Urban Garden vs. Urban Prairie

In my many forays into the East Side by bike, I have never encountered a deer, my largest 'wild animal' encounter being with a rat!

I have long wished that some of the vast ES expanses could be repopulated with real "Buffalo" (bison), ideally near the Cental Terminal, where tourists (& suburbanites?) could watch from the safety of an elevated "observation tower" near the top!

More "New" housing in a steadily shrinking city, which some estimates now project to have 28,000 housing vacancies, in addition to the 14,000 vacant lots, is obviously not a top priority, as that herd of deer so eloquently underlines.

Are deer the new urban pioneers? Maybe they should be included in the next census.

we can't seem to keep the houses we already have filled, why worry about building a few more. let there be urban farms. give the land to people that have true vision as to what it could be right now, not for the houses someday to be built!(can you say new bridge)!! also keep in mind that the wildlife was here long before we developed this area. we need to share the land, the deer are running out of places to live cuz we keep taking it away!!!

Anyone know where I can buy deer meat?

Buffalo needs office parks, warehouses, technology parks, light industrial parks, etc.

Buffalo needs to rebuild the city jobs...then the houses will follow!

Until that time, the city should focus on infilling existing groups of city blocks that can be saved and let whole city blocks empty out for other uses.

OHH. THEY (HERD) ABOUT THE URBAN PRAIRIE TOO! They are looking for the Stevenses' farm!
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Deer and other wild animals have followed rr tracks since there were rr tracks, but you pretty much had to be up before daylignt and vehicle traffic to see them leisurely grazing. They're busy around Memorial and Paderewski while people living there are asleep.
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How fantastic that these pictures were taken yesterday, Easter Sunday Morning!
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There has been a large population of deer at Central Terminal since the trains stopped rolling. There's red fox and now coyotes too.(watch your little dogs)...
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There is a large population of deer in the open but unused rr land at Harlem and Walden, very visible during the day, but they were culled recently so it will be a while before they repopulate that area again.
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Those deer in the pictures probably followed a path from Williamville to downtown Buffalo, just like people are!
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PrairiesEast, NY has begun...

Did you know that deer are rodents because they poop pellets like rats and rabbits?

We have venison in our freezer. Yummmmmmy and fat free...

forget urban farming, is urban hunting and trapping far behind?

We have had deer along the old railroad corridors here in Black Rock for many years. Some even walk across the Squaw Island bridge openly mocking the homeland security/border patrol officers. Others just hang around in gangs all day looking for handouts. They are a burden on the community unwilling to work or take responsibility for their offspring. They refuse to assimilate and hang on to their own language while also practicing polygamy. I believe deer are the first sign of decline in a neighborhood and I fear the East Side could be in for trouble.

Could these deer have been refugees from Lancaster or East Amherst? I have heard that gentrification of these once rural towns has displaced many deer and that they continue to move into the city to take advantage of our generous welfare benefits and more liberal attitudes. There are rumors that many have been hit by speeding SUVs and left to die on the road and that some towns even endorse "bait and shoot" programs to weed out these "undesirables". No wonder they are fleeing into the city where they hope to find acceptance and lower taxes, schools not being an issue for these true vagabonds. As usual we in Buffalo will be expected to carry this burden and we will, and some day in the future on BRO someone will be blaming Buffalo for having too many deer.

BR... too funny!

No it is not ok to use deers, unless spoken as a possessive. Do you say sheeps, or geeses, or dices. Ok maybe yous once and a while is ok... Only because it is better than using y'all...

Yes, i'll take one size XL 'i am Chrisa' (on the front, 'Deers are rodents because they poop pellets' (on the back) t-shirt please.

Due to the no tax base and quality of life issues, I see no problem with the deer, they are no different from the previous residents. Other than that, why are the buildings still standing? If my home had even a few broken windows or tall grass the city would be all over me.

I think the structures should remain standing as a testament to a very bad concept. I have never been a fan of building institutional uninspired, Spartan structures designed to house the poor in high concentration/ high density ghettos. They always screamed that they were High Housing for the Hapless,Hopeless, Homeless, Human Hordes. The only thing more depressing than abandoned public housing is public housing at full capacity.

OK, I'm not going to be nice here. First of all, the Glenny Dr. apartment needs to be knocked down. OK, now that I have that out of the way, please take a look at this article: http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/639463.html. This is the reason that E. Buffalo is in the shape that it is in. Absentee land(slum)lords and people who don't care about the city. This article burns me, especially for the fact that this individual hasn't been by his properties in TWO MONTHS?!?!!

In the 1950s, most if not all of the original tenants of those now long-vacant "projects" went on to become suburbanites. They were not poor. They were the working classes including college-attending, "up-and-coming" professionals. The rent was cheap which made it possible for young families to be able to save for downpayments on their "once-upon-a-time" affordable mortgages.
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The "poor" were the last tenants...

Wasn't this the site approved for a senior housing development? Am I confusing this with another site? Is there a demo planned for this area?

About "land banking": It also involves financing for farming!

Lots of heat, and not much light in this discussion. Kensington Heights (sometimes referred to as Glenny Drive Apts.) at 1827 Fillmore, right behind ECMC, 371 apartments in 6 cruciform buildings, vacant since 1980, and still owned by the BMHA. Not close to Central Terminal. Several proposals submitted in the 1990's for housing tax credits, but never funded. Plans announced this past December by Centerstone Development to create an elderly continuum of care campus to be called Heritage Heights - with independent living, assisted living & skilled nursing. Not sure of the status of that proposal, but demolition of the 6 towers figures to be expensive - as Norstar found out in Ellicott Town Center, these buildings may be ugly and anti-urban, but they are built like fortresses.