HI - Buffalo Niagara
Our modern, clean, friendly hostel is located in the heart of Buffalo's theater and entertainment districts. New York's second largest city, Buffalo is known world-wide for its architectural treasures; only Chicago boasts a larger collection of buildings by America's foremost architects. The acclaimed Albright-Knox Art Gallery boasts one of the top modern collections in the world. Summer and fall find large crowds enjoying Buffalo's waterfront. And most guidebooks comment on Buffalo's lively nightlife scene. The hostel is located a short walk from the center of activity--and just 1km from the Anchor Bar, where Buffalo chicken wings were invented. Let's Go USA says that a combination of big-city perks and small-town warmth make Buffalo a soothing place to spend some time. Indeed, many travelers stay a day--or several--longer than they originally
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Buffalo is an American city in western New York State. As of the census of 2000, the city had a total population of 292,648. It is the state's second-largest city, after New York City, and is the county seat of Erie County.GR6 It is also the economic and cultural center of the The Buffalo-Niagara Region, a diverse metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. Buffalo is also sometimes considered part of the Golden
Horseshoe, an international metropolitan area of over 9.7 million people.
Buffalo lies at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the southern head of the Niagara River, which connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. European-Americans first settled there in the late-18th century. Growth was slow until the city became the western terminus of the Erie Canal some forty years later. By the turn of the next century, Buffalo was one of the country's leading cities, and by far its largest inland port. The huge grain elevators and industrial plants that the canal spawned began to disappear in the mid-20th century as the Saint Lawrence Seaway enabled water traffic to bypass the city.
Distancing itself from its industrial past, Buffalo is redefining itself as a cultural, banking, educational, and medical center. The city was named by Reader's Digest as the third cleanest city in America in 2005.
In 2001 USA Today named Buffalo the winner of its "City with a Heart" contest, proclaiming it the nation's "friendliest city." Also, in 1996 and 2002, Buffalo won the All-America City Award.
