{{short description|Former newspaper}} {{italic title}} The '''''Brooklyn Citizen''''' was a newspaper serving Brooklyn in New York City from 1887 to 1947.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/08/30/archives/the-brooklyn-citizen-quits-after-61-years.html|title=The Brooklyn Citizen Quits After 61 Years|date=1947-08-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_258_community_newspaper_collection/dsc.html|title=Guide to the Brooklyn Historical Society newspaper collection ARC.258|website=dlib.nyu.edu|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://casetext.com/case/matter-of-brooklyn-citizen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021232207/https://casetext.com/case/matter-of-brooklyn-citizen|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2019|title=Matter of Brooklyn Citizen, 1 Misc. 2d 162 {{!}} Casetext|website=casetext.com|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref> near Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn, in a section of buildings later demolished for the construction of Cadman Plaza.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownstoner.com/history/past-and-present-downtown-brooklyn-1901/|title=Past and Present: Downtown Brooklyn in 1901|last=Suzanne|first=Spellen|date=September 12, 2014|website=www.brownstoner.com|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref>
== Distribution == By 1912, ninety percent of the Citizen's distribution went to Brooklyn homes.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEoVAAAAYAAJ&q=%22brooklyn+citizen%22+newspaper&pg=PA322|title=Brooklyn Blue Book|date=1912|publisher=Brooklyn Life Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> In 1942/1943, daily circulation totaled 31,000.<ref name=":0" />
== Union conflicts == 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 the ''Citizen'' fell by one third.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NMLveqmvfZ0C&q=%22brooklyn+citizen%22+newspaper&pg=PA72|title="A Broad and Ennobling Spirit": Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898|last=Mendel|first=Ronald|date=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313321344|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0">National Labor Relations Board - Board DecisionsSep 17, 1943
52 N.L.R.B. 673 (N.L.R.B. 1943)</ref>
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