Brooklyn Citizen v. City of New York

By virtue of the provisions of section 1526 of the former Greater New York Charter, hereinafter called the “ old charter,” the plaintiff corporation, which conducts a daily newspaper, was vested with the status of a “ corporation newspaper ” ¡ whereby certain advertisements provided for in the old charter were directed to be published in such newspaper at a flat rate of twenty thousand dollars per annum. The New York City Charter, hereinafter called the “ new charter,” went into effect on the 1st day of January, 1938, and provides (§ 872, subd. c): “ All advertising required to be done for…