2/26/2014

Historic Buffalo: image collection Part I

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I've recently added 150 new images to an expanding collection of historic Buffalo photographs.  The full collection is available here: H...
10/27/2013

Louisiana Street: 18 years later

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Back in 1995, photographer Jet Lowe  snapped this image of Louisiana Street in the Old First Ward for the Historic American Engineering Re...
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9/25/2013

Fillmore Avenue: Bulb-outs and bicycle lanes

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Bulb-outs, bicycle lanes, and other street improvements are coming to Fillmore Avenue. This would have been unimaginable only eight or nine...
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9/18/2013

CNU22: Part I

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As part of a 'kickoff' event for CNU22 in Buffalo next year, Norman Garrick, Professor of Transportation & Urban Planning at t...
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9/17/2013

Photo update

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I've migrated my photo collection to the France-based Ipernity site.  Yahoo's buy-out a few years ago and subsequent recent chang...
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9/16/2013

St. Ann's: Poster child of the effects of sprawl

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Nothing illustrates better the effects of Buffalo's suburban sprawl than these two aerial images of the now threatened St . Ann's ...
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2/09/2013

I'm Steel Standing in Court: Part I

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The National Register eligible Bethlehem Steel Administration building in Lackawanna, NY has been under direct threat of demolition since ...
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10/19/2012

Glenny Drive: End of the road

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The Glenny Drive housing projects, built in 1954 and abandoned in 1981, are finally coming down ( Google map ). The first of six, 7-story ...
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8/23/2012

Bethlehem Steel Administration Building: a stay of execution

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Erie County Supreme Court Judge Kenneth Case has granted a 90 day stay in the case involving the the future of the Bethlehem Steel Adminis...
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8/21/2012

Bethlehem Steel North Office Building - Part IV

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Lackawanna Mayor Geoffrey Szymanski will now seek a one week adjournment in the case involving the  Bethlehem Steel Administration Building,...
8/16/2012

557 East Utica - one week left

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Local preservationist, artist and house historian Dana Saylor recently found this picture of 557 East Utica.  It's from the mid 1950...
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7/25/2012

557 East Utica - back from the brink

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This afternoon Al Steele's demolition crews were ready to send this City-owned East Side masterpiece to the landfill.  557 East Utica (...
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6/22/2012

Bethlehem Steel: Public Hearing follow-up

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The newly formed Lackawanna Industrial Heritage Group hosted their first public hearing on the future of the Bethlehem Steel North Office b...
6/01/2012

Buffalo Green Code: neighborhood open houses

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The City is hosting a series of Buffalo Green Code open houses this coming week to reveal a "sneak preview" of the new zoning o...
5/19/2012

Bethlehem Steel North Office Building ReUse - Part I

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Darren Cotten graduated with a Masters in Urban Planning last week from the University at Buffalo.   He sent me his thesis project earlier ...