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46 unusual facts about Buffalo, New York


Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

49 of the passengers were high school exchange students visiting Peru from Buffalo, New York.

Allentown, New York

Allentown, Buffalo, New York, a neighborhood in the city of Buffalo in Erie County, New York

Avril Lavigne: My World

The DVD consists of sixteen songs that Lavigne performed on her first live performance tour, the Try to Shut Me Up Tour at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.

Barcalounger

It was introduced by the Barcalo Manufacturing Company of Buffalo, New York, which eventually became the Barcalounger Company.

Blanche Satchel

She also modeled for a series of murals which were displayed in an elegant hotel in Buffalo, New York.

Bobby Militello

He has played with Maynard Ferguson and Dave Brubeck, and is active in his hometown's music scene, in Buffalo, New York.

Buffalo Boys

Buffalo Boys is a drama inspired by a true story, set in Buffalo, New York about a teen and his best friend who become involved in a plot to murder an old woman to collect her life insurance as a means to escape their troubled family lives.

Chris C. Kemp

Chris C. Kemp (born Buffalo, NY) is the founder and CEO of Nebula, Inc., a cloud computing company that offers an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) openstack cloud system

Darin Pastor

Darin Richard Pastor (born February 19, 1971) is an American business executive from Buffalo, New York.

David D. Kirkpatrick

He was born in Buffalo, New York, earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.

Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957 Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Dr. Antonia Pantoja Community School of Academic Excellence

School 18 was first built in 1848 on the corner of School Street and West Avenue in Black Rock.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Institute

The Dr. Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute is an elementary school located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York.

Edith M. Flanigen

Edith Marie Flanigen (born January 28, 1929, Buffalo, New York) is an American chemist, known for her work on synthesis of emeralds, and later zeolites for molecular sieves at Union Carbide.

Edith Marie Flanigen was born January 28, 1929, Buffalo, New York.

Finast

The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets, its Buffalo, New York-based unit.

Frank A. Sedita Academy

Frank A. Sedita Academy is an elementary school located in the West Side of Buffalo, New York.

Frank Bliss

During the summer of 1877, Bliss played for minor league teams in Janesville, Wisconsin, and Buffalo, New York.

G. E. M. Membership Department Stores

In the Buffalo, New York area, the SuperFlea fleamarket on Walden Avenue is housed in a former GEX building.

Gerald Balone

Gerald Balone is an author and motivational speaker from Buffalo, New York.

Harry Castlemon

He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York.

Henry Brimm

A native of Buffalo, New York, Brimm finished his career with a 26–17–4 record.

Interstate 985

I-985 is the highest-numbered spur route of a north-south Interstate, and is second only to I-990, which serves the Buffalo metropolitan area.

J. J. Bittenbinder

Bittenbinder (born September 1, 1943 in Buffalo, New York) a retired member of the Chicago Police Department, safety speaker, and author; best known for his work as the host of the 1990s crime series Tough Target and as a public speaker on the subject of safety.

John B. West

After working as a postdoctoral fellow with Hermann Rahn at Buffalo in 1961-62, he returned to London as Director of the Respiratory Research Group at Postgraduate Medical School (1962-67) and was promoted to University Reader there in 1968.

John Joseph Bernet

He worked his way up through various positions with the railroad to eventually become a Vice President for New York Central Railroad where he was in charge of the lines west of Buffalo.

Karen Mac Cormack

She holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, and lived for many years in Toronto; more recently, she moved to Buffalo, New York, when her husband, the poet Steve McCaffery, was hired by SUNY-Buffalo for the David Gray Chair.

Lexi Peters

Lexi Peters (a native of Buffalo, New York) became the first female ice hockey player to appear in an EA Sports NHL Hockey video game.

Lovejoy Discovery School

Lovejoy Discovery School is located an elementary/middle school located in the East Lovejoy neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.

Lower West Side, Buffalo, New York

On the east Allentown with its historic district which ends approximately at Plymouth Avenue.

Madeline Davis

As part of the Political Action Committee of Mattachine, she confronted the Buffalo Vice Squad on the issue of entrapment and gay bar raids.

Marva J. Daniel Futures Preparatory School

Futures Academy is located in the Fruit Belt of Buffalo's East Side, and a few blocks away from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

One Eye to Morocco

In spring 2008 there was a gap between Purple's World Tour, as bassist Roger Glover's mother had died, so Gillan returned to Buffalo to do something new.

Robert E. Rich, Jr.

is Chairman of Rich Products Corporation, the largest family-owned frozen foods manufacturer in the United States and based in Buffalo, New York.

Robert F. Young

Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.

Sorakichi Matsuda

Over the next few months he went on the road and wrestled in Cleveland, Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and Peoria.

