So... do they have new vendors this year?
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So... do they have new vendors this year?
MON-WED MARCH 29 - 31, 2010 8AM-6PM (Easter Bunny 10AM-5PM)
THU-FRI APRIL 1-2, 2010 6AM-7PM (Easter Bunny 9AM-5PM)
SATURDAY APRIL 3, 2010 6AM-5PM (Easter Bunny 9AM-5PM)
SUNDAY APRIL 4, 2010 CLOSED (Easter)
MONDAY APRIL 5, 2010 9AM-4PM (Dyngus Day)
Every year there's new vendors, BUT only for these like two weeks, then they'll be gone & you can shoot a cannon thru the place....sad, no visions for this place, should be close to Easter Week for most of the year.....I think you can buy Easter color Bob Marley Raggae T-Shirts this year at one of the stands along with stoner pipes!!
I wish people would visit the market other than just at Easter time..
The new blood there is doing a pretty good job of "marketing" the market..
some people will say " the neighborhood is bad"..does it get better around Easter time?
There is always security at the market..the parking area's are well watched..
And..just for the record the ONLY place to party on Dyngus Day is in the Fillmore district..Mickeys,The Terminal,Arty's...classic!
Sorry but Dyngus day in the burbs is just a cheap imitation:)
Im sure some of our police friends on suwny will tell you its pretty safe to party in the district..
The biggest challenge I see with the Broadway Market is what is around the Broadway Market....which is not much. If there was more to do, I think people would come outside of the 'traditional' times in the year.
What is the deal with the large parking lot on the other side of Broadway? Why not make it a massive farmers market in the summer on the weekends?
I"ll be there tomorrow.. :) We'll see if the hoodies steal anything :)
alittle but its how it is there is a guy who sells sneakers for $20 in the parking lot at william@fillmore he has 3 people watching the sneakers so they dont get stolen I drive by there many times a night but we cant sit and help him with security ..... its a sad time we live in today at one time you could leave your doors unlocked at night without having to worry those days are long gone
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I was there on Thursday, and it was bearably crowded ... didn't see the Bunny, but did get to pat a couple of Police Horsies ("Do they like all this attention?", asked me ... "They don't seem to mind it", answered one cop) ...
Got some Award-Winning Sausage from the Camellia people (yum), along with good & cheap apples, some hard cider, taters, cabbage, etc. If I knew that it would be so good all the time, I'd be going every week or so.
PS: The sausage is delicious, but maybe I haven't been boiling it long enough ... let's just say that the john has been calling me way too often, so be careful .
I went to the Market on Friday with family members and this is what my experience was:
The drive in was the most sobering experience. Driving through the east side of Buffalo down Broadway shocked me. I knew in my head it was bad, but to visually see the deterioration of a complete area shocked me. It actually looked like the 5th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina hit. I had never seen house after house, business after business boarded up for blocks and miles. As we were driving in total shock, I noticed other cars going in the same direction with shock on their faces as us. As it was the first time on Broadway going that far in many many years.
We were saying, what was Brown doing? We finally get to the Market, and all my childhood memories came back. I lived on Peckham Street when I was a child and attended that school. The market moved the meat section and the middle usually had produce all in the mid section, and vendors of open market in the parking lot years ago. I loved seeing all the people and it was reminiscent of days gone by.
I will leave you with a statement that came out of an african american girl, (which there were very few of) "I come here often, but today I feel so safe."
I was on a call on lombard and the people there were bitching about how brown only cleans their street during the easter weekend and the rest of the year he forgets about their neighborhood ( I had to agree with them ) every night the city had the street cleaners and water truck out squirting down the streets around the market
Brown is about impression only when it matters. He should look at the east side of Buffalo and start doing something. Traffic is not always one way.
At the market, I had their sponge candy, oh to to good. Had their polish sausage on a roll. But it was nice to see it packed. But what about the rest of the time, people want to go there but the safety factor is huge.
Since Brown has been in office, I see that the city is deteriorating faster than I thought could be possible. The crime is unbelievable. Yet he got back into office. It amazes me.
I worked very closely for several yrs helping the lombard st block club..with most members living between memorial and peckham and they are a terrifc group of caring people..we ( buffalo reuse) did our first deconstruction on that block..It is hard to watch such a great working group of neighbors trying to so hard just to keep their block from slipping further away with limited support from the powers that be.
That area was so nice years and years ago. I am sure this is difficult for people to keep going in continuation of support, the odds that keep knocking down the little progress they make.
