Jefferson Avenue neighbors react to Mayor Brown’s ‘farewell tour’ [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As Mayor Byron Brown makes his final rounds as a public official, community members along Jefferson Avenue are weighing in on his impact in Buffalo.

“The first 12 years I seen him, he was building, and it was going real nice, and then all of a sudden, it stopped on the East Side,” barbershop owner Leroy Love said. 

Some believe that the Brown Administration left a healthy groundwork for the next. 

“I believe that he’s left a working arrangement. A groundwork that has been done financially,” Gentre L. Garmon said.

In Mr. Love’s and Son barbershop along Jefferson Avenue, there’s conversations about the once thriving block.

“Oh, I mean vibrant. You wouldn’t have to go anywhere else. I mean, this was it,” Garmon said. 

And the role of not only a mayor, but a community to bring the avenue back to life.

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