Buffalo, New York - Grant Street/West Side

benp · #1 Posted **May 28, 2018, 1:16 AM**

The West Side of Buffalo is adjacent to the Niagara River, which runs south to north and separated the USA from Canada. Grant Street runs north-south through the middle of the West Side, parallel to the popular Elmwood Avenue/Elmwood Village neighborhood. For the most part, the Wes Side has been able to maintain the majority of its built environment, and has been home to waves of immigrants since the 1860s, which continues today. Although this area has been generally poor for the last few decades, gentrification is occurring as people are moving in after being priced out of the adjacent Elmwood Village neighborhood.

Grant-Ferry intersection remains the heart of the neighborhood, but there are no images of that immediate corner in this photo spread. Most of the images are from the area near Grant and Lafayette.

Heading south down Grant Street from the Black Rock neighborhood, passing the Buffalo State College area, which has been in the process of redeveloping a formerly run down section of Grant by building new apartments, dormitories, and other campus facilities:

IMG_1119 by bpawlik, on Flickr

Grant and Lafayette area:

IMG_1141 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1128 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1127 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1120 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1123 by bpawlik, on Flickr

The West Side is a very multicultural area.

IMG_1131 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1139 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1134 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1145 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1150 by bpawlik, on Flickr

IMG_1152 by bpawlik, on Flickr