Sections of Silo City began to be sold off for redevelopment and 2021 marked the end of my workshop. With over 2,500,000 square feet once filled the noise of machines and men, there is a ghostly feeling of what once was. During the workshops I rarely photograph but I do make it a point to arrive a day or two early or stay later and do my own photography. Since then I have conducted one to two workshops a year at Silo City. Silo City offers: Historic Grain Elevator Tours Buffalo River History Tours A Wide Array of Arts & Cultural Programming Workshops Kayaking & Boat. Buffalo RiverWorks is the citys premier waterfront, boating, sports bar. owned by local businessman Rick Smith. Within an hour of being there I decided to return and start offering workshops, the first of which was that year. RiverWorks is downtown Buffalo, NYs premier waterfront, boating, sports bar. In June of 2011, on a trip back to Buffalo, I was invited to photograph in Silo City, twelve acres of abandoned elevators along a bend in the Buffalo River. Although I spent sixteen years photographing the grain scoopers working along the remaining working elevators, I was never allowed into them to photograph. My Against the Grain work documented the end of this process from 1989 through 2004. This area is served by the Buffalo City attendance zone. Over the next forty years, most of the grain elevators there were shut down and abandoned. Silos at Elk Street is an apartment community located in Erie County and the 14210 ZIP Code. Almost overnight, the grain trade in Buffalo changed from a major transshipment center to that of grain only being shipped there to be used locally. Since 2013, the SILO CITY READING SERIES has brought together nationally acclaimed poets and performers with Buffalo-based artists for collaborative events. Lawrence Seaway allowing larger, ocean going ships to sail up to ports on the Great Lakes, load up with grain and bypass Buffalo on their way home. In 1959 the US and Canada completed the expansion of the St. In the early 1900’s there were fourteen concrete grain elevators along the Buffalo River as more and more grain was moved through or stored in Buffalo. This allowed Buffalo to become the largest transshipment center for grain throughout the world. More than a century ago, Buffalo had 30 grain elevators, the nation’s largest grain storage capacity and shipments of wheat arrived here from the west before making their way east. The Erie Canal opened in 1825, allowing shipments of grain between ports on the Great Lakes and Buffalo, NY to be moved to New York City, the Atlantic Ocean and then the world. It is in the heart of Silo City, which is the name for 14 acres of land leftover from Buffalo’s heyday as a harbor and terminus of the Erie Canal. The Ghosts of Silo City Silo City, Buffalo, NY
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