TheBrooklyn Times-Union was an American newspaper published from 1848 to 1937. Launched in 1848 as theWilliamsburgh Daily Times, the publication became theBrooklyn Daily Times when the cities ofBrooklyn andWilliamsburg were unified in 1855. The newspaper supported the then-progressiveRepublican Party, and theAbolition movement.Walt Whitman was one of their reporters, and was later the managing editor after he left theBrooklyn 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 theBrooklyn Daily Times, the paper was published in various editions, including the Long Island, Wall Street, and Noon editions.[1]
TheDaily Times was renamed theBrooklyn Times-Union after it bought out theBrooklyn Standard Union in 1932, and was itself bought out by theBrooklyn Eagle in 1937.[2]
Brooklyn'sTimes Plaza at the intersections ofFlatbush Avenue;Atlantic Avenue,Fourth Avenue,Ashland Place, State Street, andHanson Place was named for this newspaper.
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