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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: "The Graveyard of Bethlehem Steel" (Part 2)
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At the southwest corner of the land once owned by Bethlehem Steel lies an unnatural-looking, ridged plateau. While appearing to be a beautiful naturally occuring feature of...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: "The Graveyard of Bethlehem Steel" (Part 1)
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At the southwest corner of the land once owned by Bethlehem Steel lies an unnatural-looking, ridged plateau. While appearing to be a beautiful naturally occuring feature of...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Larkin District
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located on buffalo's east side, the area known occasionally (and for our purposes) is bound by the following major city streets: Exchange, Seneca, Swan, Hamburg, Larkin, et...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Red Jacket Peninsula
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sometimes the history doesn't come to you: sometimes you have to go to the history. the red jacket peninsula is formed by the buffalo river on three sides, located southeas...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Color Corporation
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the buffalo color corporation produced indigo dye at this facility until the year 2000 when the plant, like so many others in buffalo, shut its doors. the facility is still...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: City of Lackawanna
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the city of lackawanna, located immediately south of buffalo, once prided itself on the bethlehem steel plant along the city's lakeshore. 25 years after the plant closed, t...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Village of Blasdell
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the village of blasdell, ny was founded in 1896 and it grew around the erie and south buffalo railroads. known locally as the "gateway to the southtowns", this small villag...
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Buffalo, NY: The Bridges
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the bridges of buffalo are unique in design, purpose, and appearance. they all share a common bond as being set against an industrial background. enjoy these bridges as the...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Place
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two words can best describe main street in downtown buffalo: missed opportunity. this once vibrant corridor in downtown has become a ghost of its former self in the years i...
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Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: New York Central Terminal (part 2)
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largely abandoned since 1979, this 1929-built architectural masterpiece is a piece of buffalo's history, as well as a sad reminder of the times we live in...
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About Ghosts of Buffalo
'Ghosts of Buffalo' is a book that i have been compiling over the last three years that documents the rise and fall of this area's industry. while i may only have lived here for those three years, i think that there are many themes in buffalo that are relevant throughout the country. the purpose of these videos is not to degrade the city and the various locations that are explored here, but it is rather intended as an enlightening look at my personnal favorite places and themes of 'ghosts of buffalo'. only through our ability to recognize and accept our past mistakes and misfortunes will we ever be able to recover from the region's economic downturn. while you may disagree with some of the things you see (which you certainly have the right to do), i believe that the only way we'll be able to make this area right again is through dialog and debate over the many issues that i present here...
'Ghosts of Buffalo' is a book that i have been compiling over the last three years that documents the rise and fall of this area's industry. while i may only have lived here for those three years, i think that there are many themes in buffalo that...
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