How a City Planner Spends 3 Days in Buffalo

PHOTO: WHITNEY TRESSEL

Buffalo is undergoing a major resurgence. City planner Chris Hawley’s three-day itinerary features spots that have been “vacant for a generation or more and are now becoming special places again."

Hotel Henry was formerly the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane.

(Buffalo is just down the Niagara Parkway from me and it has a lot of hidden gems as well as the Albright-Knox Gallery, a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art.  I'm shuffling off to Buffalo on Friday to see John Prine at Shea's.)

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