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The Fruit Belt (Medical Park) is a residential neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. It is located adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Geography

The Fruit Belt is located within the East Side of Buffalo. The neighborhood is centered along High Street running West-East and Jefferson Avenue running North-South. It is enclosed along its eastern boundary by the Kensington Expressway and Michigan Avenue as its Western Boundary, separating the Fruit Belt from the Medical Campus.

History/Culture

The Fruit Belt gets its name from the earliest settlers who planted orchards of fruit trees. Years later, the residents named the streets there after the types of fruits that were dominant in the area in which the streets were made. Tenant and homeowners in the neighborhood have become increasingly active as pressures to gentrify the neighborhood have increased. A recent example of resident mobilization to resist gentrification and the displacement of low-income, minority residents in the Fruit Belt was described by Silverman et al. (2014).

Notable sites

  • Futures Academy

Education

Marva J. Daniel Futures Preparatory School (formerly Futures Academy) is located in the Fruit Belt.

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