Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Place

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 immediately following the completion of the NFTA metro rail line through downtown. this move, which was originally planned to revitalize buffalo has instead only made things worse. by closing main street to vehicular traffic, it only made shopping and recreation along the corrodor less convenient, and so it should come as no surprise that the current layout of main street is the cause of this part of the city's problems.

not to worry though, here you get a chance to see what "buffalo place" has to offer us... if there is anything at all...

music: shostakovich 6th symphony, mvmt. II

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• buffalo
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• york
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• terminal

[thetrain17cars]

How can you describe a city in a couple of pictures? Why don't you go there. And instead of complaining on what there isn't to do, try doing something new, something you can't do anywhere else. Do your research. Main Street isn't even the hub of activity in Buffalo.

[carpetime]

The idiots that proposed this are in all probility on indexed pension down in Florida

[jimkinner]

Most other cities have the downtown portions under ground, and the residential lines above ground.

[westwood123x]

@tavie2is4u I don't think you'll find too much of what you described in Buffalo. You may want to go to Niagara Falls, ON, Canada instead for fun.

[westonsz]

Just build a wal mart and convince everybody they are high tech by teaching them how to use a chinese made computer and everything will be okay. The low paying high tech service sector job is the job of the future. Sound familiar?

[lcar4000]

Is the light rail still there, or gone?

[ezescousin14213]

@harley1450000 really! im gonna go there tomarrow and ask for a job!

[Gunfighter1b]

Main Street was doing OK when they began buidling this. But the construction went on forever! I can remember going to Hermans to get a pair of skates before we went skating at the Aud and the store was dead. We had to literally cross a plank to get over a ditch! The people could not get to the stores, and they stopped trying to go after awhile. It was different for Hengerers, and AM&A's and the Mall, because those stores all had entrances on other streets.

[jack9598]

still looks dirty

[fifthqdrnt]

No, no, no...it wasn't the Metro rail that killed downtown Buffalo. It was those God-awful primary and secondary-colored glass panes that you see in :35 and 2:41. They need to go.