Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Eagle, originally the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955. At one point it was the most popular afternoon paper in the United States. Walt Whitman was its editor for two years. Other notable editors of the paper included Thomas Kinsella, St. Clair McKelway, Cleveland Rogers, Frank D. Schroth, and Charles Montgomery Skinner. The paper ceased publication in 1955 due to a prolonged strike and was briefly revived between 1960 and 1963.

A new version of the Brooklyn Eagle began publishing in 1996. It has no relation to the original Eagle, although it publishes a daily feature called "On This Day in History," made up of much material from the original Eagle.

The Brooklyn Public Library maintains an online archive of the original Brooklyn Daily Eagle encompassing the years 1841 through 1902.