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GRAIN Buffalo’s Elevator Alley has become a 21st century playground B Y B R I A N H AY D E N
OWERING GRAIN SILOS FORM THE BACKDROP OF NEARLY EVERY EXPERIENCE ON
Buffalo’s waterfront, from strolling Canalside’s boardwalk to biking the lakeside trails along the Outer Harbor. Buffalo has one of the world’s largest collections of silos, a throwback to its industrial heyday when Great Lakes freighters off-loaded and stored millions of bushels of grain in them.
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