"Parking spaces around Mayflower?" written by Tinypliny on estrip.org

06/11/07 11:12 - ID#39605

Parking spaces around Mayflower?

So the moving date is steadily drawing near. I am thinking of driving into Buffalo with a rental SUV (someone else will be doing the driving). We would need to park temporarily on the curbside till I unload all my stuff and take it inside Mayflower. Then we would need to park the SUV somewhere close till we take everything upstairs and lock up. How strict is curbside towing outside Mayflower on Sunday mornings? Is there somewhere near that we can park temporarily till we return the SUV?

mrmike writes at 08:23:50 06/13/07 - Comment #19581: Nah, typically they are pudgy types in pickup trucks who apply too much machismo in issue parking summons

tinypliny writes at 03:17:01 06/13/07 - Comment #19580: Who are "meter maids"? Aren't they real cops too? I am confused...

mrmike writes at 08:32:29 06/11/07 - Comment #19497: Weekends no worries, just got to watch for alternate street parking fun. With all the festivals, it sometimes has the meter maids thinking that they are real cops

drew writes at 01:11:37 06/11/07 - Comment #19470: Welcome. I'm new here, too, but I love it!

tinypliny writes at 12:59:04 06/11/07 - Comment #19468: Thanks! I was actually looking for answers to those exact issues. Moving, parking and hauling everything is somewhat stressful. Mainly because, despite trying hard not to hold on to anything, my worldly belongings have steadily grown over the past couple years. I still don't have any huge furniture, but the books and the kitchen stuff has added up to an SUV capacity bulk. Quite scary, actually. Maybe I will just resort to leaving my stuff on my curb. All the time, I walked past nice stuff lying out on the curb, I used to think who throws *that* out on the street. Now, I know exactly what are the "nice" things I am going to have to throw. *Sigh*

leetee writes at 12:45:00 06/11/07 - Comment #19465: You're very welcome. Glad you found my ramble informative. :O)

And a pre-move welcome to Buffalo! (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i are newbies here, too... only been 2 1/2 years.

tinypliny writes at 12:16:45 06/11/07 - Comment #19464: Hey, thanks very much for that very detailed reply! I really appreciate it. As they say, fore-warned is fore-armed! I am just really glad I have a great information source. Thanks ans looking forward to moving into your fabulous city. :)

leetee writes at 11:27:36 06/11/07 - Comment #19459: I don't know how strict towing is around the Mayflower, since we were always good and parked legally. I don't think i ever saw anyone towed, but i did see a few bright orange parking tickets.

I'm not sure how things are now, but 2 years ago when (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i lived at the Mayflower, we had to move in and out through the basement on the west side of the building. Down through the basement entrance, across the basement and up the east side elevators up to the 7th floor where we lived.

The landlord would not let us move in or out through the front door, despite the fact that someone else was doing it at the time.

We went in to the basement from the west side of the building where there is an illegal space by the dumpster. On Sunday, i assume there will be fewer problems parking there than there would be during the week when the dumpster might get picked up. And i think, while you are actually moving, there shouldn't be too many probs, but check with the super.

There are a few legal parking spaces at the front of the building. On weekends, along Linwood, you can park on either side of the street. We heard that parking North of Summer has more risks for break-ins, but we didn't have any problems with that in the 6 months we lived in that building.

Hope some of that helped you... or at least didn't discourage you from moving.

Good luck... and don't let moving stress you out too much!

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06/06/07 11:39 - ID#39561

It's a Mayflower!

The update on my drab life: I am done with my qualifiers. *w00t* But I don't know if I passed or am doomed to take them 6 months later. *anti-w00t*

The update on my not-so-drab life: It's the Mayflower!! That apartment on the 5th Storey was in the Mayflower as many of you guessed. It's an absolutely charming "large studio" and I think I love it. However, the lease is not very clear-cut. The present tenant has a lease which ends July 31st, but wants to get out of it early. Though, very enthusiastic, the present tenant has not got hold of the management yet - so they have not got in touch with me. I admit that its been just 3 business days (mon-tue-wed), but.... its been three business days! Hence, the anxiety...

