Happy Thursday on the biggest day of the year — National Local News Day!
For a Brooklyn-based daily print newspaper like us, it’s basically Christmas.
The Brooklyn Eagle — Brooklyn’s oldest newspaper — was founded by Isaac Van Anden and Henry Cruse Murphy in 1841, when a 32-year-old Abraham Lincoln was just a small-time lawyer in Springfield and the flag still sported 26 stars. The paper was originally planned as a temporary forum to discuss the 1842 presidential election, but it went on to publish a daily issue without a single interruption for 114 consecutive years.
We’ve gone through many an era here at the Eagle, from being the country’s most widely circulated afternoon paper in the 1880s to filing for bankruptcy in 1955 to eventual revival in 1996. We’ve boasted editors from poet Walt Whitman to U.S. Rep. Thomas Kinsella to seminal folklorist Charles Montgomery Skinner. Our reporters have been on the scene to cover the Civil War, Brooklyn’s merger with greater New York, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the advance of U.S. troops on D-Day, 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, more than ever before in the Eagle’s history, local newspapers are struggling to survive in a world of dwindling readership and media empires. But so long as we have the support of our amazing readers, the Eagle will continue to serve them, informing the borough on the latest happenings in politics, sports, food, culture and more.
The value of a local paper was summed up by journalist Pete Hamill, who eulogized the closure of the Eagle in 1969: “The Eagle … 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.”
We’re proud to still represent Brooklyn 185 years after our founding. And we’ll still be representing you 185 years from now, when our immortal consciousnesses are uploaded into the digitally rendered afterlife in 2211.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced an $875,000 settlement with HungryPanda, which the city found had illegally overcharged more than 380 restaurants by bundling fees and disguising overages.
Pacha New York, the nightlife brand replacing the demolished Brooklyn Mirage, announced that anyone still owed a refund for a canceled Mirage event may apply 100 percent of the original ticket value toward drinks, food or merchandise at upcoming Pacha shows.
Crews are preparing to demolish 205 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights to make way for a new 47-story skyscraper.
The owner of the Eva Crèche Day Care Center, which closed earlier this year amid allegations of child abuse, had previously had her license revoked at a Crown Heights facility in 2020, yet was permitted to open another program months later.
Hive Mind Books in Bushwick has come to the rescue for the last queer bookstore in Manhattan, The Bureau of General Services — Queer Division.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts a weeklong film series starting tonight to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station.
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Big Reuse, among other environmental groups, joins Councilmember Farah Louis for Midwood children’s event
Councilmember Farah Louis and Curbside Composting Outreach Manager from Big Reuse Jade Arnold hold up two of the many tabletop composting bins distributed that day. Photo: Loretta Chin/Brooklyn Eagle
Families and neighbors from the Midwood community gathered to share in a “spring eggstravaganza” event hosted by Councilmember Farah Louis, D-45, at P.S. 152/P.S. 315 Community Playground.
Countertop compost bins were distributed for families from a table set up by Big Reuse, a new community partner based in Gowanus.
“Today, we’re celebrating Easter weekend, and we thought it would be great to partner with Big Reuse, an initiative here in the city that provides environmental support and a plethora of programs that every district can take advantage of and in different ways,” Louis said.
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For the Road
Six strings to go: A two-day guitar festival comes to Brooklyn this June 12–13. The lineup, curated by metal-and-jazz guitarist Alex Skolnick and genre-crossing veteran Joel Harrison, features sets from Al Di Meola, John Scofield, Bill Frisell and others. Tribute concerts honoring Jeff Beck on June 12 and Scofield on June 13 anchor the program, alongside a master class led by Scofield. Learn more about Brooklyn’s newest festival.
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On This Day in 1916, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Now, here is the United States, with 100,000,000 people — twenty-five times greater in population than the City of New York, and 10,000 times greater in area, and how many policemen of the ocean (that is, scout boats) has this country? Three.”
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