13 Fun Facts About Buffalo NY
13 Fun facts about Buffalo NY that you Never Heard Of
Buffalo ny is known for many different things, like being the home of fisher price, the birthplace of the chicken wing, and having some of the largest Dyngus day and Juneteenth parades around the country. Below are 13 more Fun Facts that you probably never knew about Buffalo NY!
1. Buffalo is the second largest city in New York state.
A lot of people seem to forget how big New York State actually is, just because we are tucked in the corner does not mean we are small up here. Don't believe me, let's take a look at the map:
Buffalo is way over here to the west of the map. New York City is way, East. Now this difference is about six hours when it comes to driving and a train can be about 8-10 hours. Personally I prefer flying, you can get there in 1 hour. Lets take it a bit deeper, when you ask a true buffalonian, where they are from, we will always respond “Buffalo ''. We rarely say New York, because us and “New Yorkers” understand that these places are night and day from each other, seriously! People from New York City for some odd reason don't even claim that we live in New York. Well, we have the only football team in New York which are the Bills. The teams they love so much play in New Jersey, go figure lol.
2. Bars close at 4am
Now what we do have in common with New York City is that, when they say The city never sleeps, our bars don't close until 4:00 AM. You can decide at 12:00 AM midnight, “you know what, I wouldn't mind going out tonight” and let the drinking begin! You're going to have a whole bunch of other people that've been thinking the same thing or they just got off work as well.
3. The BEST FANS in the world
We have probably one of the best fan bases around the entire country, Probably even the world. I kid you not. The Bills Mafia are strong, loud, joyous and sometimes a bit crazy. Both Women and men, will argue to the death about the Buffalo Bills, Sabers, bandits or even a little league team that they support in their community! If The Sabers are winning or losing, they are boozing. They are outside having a good time, still jumping on tables. I mean it's crazy.
4. Massive Juneteenth and Dyngus Day celebrations
I honestly just found out about this myself, and it was amazing to me. We have two of the largest parades/ celebrations in the entire country here in buffalo ny, which is Juneteenth and Dyngus Day. Just to think, we're a mid-sized city and we're beating out all the other major cities like Houston, Atlanta, and Miami. We have the third largest Juneteenth in the entire US, and the largest Dyngus Day Celebration in the entire US. That's really crazy but if you look at our South Buffalo area, there is a HEAVY polish demographic there so it makes sense.
5. The most Millionaires per capita
At one point in time. Believe it or not, Buffalo had the most millionaires, Per capita, in the entire US. Now, that was a long, long time ago, but Delaware Avenue inside the city of Buffalo was very popular.
6. Inventions?
Guess what was invented in Buffalo? Central Air, one of the best inventions southerners could ever have dreamed of, actually began up North. Here's what's even crazier, we only use it maybe 4 months out of the year.
7. Buffalo has one of the top art scenes and cultures around the country.
We have over 50 art galleries here, including all the suburbs and rural areas. The Buffalo Art scene is pretty heavy and I cannot wait until the Buffalo Knox Art Gallery is finished with its construction; they have been working on elmwood for years! That's going to be huge!
8. NO SHORTAGE Of BEER!
We have 35+ breweries, five distilleries, and 10+ wineries right here in and around the Buffalo area. This Also includes Niagara County as well, I could tell you that the 35 breweries in itself, is absolutely astounding. There's no shortage of beer in the Buffalo area. I can assure you that.
9. A lot of Pizza
What's better than pizza? We have over 600 pizzerias around the buffalo area. There's legit a pizzeria on almost every corner. The way most cities have churches on every corner, we have Pizza lol. Our pizza pie is a lot different from my everybody else's. I can assure you we don't do that super deep dish, nor do we do that little flimsy, fold up Pizza, New York style pizza. Ours is a medium base. It's not too high, it's not too thin. It is a medium, Smack dab in the middle.
10. Canada is in our back yard
Canada is a hop, skip or a jump away. You can cross the Canadian border to Canada in 15-30 Minutes, using the rainbow international or the Peace bridge. I think that's one of the greatest parts about buffalo, especially if you're looking for someone who wants dual citizenship or you don't want to pay those Canadian housing prices, but still be able to get back and forth to work if you have to.
11. Buffalo is extremely affordable to live
Affordability in buffalo is still amongst the countries best, our cost of living ranks in the top 10 in the entire USA. We just hit an average price point of $242,500 in December 2022. So if you're looking to relocate to Buffalo, from California, Seattle, or NYC, our housing prices are super attractive to most of you.
12. Never Passes 100 Degrees
Another big one for you southerners, that's coming up here. We have never, ever, ever, ever, ever hit triple digit highs during the summer? We don't have that problem here, the highest it's ever been is 99 degrees, and that was in 1946. It's 2022 now. I don't think we're going to hit those highs anymore, but our summers are absolutely beautiful. It stays around 70 to 80 degrees, every now and again, we'll touch the nineties. We do get humidity. It's not the Florida humidity, but, when you walk outside that door and it's 85 degrees, a bead of sweat will drop from your forehead.
13. We have one of the last open container towns
In East Aurora, NY. It's about 25 minutes from the downtown metropolitan area. Plan a trip to see the art scene at Knox farm within the state park, once you're done grab a beer from Bar Bills and bar hop to the next pub. It is definitely a very walkable village, once you park on main street, you don't need your car until you're ready to go home.