It's true, sometimes the review is better than the book. 📚

Good use of Google maps. bsky.app/profile/gpij...

To close out Black History Month, here's my collection of archival Mary Talbert & Talbert family material that is online at Archive dot org and nowhere else. #Buffalo #BlackHistory #WomensHistory 🗃️

It's Jamestown, not Buffalo, but be sure to read the Alt text. This is amusing me to no end.

Even before Nurul Amin Shah Alam was arrested last year, it was difficult for him to navigate Buffalo without being able to speak or understand English, family friend Khaleda Shah said. He had translators, but it’s wrong that he was forced to rely on a system that continued to fail him, she added.

It’s time #buffalo

Do you know someone who's done great work for social justice in libraries? Submit their name for the Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice & Equality (deadline March 2nd). airtable.com/appoik78pOkA... The award is $4,000!!! 📚

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The funeral service is open to the public. Feb. 26, 2 pm, Masjid Zakariya cemetery, 31 Stone St., 14212.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was nearly blind, had other physical disabilities and spoke no English, was left by federal Customs and Border Patrol agents at night at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo that had already closed for the day, Mayor Sean Ryan said.

A historic Civil War-era house in Allentown that later hosted a singing group and then served as an American Legion post for more than 80 years is now being targeted for an adaptive reuse that will bring the vacant building back to life. buffalonews.com/news/local/b...

Organizer folks are working on a more coordinated response, stay tuned. It takes a bit to do things right.

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Food reporter Francesca Bond spent nearly 18 hours at one of Buffalo's oldest and only fine dining restaurants, Oliver's. "They don’t work like people who are working for someone else," she found.

Update: event is apparently canceled.

New online, photos I took back in 2013 of cards from the building permit index in the Permits & Inspections Department of Buffalo City Hall, for 521 Michigan Avenue, the Mary B. Talbert house. It was demolished in 1946. #Buffalo #BlackHistory 🗃️ archive.org/details/buil...

Join concerned community members in demanding accountability into the death of Nural Amin Shah Alam. Tomorrow night in #Buffalo.

Buffalo Needs a Snow Sculpture Festival. #Buffalo #snow #StealThisIdea buffaloresearch.com/buffalo-need...

This is a terrible, terrible thing. #Buffalo www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Buffalo's longtime opposition to the St. Lawrence Seaway is an underappreciated story. Business leaders who usually cheer on any public works project got this one right. I've seen the opposition here described as "feeble" & I don't think it is true. Here's a thesis topic for someone! #Buffalo 🗃️

On a related note, who knows of mystery novels in which the sleuth is a librarian or archivist who relies on archival research and/or period/primary sources to solve the crime? There must be some. 📚

To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine. www.techradar.com/pro/security...

Puzzle Binding! Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just... Had One??? And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

Hoping someone with knowledge of Vermont quarrying history can chime in. If I needed to ship marble from Vermont to Buffalo, NY in 1900, would I use rail or the Erie Canal or a combination of rail and canal? 🗃️ #Vermont

This is the famous Negro Exhibit that came to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. 🗃️ #Buffalo #BlackHistory

Buffalo Needs a Snow Sculpture Festival. #Buffalo #snow #StealThisIdea buffaloresearch.com/buffalo-need...

Resistance Singing on Saturday, Feb. 28. Meet at Trinity Episcopal, 371 Delaware, at noon. All voices welcome. #Buffalo #ResistanceSinging #SingingResistance

Central Terminal Restoration Corp is looking for a Fund Development Director! #Buffalo

Buffalo, esp West Side - ICE dropped off a blind refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin, who does not speak English at the Tim Hortons on Niagara on Thursday. He is missing. Keep an eye out, and call the numbers on the flyer if you find him. Just boosting, deets at link. www.facebook.com/share/p/18bH...

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

More snow sculptures! We can do this in Buffalo.

Cool!

We buy this bread at Buffalo Fresh & Kat Market on Grant at Delavan. About 14" wide, 1" thick. Great stuff. Does anyone know where it's from, who makes it, what it is called?

Welcome to Prospectus 2026: This year is when Buffalo Niagara businesses will come to grips with the uncertainty. Fewer Canadian visitors. Higher prices. A housing crunch. And a consumer base whose budgets are coming under increasing strain.

The dark spot in WNY is the existing Batavia ICE Detainment Center. Chester is the only new project in NY so far. Tell your local electeds to prepare to fight these proposals. If they can stop a weed farm or a solar field, they can stop a concentration camp.

A White-tailed deer licks its lips while looking up from grazing near the Two Mile Creek trail in Tonawanda in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joshua Bessex. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_1c4bf885-0fa0-446c-97ee-769a9040f2a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

"She's just always been there. Miss Theresa, you can't fill her shoes," said Carmelita Mallory said about Theresa McCall-Jenkins, a family support specialist at BPPN. "I really don't know what to say about her, because she's just everything."

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When the AMC movie theater closed, it was yet another blow to Buffalo's Theater District. The block has been through ups and downs for decades. Join us next month for a wide-ranging discussion about its history & how to make it better. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/19/u...

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❓ Did you know The Buffalo Zoo is the nation's 3rd oldest #zoo? The Zoo just celebrated its 150th anniversary & Erie County is proud to support them in providing great educational, cultural, & recreational resources. More on art & cultural programs: erie.gov/cultural Buffalo Zoo i... buffalozoo.org

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Over 100 hi-res Victorian Buffalo downloads for your book, thesis, film, website, whatever you like. Pay what you wish. All proceeds offset the costs of keeping BuffaloResearch uncluttered & ad-free. buffaloresearch.gumroad.com #Buffalo #architecture #pictures 🗃️

Since I am quarantining with a mild covid infection (deep gratitude for vaccines!), I turned this morning's thread about your deed/abstract of title into a blog post: buffaloresearch.com/how-to-date-... #Buffalo #architecture 🗃️

How to date your Buffalo house Let's say you, new homeowner, have your abstract of title in hand. You open it up and see that it goes all the way back to 1803! Millard Fillmore's name is on it! Holy cow, does this mean that your...

My kingdom for a way to disable the expletive-deleted Caps Lock key

Occasional reminder that your deed/abstract of title does not reveal when your house was built. A title search going back to 1804 means that 1804 was the first recorded sale of the land, the parcel that your house now sits on. 🗃️

Once again reminded that a good story is not always a true story and a true story is not always a good story. 📚🗃️

New blog post with over 100 names of freedom seekers who suffered under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act, thanks to Samuel May and Marion Gleason McDougall. 🗃️ #genealogy #BlackHistory #Buffalo buffaloresearch.com/victims-of-t...