Mayor Byron Brown announced Monday the appointment of Lindsey Lauren Visser as city historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke as poet laureate during Women's History Month.
For decades, the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Humboldt Parkway was a gentle, two-lane road, hugged by a bridal path that stretched east of downtown Buffalo toward the suburbs. The neighborhoods along its edges changed after World War II, as Black migration onto the city's East Side grew an…
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The Buffalo market has long been known to retailers and marketers as a place where people love a bargain.
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Back then, you were as likely to say “across from the Westinghouse plant” as you were to say “across from the airport” on Genesee Street. But most people really didn’t need directions to Beef & Sirloin, the old-school roadside stand that was as much carnival as it was restaurant.
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For more than 50 years, Buffalonians on their way through midtown made New Chicago Lunch a favorite destination for folks all around the city.
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Artist Tony Sisti was a Buffalo character and Allentown institution.
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A postcard folder from the late 1930s gives a unique perspective of how things have changed in Buffalo over the last 80 years.
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In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
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In 2011, Penn State, led by 184-pound champion Quentin Wright, wins its first NCAA wrestling title in 58 years by outpointing Cornell.
In 2013, Pope Francis officially began his ministry as the 266th pope, receiving the ring symbolizing the papacy and a wool stole exemplifying his role as shepherd of his 1.2-billion strong flock during a Mass at the Vatican.
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In 2009, New Jersey's Martin Brodeur breaks Patrick Roy's NHL record for career wins by a goaltender.
In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years’ imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.)
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“WUTV is a totally local station in its management, its thinking and its feeling,” read one promotional piece in 1978.
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The end of the 1960s was among the most tumultuous times in American history and the times in Buffalo were no different.
Outside teams weren’t being allowed to come into Buffalo and Buffalo teams weren’t being allowed to leave to play.
When Crystal Beach opened for its 58th season on May 20, 1948, it was the general public’s first chance to try “the world’s newest, largest, and smoothest $200,000 roller coaster,” the Comet.
In 2007, Kobe Bryant becomes the fourth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points in three straight games.
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In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.
In 1959, Oscar Robertson scored the first triple-double in the NCAA tournament's Final Four history. See more sports moments from this date.
In 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
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