Brooklyn Eagle - The Original Eagle

The Original Eagle

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was first published on October 26, 1841. Its address at this time, and for many years afterwards, was 28 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn (today the site of a landmark building known as the Eagle Warehouse). From 1846 to 1848, the newspaper's editor was Walt Whitman.

During the American Civil War, the Eagle supported the Democratic Party; as such, its mailing privileges were revoked due to a forged letter supposedly sent by President Abraham Lincoln. The Eagle played an important role in shaping Brooklyn's civic identity, even after the once-independent city became part of the City of Greater New York in 1898, which it had tried to stop.

Frank D. Schroth bought the newspaper from M. Preston Goodfellow in August 1938. In addition to dropping the word "Daily" from the paper's tile, Schroth increased the paper's profile and readership with more active local coverage.