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Ok...That makes sense, as the steel industry played a big part in the immigration/migration to the area.
It is very possible given that the city council rep for that area of town is a Yemani woman(the previous rep was black): https://lackawannany.gov/city-council/
Another tip off to that area of town is Taggart Park, which is named after the late Lackawanna HS/Canisius College Basketball player Jeff Taggart, who passed away after collapsing during a game about 35 years ago.
To bring it back to Cheektowaga, its Cleveland Hill and Pine Hill communities is likely where most of the changes are taking place due to being on the western portion of the town.
Ok...That makes sense, as the steel industry played a big part in the immigration/migration to the area.
It is very possible given that the city council rep for that area of town is a Yemani woman(the previous rep was black): https://lackawannany.gov/city-council/
Another tip off to that area of town is Taggart Park, which is named after the late Lackawanna HS/Canisius College Basketball player Jeff Taggart, who passed away after collapsing during a game about 35 years ago.
To bring it back to Cheektowaga, its Cleveland Hill and Pine Hill communities is likely where most of the changes are taking place due to being on the western portion of the town.
Re: Cheektowaga, I think that's mostly correct. I remember seeing that the Century Drive neighborhood near the border of Buffalo, Cheektowaga, and Amherst (and near the intersection of Eggert Road and Kensington Avenue) was majority black. I always thought/assumed that Eggert formed the border between Buffalo and Cheektowaga (when considering the portion of the road that is south of Amherst), but when I'd go through that Century Drive neighborhood in 2021, I'd see a couple Byron Brown signs east of Eggert in what I assumed would be Cheektowaga. So I'm not sure if the border perfectly conforms with Eggert. In any event, it's at least nearby, and I must've been looking at individual Census tract demographic information when I saw that that neighborhood was majority black. I'd also volunteer the western portion of French Road in South Cheektowaga (near the West Seneca border) as having a black population of some size, clustered mostly in the Idylwood and Garden Village apartment complexes.
The Lackawanna Census data is complicated/obscured by the fact that 'Yemeni Arabs' are apparently classified as white for the purposes of the Census. So my first instinct in viewing the pages you linked was to look for relatively high 'Asian' population totals, but instead I found zeroes across the board.
^I believe that census block is in the Cheektowaga Central SD, which is probably one of the most diverse suburban school districts in Upstate NY, if not within the state as a whole.
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