West Side
Sure, for now the Elmwood Village is Buffalo's premier neighborhood for fine dining and cute urban boutiques; Allentown is where local artists and bohos congregate, and downtown still takes the cake when it comes to the urban rehabilitation that Western New Yorkers have grown more and more used to.Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: Buffalo/West Side
- Also known as: “Buffalo/West Side”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kleinhans Music Hall and Temple Beth Zion.
Kleinhans Music Hall
Theater building
Photo: Davepape, Public domain.
Kleinhans Music Hall is a concert venue located on Symphony Circle in Buffalo, New York. Kleinhans is currently the home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, a regular venue for the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, and is rented out for other performing groups and local events.
Temple Beth Zion
Synagogue
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Temple Beth Zion is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 805 Delaware Avenue, in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, in the United States. Founded in 1850, Temple Beth Zion is the largest Jewish congregation in Western New York and one of the oldest and largest Reform congregations in the nation.
Lafayette High School
School
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Lafayette High School was a public high school in Buffalo, New York. It was the oldest public school in Buffalo that remained in its original building, a stone, brick and terra-cotta structure in the French Renaissance Revival style by architects August Esenwein and James A.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elmwood Village and Allentown and the Delaware District.
Elmwood Village
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Allentown and the Delaware District
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Allentown and the Delaware District are two neighborhoods in Buffalo that are adjacent to each other and north of downtown. 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.
Allentown
Neighborhood
The Allentown district is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. The neighborhood is home to the Allentown Historic District.
West Side
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Buffalo, Erie County, Niagara Frontier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.91487° or 42° 54′ 54″ northLongitude
-78.88312° or 78° 52′ 59″ westOpen location code
87J3W478+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13058296926OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q16939391
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Italian—“West Side” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম প্রান্ত”
- Italian: “Lato ovest di Buffalo”
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