I did a walking piligrimage of Roswell and surrounding areas on Friday and I think I have officially become rather enamoured with all the goodies on Delaware, Allen Street, the fabulous theatre district, funky Elmwood etc. You guys live in an awesome neighbourhood!! What the hell was I thinking, strolling down Ellicott when I first visited Buffalo?!!

I checked out a handful of apartments - the ones on Auburn-Delaware, Elmwood-Lexington/Utica were gorgeous but it took forever to walk to Roswell. Thoughts of a snow-laden walk in the 6 months of Buffalo winter weren't very appealing so they are off the list for now. There was a charming studio apartment in an old mansion on Summer, but the studio was too tiny (and had wild rabbits in the front yard!! yikes!!). Then, there was this apartment building on Elmwood near Summer but this was right next to Section 8 housing and *reeked* of tobacco smoke. No-one showed up to show me an apartment on Franklin, someone on Linwood cancelled on me and it was too late to check out another apartment at Richmond.

So in the end, it looks like I might be living in Mayflower after all, if this lease somehow comes through. If it doesn't, its back to the hunt again, and that would be quite a setback.

I had a MOST delicious lunch at a delighful little Italian joint on Delaware called the "Panaros". Their three-cheese-spinach-garlic pizza is just out of this world (and I was ridiculously hungry after hours of walking).

The apartment hunt hasn't officially ended yet, but I just want to thank all of you for helping me out, and orienting me to the neighbourhood. Can't have gone on the Buffalo piligrimage/hunt alone without all the estripper tips and advice I received over the past two months! Thank you!!

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05/23/07 06:54 - ID#39393

Multi-storey on Linwood/Summer corner

A nice "large" studio on the 5th Floor --> $550 (everything included) turned up on craigslist. Everything sounds perfect, except there is no picture (and no exact address). I checked on Google-Earth and there is a multistorey on Linwood near where it crosses Summer. I am assuming this is the place. I haven't got a reply back from the advertiser yet.

Since I am an out-of-towner, could I ask you all to rack your brains and jog your memories as to whether anyone has a recollection of any near and dear or far-away ones staying in this multi-storey - any Delta House experiences etc.?

I can't make it to Buffalo till the end of next week (after my comprehensive exams) and I feel that I should aggressively pursue this place, considering the snail-crawl pace my search is moving.

As usual, (and I apologize if I am becoming rather a pest) any suggestions/insights very much welcomed!!

@kookcity2000:
I need to move to Buffalo positively by June 16th (with whatever meagre amount of stuff I have). I then leave for a short vacation from 18th till 24th of June and come back to Buffalo on June 25th. I would be very interested in your place if it is less than a mile from Roswell and within my budget (<$600 including everything). Please let me know, if that sounds good.

dcoffee writes at 07:06:33 05/25/07 - Comment #18855: We live in the green rectangle, $675 big 2 bedroom that includes everything, we have really fallen in love with the place. We found it in the Artvoice online classifieds :::link::: you should get to know Artvoice anyway if your moving to Buffalo, it's the What's happening guidebook.
As for the green rectangle, Anywhere between Linwood Richmond Forrest and Virginia, is pretty good, but other commenters are right that it depends on the building and the houses around it. You have doctors, beatniks, professors, musicians, and crackheads living here, and some buildings (like the one I was in a year ago), have too many crackheads.
You should be careful of your car, if you have one, which you don't, but as a general rule, if you don't leave anything in view nobody will break your window. Especially, do not leave a CD wallet or Discman on your seat. It's not that hard to avoid.
Best of luck, you can live comfortable on little money here in Buffalo.

tinypliny writes at 11:42:26 05/24/07 - Comment #18838: @leetee: I think that's good advice. I was on the verge of giving up and sending in my deposit money and remotly signing an year-long lease. Thanks to all the input from you all, I think I will take that Check-out-the-E-strip neighbourhood walk next week, before renting. :)

tinypliny writes at 11:39:22 05/24/07 - Comment #18837: @zobar: that looks like a posh building... Thanks for the link!

