Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time

Update:  Unfortunately, the tours on Saturday September 16th and Monday September 25th have been cancelled.  I apologize for any inconvenience.  I have COVID.    

At long last, I have scheduled some dates for walking tours for this season!  For those who have reached out asking about this years tours, thank you for your patience – this summer has been kind of crazy!

Once again, I’m giving two distinct tours – Discover Downtown – Then and Now and Discover Lower Main Street. These tours will be free, as I want to ensure they are accessible to all, but donations will be graciously accepted. All money received will go directly into continuing to build up Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time.

Discover Downtown – Then and Now – we will look at the area around Lafayette and Niagara Squares and the core of Downtown Buffalo.  We’ll talk about the history of the central part of Downtown as the city grew and the buildings in the area.  You’ll also get an up close look at the progress of the Main Street Multi Modal Access and Revitalization Project (Cars Sharing Main Street) which is currently working on replacing the 35 year old metro rail track bed.

This tour meets outside of Public Espresso in the Hotel Lafayette, 391 Washington Street, at the corner of Washington Street and Clinton Street.  The tour will be about 1.5 miles and will be a loop that ends near the starting point.

This tour will be offered:

(Canceled) Saturday September 16th at 1pm.  More info at link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/318564317283457

Monday October 2nd at 5:30pm.  More info at link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/859451828498834/

Discover Lower Main Street – this tour looks the area of Lower Main Street, south of Church Street, portions of the former canal district, and the Erie Street corridor.  We’ll talk about some of the earliest history of Buffalo, how the area has changed over the last 150 years, and you’ll get an view of the construction happening right now at Heritage Point.

This tour will start at the Tim Hortons in Harbor Center, 1 Scott Street, corner of Main and Scott Streets.  The tour will be about 1.5 miles and will be a loop that ends near the start.  This tour does include going down one staircase, and walking up 2 other staircases, each about 15 steps.

This tour will be offered:

Sunday September 10th at 11am.  More info at this link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1347975509263485

Canceled Monday September 25th at 5:30 pm.  More info at this link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/256819873947207

To RSVP for any of the tools, you can email buffalostreets@gmail.com or feel free to just show up! Tours will be rain or shine. Looking forward to seeing some of you on tours!  I always enjoy getting to talk history with people in person.

I will be on the schedule for University Express again this fall, talking more streets!  The sessions begin in October and schedules for that will come out soon, so keep your eyes out for more info about that as well.  I’ll be at a few locations that are new to me, so I’m looking forward to hopefully meeting some new people!

Hope you’re all enjoying these last few weeks of summer.  You might find me at a couple more Bisons games, trying to soak up the waning days of baseball season!  Go Herd!