June 1, 1846.[3][4][5] The banner name was shortened on May 14, 1849, to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, but the lower masthead retained the political name[6][7] until June 8. On September 5, 1938, the name was further shortened, to Brooklyn Eagle,[8] with The Brooklyn Daily Eagle continuing to appear below the masthead of the editorial page, through the end of its original run in 1955. The paper ceased publication in 1955 due to a prolonged strike. It was briefly revived from the bankrupt estate between 1960 and 1963.
A new version of the Brooklyn Eagle as a revival of the old newspaper's traditions began publishing in 1996. It has no business relation to the original Eagle (the name having lost trademark protection). The new paper publishes a daily historical/nostalgia feature called "On This Day in History", made up of much material from the original publication.
History
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was first published on October 26, 1841. Its address at this time, and for many years afterwards, was at 28 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn (today the site of a landmark building known as the "
The paper started as a combination of objective news and Democratic party organ. During the
In August 1938,
The newspaper received the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its "crime reporting during the year".[12] Investigative journalist Ed Reid in an eight-part series exposed the activities of bookmaker Harry Gross and corrupt members of the New York City Police Department. This exposé led to an investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney, and resulted in the eventual resignation of Mayor of New York City William O'Dwyer.[13][14]
Hollow Nickel Case
On June 22, 1953, a newspaper boy, collecting for the Brooklyn Eagle, at an apartment building at 3403 Foster Avenue in Brooklyn, was paid with a nickel that felt funny to him. When he dropped it on the ground, it popped open and contained
Closure
In the face of the continued economic pressure brought on by a 47-day strike by the local reporters' trade union,
The loss of both primary national icons of the borough's identity within two and a half years—compounded by such factors as longstanding institutional decline at the
As journalist Pete Hamill (who worked as a delivery boy for the Eagle) observed in New York in 1969,
[Even] though the Eagle was not a great paper, it had a great function: it helped to weld together an extremely heterogeneous community. Without it, Brooklyn became a vast network of hamlets, whose boundaries were rigidly drawn but whose connections with each other were vague at best, hostile at worst. None of the three surviving metropolitan newspapers really covers Brooklyn now until events ... have reached the stage of crisis; the New York Times has more people in Asia than it has in Brooklyn, and you could excuse that, certainly, on grounds of priorities if you did not also know that this most powerful New York paper has three columnists writing on national affairs, one writing on European affairs, and none at all writing about this city. Without the Eagle, local merchants floundered for years in their attempt to reach their old customers; two large Brooklyn department stores—Namm's and Loeser's—folded up. If you were looking for an apartment or a furnished room in Brooklyn, there was no central bulletin board.[18]
1960s revival attempts
In 1960, former
The final edition appeared on June 25, 1963.[21]
1990s–present version
Daily | |
Format | Tabloid |
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Owner(s) | Everything Brooklyn Media |
Publisher | J. Dozier Hasty |
Founded | 1996 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York City, New York |
Website | brooklyneagle |
The Brooklyn Daily Bulletin, a much smaller newspaper also focusing on the Brooklyn borough began publishing when the original Brooklyn Eagle folded in 1955.
In 1996, The Bulletin merged with a newly revived Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and now publishes a morning paper five days a week under the Brooklyn Daily Eagle name. There is also a weekend edition published Saturdays as Brooklyn Eagle: Weekend Edition. This revived Brooklyn Eagle has no business relationship with the original Eagle; but it adopted the Eagle name adding it to its Bulletin title after the Eagle name fell into the public domain, and following a dispute with another Brooklyn publisher over ownership of the Eagle name.[22] The new publication is published by J. Dozier Hasty. The Daily Eagle editorial staff includes 25 full-time reporters, writers, and photographers.[citation needed]
As of 2014, it is one of three English-language daily newspapers published in the borough of Brooklyn (the others are the New York Daily Challenge[23] and Hamodia).
As an homage to the original Eagle, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle publishes a daily feature called "On This Day in History", made up of much material taken from the original Brooklyn Eagle.
