User:AndreCarrotflower/Midtown-Near East Side

Midtown-Near East Side is in Buffalo.

By car
streets, expressways, parking - permit parking in Fruit Belt is in effect

Car sharing
Members of Zipcar have access to a Nissan Frontier crew-cab pickup truck stationed in the parking lot on the east side of Washington Street between High and Carlton Streets in the Medical Corridor, behind the. The vehicle is available for a price of $10/hour or $80/day M-Th; $11/hour or $87/day F-Su. This price includes fuel, insurance, and 180 free miles (about 290 free kilometers) per day.

By bus
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By Metro Rail

 * — Main Street at East Utica Street (Cold Spring).
 * — Main Street at Best Street (Masten Park).
 * — Main Street at Allen Street (Medical Corridor).

By bike
Buffalo has been making great strides in recent years in accommodating bicycling as a mode of transportation, with recognition from the League of American Bicyclists as a Bronze-Level "Bicycle-Friendly Community" to show for its efforts. (blah blah blah)


 * "sharrows" (pavement markings on roads too narrow to accommodate dedicated bike lanes, indicating that drivers should be aware of bicyclists on the road) along Ellicott Street between Goodell and Best Streets
 * sharrows along High Street east from Main Street through the Medical Corridor and Fruit Belt, ending at Jefferson
 * parallel bike lanes along Broadway from downtown outward
 * straddling the Kensington, Cherry Street and BFNC Drive each have one dedicated bike lane going the same direction as automobile traffic: beginning at Jefferson Avenue, the latter side ends at Lemon Street while the former extends westward clear to Michigan Avenue. If you want to make a U-turn, there are two pedestrian bridges that cross over the expressway, one just east of Hickory Street and one between Peach and Grape Streets.
 * parallel bike lanes on William Street between Michigan and Jefferson Avenues

Bike sharing and rental
You'll find Reddy Bikeshare racks at the following locations blah blah blah


 * on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, on the north side of North Oak Street at the corner of Ellicott Street, across the street diagonally from Ulrich's Tavern
 * on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, on the east side of Main Street at the corner of Allen Street, in front of the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
 * on the east side of Main Street at the corner of Best Street, in front of the Summer-Best Metro Rail Station

Art
The emerging East Side arts community is centered on the newly gentrifying neighborhoods just east of Main Street, now home to a growing population of creative types.



Parks
section lede: not a lot. Masten Park mostly for history as remnant of FLO system; also that park over by the JFK Rec Center. (Listingify or inline markers?)

Architecture
section lede - this section of the East Side has lost most of its magnificent churches (work in ref to HCOBES article), but there's plenty of secular history preserved in the form of locally listed historic districts



Live music
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Buy
For now, the East Side's western flank is the least amenable area of the district for those in search of a neighborhood shopping experience. But with new investment breathing life back into Main Street and the old Cold Spring business district along Jefferson Avenue, look for this scenario to be turned on its head over the next few years.

Eat
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Mid-range
The Near East Side is the only part of the district that has anything approaching an upscale dining scene.



Connect
nearest post offices are downtown on Ellicott St; Broadway-Fillmore

Internet access courtesy of, by far the largest library on the East Side, with 47 public computers as well as free WiFi

Another Internet option is the JEFFREE WI-FI network. Since 2018, the City of Buffalo has partnered with Blue Wireless to provide free public WiFi to a stretch of Jefferson Avenue beginning at Northampton Street and stretching about a mile (1.6 km) north, hopefully only the first of many such corridors in the city. It's similar to downtown's BuffaloConnect wireless network in that signal strength drops off rapidly the further you get from Jefferson — basically, stray more than a block in either direction and connectivity is lost — and in that the WiFi works outdoors only, rather than inside the buildings along the street. However, connection speeds are quite a bit faster than the paltry 2 Mb/s you get downtown.

Hospitals
Established in 2001 by the University at Buffalo Medical School, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and others, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is the epicenter of Buffalo's growing medical technology and bioinformatics industry, and also where you'll find two of the largest hospitals in the region.



Catholic
section lede - some rich Buffalo Catholic history took place here - not much of it left



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