tinypliny writes at 11:38:02 05/24/07 - Comment #18836: @uncutsaniflush: yes, I think it might be a mansion or a privately owned multi-unit house, mainly because there was no link-back to the BMG group that owns Mayflower apartments. Unfortunately, the owner didn't leave a phone number for prospective tenants to call, and pro realtors aren't that slack on their advertisements. The owner hasn't replied back to my email either. Oh well.

leetee writes at 11:48:08 05/23/07 - Comment #18793: Nice pics of the Mayflower, (e:Zobar). Must have been taken before Byron's oh-so-wonderful lions. The whole 6 months we were there, all we ever heard of were these great lion statues they were getting. I think they arrived within a week of us moving out.

leetee writes at 11:46:12 05/23/07 - Comment #18791: Although it would be cool to be able to rent a place here in Buffalo by "remote control", i think it wise to visit places in person. You might get stuck with a lease for a year in a place you think is crap.

And one person's crap is another person's dream come true.

zobar writes at 11:20:14 05/23/07 - Comment #18787

I'm actually not down on the West Side. When I moved back to B-lo I really wanted to move there, but it seemed that the apartments on nice streets weren't nice, and the nice apartments didn't have driveways*. Eventually my mom offered to rent me a house in Kenmore at-cost, so here I am.

Linwood and Summer are both generally nice, and that's a good neighborhood. Here's some exterior pics of the Mayflower; it's at 66 Summer. :::link:::

- Z

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Oh yeah. The West Side is really old, and a large number of houses don't have driveways. That would be ok if other parking were available.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:04:49 05/23/07 - Comment #18780: hmmm "multi-story" there is a "multi-story building on the north east corner of Linwood and Summer. It's a converted mansion. When I hear the words "multi-story" I think of elevator buildings or at least 6 floor walkups and not converted mansions

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:36:45 05/23/07 - Comment #18779: The desirable rectangle is considered safe and desirable. The problem with the West Side as (e:zobar) points out is that you have to pay attention - things can change from one end of the block to the another.

(e:leetee) and I live well outside the desirable rectangle on bird west of grant. We saw this house and fell in love with it. And for some reason, we are on a very good block.

paul writes at 09:33:53 05/23/07 - Comment #18778: I am partial to this half of elmwood ( toward linwood). I think (e:vycious) lives in the mayflower now. You should message him.

tinypliny writes at 09:17:26 05/23/07 - Comment #18775: @Zobar & uncutsaniflush:
So the desirable rectangle is not that great, huh?
I must admit it does sound like its a house-by-house basis neighbourhood from your comments; and in Mayflower's case its an apartment-by-apartment basis. Sigh. I may have to make that trip to Buffalo after all, and visit all the places still available.

uncutsaniflush writes at 08:44:55 05/23/07 - Comment #18770: I thnink you are talking about the Mayflower. my wife (e:leetee) and I lived there a couple of years ago. If memory serves, so have other (e:peeps).

When we lived there, apartments were either too hot or too cold. We had one of the cold ones.

The building itself was a bit like a dowager down on her luck. Not too shabby, but it helped to remember the glory days to appreciate her.

The location is a very good. The building was fairly well maintained. According our fellow tenants, at the time, the Mayflower had newly renovated apartments that were very nice (one of which we were renting) but there were other apartments with long term tenants that weren't as nice. We thought that the newer apartments were overpriced but we rented there anyway.

My advice to you is to find out when the apartment was renovated. Get pix if you can. The quality of the apartments varied greatly in 2005.

zobar writes at 08:38:43 05/23/07 - Comment #18767: Re "desirable rectangle:" I guess that depends on whether you like having your car broken into every week.

Re "multistory:" You really need to be careful on the West Side. There are some very crappy places in very nice neighborhoods, and there are some jaw-droppingly awesome places in very crappy neighborhoods. The West Side is spotty on a house-by-house basis, not a street-by-street basis [if that makes sense.]

