Four years ago - March 2004 - I snapped my first pic of the city owned Woodlawn Row Houses and started this blog, in part, to call attentio...

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In January, Buffalo's mortgage foreclosure crisis hit the national newstands via a cover story in Business Week . I wrote about it her...

I was in Housing Court this morning hoping to meet the owner of 1325 Michigan Avenue. She was a no show. Judge Nowak issued a warrant for h...

I noticed this sign the other day, just a block south of Artspace on Main Street at the south east corner of Dodge. This is the first new co...

I'll be in Housing Court on Wednesday morning - 2/27 - asking Judge Nowak to stay the demolition of 1325 Michigan Avenue , a spot that I...

Rod McCallum invited me over to 195 Glenwood Avenue on Saturday morning. He'd recently purchased this structurally sound 3/3 Buffalo do...

I spotted this sign the other day on the sw corner of Best and Jefferson. That's the Stanley Makowski Early Childhood Center - report ca...

Just in from Cynthia Van Ness... Research I did at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society suggests that McBride's (115-117 Chi...

I've had a few recent requests to re-post some of the most intelligent analysis of our current dilemma here in Buffalo, NY - you know th...

Abandonment and vacancy issues in Buffalo, NY were shared with the nation again today in the following AP story that appeared in the New Yor...

A number of very cool late 19th century buildings are ready to disappear in this ever amazing shrinking city of ours. All four of these bui...

I've been following the construction of the home of Bethel Head Start for the last few months at the corner of Woodlawn and Jefferson Av...

I've been following the plight of 1325 Michigan Avenue for years. This past week Houseing Court Judge Hank Nowak had a demolition heari...

I've been interested in the intersection of certain emerging cultural and policy changes that are beginning to slowly shape the dialogue...