Buffalo's Chippewa Strip has always had its share of late nights and loud debates — but Tuesday's city council meeting brought a different kind of tension to the room.
Fifty years is a long time to keep the doors open, especially when so many places like it across Western New York have quietly disappeared, but the Belle Center is still going.
Buffalo home prices have literally doubled in five years. That's not a typo — and for a lot of longtime residents, it's changing everything about what's possible here.