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White Brothers Livery Collapse

In the 1800's The White Bros Livery stables at 428 Jersey street served as the boarding facilities for the horse drawn carriages of Buffalos upper crust. Today the crust of the historic west side landmark is crumbling and a bucolic pocket neighborhood is fighting to save it from a neglectful property owner and a city ordered demolition. Will they succeed in its salvation or will the landmark structure become yet another part of Buffalo's forgotten past?



Reader Comments


StreetWise
22 Jun 2008, 11:20
There is no demand for a stable for Buffalo's upper crust to keep their hoarses. This is a total joke. If the upper crust want a stable, they should pay for it with their fat cat bank accounts. Why stick the poor tax paying stiff with the bill for the upper crust. Tear that baby down and build affordable housing for the poor. Stop putting shrines to the memory of a few dead rich tyrants before the needs of living people in the city. Just because people are poor doesn't mean they should be pushed aside to glorify a building that only served the needs of the rich people who exploited their grandparents. Tear that baby down, film it, and send the movie to the rich worshipers who are blocking progress to distort history.

GreyPoupon
22 Jun 2008, 11:48
This is perhaps the most necessary project in 100 years. Preserve the stable by all means. We must make future generations aware of how the wealthy got about town in the heyday of Buffalo.

The only thing I regret is that public money was not used 100 years ago to create a foundation or endowment for this worthy enterprise. We should learn from history. The county should put a tax on all car owners and public transport users to finance a preservation fund for Northtown Lexus. We should ensure that the common people two hundred years from now can visit the Lexus showroom and learn about how the upper crust of our time service their cars. We can even have money set asside to hire dramatic actors to sit in the lounge and drink hot cocco and surf the web on their period specific blackberries.

Capital idea old bean. Let us tax the common man to glorify our wealth in perpetuity. What better way to honor past and future robber barrons.

EugeneDebbs
22 Jun 2008, 11:55
The idea of using historic preservation funds to pereseve the stable of the upper crust is utterly fantastic. Let's just make sure it is historically accurate. Throughout the building there should be photos of all the child labor used to work in the stable and all the injuries that blacksmiths and stable workers incurred on the job without any medical benefits or disability insurance. We might even compare the sparce wages they received to the cost of maintaining an upper crust horse. In fact each stable should display a photo of the tenement house a stable worker lived in for 50%-80% of his wage and the 12 hour factory jobs his wife and children took to make ends meet so the upper crust could lodge their horses. The front of the propery could be used to exhibit the cardboard boxes the homeless will be forced to live in, since the money to fix up the stable will reduce funds for the emergency shelters they live in.

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