Buffalo in the 50s: The ‘new’ Connecticut Street opens with a carnival and parade

By Steve Cichon
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Repaved and widened, Connecticut Street was poised to become a center of Buffalo’s Italian neighborhood. It later hosted Buffalo’s Italian Festival in the ’70s and ’80s before that event moved to Hertel Avenue in 1988.

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives-- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.