MrGreenJeans

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• Commented on Buffalo PorchFest?
  Quite so: a PorchFest was tried here already. I considered participating by exhibiting Edison memorabilia & demonstrating some antique phonographs, but feared showing my 'neighbors' what could be stolen from me. The worst of them are still here, so...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Flat Top
  Okay, 1900 Census: All of the houses on this block, 133 135 139 141 145 149 School (plus 177 Albany) were occupied by single families in 1900 - all of them with 4-6 people (including a couple of boarders...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Flat Top
  Well, this is interesting: Henry and Agnes Ducker had ELEVEN children living with them in 1892 - so they easily could have occupied this whole place! Henry E. Ducker was 43 years old, born in England, and was a...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Flat Top
  It is clearly shown as 3 floors in 1894 and 1915, but it's looking more like a single-family, as only one family name is listed there, according to the "1892-1893 Family Directory of Buffalo": Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Ducker,...
• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  "Please validate my purchase by not leaving me the only White Person in this entire neighborhood". That's Puma's message. The "YOU" of "you should be seriously considering" is obviously = White People. Yes, of course - because this neighborhood...
• Commented on Pianos in Public: One down... lots to go!
  Taking old pianos & putting them out in public only hastens their destruction. Getting them repaired, tuned, and given to families so children with some talent might learn to play seems a million times more productive....
• Commented on It starts with Artisan Kitchen and Baths: Part 1
  A good cook can make almost any kitchen "functional", without wasting thousands on the latest fad - and that fad will be "dated" next year. My kitchen is as-built in 1907: 12x12 feet, a wall of cupboards, a sink...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Flat Top
  The 1894 City Atlas shows a 3-story wooden structure here, so we can assume it's at least that old. The City's "230" code indicates that it is 3 units (in only "Fair" condition) , but I'd guess it started...
• Commented on Buffalo's Outer Harbor: Candidate for an Urban Cable Car?
  Not a rope "bridge" - it was a rope WALK, which was a long shed where rope was made....
• Commented on Construction Watch: 600 Block Re-Traffic
  Good thing they ripped out all the trees; they were ruining the cool urban vibe we all love so well....
• Commented on WNY Environmental Alliance tells NYDOT to take a hike.
  The land wasn't quite "confiscated" by the State; Buffalo's leaders happily and willingly signed it over so as to get a "free" road. Getting NYS to give it BACK might be the only way we're going to undo the...
• Commented on Wegmans Showing Plans for Amherst Street Outbuilding
  A bad idea for Gates Circle, which has been booming since Premier moved farther out of town !...
• Commented on 224 Hudson, One To Watch.
  How do you propose to FORCE owners to maintain buildings which have little or negative value? Put them in jail? What then? Do tell....
• Commented on When Parking Takes Over: A Repost
  Alternate Parking is as necessary as The City's desire to suck money out of us all. After checking inspection and registration stickers, to see which poor fools can be slapped with a fine, the Ticket Vulture sits at the...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Guercio & Sons gets it!
  I wish this place was still as it was about 10 years ago, but it has declined. There was a greater variety and much higher quality of green groceries. I used to shop there at least every week, but...
• Commented on On the Market: 1502 Niagara Street
  Thruway noise could be dramatically decreased by using quieter pavement; most of that road is concrete with grooves running crosswise, but some sections have the grooves along the lines of traffic. Drive it some time, and pay attention to...
• Commented on One of Ten in Masten Park
  Most 'workers' applying siding are only a short step above morons. If you don't stand over them & dictate exactly HOW to do it, they will f*** it up. Orgs such as "PUSH" are a complete waste of time,...
• Commented on Historic Tax Credit Ready: Emerson Place Row Houses For Sale
  Small, dark, and fire-traps. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to live in a wooden row house. These things stand today only because of luck. I've lived in a row house in Brooklyn, where I had 24 inches...
• Commented on Horsefeathers Building to House New Winter Market
  ..."but we can tell them what to do because we know better. " We call such knowledge "laws", Einstein....
• Commented on Significant 1865 home for sale in historic park
  I would put that house well before 1860, and perhaps before 1850. That is NOT an 1865 or 1866 style of building, period. (Or not a house of that period, period. hah) The Greek Revival fad of the 1840s...
• Commented on Horsefeathers Building to House New Winter Market
  I demanded nothing, moron. You do not know better....
• Commented on Horsefeathers Building to House New Winter Market
  You must be an idiot. No idea what the hell you are trying to insinuate....
• Commented on Horsefeathers Building to House New Winter Market
  Or they could have it on a large expanse of pavement, like the rear of the Albright, and still hold it in a Park....
• Commented on Albright-Knox Art Gallery Engages Snøhetta to Develop Master Plan for Growth
  The Albright already intrudes too much upon the Olmsted ideal; look that up, if you don't understand me. Expansion in that location would be yet another insult....
• Commented on Horsefeathers Building to House New Winter Market
  Odd how it was announced long ago that this building was about to be renovated, when it only changed hands on June 6, 2012. It didn't appear to be under any kind of construction, last time I passed. Anyway....
• Commented on Cheektowaga's New Super Walmart: Good News for Buffalo, Bad News for the Region
  What "Buffalo All Star" says is: Black People are moving into Cheektowaga, it will therefore become a "ghetto", and he considers them to be a "disease". Demographics also say that 14201, 14213, and (more slowly) 14222 are going the...
• Commented on Panel to Discuss Local Retail Development Opportunities Tomorrow
  Expansion of Retail depends upon an expanding local economy. Our economies: USA, NY State, Erie County, and Buffalo, continue to shrink; please enlighten us about this phantom economy which allows new retail stores around town. Are we talking about...
• Commented on SoHo Burger Bar: A Year in Review
  Chippewa Street = a number of bars which make their money selling booze. That's all - no entertainment, no benefit to anyone. It's dead during the day, and dangerous at night. "Entertainment" does not equate to "Bars", which have...
• Commented on The Erie Freight House and other thoughts
  Erie Railroad, not Erie Canal....
• Commented on Beware of Them!
  As the Depression wore on, the fetish for destroying the world built by previous generations became the norm. Most newspaper stories about "the old giving way to Progress" seemed to GLOAT about demolitions, with an occasional, condescending reference to...