Buffalo sits at the head of the Niagara River on Lake Erie, and around here you know a neighbourhood by its street: Allen, Elmwood, Hertel, Seneca.
Buffalo sits on the eastern shore of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, right on the Canada–United States border. It is the second-most populous city in the state, with 278,349 people at the 2020 census, and the seat of Erie County. The reason it grew is the water. Buffalo was picked as the western end of the Erie Canal in 1825, became a city in 1832, and turned into the main inland port between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. The neighbourhoods the store carries fan out from downtown: Allentown, Elmwood Village, North Buffalo, Parkside and South Buffalo.
Allentown is the first neighbourhood north of the downtown core, centered on Allen Street and Elmwood Avenue. The name goes back to 1827, when a newcomer's cattle wore a path to their pasture, and that path became Allen Street. The neighbourhood has held an outdoor art festival since 1958, and it has three parks: Day's Park, Arlington Park and Symphony Circle. Keep going north on Elmwood and you are in Elmwood Village, which runs up to Delaware Park. Bidwell Parkway cuts through it, a 200-foot-wide boulevard that hosts a producers-only farmers market every Saturday from mid-May to the end of November, plus free concerts in summer.
North Buffalo runs from the Kenmore line south to Delaware Park, and Hertel Avenue is its strip: Italian restaurants, bakeries and stores, known locally as Little Italy, with the Italian Heritage Festival since 1988. Parkside sits on the east side of Delaware Park, mostly single-family houses along curving streets laid out in an 1876 parks plan. South Buffalo is the southern third of the city, between the Buffalo River and Lake Erie, with Seneca Street, Abbott Road and South Park Avenue as its main streets. Cazenovia Park and South Park, where the Botanical Gardens are, anchor it, and it holds an Irish feis and an Italian festival each summer.
Someone from here wears the neighbourhood, not the city. The Elmwood Village crewneck in Blue Spruce for a Saturday on Bidwell Parkway, the North Buffalo crewneck in Concrete for a walk down Hertel, the South Buffalo crewneck in Collegiate Crimson on the way to Cazenovia Park. Allentown and Parkside come in the same dyes.
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