2007 ends with yet another broken promise for Seneca Street
By: CindyK. This is the last day of 2007 and as I took a walk today, I thought back to the words of how new street lights were coming to Seneca Street six months ago. Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy made the announcement while along with City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown at a community forum of Block Club leaders in South Buffalo.
Speaking on behalf of Congressman Brian Higgins, Assemblyman Mark Schroeder and Councilman Mickey Kearns, Kennedy said this past summer that $300,000 in funding would be used to replace the old street lights, it was said we would have “something better” than the standard street lights. It was said this part was the final phase to the revitalization of Seneca Street, yet the first phase from 3 years ago hasn’t begun. Today, as we did on that warm day back in May, we have the same rusted up & Mickey Mouse wired street lights as before. These are just a few of pictures that tell the real story though. 
