Mark Andrew Boyer

Society

Green housing: In Buffalo, it’s not just for rich people anymore

Massachusetts Avenue Park was not a place you’d want to take your kids. Before, the small neighborhood park in the heart of Buffalo’s West Side was little more than vacant land with a small playground and a crumbling basketball court. “It was a real mess,” says Terry Richard, a neighborhood resident who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and later moved to Buffalo by way of Brooklyn. “So we figured … why don’t we just take this on as a task to really force the city’s hand to take care of their problem,” she adds, standing next to the park’s new playground with a bright smile.

February 22, 2013

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