(9 Aug 2024)
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New York – 9 August 2024
1. Wide of Brooklyn street with puddle full of goldfish
2. Puddle surrounding fire hydrant full of goldfish
3. Underwater shot of goldfish in puddle
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Robertson, Long-time Bedford-Stuyvesant resident:
"You got some people, you know, they look at it like all this animal cruelty and stuff like that. Like, this is not animal cruelty. I’m like, those are goldfish. I’m saying those are feeder fish like this when I feeding them to nobody, when I give it to nobody like this. So they they actually they’re living so, you know, like they’re in a good place. They’re definitely in a good place."
5. Wide of sign reading "Do not touch or take our fish"
6. Tight of sign
7. Robertson talking with a woman from the neighborhood
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Max David, Bedford-Stuyvesant resident:
"We attempted to, help out and offer tanks and aquariums and filtration units to these people and explain, try to explain to them that while, again, we’re on the same side, we love the idea of having to fish for the neighborhood. Unfortunately, it’s kind of harmful to the fish themselves. And they refused rather aggressively. And so we pulled a bit of a rescue mission in the dead of night and took matters into our own hands."
9. Various of fish
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Max David, Bedford-Stuyvesant resident:
"I understand this is definitely a sensitive neighborhood issue, and I’m definitely, definitely well aware of that. And I know the optics of it can look a bit unfortunate. The fact of the matter is, there are lives being actually harmed right now. And really, I just care about the fish themselves. And we made great attempts to actually help them out and offer solutions and unfortunately rebuffed. And so we did take matter in to our own hands."
11. Wide of Bedford-Stuyvesant
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Hajj-Malik Lovick, Bedford-Stuyvesant resident:
"The old community love it, the new community has a bunch of weird assumptions about Bedford-Stuyvesant period."
13. Various of long-time area resident Jelani Johnson looking at fish
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jelani Johnson, Long-time Bedford-Stuyvesant resident:
"I don’t think it is the new neighborhood vs the old neighborhood, I think it is just people are going to do whatever they think is artistic and cool wherever they are at and there is always going to be somebody that kind of raises a red flag and try and change it. But when it comes down to it the fish look happy, and it makes other people happy too, so why change it."
15. Fish in puddle
16 Johnson riding away from fish
STORYLINE:
A couple of longtime Brooklyn residents were lounging in the heat last week, staring at a sidewalk tree pit often flooded by a leaky fire hydrant, when they came up with the idea for a makeshift aquarium.
After spending $16 on 100 common goldfish at a local pet store, then went about fortifying the edges of the tree bed with rocks and brick. The appearance of peanut-sized fish swimming around the shallow basin quickly became a neighborhood curiosity, drawing visitors who dubbed it “the Hancock Street Bed Stuy Aquarium.”
But as videos and news stories about the fish pit have circulated online, the project has drawn concern from city officials and backlash from animal rights advocates.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two neighborhood residents, Emily Campbell and Max David, carried out a rescue mission. Using nets and plastic bags, they pulled about 30 fish from the two-inch deep waters.
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