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Just a month ago, you read West Coast Perspective's "What's Happening" article on the 500 block of Main Street. The amazing organic
You've probably seen some variation of the "How to Build Community" poster (see below). I first saw one displayed in Allentown, where someone had posted it on the Allentown Association community display board at Elmwood and North. Although I still lived in Rochester at the time, Doug Levy of the Allentown Association was kind enough to photocopy the poster and mail it to me (at the time I didn't know it could be purchased -- I thought that someone in the neighborhood had created it). I was
"Buddy, can you spare a quarter?" "Hey, you got fifty cents?" How many times have you heard that while out and about in Buffalo, or perhaps waiting at a transit stop? Well, now the party asking the question isn't the person short of change or down and out. Instead -- and just a year after rolling out fancy trolley buses to operate primarily on Elmwood Avenue -- it's the relatively well-heeled board and executives of the NFTA who are rattling
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450,000 ppl for 50+ restaurants. Obviously most people don't come to eat the crappy food.
That "crack rock" swipe seems to reveal a bit of anti-city bitterness on your part. That may be the
It was on Main St for many many years and it was way too small and cramped. It was just moved to Del
They need to limit the number of pizza places, one is sufficient. Yes, we all know pizza is a staple
The best reuse of building parts is to leave them intact and rehabilitate the building. Dismantlemen
Thank you for saying that Cesar Pelli will be the design architect for Cannon. That makes much more