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The largest city in 's , Buffalo is a city full of surprises. Though Buffalo is sometimes the butt of jokes about chicken wings, its long-suffering sports teams, and the mountains of snow under which it is supposedly buried each…
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include West Side and East Side.

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Sure, for now the is Buffalo's premier neighborhood for fine dining and cute urban boutiques; is where local artists and bohos congregate, and still takes the cake when it comes to the urban rehabilitation that Western New Yorkers have grown more and more used to.

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If you're a visitor in Buffalo and you ask a local for advice, one of the things you'll almost certainly be told is to stay away from the . "You take your life in your hands when you cross Main Street", so they might say, perhaps punctuating their…

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Perhaps doesn't have the immediate cachet of other parts of the city. The clothing boutiques on Hertel stock fashions that may not be as up-to-the-minute as the ones in the .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Downtown Buffalo and South Buffalo.

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Downtown has been the nucleus of Buffalo since its foundation; over two centuries later, it retains its central importance in the Niagara Frontier both geographically and commercially.

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Buffalo is movin' on up these days: has luxury hotels and condos aplenty, the has high-end specialty shops, even the sports a vibrant multiethnic pastiche with exotic food markets, restaurants, and artists.

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Do you remember when Madonna's album Ray of Light came out? It was a touchstone moment in late-'90s pop culture, yet another megahit for the Material Girl that begat a raft of monster hit songs and enjoyed a long reign on the upper reaches of the charts.

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are two neighborhoods in Buffalo that are adjacent to each other and north of . These two areas are among the most desirable neighborhoods in the city today, and, much more than most other areas of Buffalo, were able to retain their charm, affluence, and safety throughout Buffalo's dark days from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium.

Places of Interest

Highlights include KeyBank Center and Buffalo City Hall.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Buffalo, New York, United States. Originally known as Marine Midland Arena, the venue has since been named HSBC Arena and First Niagara Center.

Town hall
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is the seat for municipal government in the City of Buffalo, . Located at 65 , the 32-story Art Deco skyscraper was completed in 1931 by Dietel, Wade & Jones.

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is a Cleveland-class light cruiser and one of 27 completed for the United States Navy during or shortly after World War II. She is one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers and the first US Navy ship to be named for .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Erie and Allentown.

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is a town of about 33,000 people in the . It is directly across the river from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.

Neighborhood
The district is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. The neighborhood is home to the Historic District.

Neighborhood
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, formerly known as Canal Side and also referred to as Erie Canal Harbor, is a mixed-use recreational and entertainment district in downtown Buffalo, New York.

