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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 ...
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 "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 ...
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 ...
Bed-Stuy quickly became the second destination for black New Yorkers and the New York Times even dubbed it "Little Harlem" in 1961. After a large decline during the 1970s (mirroring the citywide decline), the population in Bedford Stuyvesant grew by 34 percent between 1980 and 2015 (faster than the citywide growth rate of 21 percent) to reach ...
The landmark destination feels like a never-before-seen hybrid of urban street architecture and a fish tank.