The Brooklyn Citizen was a newspaper serving Brooklyn in New York City from 1887 to 1947. It became influential under editor Andrew McLean (1848-1922), a Scottish immigrant from Renton, West Dunbartonshire . Its offices were located at Fulton and Adams Streets near Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn , in a section of buildings later demolished for the construction of Cadman Plaza .
4-635: By 1912, ninety percent of the Citizen's distribution went to Brooklyn homes. In 1942/1943, daily circulation totaled 31,000. Staff were involved in a major strike in 1894, alongside staff from The Brooklyn Ties and The Brooklyn Standard Union who were all members of the Brooklyn Typographical Union No. 98; almost all 75 typesetters at the Brooklyn Citizen went on strike. As a result of this strike, circulation of
8-680: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . The paper was published both daily and on Sunday, and had a peak circulation that included all of Kings County, and large segments of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. As the Brooklyn Daily Times , the paper was published in various editions, including the Long Island, Wall Street, and Noon editions. The Daily Times was renamed the Brooklyn Times-Union after it bought out
12-830: The Citizen fell by one third. In 1943, employees sought union recognition through the Newspaper Guild of New York, of the American Newspaper Guild . The Citizen refused to recognize the union, and the National Labor Relations Board ruled that an election must be held and recognized by the newspaper in September 1943. This article about a New York newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brooklyn Standard Union The Brooklyn Times-Union
16-621: Was an American newspaper published from 1848 to 1937. Launched in 1848 as the Williamsburgh Daily Times , the publication became the Brooklyn Daily Times when the cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburg were unified in 1855. The newspaper supported the then-progressive Republican Party , and the Abolition movement. Walt Whitman was one of their reporters, and was later the managing editor after he left
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