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• Commented on Design Revealed for 766 Elmwood Infill Project
  I live in(amazing) Fort Greene Brooklyn. Brooklyn alone has 10+ Elmwoods, Maybe 50 Elmwoods, not including the other 4 boroughs. That being said, it's one of the only cities in the country that I've lived in/traveled to(lots of them) that...
• Commented on National Grid Awards $250,000 Grant to BUDC for RiverBend Project
  Will there be parking on the streets? If not an urban planning/environmental question, simply an economics question. Why build more parking lots to maintain when the streets need to be there anyway? It looks like a good chunk of the...
• Commented on Krzesinski to ECC City Campus: Drop dead!
  well I guess I misinterpreted the purpose of your post. I thought you were posting what you believed were valid points, most of which I feel are poppycock!...
• Commented on Krzesinski to ECC City Campus: Drop dead!
  well I guess I misinterpreted the purpose of your post. I thought you were posting what you believed were valid points, most of which I feel are poppycock!...
• Commented on Krzesinski to ECC City Campus: Drop dead!
  bobbycat, Have you read the comments up to this point? Most of your points were addressed. - Do 49% of ECC students attend North because that's where 49% of the classes/programs are? - Do capital improvements/maintenance costs decide where the...
• Commented on Krzesinski to ECC City Campus: Drop dead!
  Expanding ECC *does* make ECC City safer. The most immediate and important impact we can have on safety downtown is to build a critical mass of people. A very wise young lady once called it "eyes on the street" and...
• Commented on Grisanti and Hoyt: Time for ECC to Consider Consolidation
  Whatever, Agreed with your post and just want to clarify a little on mine. There are many courses offered at all three or two of the three. Problem being, many entire *programs* are offered at one or the other. Some...
• Commented on Grisanti and Hoyt: Time for ECC to Consider Consolidation
  "The big picture is 44% of the students go to the North Campus." When I signed up for classes at ECC I took the classes at each campus that they were available. I wonder how many students don't "choose" their...
• Commented on Buffalo Lands 2014 Congress for the New Urbanism Conference
  Yeah, because the private market has so much to do with all of the publicly funded highway building or draconian car-based zoning we all must conform to. None of that is communist. ...and have ya been to any of their...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Takes a Liking to St. Paul Mall
  Just to put some numbers up regarding this... According to "The Carfree Census Database" Pittsburgh has an ~20% public transit ridership, while Buffalo has ~12%. Probably more importantly, (thanks to walkers) Pgh has ~32% not driving to work, almost double...
• Commented on Move Underway to Stop ECC's Amherst Health Science Building
  Erie.gov: Buffalo, City 292,648 Lackawanna, City 19,064 Tonawanda, City 16,136 Amherst, Town 116,510 Cheektowaga, Town 94,019 Tonawanda, Town 78,155 Hamburg, Town 56,259 West Seneca, Town 45,920 So are the suburbs one municipality to you Sally? PLEASE stop making this a...
• Commented on Move Underway to Stop ECC's Amherst Health Science Building
  If you hadn't noticed I didn't pick a side to the argument. My question begged a simple yes or no answer. If you're curious though...my position on the matter is simply that I'd like to see that ECC considered all...
• Commented on Move Underway to Stop ECC's Amherst Health Science Building
  So are you saying that a publicly funded community college isn't obligated to do what's best for the community?...
• Commented on 701 Seneca: The Larkin Center of Commerce
  Good eye. They're all Mercedes Benz, Audi and VW. Ich bin ein Larkiner!...