Places in Upstate NY with some degree of walkability that are not in a city or village (Buffalo: neighborhoods, elementary school)
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Inner ring Northtown suburbs of Buffalo - basically anyplace south of Sheridan Drive. Subdivided between the 1890s and 1920s, slow development through the 1920s, and booming to buildout in the 1950s. Kenmore is a village, but it has more of a streetcar suburb look and feel - think Brookline, Evanston, Cleveland Heights, etc.
The Doyle and Town Park neighborhoods in Cheektowaga. Working class neighborhoods that are essentially outgrowths of the old East Side.
Some blue collar neighborhoods in West Seneca, inside the 90 loop.
Railroad suburbs of Buffalo - central Lancaster (technically a village, but not the "quaintly quaint" kind), City of Tonawanda (one of the three "Tonawandas" - not really a central city), etc.
Generally, Buffalo's suburbs tend to be denser and more walkable than suburban Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, but "walkable" is relative. Sidewalks are much more common in suburban Buffalo than the 'burbs of other Thruway cities.
What else ... maybe some pre-WWII neighborhoods in Brighton and Irondequoit, outside Rochester?
Inner ring Northtown suburbs of Buffalo - basically anyplace south of Sheridan Drive. Subdivided between the 1890s and 1920s, slow development through the 1920s, and booming to buildout in the 1950s. Kenmore is a village, but it has more of a streetcar suburb look and feel - think Brookline, Evanston, Cleveland Heights, etc.
Railroad suburbs of Buffalo - central Lancaster (technically a village, but not the "quaintly quaint" kind), City of Tonawanda (one of the three "Tonawandas" - not really a central city), etc.
Generally, Buffalo's suburbs tend to be denser and more walkable than suburban Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, but "walkable" is relative. Sidewalks are much more common in suburban Buffalo than the 'burbs of other Thruway cities.
Inner ring Northtown suburbs of Buffalo - basically anyplace south of Sheridan Drive. Subdivided between the 1890s and 1920s, slow development through the 1920s, and booming to buildout in the 1950s. Kenmore is a village, but it has more of a streetcar suburb look and feel - think Brookline, Evanston, Cleveland Heights, etc.
The Doyle and Town Park neighborhoods in Cheektowaga. Working class neighborhoods that are essentially outgrowths of the old East Side.
Some blue collar neighborhoods in West Seneca, inside the 90 loop.
Railroad suburbs of Buffalo - central Lancaster (technically a village, but not the "quaintly quaint" kind), City of Tonawanda (one of the three "Tonawandas" - not really a central city), etc.
Generally, Buffalo's suburbs tend to be denser and more walkable than suburban Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, but "walkable" is relative. Sidewalks are much more common in suburban Buffalo than the 'burbs of other Thruway cities.
What else ... maybe some pre-WWII neighborhoods in Brighton and Irondequoit, outside Rochester?
I was thinking of Brighton arounds the 12 Corners area of the town. DeWitt around East Genesee Street, essentially the Orvilton and DeWittshire neighborhoods and Delmar in the town of Bethlehem also came to mind.
I was thinking that maybe parts of the Cleveland Hill area of Cheektowaga, as well as parts of Eggertsville and Snyder in Amherst would fit as well, if I remember correctly.
Inner ring Northtown suburbs of Buffalo - basically anyplace south of Sheridan Drive. Subdivided between the 1890s and 1920s, slow development through the 1920s, and booming to buildout in the 1950s. Kenmore is a village, but it has more of a streetcar suburb look and feel - think Brookline, Evanston, Cleveland Heights, etc.
The Doyle and Town Park neighborhoods in Cheektowaga. Working class neighborhoods that are essentially outgrowths of the old East Side.
Some blue collar neighborhoods in West Seneca, inside the 90 loop.
Railroad suburbs of Buffalo - central Lancaster (technically a village, but not the "quaintly quaint" kind), City of Tonawanda (one of the three "Tonawandas" - not really a central city), etc.
Generally, Buffalo's suburbs tend to be denser and more walkable than suburban Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, but "walkable" is relative. Sidewalks are much more common in suburban Buffalo than the 'burbs of other Thruway cities.
What else ... maybe some pre-WWII neighborhoods in Brighton and Irondequoit, outside Rochester?
Agree with the description of the Northtowns. Even some of the areas north of Sheridan Drive, like around Parker Blvd/Brighton Road/St Amelia's Church are walkable.
To some extent, Gang Mills section of Town of Erwin, Steuben County. Evident attention was paid to ensuring pedestrian connectivity across the Cohocton River to adjacent Village of Painted Post in the course of the I-86/I-99 interchange project. There's even a sidewalk heading in towards Walmart.
I suppose that Mattydale, Nedrow, Lyncourt and Fairmount in the Syracuse area have sidewalks along its main commercial streets/roads and select residential streets with sidewalks as well. Endwell in the Binghamton area also comes to mind, in this regard.
Generally, Buffalo's suburbs tend to be denser and more walkable than suburban Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, but "walkable" is relative. Sidewalks are much more common in suburban Buffalo than the 'burbs of other Thruway cities.
What else ... maybe some pre-WWII neighborhoods in Brighton and Irondequoit, outside Rochester?
Are you referring to first ring suburbs? Brighton and Irondequoit in Rochester's suburbs are very dense and walkable.
McLean, a hamlet on the border of the Town of Groton and Town of Dryden in Tompkins County, has a sidewalk from the trailer park to the convenience store to the elementary school past the fire station to the post office, connecting all the services on offer here.
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