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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.

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Retweet with your home river.

Hello from the mighty Niagara.
#Buffalo
Color photo of the Bird Island pier in Buffalo, NY, on a clear sunny day, looking south towards the Peace Bridge. The Niagara River is on the right, the Black Rock channel and the US mainland is on the left.
January 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.
A mouse stands on its hind legs to observe a bat flying by, exclaiming, "OMG, an angel!"
January 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Not my house but I know my way around.
Concrete silos in one of Buffalo's grain elevators rise into a blue sky with wispy clouds
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Here's that spot today.
Front entrance of the Buffalo History Museum with marble stairs & engaged pillars, fronted by a Buffalo History Museum sign on the lawn.
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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During the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in #Buffalo, Whitney's sculpture titled Aspiration was sited in front of what is now the Buffalo History Museum. It was plaster of Paris & likely discarded at the end of the Exposition.
Sculpted figure of a nude man, arms outstretched, on a rectangular base. Behind him is the north facade of what was, during the exposition, the New York State building.
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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CALL TO ACTION:
Protest today, 4 pm, Immigration Court, 130 Delaware at Huron, followed by candlelight vigil at ICE offices, 250 Delaware at Chippewa, 6 pm. The rain should let up by then. Suggest bringing LED candles if you have them.

#Buffalo
#Minneapolis
#Portland
#ReneeGood
Emergency protest against Immigration Enforcement's Terroristic Violence. Just one day after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, federal immigration agents shot and wounded two people in Portland, OR. End state sanctioned terror in our streets now! Fri, Jan 9th @ 4:00-5:50 PM outside Buffalo Immigration Court, 130 Delaware Ave. Right after the protest, we will be joining the vigil at 250 Delaware! Candlelight Vigil in honor of Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE Friday, 1/9/2026, 6-7 PM 250 Delaware We have one less mother. The arts have lost a poet. A partner has lost their love. Watch all of the videos for yourself. DO not believe state propaganda to manufacture your acceptance of state murder of your neighbor. The America we know dies at the hand of a secret police force that murders with impunity. Justice for all ICE murders.
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Happening now, 250 Delaware at Chippewa, protest on front of the #Buffalo ICE office.
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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CALL TO ACTION:
Buffalo, please stand up and show up in support of Minneapolis and against violence. TODAY, corner of Delaware & Chippewa, 4:30-6 pm.
#ReneeGood
#Buffalo
#StopICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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This part of Lincoln Parkway needs a road diet. It is inexplicably twice as wide as the right-of-ways leading in and out of it.
#Buffalo
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Kat Market on Grant, southeast corner of Delavan, one of our immigrant-owned bodegas, has INJERA!

I repeat, you can get injera on Grant Street!
#Buffalo
Stack of pancake-like flatbread from Ethiopia called injera
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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#Buffalo
A hand holds up the program for Dean Ryan's inauguration in Kleinhans Music Hall.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Everyone's looking back at their year-end Most Popular features. Here were the 10 most popular pages at BuffaloResearch.com in 2025.
#Buffalo
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Buffalo Deaths: 6,349 Buffalo Maps: 5,885 BuffaloResearch.com (homepage), 3,930 Buffalo City Directories: 3,226 Buffalo Newspapers: 2,255 Buffalo Underground Railroad Sites: 1,934 Buffalo Pictures: 1,150 Buffalo Orphan Records: 1,129 Vital & Archival Records: 939 Buffalo Arcnhitectvural Plans & Drawings: 884
December 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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So I finished this today.
Retirement rocks.

