Bed-Stuy Aquarium organizer Devang Shah praises its value to the community
The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the cityA new-and-improved version of the aquarium now sits in a tree pit next to the original cracked sidewalk location — and now boasts a solar-powered water filter, a tiled tank and a heater for their scaly friends.
Neighbors were elated at the aquarium’s reappearance Friday — and a crowd of oglers surrounded the water pit to watch the teensy orange pets swim through their new tank. Shake Gonzalez, 39, dropped off a free little library for the accumulating book pile next to the aquarium. Gonzalez, who is opening a cannabis shop down the block, explained the gift was a token of her excitement about joining the tight-knit community.The news comes five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.
“People don’t realize understand the joy that it brought for the neighborhood,” Jequan Irving, another Aquarium organizer said.
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