The efforts seem to be bigger than a few people can muster up. What would be the answer? The area has the market, the gardens so much to offer so people can come into the city. It is amazing that the Brown administration does not focus on that part of the town....
There are some streets that are still mostly owner occupied and in decent condition..one thing that should be made clear is many of these houses we built as workers cottages..without basements,poorly insulated,without garages or even off street parking..Also to hold more relatives that immigrated here additions were built sometimes 3 or 4 deep with whatever materials were cheapest its not uncommon to see newspapers shoved in between the walls and the cheapest wood possible used in these additions..usually the main house is relatively decently built but the additions start to pull away from the main house or sometimes even sink..I have seen this hundreds of times..we refer to these houses as "telescope" houses.
Most were not built to last 100+ yrs..and unless continually and I do mean continually maintained and insulated even the main houses usually arent pristine..There are many exceptions to the rule though as I have seen some terrific little cottages that you could eat off the floor and swear the house wasnt 100+ yrs old.
Strategic landbanking is the key but after singing this song for over 7 yrs and watching whole streets go down hill( the broken window theory is very real)
We cant blame Brown for the systematic disinvestment that has occured on the east side..it started 30 yrs ago.I say we need to landbank certain area's completely..
Your summary was very profound. I admire your dedication and knowledge of the problematic culture as it exists. You are completely right when you say this has been developing over 30 years. I agree that this should become a clean slate.
Create community gardens, parks for the children, churches that will involve the entire community and outreach that will sustain and give support where it is needed. Policing the area's and maintaining control as we educate and facilitate pride and safeness.
There are areas of the East side still full of life, and with some support can be vibrant areas. Some are Lovejoy, Iron Island, and a couple of others come to mind.
It's hard though, to be able to support those, while the surrounding areas are crumbling. Although, if you envision them more as the "developments" model, as the suburban areas are, then we might be on to something.
landbanking has been utilized in other rust belt cities and has been quite successful in strengthening certain area's that are teetering on the brink by moving the few homeowners left in area's too far gone to invest in to area's that have only a few vacancies.
I think one of the challenge with landbanking is the area that should be taken off the grid are never defined. Who makes the call on what block goes and what block stays?
Another item that would be nice to see some numbers on is moving some homes from block to block or from one side to another. I know it is very 'SimCity' but I think it could work.
Gittere st another street in my study
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Gittere st between Sycamore and the railroad tracks once had 43 homes.. now there are 16 houses left,
out of the 16 there are 9 occupied homes 7 are homeowners and 2 rentals.I received a call from the Fillmore
district councilmen David Franczyk's assistant telling me of an elderly woman who was leaving Buffalo to
go live with a family member out of town and she would be willing to give the house away..I went to see it,
A well kept home,no basement but tons of gorgeous woodwork,a big kitchen and newer roof,fenced in yard and
garage it was in between a half burned house and a vacant,graffiti filled dump.I asked everyone I could think
of and nobody wanted it..We advised her to try to list it and it didnt sell..Months later I was taking a few
people on a tour of the area and the house was wide open..front door stolen and junk all over the steps..just
heartbreaking..but as my volunteer work for the court had shown me numerous times this was not by any means
the last time I would witness this.
What needs to be done,what I have been saying for years is a very strategic landbanking plan,work on putting the few people left into homes on streets that only have 1 or 2 vacancies,save that street and landbank their old street..offer them a free house,pay them the assessed value of their old house..it will save us millions wasted yearly on upkeeping streets with only a few viable homes left on them.
Save area's teetering on the brink and landbank area's too far gone to invest in..
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Oh dear, this is a sad story. I like your idea's Michele, you seem like someone who should be on the council you still have heart and soul. The city needs someone like you with your insight, pride and motivation.
That poor lady, and that story is one of many. Buff, I don't live in the city anymore, but everytime I go downtown or in areas I once lived like Peckham, Grant Street it simply astounds me as it looks today reflecting what it once was.
There has been much talk of landbanking..Sam Hoyt tried,several others tried..Its a hard sell IMHO because poverty pimping is a very lucrative business..hundreds of millions are sunk into neighborhoods under the premise of "revitalization" newbuilds make many rich etc..there would be no need for millions to continue to flow into the biggest money making area's because the area would be greenspace.
What about Habitat, is that still in effect in the city? I know they refurbished homes like the ones we are talking about and giving it to families that participate in the refurbishment. If the families participate somehow and put heart and soul into their "home" maybe pride might maintain it's beauty.