Think I'll see if I can ID exactly which map it is. The manufacturer did not provide a citation.
A finished jigsaw puzzle of a late 19th century street map of Buffalo, NY.
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Spotted in a pop history of bowling, an unidentified alley that I think is local due to the mural of the Buffalo History Museum on the rear wall. The skimpy credit statement for the image cites (or mis-cites) a 1999 book or article that I cannot find. Anyone recognize this bowling alley?
Cover of book "Bowled Over: A Roll Down Memory Lane" (2002), with photo from inside the book of the interior of an unidentified bowling alley, with signage reading "New York 1963." Bowlers are seen by behind, facing the alleys. Photo of unidentified bowling alley has a mural of the Buffalo History Museum on the rear wall above the lanes.
December 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Here's where we ended up. Opened 2 months ago in a former tavern, Bengla owned, had limited veg options. But worth it to support an immigrant entrepreneur who moved up here from NYC.
Cover of takeout menu from Ahar restaurant, 125 Mills St., Buffalo, 716-259-8666. With Halal label & QR code
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Secretly worried that I am this person with local history factoids
its a picture of a meme of a little girl with the words STRANGERS AT THE PARTY and then she is surrounded by dinosaur toys and the text ME WITH DINOSAUR FACTS
December 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Fun with bingo memes on Christmas! By yours truly.
Who'd like a see a page of the ones I've collected from around the web?
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Cozy Mystery Bingo Mass market paperback Skull embedded in cover art Amateur woman sleuth Charming small town setting Murder occurs offstage Sleuth gardens, bakes, or knits Hot cop boyfriend Sleuth gets scolded about meddling Cop boyfriend feeds her clues Sex occurs offstage Eccentric small town characters Victim was the town asshole Sleuth's besties help out Loyal dog or cat No dull day job to interfere with sleuthing Red herrings! Incompetent, boorish local police Sleuth beset by minor everyday hassles Sleuth has a cute small business Murder weapon left at scene Pun in book title Supernatural element Sleuth has lovable character flaws No children are harmed
December 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Who coined the phrase “Rust Belt?”

If you ask Google's AI who first coined the phrase Rust Belt, it credits Walter Mondale in 1984. Like so much of what LLMs (Large Language Models) generate, this attribution is inadequate. As we'll…

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December 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The earliest usage I have found to date of 'Rust Belt' to refer to industry instead of automobiles is an AP article by John Cunniff, in the Wisconsin Post-Crescent, Nov 29, 1982, p. 24.
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Lengthy article titled Next Month Will Tell Much About Recovery. The money quote is: "Unemployment is extremely high--more than 15%--in many areas of the so-called rust belt, the heavy industry areas of the Midwest and parts of the Northeast. Merchants in those areas don't expect great activity."
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Before "Rust Belt" meant deindustrialized Northeastern/Midwest cities, it was applied to the same region by car dealers to refer to where winter rusting of automobiles was common.
Chicago Tribune, Feb 25, 1980, p. 56.
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Lengthy biographical feature about M. Lawrence Garman, an automobile executive. The money quote is several paragraphs down: "The $100-million-a-year division has about 2,600 car dealers signed up to sell its products in the 'rust belt' of the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast."
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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There aren't many apples-to apples comparisons. Here's one of the few I found. Is the Erie County Pen cellblock on the left, from Scientific American, the same as the cellblock on the right from "The Road?" I don't think so.

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Workers pose in front of a new cellblock at the Erie County Penitentiary, from Scientific American, Nov. 11, 1897. Cells are stacked a few levels high, with visible bars, Cellblock from chapter on the Erie County Penitentiary in "The Road," by Jack London. Cells are stacked a few levels high, but are fronted by wrought iron balconies.
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In 1897, #Buffalo had municipal sidewalk snow clearing. Buffalo Times, Jan 6, 1897, p. 1.
CLEARING OFF THE SNOW Big Gang of Men Sent Out Today By Supt. Maloney. One hundred and fifty men were put at work by Superintendent of Streets Maloney today cleaning sidewalks of snow and ice. Tomorrow Supt. Maloney will send out a gang of 500 men and the sidewalks on the West Side will be cleaned first.
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The economic opportunity cost of continuing to maintain highways in the City of #Buffalo. Sorry, there does not appear to be a higher resolution image.
Source: www.thehumanecosystem.city/portfolio-1/...
Charts & maps that show the cost of maintaining expressways in Buffalo. I cannot make out the figures in order to transcribe the here, I am so sorry.
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Final addition to the store, fun stuff with this Greetings from #Buffalo large letter postcard from my collection. All proceeds keep BuffaloResearch.com ad-free.

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Large letter "Greetings from Buffalo" postcard from the mid-20th century. Has buildings and scenes from Buffalo, NY inset into each letter of the word Buffalo.
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Just added some #Buffalo flag products, because, honestly, we have the best city flag in America. This is just a fact.
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City of Buffalo flag has a round inset of a harbor scene with canal boat and sailing ship, encircled by lightning bolts and stars, white on a blue background.
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM