The following individuals have served as President of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn since its inception in 1880.
| Benjamin D. Silliman | 1880 |
| John Winslow | 1887 |
| Calvin E. Pratt | 1889 |
| Willard Bartlett | 1890 |
| Calvin E. Pratt | 1891 |
| Robert D. Benedict | 1893 |
| Steward L. Woodford | 1895 |
| Thomas S. Moore | 1897 |
| William B. Davenport | 1898 |
| Frederic A. Ward | 1899 |
| James McKeen | 1900 |
| Joseph A. Burr | 1902 |
| Elijah R. Kennedy | 1904 |
| Hiram R. Steele | 1910 |
| George E. Miner | 1911 |
| Omri F. Hibbard | 1913 |
| Augustus Van Wyck | 1914 |
| David A. Boody | 1916 |
| Edward E. Hicks | 1921 |
| Harrington Putnam | 1926 |
| Herbert K. Twitchell | 1928 |
| Frederick E. Crane | 1928 |
| Eugene E. Grant | 1931 |
| George Albert Wingate | 1933 |
| Hunter L. Delatour | 1935 |
| Edward W. Allen | 1937 |
| Conrad Saxe Keyes | 1939 |
| Orman C. Perkins | 1941 |
| Sylvester G. Whiton | 1945 |
| George D. Atwood | 1946 |
| Everett M. Clark | 1947 |
| Alfred Crane McKenzie | 1950 |
| Hollis K. Thayer | 1952 |
| Richard Burton Loomis | 1954 |
| Louis W. Arnold, Jr. | 1957 |
| Abner C. Surpless | 1958 |
| Edward M. Fuller | 1960 |
| Leonard Page Moore | 1963 |
| Stanley C. Hall | 1964 |
| John L. Bates | 1969 |
| C. Lauriston Livingston, Jr. | 1971 |
| Terry Ward Lassoe | 1973 |
| W. Gerow Schick, Jr. | 1978 |
| Theodore F. Ells | 1984 |
| Henry Putzel III | 1990 |
| J. Barclay Collins II | 1992 |
| William R. Everdell | 1998 |
| Franklin Ciaccio | 2000 |
| Harrison M. Davis III | 2006 |
| Joseph Louzonis | 2012 |
| Joseph P. Whitaker | 2017 |
| Henry (Hank) Michael | 2020 |