After more than a year of walking in place, the electronic pedestrians mounted to the steps of Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan will soon be taking a hike.

The two electronic panels, “Bruce Walking” and “Sara Walking,” which have become familiar sights to most who live or work in the area, are scheduled to come down sometime this week, possibly as early as today.

The high-tech sculptures are part of the public art exhibit “Julian Opie: Animals, Buildings, Cars, and People,” which was installed in October 2004. It brought a whimsical combination of farm animals, aluminum hatchback cars, and colorful glass portraits to the City Hall area.

“It’s been something nice to look at, and I always notice them whenever I’m walking up and down here,” a community liaison at the Department of Homeless Services, Nury Montan, said yesterday as she passed the panel of orange blinking lights. “I’m going to miss them.”

The exhibit, which included nine sets of sculptures, was scheduled for removal in October, just short of a year after being installed, but most of the display was extended until this week. Officials in Mayor Bloomberg’s office said another exhibit would be erected this spring, but they would not disclose specifics.

Yesterday, Lee Walter stood on a patch of discolored concrete sidewalk at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, not knowing that just a few hours earlier a sculpture of a skyscraper cluster held claim to the spot. With a camera dangling from his neck, Mr. Walter, who is visiting New York from his home in Southampton, England, missed what so many tourists have seen and snapped pictures of in the last 16 months.

That skyscraper sculpture and another sculpture of six wooden sheep grazing on a patch of lawn at the corner of Chambers and Centre streets were dismantled yesterday morning, loaded into a truck, and carted away. The patch of land where the sheep once grazed became such a humorous and recognizable sight to those in the area that it looked bare yesterday.

Two more installations – “Village,” which includes several blue-and-white gingerbread-style houses on the eastern edge of the park south of City Hall, and one of animal-crossing signs – are also due to come down this week.

The Public Art Fund, which oversees public art in the city, was closed yesterday for the Presidents Day holiday and a spokeswoman did not return calls.

The exhibit was sponsored by Forest City Ratner, the real estate firm attempting to secure approval for a massive development project in Brooklyn that includes an arena for the Nets.

Officials with the Public Art Fund told The New York Sun last summer that there is no link between the electronic “Bruce,” comprising a series of orange blinking diodes, and the owner of Forest City Ratner, Bruce Ratner.

Mr. Opie, a British painter and sculptor, apparently sent an e-mail to the art fund explaining that “Bruce” was named for a professional dancer with the Ballet Rambert in London.

The exhibit was Mr. Opie’s largest solo show in America to date.

Yesterday, two British tourists, Claire Baldwin and Zoey Sefton, turned onto Chambers Street after getting out of the subway and caught a final glimpse of the full-length electronic pedestrians for the first time.

“It’s very eye-catching,” Ms. Sefton said. “I think it should stay.”