Beloved ‘Bed-Stuy Aquarium' that started under leaky hydrant gets reborn in tree bed

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Beloved ‘Bed-Stuy Aquarium' that started under leaky hydrant gets reborn in tree bed
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Industrious Brooklynites have taken waterproof liner, bath tiles, concrete blocks and gravel and fashioned a new urban pond in a tree bed next to the now…

has been replaced by a new makeshift aquarium, days after the city unceremoniously paved over the old one due to safety concerns.

“This is so cool,” he said, adding that a visit to the curiosity in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood had been high on his itinerary for his week-long stay in the city.Devang Shah, one of the local residents that helps manage the pond, said volunteers soon hope to outfit the aquarium with a solar-powered filtration system to replace the current battery-powered one.

One of the caretakers of the replacement makeshift goldfish aquarium in a tree bed, Devang Arvind Shah, right, tends to it's inhabitants, adjacent to the one filled-in with concrete by the city, upper left, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.

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