The city of Buffalo, which is in the east of Lake Erie, is the second largest in the state of New York. And it is full of surprises. The city often becomes an object of jokes of Americans about chicken wings, about snow storms, which seem to bury the city under themselves every winter, and about ridiculous sports teams. Nevertheless, local residents know that to answer this: Buffalo is a city with an excellent nightlife, numerous and good museums, as well as an extensive cultural program for the whole year. And also - with the most delicious chicken wings in the US.
How to get to Buffalo
The international airport of Buffalo-Niagara is one of the busiest in the state. It serves Buffalo and Niagara Falls, northwestern Pennsylvania and southern Ontario. Here flies a lot of local flights: about 110 daily. From the airport you can get to Buffalo on the "Metrobas". By train, you can get to Buffalo from New York or Toronto, Boston or Chicago. And the bus connection "Megabas" connects the city with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Toronto and Rochester.
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A bit of history
The settlement of Europeans originated here from the end of the 18th century, and after the Erie Canal was dug, the city began to grow and develop rapidly. Buffalo has become a large port, an industrial city and one of the leading megacities of this part of the country. True, since the second half of the 20th century, the popularity of Buffalo has declined: the commercial value of Erie's channel has been greatly reduced. But it positively affected the ecology of the city: today, Buffalo is one of the cleanest cities in the US.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Buffalo
The ancient architecture of the city has remained so beautiful that in 2011 .entire urban suburbs were entered in the national register of historical places .In particular, this is Allentown - the first of them, which is located north of downtown .It is built up by small cute houses of red brick in Italian style and the style of the French Second Empire .The most interesting houses here are Tiffs Row, seven buildings that are located on Allen Street, as well as the William Dorsheimer's house on Delaware Avenue and the former building of the Catholic Institute on the corner of Virginia and Main Street where the University of Scientology is now located .
Another attractive area is next to Delaware Avenue, and it is also called "a number of millionaires". The area extends from the Northern street to Bryant, and here are, as it is not difficult to guess, the richest city houses. Most of them today are turned into offices; the most interesting are the Butler mansion, the Clement mansion (today the Red Cross is located there), the Richmond-Lockwood House and Charles W. Goodyear's house.
Parkside is a suburb that is located to the north and east of Delaware Park .Together with the park, the suburb was designed by the famous architect F .Olmsted, and houses are built here between 1890 and 1920 .It is here, where the middle class and its upper classes settled, you can admire the samples of the styles of Queen Anne, the colonial Renaissance, a bungalow and prairie style .The central tourist site of this area is the house of Darwin D .Martina, built in 1905 .for the president of the soap company; one of the most notable works in the early career of architect Frank Lloyd Wright .The complex includes not only the house of Martin, but also the house of George Barton, where the industrialist's sister lived with her husband, as well as the gardener's cottage and three other buildings; all together - a harmonious and integral quarter .
F .Olmsted, the famous author of Central Park in New York and the famous "Emerald Necklace" in Boston, designed most of the city parks in Buffalo .These are six large parks and six smaller smaller park areas (three of which no longer exist today), which were connected by tree-lined avenues .The main of these parks are Delaware and South .The first, the largest in the city, provides visitors with amazing views, and here is the Shakespeare Festival in the open air .The southern park is smaller, but it is here that the Botanical Garden of Buffalo and Erie, opened in 1898 .where you can see today a collection of plants from Panama, an orchid garden and a Victorian rosary .In the same park there is also a city zoo, the third oldest in the country (the zoo was founded in 1875 .), accepting 400 thousand .guests annually .
Winters in Buffalo really made him famous all over America. Cold winds blow from Lake Erie, and snowfalls in winter sweep the whole city almost to the very roofs. Although, generally speaking, despite the prevalent myth, Buffalo is by no means the most snowy and cold city in the country: not even snowier and colder than New York.
For someone, the connection between Buffalo and the American film industry can come as a surprise .Meanwhile, in the downtown, in the building of Ellikott Square, was placed the first target and constantly operating theater with film screenings "Vitaskop", opened in October 1896 .In the year 1896, .Thomas Edison sent his children to Buffalo to film him on film - and this was one of the first American films recorded in the cinema .By the way, Edison later withdrew the Pan-American exhibition in 1901 .Since then, the city has been filmed many different films, from "Best Friends" 1982 .with Bert Reynolds and Goldie Hawn before "Henry's Crimes" 2011 .with Keanu Reeves .
- Be sure to try the "Buffalo Wings" - chicken wings with spicy sauce, celery, cheese with blue mold and, of course, beer. Buffalo is the American capital of chicken wings.
- To visit one of the many annual city festivals: the February Winterfest, the spring Polish Dingus festival, the Greek or River festivals in the summer, the autumn Beer Festival or the Irish festival, etc.
- Go to the theater. For the city of its size in Buffalo is an amazing number of theaters, and even has its own Theater District.
- Take a look at Hayes Hall, the most noteworthy campus building of the University of Buffalo, the largest in the state.
- To stumble into Elmwood Village, which is located along the same street. Go to one of the many independent shops, look at the book breakdowns, buy organic food or ask the prices for the paintings of local artists.
Museums of Buffalo
The naval museum of Buffalo and Erie County is interesting. It was opened in 1977, and its exhibits include three historical combat ships: the Little Rock ship that sailed in the Mediterranean during the Cold War as a flagship; the ship "Sullivans", which took an active part during the Second World War in the Pacific operations, and the submarine "Croaker", also participated in the battles of the Second World War. In the warm season, each of these ships can be visited independently.
The Buffalo Science Museum is housed in a beautiful 1929 building. The accent in its expositions is made on natural sciences: here are collected more than 700 thousand samples and artifacts associated with anthropology, botany, entomology, zoology and paleontology, which brings the museum to the world level.
Curious and the museum of transport Buffalo "Pierce-Arrow", where you can see a collection of old cars and memorabilia associated with the era of the automotive industry .And the Aerospace Museum of Niagara Aira J .Ross can please visitors with the spectacle of the first commercially licensed helicopter in the United States, Bell-47, as well as several replicas of other aircraft, including the World War II .All these exhibits are somehow related to the aviation history of Buffalo, which reached its peak in the first half of the 20th century thanks to the monsters "Bell Aviation" and "Curtiss-Wright", which opened their headquarters in the city .
Other interesting museums of the city are the museum of firefighting with a huge collection of old fire trucks and the Museum of Iron Island - another name for the suburb of Buffalo Lovejoy, which was surrounded by railway branches from all directions .The museum was opened in 2000 .and is dedicated to the history of the railways of this region .It is characteristic that the museum on the territory of the former cemetery is considered the main habitat of ghosts in Buffalo .Ghost hunters gather here, and night visiting the museum to see something paranormal is much more popular than the daytime .