Kensington Heights, Buffalo

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Kensington Heights is a neighborhood located in the central part of Buffalo. The neighborhood is home to institutions including Burgard Vocational High School, Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, and the Health Care Center for Children at ECMC.

In 1980, the Kensington Heights housing project was 92% minority with a vacancy rate of 65%. [1]

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    • Kraus, Neil (2000). Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997. SUNY Press. p. 180. ISBN   9780791447437. By the late 1970s, living conditions at many of the predominantly African American apartments, especially Ellicott Mall, Douglass Towers, Commodore Perry, and Kensington Heights, had become increasingly bad, which was one of the ...

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