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Buffalo's East Side Industry
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When Buffalo was incorporated as a city, the East Side represented a vast forested area and farmland that would one day be booming with industry.
By 1832, the beginnings of the major arterials of Genesee, Sycamore, Broadway, William, Clinton, and Seneca were there. These streets were laid out in 1826 and represented the seeds of the East Side's explosive growth. The development of railroads and the Buffalo Belt Line, constructed in 1883, created a semicircle pattern that outlined the East Si...