Several exhibits have been held regarding the role of the paper in creating the identity of Brooklyn and its citizens at the
Everything Brooklyn Media
The new publication is published under the auspices of Everything Brooklyn Media (now stylized as ebrooklynmedia). The Daily Eagle editorial coverage has grown to include other areas with local publications under the ebrooklynmedia banner. These include:
- The Bay Ridge Eagle a weekly section in Western Brooklyn, particularly Bay Ridge area.[24][25]
- Brooklyn Reporter in South Brooklyn[24]
- Queens Daily Eagle in Queens[24] – first issue printed June 25, 2018.[26]
- Brooklyn Heights Press and Cobble Hill News in Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill, Brooklyn areas
- Brooklyn Barrister, a legal practice publication
See also
- Media of New York City
- Dave Anderson
- Allison Danzig
- Tommy Holmes
- Marie Frugone
References
- ^ "Newspapers by County". New York Press Association. 2017. Archived from the original on November 21, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2023.
- ^ "The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat". bklyn.newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. October 26, 1841. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "Front page banner". Brooklyn Eagle. May 30, 1856. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat". bklyn.newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. June 1, 1846. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "Brooklyn Eagle – Ourselves and the 'Eagle' (note from editor)". Brooklyn Eagle. June 1, 1846. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat". bklyn.newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. May 14, 1849. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "Front page banner". Brooklyn Eagle. May 17, 1849. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat". bklyn.newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. September 5, 1938. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ Boland, Ed Jr. (February 9, 2003). "F.Y.I." Archives. The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "History of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle". www.bklynlibrary.org.
- ^ "Frank D. Schrnoth [sic], 89, Publisher Of The Brooklyn Eagle, Is Dead; Acclaimed for His Service". The New York Times. June 11, 1974. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "8 May 1951, Page 1 - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle at Newspapers.com".
- ^ Crime at Mid-Century by Nicholas Pileggi New York Magazine December 30, 1974 [1]
- ^ The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History By Edward Ellis 1966
- Journalism Quarterly32.2: 235.
- ^ "Negotiations Ended in Sale of Eagle". The New York Times. June 11, 1955. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ Weber, Bruce (August 5, 2009). "Thomas N. Schroth, Influential Washington Editor, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "Pete Hamill on How Brooklyn Became the Sane Alternative to Manhattan". New York Magazine. May 14, 2008.
- ^ "Brooklyn Eagle Scheduled To Be Revived on Monday". The New York Times. October 13, 1962.
- ^ "Newspaper Strike Changed Many Habits but Left No Lasting Marks on Economy – Walkout Began Year Ago Today – Publishers and Unions Have Made Little Progress on Bargaining Methods". The New York Times. December 8, 1963. p. 85. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
- ^ "About Brooklyn Eagle. (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 1938–1963". Chronicling America. U. S. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ Hamm, Lisa M. (October 16, 1996). "Feathers Fly Over Right to Publish "Brooklyn Eagle"". South Coast Today. New Bedford, Massachusetts: Local Media Group Inc. Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ "New York Daily Challenge". Mondo Times. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ^ a b c "About Us & Advertise". The Brooklyn Home Reporter. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
- ^ "Queens Daily Eagle | Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
- ^ Katie Robertson, 'Queens Man Impeached’: A Paper Gives Trump the Local Treatment, New York Times (January 14, 2021).
Further reading
- Schroth, Raymond A. The Eagle and Brooklyn: a community newspaper, 1841–1955 (Praeger, 1974).
External links
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- Official website
- "About the current newspaper". Archived from the original on March 24, 2005.
- "Brooklyn Eagle (1841–1955)". Online Archive. Newspapers.com.
- "Brooklyn Eagle Forum Transcript" (PDF). Brooklyn: CUNY. March 15, 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 5, 2011.
50 Years after the Eagle: How City Papers Cover Brooklyn
- "Old Fulton New York Post Cards". Online archive (1841–1955). Archived from the original on September 17, 2004.
- The James Olinkiewicz Collection of Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards at the New-York Historical Society.