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#51 Doohickie

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Posted 01 December 2018 - 11:53 AM

Another preservation success story... this one is forty years old but could be an inspiration for the T&P Warehouse.
 
In demolition-happy 1970s, the fight to save the old Post Office

 

Built in 1897 at the height of Buffalo's prominence among U.S. cities, it was slated for demolition in the 1970s until a plan was hatched to convert it into the city campus of Erie Community College.

 

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Joan Bozer was one of the preservationists that fought to preserve the building

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Posted 01 December 2018 - 12:28 PM

Another preservation success story... this one is forty years old but could be an inspiration for the T&P Warehouse....convert it into the city campus of Erie Community College.

 

A suggestion that I have made repeatedly in the past - to covert the T&P into a regional campus for Texas Tech that would draw its students DFW Metroplex.



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Posted 01 December 2018 - 07:41 PM

Doohickie, that's a beautiful building.  Thanks for posting.



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Posted 01 December 2018 - 07:44 PM

Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic.

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Posted 01 December 2018 - 09:23 PM

I just noticed they posted a photo gallery of the building.  https://buffalonews....0/gallery11463/

 

It almost looks like it could be a school of wizardry in a Harry Potter movie.


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Posted 02 December 2018 - 02:16 PM

I liked the photo gallery. 



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Posted 11 April 2019 - 08:34 PM

Albright-Knox Art Gallery unveils expansion plans, set to close for 2 yearsSlideshow of the addition.  Abright-Knox is roughly equivalent to the Kimbell:  The premier art venue of the city. 

 

This is a sculpture that will cover the gallery's courtyard.

 

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Posted 11 April 2019 - 10:19 PM

For fun, I explored Buffalo on realtor.com.  Lots of reasonably priced, very nice homes for sale.  If it wasn't for the scary winters, Buffalo might be a retirement destination for me.  Great culture and architecture.  And, as you have noted, an arts scene, which is important to me.  I lived in NYC and Albany for many years.  Uptsate New York is beautiful and way underappreciated.  I attribute to it's off the radar status to a terribly corrupt entrenched democratic government.  The republican side is just as bad, just can't make their case in a way that tilts the scales, not that it would matter.  New York is a naturally beautiful paradise.  Right now, it needs some iconclastic status quo busters.  In any case, Buffalo, in many parts, is lovely.



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Posted 27 May 2019 - 01:13 PM

The Liberty Building, originally built in 1925 for Liberty National Bank (they changed their name from German American Bank after WWI).  Two statues on the roof, one facing west, and the other facing east, represent Buffalo's strategic location on the Great Lakes.

 

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There's not picture of the entire building in the slide show, but here's one from Wikipedia, ca 1970:

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Posted 10 March 2020 - 05:50 PM

Interesting article on Buffalo's tallest building

https://www.cnu.org/...-mid-sized-city

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 06:32 AM

Interesting article on Buffalo's tallest building

https://www.cnu.org/...-mid-sized-city

 

There are parallels between Seneca One tower and The Tower in Fort Worth.  Similarly sized/shaped buildings, both built in the 1970s.  When I was a kid I went to dinner with my parents at a restaurant that was up in the tower, a place something like Reatta.  It's encouraging that outside investors/developers are putting money into Buffalo projects.  Although it didn't get there as dramatically as The Tower did in Fort Worth (tornado), it's been a largely vacant building waiting for a knight in shining armor, similar to the situation in Ft Worth before Bass came in.

 

Despite differences in population, I see a lot of parallels between my original and adopted homes.  Although Fort Worth's population is 3x that of Buffalo, the population of Buffalo is about 2.5 that of Fort Worth.  If you look at the county Buffalo is in, it has about the same population as Fort Worth (at a much lower density).  Without looking up all the numbers I suspect that if you calculate population and density for Buffalo including its first ring suburbs it would be closely comparable to Fort Worth.  Or to put it another way, if you section off Ridglea (comparable to Amherst, NY), and the southside south of the Near Southside (Rosemont, South Hills, Wedgwood and south, similar to Cheektowaga and West Seneca), you might be left with similar cities.  Fort Worth is still "on top" though, while Buffalo held its most prominent position in the past.


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Posted 19 June 2020 - 09:26 AM

After the disgusting actions of BPD knocking down a 75 y/o man who was peacefully protesting against Police Brutality,  it is a testament to the City of Buffalo, New York to show its true sense of community -

 

https://www.juneteenthofbuffalo.com/



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Posted 24 July 2020 - 11:25 AM

Buffalo hosting major league baseball this summer.  The Blue Jays will play there to avoid the 14 day Canada quarantine for travelers from the U.S.

 

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Posted 24 July 2020 - 06:39 PM

That is a great picture of Buffalo.  I used to work for the State of New York and got to travel all over.  It is a beautiful, beautiful state!



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Posted 24 July 2020 - 09:47 PM

It's basically a view from the south end of downtown, looking north.  You can see the top of City Hall a bit to the right of the Seneca Tower.  The big buildings at the north end of the strip are the hospital district.

 

I grew up about 7 miles from there.  It's weird to think that's all it is.  When I was a kid, downtown Buffalo seemed like an enormous distance away.  I rode my bicycle lots of places in my teens, including my aunt's house 11 miles away and grandmother's house which was 16 miles away.  But I never ventured into the City of Buffalo; for some reason it just seemed like not such a good idea.

 

Now of course cycling is booming in Buffalo.  Most major thoroughfares get bike lanes when they're repaved.  I've ridden there as an adult but it just seemed taboo when I was a teen.


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Posted 25 July 2020 - 05:25 PM

My son is currently building a Dover Western Wear Tack store in Buffalo.

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Posted 26 July 2020 - 06:07 PM

My son is currently building a Dover Western Wear Tack store in Buffalo.

Interesting...


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Posted 23 September 2020 - 10:30 PM

Confession:  I'm not actually from Buffalo, NY.  I was born and raised in Cheektowaga, a "first ring" suburb.  Think of if as something like Haltom City or Richland Hills is to Fort Worth.  If you've ever flown into Buffalo International Airport, you've been in Cheektowaga.  The city is named from an Iroquois phrase that means "Land of the Crabapple" (no, really).  But locals will tell you Cheektowaga is Polish for "close to the airport."

 

Anyway, Cheektowaga was selected by some random survey as the "most livable small city in the US."

 

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Primary factors seem to be affordable homes and concentration of bars.  That checks out.

 

Still, it's kind of surreal to see my hometown as being picked the best of anything.

 

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For a local tie-in, Flower Mound was also in the Top Ten.


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Posted 27 September 2020 - 10:41 PM

Actually... this is what Cheektowaga is like:  If you took Rosemount, South Hills and Wedgwood and put them together in their own city, that would be similar to Cheektowaga.


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Posted 06 February 2023 - 06:26 PM

Are earthquakes common in Buffalo?
https://abcnews.go.c...ory?id=96917809




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