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==Elevator Alley== [[File:Elevator Alley.jpg|thumb|right|A view along Buffalo's "Elevator Alley".]] The city of Buffalo is not only the birthplace of the modern grain elevator, but also has the world's largest number of extant examples.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu/projects/gr_el/indHerConf.htm |title=Grain Elevator Conference |website=Urban Design Project |publisher=State University of New York at Buffalo |access-date=22 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032622/http://urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu/projects/gr_el/indHerConf.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> A number of the city's historic elevators are clustered along "Elevator Alley", a narrow stretch of the [[Buffalo River (New York)|Buffalo River]] immediately adjacent to the harbor. The alley runs under Ohio Street and along Childs Street in the city's First Ward neighborhood.<ref>{{cite book |title=Elevator Alley |publisher=Furnace Press |author1=Cook, Michael |author2=Papciak, Bryan |year=2010 |isbn= 9780977274260}}</ref>
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