For those of you making your way about the city today as part of Buffalo Homecoming, don't forget to stop by for an In-Home and Neighborhood Tour with architectural historian, Martin Wachadlo and NGCP block club President, Kathy Mecca. Enjoy this tucked-away treasure-trove of architectural styles, including 3 in-home tours with residents who will be either evacuated or "left behind" — in continuing peril, in the name of transportation "progress".
Though in recent weeks, the architectural tragedy of the crumbling White Livery Stables (just East of the Columbus Park Neighborhood) has taken precedence in the headlines, this neighborhood needs to be remembered for the endangered area that it is.
Mecca and Wachaldo will take you through the historic community and introduce you to the residents who live there. While you take in the beauty of the neighborhood, you'll find it unthinkable that it would be taken apart for any reason. Hopefully, this will be a tour for many years to come, without threat of demise.
Lay to death the Joni Mitchell lyric, "You don't know what you've got til it's gone," and appreciate what we have now through the eyes of the people who live there. This is a preventable tragedy.
Assemble Saturday, June 28 at 1:00PM
at the corner of Columbus Parkway and Columbus Park West
(turn onto Columbus Park, from Porter Avenue)
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