The Brooklyn Citizen provides Brooklyn-wide coverage of business, education, arts and culture, sports, religion, and entertainment news. Some national and international coverage of news events is provided as well. Early issues of the paper include numerous stories regarding labor and union issues in Brooklyn. Early issues also include "Death Notices" and "Marriage Notices" while later issues of the paper have sections dedicated to both obituaries and wedding announcements. Birth announcements do not appear regularly. Sunday editions are heavily illustrated and include such sections as: "In the Realm of Woman," "Ward Gossip," "Amateur Stage," and "Truly a City of Churches," covering fashion, neighborhood news, theater, and religion, respectively. Later issues often contain many photographs. Comics appear throughout the run of the paper, as do advertisements.
This collection is missing the October-December issues for both 1911 and 1912.