Kensington Heights, Buffalo
Kensington Heights is a neighborhood located in the central part of Buffalo. The neighborhood is home to institutions including Burgard Vocational High School, Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, and the Health Care Center for Children at ECMC.
In 1980, the Kensington Heights housing project was 92% minority with a vacancy rate of 65%.[1]
References
- ^ *Kraus, Neil (2000). Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997. SUNY Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780791447437.
By the late 1970s, living conditions at many of the predominantly African American apartments, especially Ellicott Mall, Douglass Towers, Commodore Perry, and Kensington Heights, had become increasingly bad, which was one of the ...
- Jill Babinski, Ernest Sternberg (2005). The Plaza at Kensington Heights: An Opportunity for Large-scale Retail Development in East Buffalo. Buffalo, New York: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Graduate Workshop, University at Buffalo. p. 85.