Before returning to Buffalo, I often wondered what new additions I had missed in our city’s restaurant and bar scene. So highly recommended by many of my closest friends, Jimmy’s on Elmwood, the old Buffalo Barbeque and Brew, was on the top of my to-do bar bite restaurant list. It has recently been taken over by Jimmy Hambridge, who has been involved with the establishment since it’s opening as the Brew in October of 2006, actually a day before that horrible storm. The Jimmy’s experience is enhanced by a charming, witty, engaging, personality from the owner/ bartender Jimmy. Always dressed…
Author: Sarah Rose Stone
Three West Side community programs received a sizeable shot in the arm from HSBC Bank and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)*. Thanks to these two organizations, The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP), People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) and Micro-Biz Buffalo will share $100,000 in grant funding for a variety of community projects. HSBC and LISC each put up $50,000 toward the groups’ West Side revitalization efforts. Buffalo LISC Executive Director Michael Clarke said, “When you have partners like HSBC to help lend a hand, it brings other organizations on board and forms collaborations that are destined to succeed.” LISC…
RealtyTrac Inc., an online marketplace for foreclosured properties hasn’t accounted for lis pendens in the past, skewing actual foreclosure data according to Western New York Law Center’s (WNYLC) attorney and coordinator of Buffalo’s Anti-flipping Task Force Kathleen Lynch. The Law Center’s Geographic Systems Analyst Joy McDuffie, also part of Mayor Brown’s anti-flipping task force, agrees saying it makes the situation look less dire than it is. Lynch and McDuffie believe that by not including these properties that are in danger of foreclosure, we may be less eligible for government aid for the entire region. As a result, WNYLC is conducting…
MJ Peterson Real Estate has been around since 1930, but their presence in the City of Buffalo has grown tremendously in the last two years. “We’re firing on all cylinders,” Realtor Joe Suppa said. We opened this office because we saw what was happening in the city, and we wanted to be part of it—on the ground floor.” The New Buffalo City office has is already out preformed some of the other suburban branches, with sales in the first qutarter of this year topping $12 million. Sales Associate Kelly Barbus added, “We all live and work in the city.” Barbus…
As most of you know, the segments Newell and I do together with Mark Scott, News Director at WBFO, are taped on Friday for Monday broadcast. Most of our discussions involve a simple recap of the previous week in which stories were posted with some sort of resolution, while others are ongoing. As of the taping, we had no idea whether the livery stable on Jersey Street would still be standing, or whether it would fall to the emergency demolition ordered by Commissioner Tobe. Though some tear down took place last weekend, a stay was ordered by Judge Gorski and…
Mayor Brown and various NFTA officials announced Dump the Pump Day (Thursday, June 19), a day in which people across the country are encouraged to leave their autos at home and take advantage of public transportation. For some of us, this presents a conundrum. My own daughter, in a self-motivated stab at being greener, decided she would do this just last week. This child, who typically programs all electronic devises and was seemingly born with a knack for understanding “how things work” was met with a bit of a left hook when it came to deciphering the ways of public…
Yesterday was Father’s Day, but for one young area girl, the constant will to defeat the disease that took her father this past January is part of her daily drive. Taylor Ward has replaced her devotional at her father’s bedside with a quest to bring awareness, more research and much needed dollars to the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Sam Ward, Taylor’s father was diagnosed when she was a three-year-old, and he was a single, working, young 33-year-old. Taylor grew older, wiser and more compassionate, while her father met an early demise. Immediately…
Today, just as we were finishing up brunch at Nektar, a car pulled up and out stepped a somewhat dusty Commissioner of Economic Development and Permit and Inspection Services Rich Tobe, wearing a blue hardhat. An hour and a half late to join his party, Rich spared me a few moments for questions. He’d just come from Jersey Street, and said Judge Gorski had passed an injunction on the demolition of the livery stable pending a hearing in appellate court in Rochester tomorrow. Rich said they had done some work on the building, removing a good portion of the roof…
Michael sent a letter to me earlier this week with a story tip–a good sign that someone is paying attention and thinks: Hey, this would be a good BRO story. After emailing him back with a thank-you, I realized that Michael was a BRO story himself. Read on to see how he got to Buffalo and the thought process that went with his ultimate decision. His path of thinking is a common one, and we’re glad he came to the conclusion that Buffalo and UB was/is the place for him. Elena, Well, to be honest, UB was the *reason* for…
This from a BRO reader, concerning the livery stables on Jersey Street: I live on Little Summer that backs up to the stable and some of these folks are scrambling to get stuff out of their garages because those turn of the century wood structures will probably not last a collapse. Last night we were moving people’s snow blowers and bikes into our garage while some were making arrangements to sleep elsewhere. I commented a while ago in the thread – http://www.buffalorising.com/story/mcbrides_tavern_to_be_continue (Under the name Quinn) that we needed to get on these people because it was shedding bricks. I…