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• Commented on Buffalo's Outer Harbor: Candidate for an Urban Cable Car?
  While you have the right idea regarding the maritime aspect of our waterfront, the Kinsman Enterprise is no longer in service as a Great Lakes Freighter. She was scrapped in 2002. I believe your referring to the Herbert C. Jackson,...
• Commented on Deaconess Hospital Complex Comes Down, Deaconess Heights to Rise in its Place
  As some one who frequented this place when I worked EMS in the City, it was a dump. So many issues, not just the asbestos abatement, but the (2) patient elevators for the facility never operated properly. One was habitually...
• Commented on Silo City Rocks is real.
  Actually Dick's took the wall out long ago because it didn't fit their corporate image of being the Walmart of Sporting Goods. I worked for Galyan's back in the day......
• Commented on Recognizing the Potential of One HSBC Center
  I worked at HSBC Tower for roughly 3 months as a Security Officer (was between jobs). I can vouch for the outdated HVAC and especially the Fire Alarm System in the building. The Fire Alarm System, which was built by...
• Commented on Common Council Looks to Revise Food Truck Rules
  What I don't understand is the City of Buffalo's blatant disregard for an awesome burgeoning industry, the Food Truck. The Food Truck to me is a concept for people "on the go", who don't want a sit down experience but...
• Commented on 409 Franklin: From rooming house to roomy house
  Looks a Thousand percent better. I used to respond to EMS calls at this home when it was a rooming house, even a few DOA's. (Lot's of shady characters resided here) I always thought it could be such a nice...
• Commented on Construction Watch: One Canalside
  I'd like to see them construct a memorial to General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan down in that general area, now that the building bearing his name has been stripped of that title. He is one of our most highly...
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  Snobbery? What, because I chose to purchase a home in the Town of Tonawanda when I saw a worthwhile investment at a price i could not pass up. I lived in the Southside, I lived in the Northside and the...
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  Don't worry, you'll get Davvid to whine....
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  I agree with both initial posters. Sorry, but I'm 32, a homeowner in the Town of Tonawanda, a former resident of the City for over 10 years, and people can do there OWN drives and walkways. I love the mentality...
• Commented on Bethlehem Steel Demolition Begun: Citizens Gather at "Cathedral of Industry", Protest Failure of Leadership, Lost Opportunity
  Mr. Mayor"ski", Just another moron politician from Lackawanna. A city born from the Steel Mill, and died from the Steel Mill. Don't look at Bethlehem, PA for ideas, help, shared collaboration with what they did with their steel mill or...
• Commented on Plans for Next Phase of Main Street Retraffic Work Coming Into Focus
  I agree Mike...the parcel where the Donovan Building is was the former site of the Neo-Classical Leigh Valley Railroad station. This areas was once a hub of intermodal transport in the late 1890's/early 1900's. Retasking the portion of Perry Blvd...
• Commented on Plans for Next Phase of Main Street Retraffic Work Coming Into Focus
  Why do we need to go through all this nonsense to figure out the returning of traffic to Main Street? The IRC, the forerunner of today's inept NFTA, utilized streetcars with MORE traffic on all of the major Buffalo thoroughfares...
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  As a product of South Buffalo, and travelling the waterfront as well as the Route 5 complex for years, I have always been a fan of this building. That said, I have seen NO creative or level headed idea for...
• Commented on Hope for Showplace Theater
  Oh the old Showplace....what a delight you were. All those Hardcore shows back in the 90's...Slugfest, Despair, Union, Snapcase...to my early twenties and The Sheila Divine, Tugboat Annie, to even some big acts. Ahh, the bathrooms and that fun walk...
• Commented on Catholic Health System Eyes Genesee/Oak Property
  Actually, they DON'T provide birth control or contraceptive measures in there healthcare plan...my wife has worked for Catholic Health for over 9 years......
• Commented on Higgins Pushes for Skyway Removal
  You are correct with English River. She arrives roughly every two weeks down the Buffalo River to the LaFarge facility at Ganson Street & Ohio Street. Herbert C. Jackson has been making more frequent trips to the Buffalo waterfront too....
• Commented on City Living: 504 Washington Street
  Ironic...as these cost 350K, yet my post WWII 4 bedroom Cape in the Town of Tonawanda that includes a huge enclosed patio attached to garage and deep lot only cost me $82,500...and those "fancy" exterior lights above the garage doors...
• Commented on Commuter Rail in Buffalo-Niagara
  We have the infrastructure in place for the commuter rail system. At the turn of the last century, we had a huge commuter system, complete with not just New York Central's Belt Line but Erie Lackawanna also had a Belt...
• Commented on Why doesn't The City proposition IKEA about putting a store in Buffalo?
  Remember we had a hip store like this at one time...it was called Willis and Lowe? Yet they didn't get the community support financially to survive. Remember it was where that new Co-Op building that was going to destroy the...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: This one looks and smells good.
  It's hit or miss with the ships this summer for me. Seeing the Herbert C. Jackson dock last Sunday evening and then disembark Monday was sheer coincidence. Actually what I started to do is subscribe to a website(It's free)called www.marinetraffic.com....
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: This one looks and smells good.
  Steel: They keep this plant open as it's the 3rd largest General Mills operation in the the company as well as with regards to the workforce one of there best. Also the location has a lot to do with it....
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: This one looks and smells good.
  It's a factory, it's a WORKING factory. Christ on a cross.. windows, cleaned brick? Come on...what BS is next? Do you want Ganson Street lined with trees and flowers? How about some grass medians to soften the roadway with historic...
• Commented on Pedestrians suffer at expense of Car-oriented Suburbs
  Todd, I agree with many of the points you have. However, as an EMS Provider, who works in your hometown for the Ambulance Corps as well as someone who worked in the City of Buffalo on the ambulance for 7...
• Commented on Not a bad seat in the house for the War of 1812 show
  Paulsobo....like others have said, perhaps did you know of the 300 soldiers buried at the boulder in the green at Delaware Park? Not pertinent enough for you? Did you know of the 200 British and American soldiers on Aero Drive...
• Commented on Development Agreement in Place for Deaconess Center Site
  The Deaconess Center is not worth saving. Perhaps keeping the old German Deaconess Hospital stone signs over a few of the doorways I could see salvaging. However, being a former EMT in the City of Buffalo the Deaconess was a...
• Commented on New Medical Campus Buildings Shine
  Too bad Kaleida Health fired dozens of nurses prior to the opening of the new ER, mainly the DAY BEFORE. This building may be "state of the art", but those of us who work in EMS (Ambulance drivers as were...
• Commented on Wrecking WNY: Bethlehem Office Building
  While I have loved this building for the last 32 years of my life, and did some urban exploration in it over several occasions, unfortunately I agree that the building is a sad shape. Collapsed floors, stairwells, roofs,and no heat...
• Commented on 20 Cherry Blossom Trees to be Planted at Japanese Gardens
  Do they ever intend to rehab the Japanese Gardens such as rebuilding the pedestrian bridges between the islands?...
• Commented on A Spark Leads to Fire @ Long Forgotten Urban Park
  Well the namesake of this park, "Firemens", should seek out some assistance from the Buffalo Fire Department and it's members or even any County fire companies to help in procuring some sort of memorial for this park. Hell, even those...