June 20, 200816 yr very cool, i'm glad you shuffled off there. :laugh: the anchor bar, home of buffalo wings, an american classic!
June 20, 200816 yr very cool, i'm glad you shuffled off there. :laugh: the anchor bar, home of buffalo wings, an american classic! ...and the late Tim Russert :wave: http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
June 21, 200816 yr It's like a more-bricky Cleveland. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 21, 200816 yr Pretty neat place, excellent photos! Buffalo looks like it has a lot of character and some outstanding buildings.
June 22, 200816 yr I haven't been to Buffalo in 15 years but I don't remember seeing the rail line. Anyway, nice shots!
June 23, 200816 yr Physically, Buffalo seems to me more similar to Cleveland than any other city I've been to. Housing stock and commercial corridors are practically interchangeable in architectural style. (Those rowhouses are atypical.) There's also the fact that the cultural district is 3-4 miles out from downtown, just like our University Circle, and there's an industrial river valley adjacent to downtown. Also similar to Cleveland, vast tracts of the city have been wiped out through demolition and disinvestment -- like the area around the old train terminal, whose name now escapes me. One thing Buffalo has that we don't is a long, continuous commercial district that stretches all the way from downtown to the cultural district -- the Allentown and Elmwood neighborhoods. Elmwood, as I've posted previously, is one of the loveliest and most complete urban neighborhoods I've seen in this country. Imagine Coventry or W. 25th Street times about 15 (literally). Cleveland's downtown, though, is more intact and livelier than Buffalo's. And our riverfront Flats have a greater density of cool architecture and bridges.
June 25, 200816 yr Nice tour of a city that gets even worse national press (if possible) than Cleveland. Haven't been there in years, but remember nice old neighborhoods and lots of very substantial houses on well kept lawns.
June 28, 200816 yr Wow, with Syracuse being the only upstate city I am familiar with, this is a true delight to my eyes. Thanks! Buffalo seems like a nice city. My brother lives in 'cuse and says Buffalo is really nice, so I guess I'll have to see for myself.
June 28, 200816 yr I feel at home in any city that touches a Great Lake. There is a tie that binds all of them from Rochester to Milwaukee. Nice shots.
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