For the modern newspaper of the same name, see New York Sun

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The original New York Sun began publication September 3, 1833, as a morning newspaper, and an evening edition began in 1887. The Morning Sun merged into the New York Herald in 1919, while the Evening Sun continued until January 4, 1950, when it merged with the New York World-Telegram to form a new paper called the New York World-Telegram and Sun, which in 1966 became part of the New York World Journal Tribune, which folded in 1967.

In 2002, a new newspaper was launched with the same name but with no other connection to the original newspaper.

The original Sun is best known for the 1897 editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." It also played a crucial role in The Great Moon Hoax. Editor Charles Dana also made famous comment, "When a dog bites a man, that is not news. But when a man bites a dog, that is news."

In 1947 and 1948, the Sun featured a groundbreaking series of articles by Malcolm Johnson, "Crime on the Waterfront," that won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1949. The articles served as the basis for the 1954 movie, On the Waterfront.

The masthead of the original Sun is visible in a montage of newspaper clippings shown in a scene in the film The Godfather.

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