- Z

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05/22/07 11:50 - ID#39383

The desirable rectangle?

jenks mentioned this rectangle in one of the comments and in one of my bouts of o.bsessive d.eadline e.scapism s.yndrome, I had fun spotting and shading the rectangle. :) The green arrow is Roswell. Nice way of getting to know the neighbourhood. m/

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05/20/07 10:02 - ID#39356

The Safety issue...

Hey everyone,

Since you are living or have lived in (and around) Elmwood/Allentown/Downtown, what do you think of safety of these areas:

Oak St & E. Huron St.
North Pearl @ Allen
Franklin @ Allen
Virginia St
Summer Street
Linwood Ave @ Barker
North Street
Elmwood @ Tracy, @ Bryant, @ Utica, @ Lexington @ Johnson Park
Jersey St @ Richmond, @ Porter
Prospect @ Georgia
Porter Ave @ Plymouth Ave
Richmond @ Bryant

I am looking to avoid projects, section-8 housing, crack houses, deaddiction centers, emergency shelters, loud bars/clubs and other not-so-great areas for a student who might be staying up late studying and might be keeping late hours at office.

Any advice/input/suggestions/tips are very much appreciated!

tinypliny writes at 11:30:35 05/24/07 - Comment #18833: Not late at all, I am still looking. :) Thanks!

ladycroft writes at 01:17:24 05/24/07 - Comment #18810: a little late in this game, but i live on bryant between elmwood and richmond. it's a nice neighborhood.

tinypliny writes at 11:06:29 05/22/07 - Comment #18700: Thanks so much jenks, ingrid, mrmike and Carolinian. This has been very helpful!! mrmike, I will check out Delaware court, thanks for the tip.. and Delta House, yikes! Carolinian, that's really good to know! I will be sure to drop you a message if I rent that place (given its still available). jenks, the boundaries you mention form a narrow long rectangle. I had fun tracking them down and shading them (posted next :))

carolinian writes at 11:48:53 05/21/07 - Comment #18671: I've lived on Richmond @ Bryant for close to a year and a half. Stuff has been mostly okay. The only thing I've seen is one time that some kids were vandalizing cars on the sides of the road, but they were caught by the police a short time after. I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I do like this area a lot, and it's beautiful in the summertime; it's a fairly nice place to live. Yeah, I have to be a little vigilant and look out my window from time to time, but you have to be a little vigilant in any sizable city that's seen better days no matter where you're living.

And if you choose to live on Richmond @ Bryant, I've got your back. :)

mrmike writes at 04:23:28 05/21/07 - Comment #18666: Delaware Court has places for 605 all inclusive

mrmike writes at 04:22:33 05/21/07 - Comment #18665: I live on Delaware near Utica and Lexington, it's fine. As are these
Virginia St
Summer Street
Linwood Ave @ Barker
North Street
Elmwood @ Tracy, @ Bryant, @ Utica, @ Lexington

You just have to watch individual landlords and the types of properties they run. Elmwood and lexington has a primo apartment building and I won't rent there because the owner runs it like Delta House. Keep your eyes peeled everywhere

jenks writes at 12:53:04 05/21/07 - Comment #18656: The boundaries that were recommended to me when I was apt hunting were to stay in a box from allen to the south, forest to the north, elmwood to the east, and richmond to the west. Sure there are areas outside of that that will be fine (particularly: extending the east border to delaware or linwood), but I also think that's a reasonable place to start looking.

ingrid writes at 12:42:42 05/21/07 - Comment #18640: I just graduated from Roswell with my Masters. My friends lived off of Allen. One lived on Virginia and the other one lived off of Park or possibly Irving and Allen. Anything from off of Allen from Virginia to about Elmwood is pretty safe I would say.
North Street is a pretty good street as long as it's near Delaware and possibly Linwood.
I used to live on Delaware and Auburn but that's like closer to Gate's circle.
I hope that this helps. :)

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05/20/07 09:49 - ID#39355

So my hunt for a flat

is going dismally. Am I asking for too much? I just want a simple 1BR/studio
-- within a mile from Roswell (so I can walk/bike)
-- within $600 inclusive of all utilities
-- with access to a laundry not more than a 10 minutes walk off
-- in a comparatively safe area where I am not likely to get shot in some crossfire or assauted or heckled or panhandled.
-- near bus/metro stops.

