2nd Annual July 4th Celebration at the Central Wharf - Commercial Slip. |
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It will take place on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at the Central Wharf on the Erie Canal Harbor Commercial Slip. This free-to-the-public event, brought to you by the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, Buffalo Place Inc. and the City of Buffalo, will feature some of Buffalo's best talent and a fabulous fireworks display over the Buffalo River in celebration of the opening of the Erie Canal Harbor and the Independence Day holiday.
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Rebuilding Lakeview House at Front Park
It was an unexcelled panorama that made the 35-acre Front, as Frederick Law Olmsted originally named what is now Front Park, Buffalo’s most popular recreational destination after it was completed in the early 1870s.
If the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s $428 million “Plan for the 21st Century” is carried out, the long-lost Lakeview House, designed by Olmsted’s partner Calvert Vaux, will soon reappear. |
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RIVERKEEPER SEEKS ROUTE 5 MODIFICATIONS Plan Would Free 77 More Acres of Waterfront Land, Increase City Tax Base:
Buffalo, NY August. 8, 2008 – Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper today announced an effort designed to
convince the state Department of Transportation to move to an at-grade boulevard
reconstruction of Route 5 in Buffalo that would provide 77 more acres of developable land for
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Weather Museum as Waterfront Attraction
Just about everyone who has lived in Buffalo has felt the stinging bite of a blizzard or braced against bands of burying Lake Erie-fed snow.
Whether we like it or not, we have a reputation for snow, so why not capitalize on it? Get something back from our weather?
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The S. S. Canadiana
The Canadiana came down the ways of the Buffalo Dry-Dock in May of 1910, the last passenger vessel to be built in Buffalo at the end of the maritime era. ~ With the classic lines of all Frank Kirby boats, she is the personification of his palatial steamships which plied the waters of the Great Lakes into the 1950's.
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