More details on the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Facebook Page. Full flyer here.

We’re not just planting trees. We’re building community!

ReTree the District is a collaborative project of community partners in Buffalo’s University District working to plant 1,000 trees across the community. The project is reinvesting in our urban tree canopy, strengthening ties among neighbors, and encouraging volunteerism.  Continue reading →

An Evening with Charles Bukowski: Love, Hate and Tears

Poetry and songs performed by Valerian Ruminski

Come and spill some wine, yell out loud, laugh your butt off! An evening for misfits and misanthropes with the poetry of Charles Bukowski See the gorgeous renovated Varsity Theater! Continue reading →

Bailey Fights Blight is a collaborative project that seeks to board up and secure blighted and vacant storefronts along Bailey Avenue, while incorporating public art as a way to beautify the neighborhood and help redevelop the commercial corridor. Thanks to a grant from the Arts Service Initiative of WNY, project partners will be working with artist Nick Miller several large scale murals along Bailey Avenue. Learn how you can get involved! Continue reading →

Please join us for Financial Education Workshops sponsored by Evans Bank, with support from Canisius College and Bailey Avenue Business Association. Continue reading →

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 3:00PM-6:00PM. 3165 BAILEY AVENUE – Join the owner and President of the Bailey Avenue Business Association, Ibrahim Cissé, the University District Community Development Association, and many other community, business, and government partners as the newly renovated Varisty Theatre is opened to the public for the first time in over a decade. See the historic East Side landmark re-imagined as a one-of-a-kind music venue and event space. Continue reading →

Bailey Avenue is proud to have our first real mural. It went up today. It was conceived, designed, installed, and FULLY PAID FOR by VILLA MARIA COLLEGE and its School of Arts. Please visit the gallery Continue reading →

Caribbean Experience owner and manager receive Best Meat Prize for their Jerked Chicken at Taste of Buffalo. July 11th – July 12, 2015. 
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Buffalo Fights Blight is a test system developed in partnership between the University Heights Tool Library and the Bailey Avenue Business Association. We are using this system to help plan the Bailey Fights Blight/Future Blooms project slated for September 2014. Continue reading →

Stay on top of all that’s going on in 14215 with the Zip Code 14215 Facebook page. Continue reading →