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unusual facts about Western New York


Tom McCollum

McCollum assists in goaltending camps near his hometown in Western New York.


Ontario Highway 3

A quick link from Chicago, Toledo, and Detroit to Buffalo and Western New York, Highway 3 was shorter and more direct than any American route (including Interstate 90), because Lake Erie dips south along Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Stan Van Gundy

Van Gundy grew up as a son of a basketball coach, Bill Van Gundy, the former head coach at Brockport State University in Western New York.

United States presidential election in New York, 1936

In 1936, FDR also managed to flip Erie County into the Democratic column, home to the city of Buffalo in western New York, up to that point a Republican city that had even held for Herbert Hoover in 1932.


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Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr.

He was also the nephew of Arthur Cleveland Coxe, the Episcopal bishop of Western New York, and grandson of abolitionist minister Samuel Hanson Cox.

Disco Step-by-Step

Taped during 1975 and 1976, the show was seen on local Public-access television cable TV channels in Buffalo and western New York State from January 1, 1977 to June 30, 1977; the program was shot in black and white, given the technology and equipment available to Cichy.

Elbridge Gerry

The upstate New York town of Elbridge is believed to have been named in his honor, as is the western New York town of Gerry, in Chautauqua County.

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York

The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming in western New York.

Erie County Medical Center

ECMC is designated as Western New York's designated trauma and HIV/AIDS treatment center.

Genesee

Genesee River, a river in north central Pennsylvania and western New York in the U.S

Gernatt Family of Companies

The companies have been involved in major projects in Western New York State, including the New York State Thruway, Southern Tier Expressway, First Niagara Center (formerly HSBC Arena), Ralph Wilson Stadium, and Coca-Cola Field (formerly Dunn Tire Park).

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Honeoye

Honeoye Creek, a tributary of the Genesee River in western New York

Jack Woolams

Jack had flown back to western New York and the Bell Aircraft Plant in Wheatfield, NY, where the P-39 had been built at the Wheatfield plant but was owned by an organization known as Skylanes Unlimited.

Little Valley Speedway

The last of these is labeled the "Western New York Championship" and determines who represents the county in the Great New York State Fair derby.

Nathaniel Gorham

In connection with Oliver Phelps, he purchased from the state of Massachusetts in 1788 pre-emption rights to an immense tract of land in western New York State which straddled the Genesee River, all for the sum of $1,000,000 (the Phelps and Gorham Purchase).

New York State Chess Association

The New York State Chess Association (NYSCA) is the oldest continuously-run chess organization in the United States, having been formed in Auburn, New York in 1878, as the "Western New York and Northern Pennsylvania Chess Association." The NYSCA name has been used since 1886.

Oskanondonha

Samuel Kirkland, a missionary minister who first went to the Iroquois country of western New York in 1764, encountered Chief Skenando there and mentioned him in letters.

Preemption

Preemption Line, the line that divided the Indian lands of western New York State, that had been awarded to New York, from those that had been awarded to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Treaty of Hartford of 1786

Robert Noel Blair

Blair is known for his paintings of Western New York, Maine, Vermont, the American Southwest and the Battle of the Bulge.

Rochester Zeniths

The Zeniths were coached by local product Mauro Panaggio, a successful Division III basketball coach at SUNY Brockport and featured many former prominent Western New York college basketball players, most notably guard Glenn Hagan from St. Bonaventure and forward Larry Fogle from Canisius College (both had been second round NBA Draft picks).

Sandro DeAngelis

DeAngelis starred at fullback and linebacker for St. Joseph’s Collegiate in Buffalo, N.Y. and earned First-Team All-Western New York honours as a kicker in 1999, connecting on four field goals, while kicking 70 percent of his kickoffs into the end zone.

Time Warner Cable News

The channel is available in almost all of western New York except for portions of Cattaraugus County, which are served by another cable provider.

Williamsville South High School

The building was designed by acclaimed local architect Duane Lyman, who was known as the dean of Western New York architecture.

WNED-FM

In 1975, the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought it and WEBR.