He tried to get off the hook. One of the caretakers behind the viral Brooklyn “aquarium” tried to use the quirky aquatic feature as a get-out-of-jail-free card Friday – before he was sentenced to 12 ...

Sleeping with the fishes has become a reality for the popular Bedford-Stuyvesant Aquarium. The tragic ending capped off a summer of excitement for all who found joy in the makeshift goldfish pond near ...

Though it has been temporarily disassembled, the Bed-Stuy Aquarium has big plans for the future, organizers said last week, and those plans haven’t changed despite recent news about one of its ...

NEW YORK − A tiny, makeshift fish pond fed by a leaky fire hydrant thrived for weeks on a Brooklyn sidewalk while drawing intense social media buzz only to be unceremoniously paved over by the city.

A viral community aquarium next to a fire hydrant in Brooklyn now serves as a forlorn makeshift graveyard for its fishy occupants, after the project was shut down by the New York City Fire Department.

It was a sad scene at the Bed-Stuy Aquarium Wednesday morning. The makeshift fish pond, formed in a tree pit thanks to a leaky hydrant and the efforts of some longtime residents near the corner of ...

NEW YORK — An urban pond where goldfish used to swim beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant has been replaced by a new makeshift aquarium, days after the city paved over the old one due to safety ...