Buffalo’s bridges, past, present and future– their places in our community in terms of our notice of them, their functionality and design–will be the topic when Buffalo-based architect Clinton Brown, President of Clinton Brown Co. Architecture, presents a lecture, Bridge Perspectives, Wednesday November 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. Clinton Brown Co. Architecture collaboratively designs the revitalization of heritage buildings and communities throughout upstate New York. The talk will be in the auditorium of the Historical Society at 25 Nottingham Court at Elmwood Avenue. There is an admission fee of $10 for the public,…
Author: Joe Janiak
With Halloween just around the corner, some of us will be attending costume parties or just like to dress up for the trick-or-treaters. For those of us who wait till the last minute, make a stop at Spoiled Rotten this week and discover unique holiday wear and accessories. Spider hats with webs, witch hats, Halloween-themed candles and other decorations are sure to get people,Aeos attention. Storeowner, Catherine, is very enthusiastic about her stock of items and is a great help when trying to find the right items that work for each customer. Not everything in the store is Halloween related.…
Western New York Sustainable Energy Association Trust – UB Green – WNY Climate Action Coalition announceOe Saturday, October 7, 2006 | 10:00 a.m at The Church 341 Delaware Avenue (corner of W. Tupper St.), Buffalo | parking in The Church parking lot (enter from Delaware). Please join us in saluting Righteous Babe Records Inc. for its energy-efficient geothermal heating and cooling system in The Church, followed by a screening of the eye-opening film, iThe Maine Solar House: Solar Works in Cold Climates!i in the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center at The Church and presentations by Kevin Neumeier of Ecology & Environment…
I wanted to let the BRO gang know that we are having another game this weekend in Cazenovia Park. Squaring off against the four-time defending state champion Syracuse, South Buffalo will be looking to stay undefeated and secure home field advantage for the playoffs. With two consecutive wins, the South Buffalo Thugs are looking forward to facing a similarly undefeated Syracuse Chargers squad. With both teams putting up a combined 200+ points in their first two games, it should be a great display of running and scoring. The above photo is from last weekend’s showdown with the Binghamton Barbarians. Come…
Do You Want to Research Your Own Personal Landmark? Have you ever wanted to learn more about your Buffalo house but didn’t know where to begin? Then you will want to attend this tour, Betty Barcode Tells All: Researching Your Own Personal Landmark. Betty Barcode, a.k.a. Cynthia Van Ness MLS, will take you deep behind the walls of the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library. There you’ll learn the secrets of city directories, the census, Sanborn maps, Common Council proceedings, and other arcane mysteries used by professional landmark researchers.
Yesterday I was having a really old-fashioned kind of day. My friend Kathy and I were in her West Side kitchen preparing to make blueberry muffins from blueberries we had picked ourselves the day before. As we assembled the ingredients and chatted about canning and jams, Kathy told me that eggs were on the way. At 10:30am the cukoo clock sang a pleasant “cu-koo” and there was a knock at the door. It was Mark, her egg man from Akron Farms.
Please join Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper for our 2006 AUTUMN BEACH SWEEP, and help us beautify our Buffalo and Niagara communities! The event will take place September 15 and 16, encompassing over 30 sites on the Niagara River, Buffalo River, Cazenovia Creek (photo), Scajaquada Creek, Buffalo Creek, Ellicott Creek, Cayuga Creek, Tonawanda Creek and South Park Lake. Volunteers will work for 2-3 hours picking up trash and debris. We love to work with school, scout, youth groups, church and private groups as well as individual volunteers. This year we are challenging local businesses, especially those located on the water, to participate…
When: Tuesday, August 8 at 7:00 pm Where: Butler Rehabilitation Center Auditorium at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center When we first met as a general group in March, most of us went away with a very positive feeling about our chances in revitalizing the Grant-Ferry Commercial District and, by extension, the Upper West Side neighborhoods. Despite a relatively low-key publicity about the meeting, we collected the names of about 80 people ready and willing to work together to achieve that goal. In the four months that followed, we’ve established some workgroups that have come up with real action plansonot just theoretical…
Tuesday, August 8th: The Market Arcade Film and Arts Center (MAFAC) Lobby 639 Main Street – 4 to 8 PM Open House. The City of Buffalo, and project partners NFTA and Buffalo Place, will host the Open House. The Consulting Engineering Team headed by DiDonato Associates, including URS, Foit-Albert Associates and Matthews-Neilson Landscape Architects will present the results of a ten-month design effort to return vehicular traffic to Main Street. The Open House will introduce a new tool for illustrating the Cars Sharing Main Street project to the public. The University of Buffalo Center for Computational Research, (CCR) has developed…
Brought to you by Kleinhans Community Association – Buffalois Historic Plymouth Avenue: Saturday August 19, 2006, 9 AM – 5:30 PM (1836-2006 Commemorating 170 Years). From its origins as a remote pastoral lane to the diverse urban neighborhood of today, Plymouth Avenueis 170 year history and housing from Porter Avenue to Hudson Street will be showcased in one day of events including: * Walking tours of historic Kleinhans Music Hall, Symphony Circle and Plymouth Avenue * Slide show presentation on architects Eliel & Eero Saarinen, Kleinhans Music Hall, Symphony Circle and Historic Plymouth Avenue * Open house at Porter Center…