Niagara Falls Guy

Freddies Doughnuts (on Main Street at Michigan) was a longstanding tradition, and a rite of passage in Buffalo for years and years. It was sad when the day came that it was closed. It was even sadder when they demolished the building, which is still a a vacant lot today. Why do we demolish these buildings before we have figured out what the next best use for the land will be? (Park Lane Restaurant for example).

A new mural has appeared on the side of an old building on Van Rensselaer in Larkinville. According to muralist Vinny Alejandro,” Inside the letters are depictions of the Frank Lloyd Wright Administration Building and a few of the current buildings in Larkinville. The mural was sponsored by Cellino Plumbing, who also owns the building itself and is currently remodeling it.

In February 2016, the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy received a call from the office of a state legislator with a history of support for efforts to downgrade the Scajaquada Expressway. That night there would be a public meeting at Buffalo State where New York’s new Department of Transportation (DOT) commissioner, Matt Driscoll, would announce DOT’s plan to remake the park-scarring highway.