One Buffalo

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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 […]

One Buffalo2021-10-12T02:42:17+00:00

Calvert Vaux Barn

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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 […]

Calvert Vaux Barn2021-10-12T02:40:24+00:00

Developing: Bringing back an Olmsted parkway

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Developing: Bringing back an Olmsted parkway

Posted: April 2015

Source: Buffalo Spree

Picture the Hamlin Park neighborhood in the winter of 1959. As a light snow falls, resident Donnee Hill steps out of his house, feeling the fresh snow crunch under his feet. The mighty elm trees overhead seem to go on forever and create a snow-covered canopy as far as he can see. As he takes a moment to gather himself, he realizes that Humboldt Parkway, […]

Developing: Bringing back an Olmsted parkway2021-10-12T02:36:34+00:00

Restore Our Community Coalition Remembers the Female Advocates of the Movement

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Restore Our Community Coalition Remembers the Female Advocates of the Movement

by Jennifer J. Parker – PR Consultant

ROCC Remembers the History and Honors the Early Leaders of the Campaign to Protect and Restore Humboldt Parkway

On Saturday, April 18, 2015, the Restore Our Community Coalition (ROCC) will honor the ladies of the early movement to protect and restore the Humboldt Parkway neighborhoods. The decision to destroy one of America’s tree lined […]

Restore Our Community Coalition Remembers the Female Advocates of the Movement2021-10-12T02:31:50+00:00

Community coalition calls for restoration of Humboldt Parkway

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Community coalition calls for restoration of Humboldt Parkway

By  • AUG 9, 2015

What remains today of Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway is an ordinary stretch of sidewalks and city streets, divided by the Kensington Expressway. Decades ago, it was a tree-lined parkway connecting major parks of the Olmsted system. On Saturday, a community coalition once again led the charge to restore the parkway design.

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Community coalition calls for restoration of Humboldt Parkway2021-10-12T02:31:13+00:00

Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33

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Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33

By: Hannah Buehler
11:56 PM, Aug 8, 2015

 

 

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) – Buffalo neighbors living along Humboldt Parkway have been fighting for years to restore their community to the grandeur it once was.

Saturday, the Restore Our Community group called on the City of Buffalo to build a parkway […]

Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 332021-10-12T02:30:32+00:00

Taking Steps Toward New Future for Rt. 33

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Taking Steps Toward New Future for Rt. 33

By Sarah Blazonis
Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 08:03 PM EDT

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Before the hum of traffic along Humboldt Parkway, there was the sound of wind through trees. Stephanie Geter remembers.

“It was gorgeous. Four trees across all the way from Delaware Park all the way downtown,” said Geter, who now lives in the neighborhood.

She’s talking about the space between Humboldt Parkway north and southbound. It looked much different before the late 1950s, when work began to build an […]

Taking Steps Toward New Future for Rt. 332021-10-12T02:27:08+00:00

Tied Together — and Torn Apart — By Parkways

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Tied Together — and Torn Apart — By Parkways

Posted: September 15, 2015

Source: Belt Magazine

(Photo: WGRZ)

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Correcting what one group calls the “Kensington mistake” comes with a huge price tag. The group, Restore Our Community Coalition, estimates it would cost around $500 million to create a green parkway over the 33 from Best Street to Ferry Street.

The stretch we’re talking about goes for almost three-quarters of a […]

Tied Together — and Torn Apart — By Parkways2021-10-12T02:25:29+00:00

Town Hall Meeting

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Town Hall Meeting

Kelly Dudzik, WGRZ11:28 p.m. EDT October 6, 2015

Restoring Humboldt Parkway Could Cost $500 Million

(Photo: WGRZ)

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Correcting what one group calls the “Kensington mistake” comes with a huge price tag. The group, Restore Our Community Coalition, estimates it would cost around $500 million to create a green parkway over the 33 from Best Street to […]
Town Hall Meeting2021-10-12T02:24:12+00:00

Looking Backward: Kensington Expressway

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Looking Backward: Kensington Expressway

Posted: February 2, 2016

Source: The Public
The construction of the Kensington Expressway, displacing hundreds of homes and a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkway, is regarded as one of Buffalo’s great blunders. Before construction began in 1957, however, the expressway was pushed by business, labor, and even military interests as necessary to the region’s progress.

At a 1954 Common Council hearing, Chamber of Commerce president […]

Looking Backward: Kensington Expressway2021-10-12T02:22:39+00:00

Location:
60 Hedley Place
Buffalo, NY 14208

Telephone:
(716) 833-0529

Email:
info@roccbuffalo.org

We are a group of concerned citizens and organizations who aim to remediate the devastation and civic injustice caused by the construction of Route 33 in Buffalo, NY.

Location:
60 Hedley Place
Buffalo, NY 14208

Telephone:
(716) 833-0529

Email:
info@roccbuffalo.org

We are a group of concerned citizens and organizations who aim to remediate the devastation and civic injustice caused by the construction of Route 33 in Buffalo, NY.

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