Of all the cracks in the Big Apple to fill.
Despite all the broken sidewalks and potholes plaguing the city, officials have opted to jump into action on the one hole New Yorkers had come to know and love.
A popular Bedford-Stuyvesant street aquarium that was installed to much acclaim in a busted sidewalk flag near a leaking fire hydrant was filled in with concrete Friday in a move some locals raged was akin to “domestic terrorism.”
“I’m very sad,” eight-year-old Walter Jordan Jr. III, who would visit the makeshift aquarium on Hancock Street every day after school, told The Post.
People couldn’t believe the city was wasting time on this with all the trouble in Gotham.
“They need to fix the potholes,” Kenny Smith, a 41-year-old wheelchair-bound local, told The Post.
This final blow to the popular attraction came after the small fish pond was already empited of its tiny residents during an FDNY hydrant inspection earlier this week, leaving dozens of the goldfish dead.
On Friday morning, caution tape and orange cones were erected around the still-wet cement where the fish once swam.
“I don’t think it’s fair,” construction worker Tyrone Johnson, 53, added. “I think it was very rude that they came and cemented it.”
Shonee Strother, 44, who works at a coffee shop down the block, even went as far as calling the move “domestic terrorism.”
The reactions came as NYPD and several environmental protection workers hovered close by throughout the morning as they waited for the filled-in puddle to dry over.
At one point, a local, Roey Rozen, was given a warning by cops after the 26-year-old stopped to scrawl “Fishpond” in the wet cement.
The fish pond was first made in August, when a group of locals decided to put about 30 goldfish into the roughly two inches of water that had collected in the hole due to the dripping hydrant.
The installation served as a community “beautification” project, residents said, until Tuesday, when the FDNY turned off the hydrant.
The FDNY said, at the time, that fire crews were performing routine maintenance on the Hanock Street hydrant.
The bi-annual check, however, resulted in dozens of nickel-sized goldfish flopping onto the pavement and dying, according to outraged locals.
The Post spotted a handful of the dead fish strewn all over the sidewalk through Wednesday.
Aquarian enthusiasts quickly rallied together — spending the next few days trying to revamp the prized puddle to avoid future debacles.
Local contractor David Jones, who lives around the block from the attraction, lined the base of the hydrant with a professional-grade pond liner.
“We’re trying to waterproof it so we don’t have to worry about it constantly running,” Jones told The Post late Wednesday.
“The fire department was complaining about the water running. So now we’re gonna waterproof it.”
Prior to the cementing, locals, too, had been planning ahead on how to keep the fish — and makeshift tank — alive through winter.
“We’re gonna put heaters in it. Solar panel generated heaters,” Hajj-Malik Lovick, who helped construct the fish puddle, said.
He added that organizers were planning to erect a cover to prevent the snow and freezing rain from corrupting the pond’s temperature.
It wasn’t immediately clear exactly when the cement work was carried out, or who ordered the move.
The Post reached out to City Hall about the now-defunct pond but didn’t hear back immediately.
Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy
