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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Plus local resistance stuff. https://buffaloresearch.start.page #BuffaloResearch
Probably an overgeneralization, but one of the differences between librarians and archivists is where they land on the access vs. security spectrum. Librarians prefer to sacrifice security in order to provide access. Archivists prefer to sacrifice access in order to maintain security. 🗃️📚📜
We take our parkways for granted and we shouldn't. This is why I support the full restoration of Humboldt Parkway. #Buffalo panorambles.com/buffalos-aut...
Buffalo’s Authentic Parkways - Panorambles
Chances are parkways don't thrill you. Getting stuck on one can be hell. But in Buffalo, they party on Olmsted's parkways.
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A lot of us recall the War of 1812 on the Great Lakes as the Battle of Lake Erie. Lake Ontario, the Niagara, and the waterways of the Old Northwest Territory saw actions too. Sackett’s Harbor and Erie were U.S. Navy stations through 1900 at least…
RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 13h ago5 Aug 1814 // 12-gun brig sloop HMS Magnet, under Acting Lieutenant George Hawksworth, sailed from Fort York, Ontario, on 4 August with a small convoy. She was carrying soldiers and gunpowder across Lake Ontario to Niagara. Overnight she lost touch with the other vessels in the convoy. [1/4]
My blog post from February proposing a snow sculpture festival in Buffalo has been reprinted at BuffaloRising. Please steal this idea! #Buffalo #art #winter www.buffalorising.com/2026/08/buff...
Buffalo Needs a Snow Sculpture Festival - Buffalo Rising
We aren’t the snowiest city in the US, or even in New York State (shout out to Syracuse!), but we know our reputation. We enjoy all kinds of outdoor recreation in the winter — skiing, skating, sleddin...
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Niagara Street leads to Niagara Square as the Buffalo skyline rises above trees in Columbus Park in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...
#EveryDayAPhoto 2026 July - December
We all know that Western New York is an amazing place – its diverse weather, beautiful resources and wonderful people. Every day, Buffalo News photographers continue to bring you an
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"In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding."
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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From the archives: Eye surgery gives a Herkimer Street grandmother a new way to look at life; Karen Brady previews the Italian Festival set to take place in its original West Side home; and more.
What happened 50 years ago today? See Buffalo News stories from Aug. 4, 1976
From the archives: Eye surgery gives a Herkimer Street grandmother a new way to look at life; Karen Brady previews the Italian Festival set to take place in its original West Side home; and more.
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Biggest crowd I've ever seen on Bidwell tonight for the free concert. It was a Fleetwood Mac cover band, don't know the name. But I did catch Landslide and sang along. Knew all the words. #Buffalo
Stop trying to make "bullspend" happen, LinkedIn.
In which I nerd out about one of the greatest Buffalo books that you have never heard of. Indispensable for any kind of built-environment research in Buffalo, NY. 🗃️ #Buffalo buffaloresearch.com/index-to-rec...
Index to Records of Streets in Buffalo, NY
This 800-page volume is now online for the first time. It is a detailed chronology of every bureaucratic action taken by the City on that street, including the date it was first established as a publi...
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Knee Cheese being the darling of right wing media was not on my 2026 bingo card
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
About a month ago, it emerged from upstate New York that DHS was targeting online critics of ICE by trying to force them to sign a heretofore unheard of “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful. Now the WSJ reports that those cases ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
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So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16
The Town of Tonawanda Town Board voted tonight in FAVOR of a 1 year moratorium on data centers larger than 20 megawatts!
Do we think it's possible to turn the "Buffalo winters suck" stereotype into "Buffalo summers rock?"
The sun sets behind the Niagara River in North Tonawanda in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joshua Bessex. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_8bb65cb8-b643-4db6-87f4-34faca2f2aa0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
From the archives: Buffalo Evening News columnist Karen Brady reflects on the inaugural season of Shakespeare in Delaware Park, and 20,000 swarm the park for a massive block party.
What happened 50 years ago today? See Buffalo News stories from Aug. 2, 1976
From the archives: Buffalo Evening News columnist Karen Brady reflects on the inaugural season of Shakespeare in Delaware Park, and 20,000 swarm the park for a massive block party.
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Imagine stepping into one of Buffalo’s hippest 1940s night clubs or listening to W.E.B. Du Boiscq and others plan the Niagara Movement. Technology is making it possible.
'Green Book' history will come alive at three sites in Buffalo, thanks to local scholar
Imagine stepping into one of Buffalo’s hippest 1940s night clubs or listening to W.E.B. Du Boiscq and others plan the Niagara Movement. Technology is making it possible.
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The African American Cultural Center hosts the 37th Annual Pine Grill Jazz Reunion, a celebration of the former live music venue on Jefferson Avenue.
Photos: 37th Annual Pine Grill Jazz Reunion
The African American Cultural Center hosts the 37th Annual Pine Grill Jazz Reunion, a celebration of the former live music venue on Jefferson Avenue.
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Guards at ICE's detention center in Batavia make good money. Armed officers start at $81,000 a year — before overtime and bonuses. We've obtained records that offer a glimpse at who staffs the facility and what they're paid. Here's what we found: investigativepost.org/2026/07/28/i...
ICE guards in New York are anonymous but well-paid
Salary information obtained by Investigative Post shows ICE guards make $80,000 to start and that more senior employees make six figures.
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Someone solve the 1903 murder of Edwin Burdick in the Elmwood Village. #Buffalo 🗃️ thebuffalohistorymuseum.podbean.com/e/the-unsolv...
The Unsolved Murder of Ed Burdick | The Buffalo History Museum Podcast
Ed Burdick was a young and successful businessman. His marriage, however, was far from perfect. On a cold February morning in 1903, Ed was found murdered in his home, his skull fractured. The investig...
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G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
After nearly a century of styling the men of Western New York, the New York Store in Lancaster is closing its doors.
After nearly a century in business, Lancaster menswear retailer is closing its doors
After nearly a century of styling the men of Western New York, the New York Store in Lancaster is closing its doors.
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