"The scent of exhaust fumes fill the air on a mid-January afternoon. Cars, trucks and buses zip back and forth from downtown Buffalo on the Kensington Expressway, also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway.
This section of Route 33 was built in the early '60s, wiping out a tree-lined parkway designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Today, the sunken, six-lane expressway cuts straight through an African-American community.
“It was like they were building the Erie Canal that’s what it reminded you of this big elongated ditch," said 67-year-old Al Thompson, who lives nearby."
Angelica A. Morrison reports for WBFO January 15, 2018.
Source: WBFO, 01/17/2018
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