SPA Truck Company

SPA Truck Company (S-P-A) was a manufacturer of trucks, which was owned and operated by Studebaker Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo, New York.

Start Over On Monday

Start Over On Monday is the debut album by Buffalo-based band This Day & Age, released in summer 2002.

Terrence Pegula

In 2012 he won a bid for the development rights to the Webster Block on Buffalo's waterfront.

The International Preparatory School

The International Preparatory School is a high school that serves grades 5-12 in the Lower West Side of Buffalo, New York.

The Modernaires

The Modernaires began in 1935 as a trio of schoolmates from Lafayette High School in Buffalo, New York.

The Sheila Divine

The band has a large die hard fan base in what is often called "the three Bs": Boston, Buffalo, and Belgium.

Tonawanda Engine

Tonawanda Engine is a 3 facility, 3.1 million square feet; 190 acres General Motors engine factory in Buffalo, New York.

Upper West Side, Buffalo, New York

Adjacent neighborhoods include the Black Rock Neighborhood to the north, the Lower West Side and Allentown neighborhoods to the South, and the Elmwood Village to the east.

Wade Legge

Wade Legge (February 4, 1934, Huntington, West Virginia – August 15, 1963, Buffalo, New York) was an American jazz pianist and bassist.

Whittemore Gang

A month later, they also hit Buffalo when, on June 1, they raided the Levy Jewelry Company and stole $50,000 worth of jewelry.


Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The springs at Bath, in Bristol Township, were popular among wealthy Philadelphians for a while, but lost popularity to the ones in Saratoga, New York.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

Cedar Lake, New Jersey

Many wealthy New Yorkers vacationed at the lake during weekends, including prominent figures such as Babe Ruth, who stayed in a house on the West Side of the lake.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born August 1, 1972) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Donwan Harrell

Donwan Harrell is founder and creative director of the New York-based luxury denim line PRPS.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Genya Turovskaya

Turovskaya lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Hadestown

While most of the recording was produced by Mr. Sickafoose at Brooklyn Recording Studio in New York, the lead vocals were often produced elsewhere in the U.S..

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

Institute of Cultural Inquiry

The bottles have been publicly displayed at or outside such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Museum (New York), and the New York Public Library.

Jacob Worth

Jacob Worth (May 1, 1838 New York City – February 21, 1905 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas) was an American politician from New York.

Jim Ailinger

He was part of an initiative to boost gate attendance for the Buffalo, New York franchise, mixing local talent such as Ailinger with big-name stars such as Benny Boynton, Eddie Kaw, Pete Calac and Swede Youngstrom.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

"It is composed of 12 prize winning acts which have never before appeared in Buffalo, with Ted Mack, former conductor of Shea's Buffalo Orchestra, returning in the role of master of ceremonies. On the screen will be Mickey Rooney, the delightful star of the Judge Hardy family series, in his newest role, "Hold That Kiss" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe. Shea's Buffalo News will conclude the bill."

Meaghan Jarensky

Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx, New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1998 he was elected as Member of the International Training Standards and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

New York Golden Gloves

Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

After it appeared he might run unopposed in the general election, on April 2 Republican Dale Sweetland, coming off a narrowly unsuccessful September 2007 bid for Onondaga County Executive, announced he'd oppose Maffei.

NORAD Tracks Santa

The program is in the tradition of the September 1897 editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in the New York Sun.

Operation Gyroscope

Before Gyroscope, most, if not all, troops left on ships for Germany from New York.

Richard Boleslawski

Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski's techniques.

Robert Foster Kennedy

After the war he worked in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, where one of his colleagues was Samuel Kinnier Wilson.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Sattler

Sattler's, a regional department store chain headquartered at 998 Broadway, Buffalo, New York

Sean Eldridge

In early 2013, he filed paperwork to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, challenging incumbent Chris Gibson in New York's 19th congressional district.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Thompson Memorial Library

The window comes from the studios of Messrs. John Hardman & Company of Birmingham, England, and of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, their U.S. representatives.

Valeria Gastaldi

She started singing early in life, and later studied in Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

Wallace E. Cunningham

He commenced his formal architectural instruction at Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York, and then the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by Marya Lilien, one of the first female apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.

WDCX

WDCX-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States

West Concord, Minnesota

The early settlers of the area were from New England, New York or Pennsylvania and West Concord, and well as Concord Township which surrounds it, were named after Concord, New Hampshire.

William Reed Business Media

As well as British offices in Crawley and London, the company has offices in Montpellier, France and New York, United States.

WQXR-FM

a weekly Lutheran service from the previous week on Sunday morning, as well as Sunday morning services, alternately, from two Unitarian churches, the Community Church and All Souls Church (New York).

Yashira Jordán

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.