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The Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, originally formed by a puddle from a leaky fire hydrant , garnered attention from locals and the press beginning at the time of its creation in ...
The "Bed-Stuy Aquarium" was the size of a single sidewalk square but drew a big following among members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, tourists and followers on Instagram, where it is ...
Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium - Cold Spring Harbor; Bed-Stuy Aquarium - Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center - Riverhead; New York Aquarium - Brooklyn; VIA Aquarium [25] - Schenectady
The popular Bed-Stuy street aquarium installed to much acclaim has been filled in with concrete. Paul Martinka for the NYPost People couldn’t believe the city was wasting time on this with all ...
The landmark destination feels like a never-before-seen hybrid of urban street architecture and a fish tank.
By 1873, Bed-Stuy's (predominantly white) population was 14,000. [71] In the early 1900s, prosperous black families began buying up the mansions of Bed-Stuy, many of which were designed by prominent architects. [72] The population was quick to grow, but it wasn't until the 1930s that Bed-Stuy's black population boomed.
The so-called Bed-Stuy Aquarium, named after the surrounding Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was formed when the leaky hydrant carved out the shallow pool next to a tree bed on a residential street and residents filled it with store-bought goldfish. The pond was controversial from the start.
Bed-Stuy Goldfish Pond was reportedly hit at about 9 pm on August 26 when the vandal or vandals took colorful gravel and hand-painted stones and tossed around other decorations, killing about five ...