Buffalo (NY)
In Buffalo, New Apartments Sprout Up in Vacant Warehouses
BUFFALO — Buffalo was riding a decade-long economic turnaround when a racially motivated attack by a gunman killed 10 people in May, overshadowing the progress. While the city grieved, it also had to reckon with unflattering portrayals of the East Side, the impoverished neighborhood where the massacre took place. Those harsh takes tell only part […]
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911 Dispatcher May Be Fired Over Handling of Buffalo Shooting Call
The man charged in the killings, Payton Gendron, 18, has been accused of traveling 200 miles from his home in Conklin, N.Y., specifically to kill Black people, fueled by a racist belief in so-called replacement theory. On Saturday, the authorities say, he opened fire outside the supermarket, then went inside and continued to shoot shoppers […]
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Congress Is Paralyzed on Guns. Here’s Why Chris Murphy Is Still Hopeful.
WASHINGTON — It did not take long after the racist gun massacre in Buffalo for a familiar sense of resignation to set in on Capitol Hill about the chance that Congress would be able to muster the will to act on meaningful legislation to combat gun violence in America. In emotional remarks at the scene […]
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Replacement Theory, a Fringe Belief Fueled Online, Is Refashioned by G.O.P.
Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States. The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, […]
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Upstate New York Hospitals Are Overwhelmed as Covid Cases Surge
A surge in Covid cases and a shortage of health care workers is filling hospitals and nursing homes past their capacity in upstate New York, creating a growing crisis in the health care system even before the Omicron variant is known to have spread through the area, according to hospital executives from Buffalo to Albany. […]
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In Buffalo, Waiting for the Canadians
“My friends with businesses are saying there’s no Americans,” Jim Diodati, the mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario, said earlier this month about his city, which in 2019 hosted 14 million visitors, about 3.5 million of them free-spending Americans. “It’s creeping back at a snail’s pace.” At the Shaw theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where 40 percent […]
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