Brooklyn History: The Eagle’s New Digs
In the beginning, the Brooklyn Eagle’s home was on lower Fulton Street by the ferry landing. Soon after its inception in 1841, it moved its quarters across the street, to approximately where the Eagle Warehouse stands today.
The newspaper’s growth, catapulted by a news-hungry public during the Civil War, necessitated continual expansion of its space. The Eagle purchased bigger, faster and increasingly more sophisticated printing presses, and acquired surrounding buildings on Fulton Street to accommodate them. The Eagle carried on this way for approximately 50 years until July of 1892, when it built a towering new office on Johnson and Washington streets, across from where the General Post Office building on Cadman Plaza East is today. Sadly, this grand Eagle building no longer exists. It was demolished in 1955, the same year the original Eagle folded.