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Elmwood Village is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.^[1]

Geography

Elmwood Village is in the central part of Buffalo. The neighborhood is located along Elmwood Avenue. The neighborhood is bordered on the south by the Allentown neighborhood. The northern boundary of the neighborhood abuts Buffalo State College and Delaware Park just beyond the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Its eastern boundary is Delaware Avenue (NY 384). The western boundary is Richmond Avenue, to the west is the West Side neighborhood.

Demographics

Arts and culture

Historic Sites

There are 11 sites in Elmwood Village listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Parks and recreation

Bidwell Parkway, a component of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) and Calvert Vaux's original parkway system, was once one of Buffalo's most prestigious addresses. It is a residential boulevard 200 feet wide, running northeast diagonally between Colonial Circle and Soldiers Circle. It is named for Daniel Davidson Bidwell, heir to Buffalo Banta and Bidwell Shipbuilding Co, who was also active in Buffalo's pre-civil-war militia and instrumental in organizing the city's first Police force.^[3] Bidwell Parkway is the location of the Elmwood/Bidwell Farmers Market, a producers-only market that runs every Saturday from mid-May to the end of November from 8 am to 1 pm.^[4] The Bidwell Parkway is also the location of the Annual Elmwood/Bidwell Free Summer Concert Series.

St. Catherine's Court (1922), off of Cleveland Avenue, has been identified as one of the first modern cul-de-sacs in America.^[5]

References

External links

• The Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts Archived 2019-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Olmsted's Elmwood The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, A Model for America's Cities, by Clinton E. Brown, City of Light Publishing, 2023.