The center is a partner to distribute food, household staples, resources for area families affected by the closing of the local Tops grocery store. LEARN MORE SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FeedMore WNY FeedMore is in need of non-perishable protein items, shelf-stable fruits and vegetables, beverages, ...
That only lasted a short while before he decided to open a small grocery store in 1870 at the corner of Bennett Street and Batavia Street (now Broadway). The grocery store was also very successful, so he sold that business and entered the wholesale tobacco business. His tobacco business was...
Those Italians moving to Buffalo settled in one of the oldest parts of Buffalo, displacing the Irish enclave near the Erie Canal and Buffalo Harbor around Canal Street and the Terrace. What was the center of this neighborhood is today covered by the Marine Drive Apartments near Canalside. “Hem...
In March, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced $2.5 million in state funding. That, plus millions more in federal dollars, will go to mental health leaders to operate theBuffalo United Resiliency Center. The center is dedicated to meeting the physical and mental health needs of East Side r...
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The torn-down part of this Torn-down Tuesday entry are the buildings along Franklin Street that have since given way to the Convention Center. The sign that can barely be made out on the building is for the Mohican Grocery store at 157 Franklin. ...
These were at the entrance of every single grocery store back in the day. You could find ones that took pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters so you'd beg for your mom's change when you went shopping. You still find them, but not nearly as much as you used to. Horseshoes (The Game...
and snakes over trellises and then below grade through Buffalo’s old neighborhoods. The major employment center during the period of Buffalo’s industrial prime, it hosted a commuter rail service (along with freight), moving Buffalo’s workforce throughout the city until after World War I. Mos...
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Gendron’s victims at the Tops Friendly Market — the only supermarket and a neighborhood hub on Buffalo’s largely Black East Side — included a church deacon, the grocery store’s guard, a man shopping for a birthday cake, a grandmother of nine and the mother of a former Buffalo...