Buffalo

Latitude
42.8864° or 42° 53′ 11″ north
Longitude
-78.8781° or 78° 52′ 41″ west
Population
478,000
Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)
IATA airport code
BUF
United Nations Location Code
US BUF
Open location code
87J3V4PC+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158230039
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5110629
Wiki­data ID
Q40435
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Buffalo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Buffalo”
  • Albanian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Albanian: “Buffalo”
  • Arabic: “بفالو”
  • Arabic: “بوفالو”
  • Armenian: “Բուֆֆալո”
  • Asturian: “Buffalo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baffalo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buffalo”
  • Balinese: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Bambara: “Buffalo”
  • Basque: “Buffalo”
  • Bavarian: “Buffalo”
  • Belarusian: “Бафала”
  • Belarusian: “Буфала”
  • Bengali: “বাফালো, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bengali: “বাফালো”
  • Breton: “Buffalo”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъфало”
  • Catalan: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Catalan: “Buffalo”
  • Cebuano: “Buffalo (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, New York)”
  • Cebuano: “Buffalo”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەفاڵۆ”
  • Chechen: “Баффало”
  • Chinese: “Buffalo”
  • Chinese: “布法罗”
  • Chinese: “布法罗市”
  • Chinese: “布法羅”
  • Chinese: “水牛城”
  • Cornish: “Buffalo, Evrek Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Czech: “Buffalo”
  • Dagbani: “Buffalo”
  • Danish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Danish: “Buffalo”
  • Dutch: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Dutch: “Buffalo”
  • Eastern Mari: “Буффало”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بافالو (نيو يورك)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بافالو”
  • Esperanto: “Bufalo”
  • Esperanto: “Buffalo”
  • Estonian: “Buffalo”
  • Faroese: “Buffalo”
  • Finnish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Finnish: “Buffalo”
  • French: “Buffalo”
  • Galician: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Galician: “Buffalo, Nova York”
  • Galician: “Buffalo”
  • Georgian: “ბუფალო”
  • German: “Buffalo”
  • German: “City of Good Neighbors”
  • German: “City of Light”
  • German: “De-o-tro-weh”
  • German: “De-ose-lole”
  • German: “Ne-o-thro-ra”
  • German: “Nickel City”
  • German: “Queen City of the Lakes”
  • German: “The Queen City”
  • German: “Tick-e-ack-gou-ga”
  • Gilaki: “بافلؤ”
  • Gilaki: “بۊفالؤ (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Greek: “Μπάφαλο, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Μπάφαλο”
  • Gujarati: “બફેલો”
  • Haitian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Haitian: “Buffalo”
  • Hebrew: “באפאלו”
  • Hebrew: “באפלו”
  • Hebrew: “בפאלו”
  • Hindi: “बफ़ेलो, न्यूयॉर्क”
  • Hindi: “बफ़ेलो”
  • Hungarian: “Buffalo”
  • Icelandic: “Buffalo”
  • Ido: “Buffalo, Nova-York”
  • Ido: “Buffalo”
  • Inari Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Indonesian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Buffalo”
  • Irish: “Buffalo, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Buffalo”
  • Italian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Italian: “Buffalo”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク州バッファロー”
  • Japanese: “バッファロー”
  • Javanese: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Javanese: “Buffalo”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Buffalo”
  • Kannada: “ಬಫಲೋ, ನ್ಯೂಯಾರ್ಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಫಲೋ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Буффало”
  • Korean: “버펄로”
  • Ladin: “Buffalo”
  • Latin: “Bufalum”
  • Latin: “Buffalo”
  • Latvian: “Bufalo”
  • Latvian: “Buffalo”
  • Literary Chinese: “水牛城”
  • Lithuanian: “Bafalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Buffalo”
  • Lule Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Buffalo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Buffalo”
  • Macedonian: “Бафало”
  • Malagasy: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Buffalo”
  • Malay: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Malay: “Buffalo”
  • Malayalam: “ബഫല്ലോ, ന്യൂയോർക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ബഫല്ലോ”
  • Marathi: “बफेलो, न्यू यॉर्क”
  • Marathi: “बफेलो”
  • Mazanderani: “بوفالو (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “بوفالو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buffalo”
  • Moksha: “Баффало”
  • Northern Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo i New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buffalo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buffalo i New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buffalo”
  • Norwegian: “Buffalo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Buffalo”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Būfalō (Nīwe Eoforwīc)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Būfalō”
  • Ossetian: “Баффало”
  • Ossetian: “Буффало”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bofflo, Nei Yarrick”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bofflo”
  • Persian: “بافلو”
  • Persian: “بفالو”
  • Persian: “بوفالو، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “بوفالو”
  • Piemontese: “Buffalo”
  • Pite Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Polish: “Buffalo”
  • Portuguese: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Portuguese: “Buffalo, Nova York”
  • Portuguese: “Buffalo”
  • Quechua: “Buffalo”
  • Romanian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Romanian: “Buffalo”
  • Russian: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Russian: “Баффало”
  • Russian: “Буффало”
  • Sardinian: “Buffalo”
  • Scots: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Scots: “Buffalo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Buffalo, Eabhraig Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Buffalo”
  • Serbian: “Buffalo”
  • Serbian: “Бафало”
  • Serbian: “Бафело”
  • Serbian: “Буфало”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bafalo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bufalo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buffalo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Бафало”
  • Silesian: “Buffalo”
  • Sinhala: “බෆලෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Slovak: “Buffalo”
  • Slovenian: “Buffalo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوفالو، نیویورک”
  • Southern Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Spanish: “Búfalo (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Búfalo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de la Luz”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Reina de los Lagos”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad de las ilusiones”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad de los Buenos Vecinos”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad del Níquel”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Reina”
  • Swahili: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Swahili: “Buffalo”
  • Swedish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Swedish: “Buffalo”
  • Tagalog: “Buffalo, Bagong York”
  • Tagalog: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Tagalog: “Buffalo”
  • Tagalog: “Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Buffalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Buffalo”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Bupalo”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Buffalo”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Bupalo”
  • Tajik: “Буфало,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Буфало”
  • Tajik: “Буффало, Ню-Йорк”
  • Tamil: “பஃபலோ”
  • Tatar: “Баффало”
  • Telugu: “బఫెలో”
  • Thai: “บัฟฟาโล”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Buffalo”
  • Turkish: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Turkish: “Buffalo”
  • Ukrainian: “Баффало”
  • Ukrainian: “Буффало”
  • Ume Sami: “Buffalo”
  • Urdu: “بفیلو، نیو یارک”
  • Uzbek: “Buffalo”
  • Venetian: “Buffalo”
  • Vietnamese: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Buffalo, Nữu Ước”
  • Vietnamese: “Buffalo”
  • Volapük: “Buffalo, New York”
  • Volapük: “Buffalo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buffalo, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buffalo”
  • Welsh: “Buffalo, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Buffalo”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաֆըլօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Buffalo”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوفیلو”
  • Wu Chinese: “布法罗”
  • Yiddish: “באפאלא”
  • Yue Chinese: “水牛城”

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