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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A pond in Brooklyn that was vandalized a month ago is now thriving after the incident brought the community together. The pond, "Bed-Stuy Aquarium," is a giant ...

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NEW YORK — An urban pond where goldfish used to swim beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant has been replaced by a new makeshift aquarium, days after the city paved over the old one due to safety ...