Daniel Sack

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• Commented on Preservation Buffalo Niagara Proposes to Further Assist with Trico Reuse Planning
  Obviously this is not a serious effort by BNMC. You want to study reuses for the building? All one has to do is look at the Tri-Main Center. In case someone doesn't know, the "Tri" is for "TriCo"! 74 businesses!...
• Commented on Growing Up In A Frank Lloyd Wright House
  "There was a house in Rochester..." "The home was called Boynton House,..." "was"? The house is still there. No?...
• Commented on Looking for Dome Home Site in WNY
  My sister lived in the Lester Walker dome built in Woodstock NY. The dome construction was featured in the Nov 1972 issue of Popular Science (available online). A very cool looking structure. I crawled all over the exterior with silicone...
• Commented on An opportunity to camouflage outdoor gas meters
  This policy will change after a car runs into the building and meter, people die, politicians pontificate, and there is a $10,000,000 lawsuit....
• Commented on Work Exposes Elevator Innards
  I love how we plan. ECHDC has had clear preferences for a new Buffalo River bridge at Main Street. ECHDC loves HarborCenter plan to half the width of Washington Street and Perry streets near the Main Street bridge location. Some...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  It is so easy to think only that fewer highways will make for more traffic. But try thinking that there are alternatives. Like public transit and less sprawl....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  I AM advocating for the elimination of 198 and 33 (& 190 & 290 & 990 & 219 & 400) The "interstate" highway system was supposed to be for long distance travel between "states" and cities. I know it will...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Demolish 198 and Kensington too. The more difficult it is to drive the more likely our development will cater to biking, walking and public transit. As we redevelop our city as it once was, we will encourage people to live,...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  That's nice David. But now I want that 1957 Chevy Nomad in the photo and I want to drive it! Recently we were visited by two sons of cousins who grew up in far Atlanta suburb. When the two (now...
• Commented on LED Street Lighting: Security, Safety and Saving
  It is interesting, but not surprising, that some ("StealYourFace") find the high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps "ugly" and the very white metal halide lamps (MH) "much easier on the eyes". I don't like either. But the state-of-the-art is not quite...
• Commented on LED Street Lighting: Security, Safety and Saving
  It is unfortunate that Commissioner Stepniak doesn't know that National Grid will purchase any luminaire requested (as long as it passes their testing protocol). It took a major summit meeting with Niagara Mohawk and Buffalo DPW in the same room...
• Commented on LED Street Lighting: Security, Safety and Saving
  I prefer a warmer hue. The white light (thought one can't tell from a photo) is too cold (blue). Certainly doesn't match the historic warmer color of gas or incandescent. The color rendering index (CRI) of incandescent is 100. High...
• Commented on Panera Bread makes blockbuster move
  "Greenca" Grandfathering does not apply. NYS law requires that when a place changes use (retail to restaurant in this case) it shall comply with zoning or apply for a variance. Apparently the City agreed that a variance was needed and...
• Commented on Panera Bread makes blockbuster move
  Should not have been granted the variance they received allowing more than twice the size permitted. The zoning board never asked the questions required by New York State law. The zoning board conversation was (literally) "Motion to approve. Seconded. Approved."...
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  Bernice, I respect Jason and Tom for the work I truly believe they want to do, and of course are capable of doing. But PBN is more than Jason and Tom, and I am concerned about what seems to be...
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  None of the good people at PBN are responsible for any recent demolitions. I'm simply looking for them to take more action in the effort to try to save buildings. Landmarking of two Wright homes in Buffalo would mean a...
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  I like them too. Good, smart, well-meaning people. But "preserve" is a verb. Verbs indicate action....
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  Why send PBN money? What have they fought to preserve? PBN would not support local landmarking of two F.L. Wright homes in Buffalo, they were late to the table on local landmark status for Trico, did nothing to protect Busti...
• Commented on Fargo: The Art of The Café
  I love the "idea" of the open windows. Inside out. Outside in. The problem, especially in a residential neighborhood, and even on Elmwood where there are also residents, is the noise. The noise escaping Blue Monk late on a Friday...
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  "whatever" Yes - Sears built that parking ramp that Canisius now owns. Millard Fillmore Gates is still a city owned parking garage, as is the garage near Children's Hospital. Mercy, probably also City owned. The HarborCenter parking garage with hockey...
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  "whatever" - I don't work at any specific location. My work has me traveling (in a large SUV with a coworker) with 25 cases of equipment mostly to locations within 5 hours of Buffalo. When I am not working...
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  Those South Campus medical school parking spaces can be park and ride for $0. But of course who can make any money of that? And Carl Paladino and others are planning housing along the Main Street transit corridor. Instead of...
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  17,500 parking spaces for 17,500 employees is perhaps one of the stupidest theories floated by the Buffalo News. Hospitals run three shifts. Not every employee owns a car. Not every employee who owns a car drives it to work. Many...
• Commented on Something like this?
  Right. Why rely on the City? What, you think they should work for the money we send to City Hall?...
• Commented on Welcome to Elmwood, Taste of Siam
  May Jen was always on Kenmore Avenue. Elmwood was a second location. Looking forward to Taste of Siam....
• Commented on Peepshow: Drinking from the Klein Bottle
  Cliff would like to be there, but probably can't....
• Commented on Peepshow: Drinking from the Klein Bottle
  If you are wondering what a klein bottle is I direct you to www.kleinbottle.com by Buffalo native Cliff Stoll....
• Commented on Louie's Hot Dogs - "We will rebuild"
  Travelrr - Glad they will rebuild; hopefully without the non-conforming backlit awning. If you remodel your kitchen (fire or not) you will be required by the code to install GFI receptacles at least every four feet, in accordance with modern...
• Commented on The Rendezvous and you
  If only someone could make drinks like Johnny. Yes I know there are bars that say they serve such drinks, and where there are great drinks; but trust me, these bartenders aren't even old enough to know....
• Commented on Let Me Clarify
  We have "building codes" to protect the health and safety of property owners from themselves and others. Some codes prevent fire from spreading, some plumbing codes prevent the spread of disease, some literally prevent a building from collapsing. People should...