Eagle Clothing sign to be removed in a week

Brooklyn will say goodbye to the Eagle Clothes sign which has sat atop a Third Avenue and Sixth Street corner building since 1951.

The building on which the sign sits is owned by U-Haul. The reason for its imminent dismantling is that the truck-renting company will be adding two extra floors to its building, where it stores trucks and rents space to a self-storage company, and therefore must give up the signage space.

Project manager David Pollock explained that the company has planned to preserve this piece of history, but would exceed NYC’s height limits once the two new floors are added.

Despite the company’s inability to keep the sign intact, it plans to include parts into the new building, an idea that is definitely supported by Pollock, who described the sign as “a piece of art.”

“The size, the proportion, someone really spent some time putting this together,” he said. “I’ll do everything in my power to make sure we maintain the past and incorporate parts of the sign into the building.”

The company prides itself on restoring buildings while keeping the history of the community intact, they have recently restored a facility in Flushing, Queens that housed a historic clocktower.

The red and green sign, a cherished piece of history and a favorite among photographers, is already missing the letters E, A and G. It is expected to be completely removed from the building within a week.

The U-Haul building is expected to be completed by next spring.