Volume 21, Number 14 | The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan | AUGUST 15-21, 2008
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Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess
Like a koi to Irish waters
A group of koi swam peacefully beneath a duck in the Irish Hunger Memorial pond over the weekend. The Japanese fish “just appeared there one day” and have been feeding on the pond’s vegetation since, said Brian Krapf, spokesperson for the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy.