Some people spend endless hours of their own time trying to save the Buffalo Central Terminal from crumbling into obscurity. Just what is it about that building?
By ANDREW Z. GALARNEAU
NEWS STAFF
9/24/2006
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| Photos by Bill Wippert/Buffalo News One dream use for the Central Terminal is luxury apartments, but today the Terminal’s non-profit board is focused on basic needs, like indoor plumbing |
These little town blues
Are melting away …
Sinatra’s pure velvet soared beneath the vaulted ceilings of the Buffalo Central Terminal’s main concourse. The fallen plaster, shattered glass and pigeon droppings had been replaced by tables clad in white linen and twinkling lights.
There, in her chapel of choice, Kristen Smith Armstrong danced with her father on her wedding day: July 1, 2006.
I’ll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
In a building abandoned to decay 27 years ago, in a city notoriously allergic to hope, the scene verged on the surreal. The choice, said Kristen’s husband Anthony, was a gesture of hope for what they want to see in their lives together.
“They say Buffalo has good bones,” said Armstrong, who returned to Buffalo with his future wife in 2004, intending to be part of its rebirth. “You could say those same words about the Terminal, too.”
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