What’s it like in Buffalo, NY?
Buffalo, NY is located in Western New York, approximately 6 driving hours from New York City, 2 hours from Toronto, Canada, and 3 hours from Cleveland, OH. USA Today named Buffalo the winner of its 2001 “City with a Heart” contest, based on a reader poll in which dozens of Buffalonians wrote in with anecdotes illustrating why their hometown was the nation’s “friendliest city.” (2/12/01) Long-time residents of the town that has been known since the early 20th century as “the City of Good Neighbors” were proud and gratified-but not surprised. As reported in Money magazine, an annual study conducted by the Morgan Quitno Press research company has named the Town of Amherst (home of UB’s North Campus) the “safest city in America” three times in the past four years. The Buffalo/Niagara region lies directly in the middle of the Northeastern Trade Corridor running from Chicago to Boston, and is within comfortable driving distance of Toronto, Ontario. Buffalo is also a border city, located minu
