I recently realized that we’ve discussed 200 streets on the blog! Can you believe it? We’re technically at 206 streets. There are 1544 street names in the City of Buffalo, so we’ve covered around 13% of streets so far. The 200th street was Eggert Road, which was pretty cool since it was an important street to me growing up, and I also lived on Eggert for 5 years during college!
Here’s a map of all of the streets I’ve written about so far:
I have begun to think about making some upgrades to the site sometime soon. One of things I’d love to be able to make an interactive map for the site. My vision is that you could zoom into a street and be able to access the post about that street when you clicked on the street name. Are any of my readers more tech-savvy than me and know how to make this happen? Please email me at buffalostreets@gmail.com if you are interested in helping me figure out how to do that!
What’s your favorite street I’ve written about? What streets do you wish I’d write about? As many of you know, historic research can be hard at times and I’m sure we’ll never know everything about every street. Sometimes it feels like you hit a lot of dead ends but then you’ll find some info that takes you on a different path entirely. That’s the frustration and also the beauty of historic research! I plan to continue writing as long as I keep finding information!
I feel like I’ve become better at research in the more than a decade I’ve been doing this, so I may revisit some earlier posts to bring additional information about those people. Is that something you would be interested in?
The Erie County University Express schedule for this semester just came out – I’ll be speaking in July at West Side Community Services. Find more information, along with all the other wonderful courses presented through University Express here: https://www4.erie.gov/universityexpress/classes
I have some fun posts coming up, so stay tuned! Hope everyone is starting to enjoy the warmer weather as we start to hopefully get back to normal and come out of COVID!
Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time 