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• Commented on Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier
  This is an awesome idea. Maybe this group can do something with Believe in Black Rock or the Black Rock/Riverside Good Neighborhood Planning Alliance (GNPA) in the future!...
• Commented on Dour's Boutique: A good fit for Grant Street
  Agreed!...
• Commented on Dour's Boutique: A good fit for Grant Street
  I agree partially with MikeN. While it is great she has high standards, and doesn't want the area to fall prey to a lot of the "ghetto" businesses that have popped up in low income neighborhoods sometimes less "unique" types...
• Commented on Planning 101: Don't Leave Out the Residents
  "Rent will be $500 for the two-bedroom, $550 for the three-bedroom and $600 for the four-bedroom units." - This is subsidized housing? Those prices are on par with rent for 3/4 of the city's lower income neighborhoods, many of which...
• Commented on This Church Could Use Your Help!
  So nice to meet you in person finally, Black Rock Lifer. Thank you so much for attending the event. The event went amazingly well! We were able to earn nearly 1/3 of the estimate the church was given for repairs...
• Commented on West Side Renaissance & PUSH Buffalo
  We need PUSH-type strategies and involvement in Black Rock. We often comment in our Believe in Black Rock meetings how organized and active the West Side groups are. Our groups are dedicated, but pretty small, and predominantly made up of...
• Commented on This Church Could Use Your Help!
  A flyer for the event can be found on Believe in Black Rock's Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BelieveInBlackRock We are hosting the event along with Riverside Homemakers and the church's congregation. Thank you so much for posting an article about it!!!...
• Commented on UB Buys First Property Needed for New Med School
  The city is very willy-nilly with tax assessment. I can totally believe someone in Allentown sees an instant tax hike based on purchase price, but that's almost unheard of in lower income areas in my experience. There are houses in...
• Commented on Bark Park @ Black Rock Canal Park
  As someone who a) lives/owns a home in Black Rock and b) frequents this area (known before as the Ontario Boat Launch) I'm excited to see this going on. The land specifically where the dog park is going has been...
• Commented on Work Starts on School Conversion Project in Riverside
  The urgency of tearing down the Men's Shop was due to safety concerns and the ever-present eye sore of a glass front store clearly revealing a collapsing, decayed interior. The RMS and some of the attached neighboring buildings had flooding...
• Commented on Beat up storefronts get a makeover and two tenants
  AWESOME!!!! Moonqueen hearts Japanese food. Always happy to see new businesses opening in my 'hood....
• Commented on The Garden @ Black Rock
  They are basically blackmailing the city and the community by stating if they aren't allowed to put in the gas pumps they won't put a dime into the store. We heard it from the proverbial horse's mouth at the last...
• Commented on The Garden @ Black Rock
  TOPS has went backwards as the rest of the area has moved forwards, which is really sad. The Grant Amherst business association and Believe in Black Rock have been all over their collective a$$es lately. Hopefully they will get the...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  I actually scored very high in reading comprehension on my SATs. Your insinuation may not have been intentional, but it was still there, as it is in many articles and thread posts on this site. Much like Artvoice, BR tends...
• Commented on Where are all the Young People?
  Most of the statistics I have seen lately, from various sources, indicate the population decline has slowed significantly the last few years and some even state it has started to plateau out. We are a big college town, a big...
• Commented on Color Me Natural: The Rise and Rise of Natural Hair Dyes
  Did I miss something? Is this website now a jewelry/hair dye advertiser? This started out interesting, then just moved into sales-pitch territory. Also... "If you are among the 50% of women who color their hair, or a man who covers...
• Commented on Beat the Heat: National Grid Offers Cool Summertime Energy Efficiency Tips
  Energy saving tips from moonqueen - I have heavy vintage drapes (super cheap at Amvets) in most of my windows and it really helps keep the heat down in the summer (and heat IN during the winter). Newer drapes are...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  "With so much of Buffalo reduced to no value at all" So, I really enjoyed the article until I got to this. I forgot that Elmwood Village is apparently the only part of the city where anything has value or...
• Commented on Pie-Oneering Buffalo
  I am wondering if Wegmans, with their broad variety of ethnic goodies and love of local food/produce vendors would be a good market for them to expand into. With the Wegmans in Black Rock being so far from their location,...
• Commented on Design Revealed for 766 Elmwood Infill Project
  "There are plenty of $200k+ sales in Allentown to go along with your lower-priced examples. Some recent sale prices on the streets townline mentioned (within the past three years): 120 College 280k 161 College 227k 114 Mariner 232k 130 Mariner...
• Commented on Graystone Conversion Gets IDA Assist
  LAWD! Everybody should give my Black Rock brethren a break (if you saw his formerly vacant but not awesome house in person you would know what a good dude he is). He is a wise man who loves his city...
• Commented on The Rock: A Look at Buffalo's Black Rock Neighborhood Through the Eyes of Jane Jacobs
  Okay, this is a very cool study with some good ides but ONCE AGAIN OVER HALF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS COMPLETELY IGNORED in these Buffalo Rising articles. Sorry, but seriously? We can only talk about the tiny section of Black...
• Commented on Acropolis... no, No, NO!
  It's amazing to me how much people complain about a little noise in popular, hip urban neighborhoods that were bastions for bars, clubs, chilling college kids and restaurants that serve alcohol before many of those folks now complaining even moved...
• Commented on Kung Food!
  "I like Wegmans Chinese food btw, it's made by real Asian people." - As opposed to imitation Asian people? Wegmans sushi is good. Everything else is just MEH and about double what you would pay for it at a small...
• Commented on Local Restaurant Week: What's your favorite place?
  ...and once again a bunch of whiny hipsters have to dis' something cool that is going on because it isn't pinkies up enough for them. Personally there are restaurants on this list I would never try at $40 a person...
• Commented on Second Chance Sundays: Al
  He's freaking adorable!!!! I have three already though :P...
• Commented on Ode to Industrial: Sinful Nightclub
  I saw "Ode to Industrial:Sinful Nightclub" and got excited for a few seconds because I was thinking this would be, well, INDUSTRIAL music with some "sinful" activities (BDSM shows, burlesque, etc) and fill the void left by The Continental (which...
• Commented on Lucy Ethiopian Cuisine and Variety Store
  I tried it and it is SO good. They don't have a menu up anywhere but you can stop in and get a paper copy. They have many lamb and beef dishes, but all serve fish, chicken and a half...
• Commented on Black Rock of the Ages
  I am both grateful to you that you make a point of discussing Black Rock frequently in a positive light and annoyed that people are such hipsters that they only care about paying attention to a cheap, quiet, practical neighborhood...
• Commented on The 18th Annual Fabulous Feast
  Too cool! I definitely want to check this out!...