“Update on a Restored Humboldt Parkway: “The Green Parkway””

Below article was published in The Challenger, Aug 3, 2014.

Update on a Restored Humboldt Parkway: “The Green Parkway”

“Because of the persistence of neighbors and institutions around Humboldt Parkway, the dream of a “Green Parkway” to restore the community is coming into clearer vision. A new University at Buffalo report has been released, which documents the economic impact of a restored Humboldt Parkway. In a study commissioned by the New York State Department of Transportation, the UB […]

Hamlin Park hoping to regain its wholeness

This fantastic article was posted on December 14th, 2014 on Buffalo News.

Hamlin Park hoping to regain its wholeness

Don Hill remembers when his parents bought a home in the Hamlin Park neighborhood in the 1950s – only the third black family on his block of the old Humboldt Parkway.

Hill, now 68, had a newspaper delivery route for two years, and recalls his neighbors and “wonderful” experiences living along one of the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkways. When […]

Restore Our Community Coalition Launches
“I Remember” Campaign

The following article was posted on December 14th, 2014 by Buffalo Rising.

Restore Our Community Coalition Launches “I Remember” Campaign

Everyone living in Buffalo has one or two ‘lost along the way” items on their wish list that they would like to see brought back and restored. I’m talking about significant historic landmarks that got pummeled at one point or another. Landmarks that made this city great, but are no longer with us at this point.

Today, a group […]

‘I Remember’ Campaign Hopes to Restore Humboldt Parkway

The following article was posted on December 14th, 2014 by Time Warner Cable News.

‘I Remember’ Campaign Hopes to Restore Humboldt Parkway

BUFFALO N.Y. — A local group is looking to restore what once was a vibrant neighborhood in Buffalo.

The ‘Restore Our Community Coalition’ or ROCC, kicked off the ‘I Remember’ Campaign with hopes of bringing the park back to Humboldt Parkway.

The plan calls for Humboldt Parkway to be reconnected; turning a section of the 33 expressway into […]

One Buffalo

Chairperson Stephanie Barber Geter reminds us how important it is that each and every Buffalo neighborhood participates in the city’s redevelopment. Seen in The Buffalo News.

Let’s reclaim parkway to create One Buffalo

The “I Remember” campaign by the Restore Our Community Coalition is more than a nostalgic nod to a Frederick Law Olmsted masterpiece landscape connecting Delaware Park and what was then called Parade Park (now Martin Luther King Park). Even as we create a community memory album at […]

Calvert Vaux Barn

One of the few existing remnants of the original Parade Park, which would eventually become Martin Luther King Park, has a chance of returning to its original foundation. Seen in The Buffalo News.

Some would like to see Calvert Vaux building returned to MLK Park

The two-story barn, a block and a half south of Martin Luther King Jr. Park, is easy to overlook.

The timbers are worn, the yellow paint faded and its days as a working […]

Developing: Bringing back an Olmsted parkway

Posted: April 2015

Source: Buffalo Spree

Restore Our Community Coalition Remembers the Female Advocates of the Movement

Community coalition calls for restoration of Humboldt Parkway

Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33