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I was curious, but besides the village of Lewiston, what are other popular suburban/village and perhaps small city communities that offer that walkable vibe? Just to give an idea of what I'm asking, if we look at other areas, think of villages/communities like Pittsford, Skaneateles, Clinton, Delmar, Cazenovia, Brockport, etc. I was thinking of East Aurora as well, but are there others that would fit?
Hamburg and Orchard Park have reasonably intact village centers. Kenmore has a nice "Main Street" in Delaware Avenue, and the entire village is dense enough and with a traditional street grid so that you can easily walk to things. (Unfortunately, they are closing the schools in Kenmore, so kids in the village won't be able to walk to a neighborhood school anymore.) North Tonawanda has a couple of traditional commercial streets. The city of Lockport has a somewhat intact urban core. East Aurora and Williamsville as mentioned above (Williamsville's Main Street is too wide and fast to really be "walkable" but the village is trying hard to implement some traffic calming to make it a more pleasant village atmosphere).
Lewiston (unfortunately too far from the city of Buffalo for me to commute regularly), East Aurora, Williamsville, Snyder, Orchard Park are my favorites.
Walkable =/= "it" IMO. Several WNY municipalities are walkable; none of them are "it", IMO. Nothing in this region fits the description which is connoted by the usage of the highly loaded pronoun "it". Assuming you mean "it" the way I do, as in deliverer of everything one needs, commercially AND culturally...we're decidedly devoid of such a place. The good news for Erie County is, so is anywhere east of California. The US is a dead zone of Eisenhower interstates and Reaganomics-inspired strip malls and Halliburton-dictated energy usurpations and Democrat-complicit projects all of which I have named. I hate my state and I hate my country, idiocracy that it is
Walkable =/= "it" IMO. Several WNY municipalities are walkable; none of them are "it", IMO. Nothing in this region fits the description which is connoted by the usage of the highly loaded pronoun "it". Assuming you mean "it" the way I do, as in deliverer of everything one needs, commercially AND culturally...we're decidedly devoid of such a place. The good news for Erie County is, so is anywhere east of California. The US is a dead zone of Eisenhower interstates and Reaganomics-inspired strip malls and Halliburton-dictated energy usurpations and Democrat-complicit projects all of which I have named. I hate my state and I hate my country, idiocracy that it is
I probably could have phrased the title better, but I was just thinking of communities with walkability, shopping, events/festivals, etc. I guess you could add appearance to a degree as well. It seems tough to explain, but that was why I tried to give examples of such communities.
Both are very small but have identifable village centers. Both are very pleasant places.
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