BUFFALO, N.Y. — To the man who walks head down, eyes to the ground, the city is a mess of sewer caps and gutters. The world he observes is one of concrete, of pavement cracked by time and weather. To the man who looks up at the sky, gaze titled toward the heavens, the city… Continue reading
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The hatmaker who has dressed James Garner and Leonardo DiCaprio runs a shop on Broadway Street, steps from the Family Dollar store. Few other businesses are open on this East Side drag, a commercial district that hummed with foot traffic in decades past. Several doors down, vintage, red-and-yellow lettering announces the Club Romway… Continue reading
BUFFALO, N.Y. — I recently sat down to talk about Buffalo’s East Side with Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Urban Studies and a man with an impressive collection of maps, books and Census records documenting the city’s history. I asked him, specifically, how Broadway-Fillmore, a once-bustling neighborhood deep… Continue reading