I am a non-smoker, non-party'er and don't have a pet or a car, and yet I am having so much trouble finding an apartment!

I scour craigslist and artvoice everyday and all I come up with is a few apartments within my price and distance range -- which are gone before I can contact the landlords.

I need some luck here and fast! I need to positively move to Buffalo on June 16th.

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04/01/07 03:17 - ID#38710

Moving to Allentown!!

Its final. I am moving to Roswell Park Cancer Center for my dissertation research and I am practically bouncing off walls. A few small road-bumps and creases need to be ironed out. Paperwork, Qualifiers, logistics etc. But aside from that, Buffalo, here I come!!

One of the earliest road-blocks is of course finding a 1BR apartment near Roswell. I am being told Allentown and Elmwood strip would be the ideal places to move into. Walking distance from Roswell and a relatively safe and happy neighbourhood.

Anyone have any suggestions/contacts that they can share with me? I am looking for a quiet place for about $400 - $550 per month (preferably with heat and water).

tinypliny writes at 11:23:22 04/07/07 - Comment #17238: @Chico & imk2

That's wonderful news! I have friends at Roswell before I even move to Buffalo! :) Thank you!

PS: Now I only need to figure out who they are. ;) *nudge*nudge*

@Chico

Thanks for the commute update. I don't have a car and narrow roads sound delightfully like home!

Thanks again for help and I will need those wishes for the qualifiers. :)

@leetee

Ah, maybe I should come down on a weekday after my qualifiers to scope out all the potential places for rent... Nifty tip, thanks!

imk2 writes at 02:20:09 04/02/07 - Comment #17049: welcome to the roswell family. you do know that we have about 5 people here who work at roswell, right?

leetee writes at 12:08:32 04/02/07 - Comment #17046: Welcome to (e:strip) and Buffalo. I wish i could help you with your hunt, but i am so conectionless it's not funny. Ok, maybe it is funny.

When my husband, (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i moved to Buffalo, we rented a very nice apartment on the corner of Linwood & Summer in the Mayflower building. Which is very close to Roswell, down the street from the infamous mansion at 24 that (e:PMT) own. They always seem to have a for rent sign out there....

chico writes at 08:58:17 04/01/07 - Comment #17032: hey, (e:tinypliny) , good luck with the apartment search! good advice from metalpeter and tiburon...artvoice and craigslist are both good sources for allentown. and your price range sounds about right, i think you'll find something decent for that. and the nice thing for you is that if you're living relatively close to work you can also walk to the metro station and take the train downtown to the arena or outbound to University Heights, etc. one thing that can be tricky in Allentown is parking, because many of the streets are narrow and driveways/garages are not always available. but with your intended commute, a car might not even be completely necessary anyway.

if i hear of anything i'll let you know!

btw several (e:peeps) work at roswell, so you'll have potential friends at work if you don't know these guyzos already.

now, go rock those qualifiers! :)

tinypliny writes at 04:45:40 04/01/07 - Comment #17030: Whew, that was quick.

@tiburon1724 & metalpeter
Thanks guys! Will check out craigslist & artvoice.

@kookcity2000
Right back at ya! ;)

tiburon1724 writes at 04:03:06 04/01/07 - Comment #17028: craigslist gave me lots of leads in my search.

kookcity2000 writes at 03:34:53 04/01/07 - Comment #17027: hey you can take my place

metalpeter writes at 03:22:48 04/01/07 - Comment #17026: I have no connections so I can't help ya there. But you might want to try going to artvoice.com they are a local weekly paper. One thing they do have is apartment listings. I wish you luck finding a place and welcome to the site.

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