Buffalo/Rome

Riverworks Ruins 

Oh...Remember the original Buffalo Rome? We loooved that place. Closest thing to a bistro way back when, when we were starving to have the elements of a large city. But look at us now. Someone made this wonderful ruin into a gathering place. It feels like you are among the Roman ruins, where modern day life just surrounds what's left and goes on. Keep all of this coming. Keep using, reusing and innovating. It truly is a renaissance. We are getting back to where we should have been. Where the Erie Canal, the Pan Am Exposition, Lake Erie positioned us. Let's not drop the ball again.

LaSalle Park

LaSalle Park

Lasalle Park, originally named Centennial Park, started its life as a city dumping ground. The land purchased from the state in 1911 for park use somehow ended up as a dump for 2O years before becoming Buffalo's largest waterfront park. This well used strip of land is home to baseball fields, an ampitheater, new skateboard park, public pool and a dog park. Found where Lake Erie flows into the mouth of the Niagara, the park is situated on the west side of the city between the water and the I-190. We observed some road work underway at one end of the park and hope there's a soup to nuts makeover in store, because this amazing location deserves some tender loving care from the city.  At the Porter Avenue end of the park lies the Colonel Francis G. Ward Pumping Station. This huge and historic complex began as a steam engine powered pumphouse and is still operational today supplying the city with water.

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