A $20,000 investment from state funding was announced Thursday, in order to help reignite Buffalo's forestation.

Five are in Buffalo, and the other two are in Niagara Falls. More than 40 percent of the households in seven Western New York neighborhoods contain a single resident. Buffalo Business First ...

The people of Buffalo’s East Side deserve credit for their hard work in recent years to revitalize their neighborhoods (“As Buffalo Redevelops, East Side Is Left Behind,” U.S. News, June 21 ...

Benjamin Joe lives in Buffalo, New York. Excerpts of his novel, Nirvana Dreams, published by NFB Publishing, can be found at the March 2018 Ghost City Review and Issue 14 of Riggwelter Press.

In its place, a below-grade highway divided East Buffalo neighborhoods. More than 600 homes were demolished to make way for the expressway, and most of the displaced residents were Black.

UB researchers looked at 17 cities across New York State where longstanding federal housing policies once denied neighborhoods with people of color from receiving mortgages. Although this practice was ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Air pollution is bad for mental health. That much is clear. Now, new research shows the impact may be even worse in neighborhoods that were historically redlined. University at Buffalo ...