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[PHOTOGRAPHY] Aside from being names as indistinguishable from Buffalo as the Bills, what do Pierce Arrow, Ford, F.N. Burt, Larkin, Curtiss, American Radiator, Trico, and Rich Products have in common? The Belt Line. After Joseph Ellicott’s 1802 radial design and Frederick Law Olmsted’s parkway system, there might not be a system more integral to Buffalo’s infrastructure than its 1883 Belt Line rail corridor. Forming a 15-mile loop around the city, the Belt Line connected Buffalo neighborhoods to the national economy. For a few generations during Buffalo’s first big boom, the most prestigious address for industry was along the line, and what’s left of the architecture that dotted its path bears this out. On Friday, January 1, the Belt Line and its adherent buildings will be the subject of five local photographers—Brendan Bannon, Max Collins, Molly Jarboe, Christina Laing, and David Torke—for a show at Sugar City seeking to draw creative approaches to redevelopment along its route where some 12 million square feet of largely vacant or underutilized industrial space waits in limbo. The show will also feature 100 pictures pulled from Instagram tagged with #BuffaloBeltLine, and organizers have extended that deadline to December 27th so there’s still time to get your pics in. 

 

Niagara Machine & Tool Works. #buffalobeltline

A photo posted by Chris Hawley (@kahawa) on Dec 11, 2015 at 8:50am PST