17th Street is a two block venue that runs at an angle between Vermont St and Richmond Avenue. To be honest, I never noticed it until this year’s GardenWalk. What I noticed was a street of well-kept and/or rehabbed houses.
Most are the houses are 2-family but I like the way most of them look. I like discovering pleasant surprises in Buffalo so I thought I’d share some of these 17th Street houses with you.
It wasn’t too long ago that many of these houses were fixed up and painted. 17th Street looks a whole lot different today, and continues to impress each year.
John Straubinger has been an occasional Buffalo Rising contributor since 2007. Born and raised in the city, John lived and worked in Boston, MA in the Research field for over 47 years. Since the early 1990's, he started following what was happening in his home town with a developing interest. Liking more and more of what he was seeing in Buffalo for the last ten years, John decided to return to Buffalo permanently in the fall of 2014. John has an interesting facebook page called Buffalo rehab and Reuse, https://www.facebook.com/groups/929189663802358/. He occasionally contributes articles to BRO as Dr. Rehab.
