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Broadway Auditorium with Chris Hawley- Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 – 11:00 am – noon

This event is organized through FaceBook. Click here for details. Not on FaceBook? email info@visionNiagara.org for info.

Can you name one building where Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene V. Debs, Woodrow Wilson, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Samuel Gompers, Jimmy Slattery, Joe Louis, and Jay Silverheels have all appeared before a Buffalo public? A little known civic landmark on Broadway takes the title.

In lieu of an actual walking tour planned for the annual Jane’s Walk celebration, Chris Hawley will deliver a Zoom presentation on the history of the Broadway Auditorium.

Jane’s Walk is a series of walking tours given internationally in the first weekend of May to honor the birthday of urbanist Jane Jacobs. Begun in 2007, Jane’s Walk is a community-based approach to city building that uses volunteer-led walking tours to make space for people to observe, reflect, share, question, and re-imagine the places in which they live, work, and play.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Jane’s Walk will be different this year, with many participants finding alternative means to share their place-based knowledge with others. To keep the tradition going in Buffalo, Chris Hawley is offering two virtual Jane’s Walks on Zoom.