Elmwood Village, Buffalo

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Elmwood
Neighborhood
Elmwood Village
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Elmwood Avenue
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Elmwood
Coordinates: 42°54′01″N78°52′39″W / 42.9003910°N 78.8774150°W / 42.9003910; -78.8774150
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
StateFlag of New York.svg  New York
CityFlag of Buffalo, New York.svg Buffalo, New York
Elevation
196 m (643 ft)
Population
 (2010)
  Total30,774
Time zone Eastern (EST)
ZIP Code
14201, 14202, 14209, 14213, 14222
Area code 716
Website Official website

Elmwood Village is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. [1]

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Geography

Elmwood Village is in the central part of Buffalo. The neighborhood is located along Elmwood Avenue. The neighborhood is bordered on the south by the Allentown neighborhood. The northern boundary of the neighborhood abuts Buffalo State College and Delaware Park just beyond the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Its eastern boundary is Delaware Avenue (NY 384). The western boundary is Richmond Avenue, to the west is the West Side neighborhood.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2010 30,774
Sources: [2]

Arts and culture

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SPoT Coffee on Elmwood Avenue

Historic Sites

There are 11 sites in Elmwood Village listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Parks and recreation

Bidwell Parkway, a component of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) and Calvert Vaux's original parkway system, was once one of Buffalo's most prestigious addresses. It is a residential boulevard 200 feet wide, running northeast diagonally between Colonial Circle and Soldiers Circle. It is named for Daniel Davidson Bidwell, heir to Buffalo Banta and Bidwell Shipbuilding Co, who was also active in Buffalo's pre-civil-war militia and instrumental in organizing the city's first Police force. [3] Bidwell Parkway is the location of the Elmwood/Bidwell Farmers Market, a producers-only market that runs every Saturday from mid-May to the end of November from 8 am to 1 pm. [4] The Bidwell Parkway is also the location of the Annual Elmwood/Bidwell Free Summer Concert Series.

St. Catherine's Court (1922), off of Cleveland Avenue, has been identified as one of the first modern cul-de-sacs in America. [5]

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References

  1. Buffalo Neighborhoods, University at Buffalo Archived August 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  2. US Census 2010
  3. "Buffalo, NY - Bidwell Pkwy Research".
  4. "Home". elmwoodmarket.org.
  5. Van Ness, Cynthia. "Does Buffalo have the first modern American cul-de-sac?". BuffaloResearch.com. Retrieved 5 September 2023.