Bed-Stuy Aquarium
408 Tompkins Avenue | also 305 Hancock Street | Bedford-Stuyvesant | built 1900
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- 2024
Neighbors turn a puddle from a leaky fire hydrant into the Bed-Stuy Aquarium
In early August 2024 Hajj-Malik Lovick, a lifelong Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, joined his friends Gav and Je-Quan Irving in turning the puddle left by a leaky fire hydrant into an aquarium. They ringed it with bricks and stones and added about 100 goldfish bought for $16 at a local pet store. Visitors came from across the city, and the pond went viral, while a veterinarian called keeping goldfish there animal abuse.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
The city's Department of Environmental Protection paves over the Bed-Stuy Aquarium
The Department of Environmental Protection had repeatedly shut off the hydrant that fed the pond over worries about water pressure and firefighting, and locals kept reopening it. On the morning of October 25, 2024, a DEP crew paved over the space, citing safety and the risk that the pond would freeze and disable the hydrant. Not every fish was removed first. Residents then rebuilt the aquarium in a nearby tree bed.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
Ice and snow close the Bed-Stuy Aquarium's replacement pond
In December 2024 the aquarium rebuilt in the tree bed closed after ice and snow threatened it, and thirty fish were said to have been rescued and moved. The episode revived the debate over the fish's treatment, and reports said the project had drawn 311 animal-abuse complaints since August. A new glass tank opened in a neighboring spot in June 2025.
“In December 2024, the aquarium was closed after it was threatened by ice and snow. Thirty fish were said to be rescued…”
Source: Wikipedia
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