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Jay's Pizzeria's mouth-watering margherita pizza pie.

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Buffalo’s best New York-style pizza

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Oct. 6, 2019

A true New Yorker knows what good pizza is: hand tossed until it’s stretched to give perfectly wide slices, foldable yet crispy crust, zesty tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese thicc enough to make your girlfriend jealous. Buffalo may be in New York State, but the pizza often doesn’t live up to the city’s standards. We compiled a list of Buffalo’s pizzerias that come closest to offering true New York-style pizza.

Mohawk Place, located on Mohawk Street, will feature local bands, such as Stress Dolls, The Naturalists and One Way Terror, on Oct. 29.

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Buffalo Halloween events for the above-average scare

By CARLOS LEYTE AND ANDREW SAFE | Oct. 20, 2016

Halloween in college is far different from the celebration at home, especially the party scene. Trick-or-treating and quiet backyard parties are replaced with big music events and club specials throughout Halloween weekend.

Buffalo RiverWorks, located at 359 Ganson Street, will offer people in Buffalo outdoor curling and ice hockey when it officially opens to the public February 2015. 
Andy Koniuch, The Spectrum

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Reviving the Buffalo waterfront with Buffalo RiverWorks

By ANDY KONIUCH | Dec. 5, 2014

Buffalo RiverWorks, located at 359 Ganson Street, will offer people in Buffalo outdoor curling and ice hockey when it officially opens to the public February 2015.

UB remained open on Nov. 18 after a snowstorm hit several Buffalo areas. It left many UB commuter students in Lancaster, Orchard Park and West Seneca unable to drive to school with unplowed roads and buried cars. Sara DiNatale, The Spectrum

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UB forgoes holding snow day during Tuesday's lake effect storm

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 18, 2014

UB remained open on Nov. 18 after a snowstorm hit several Buffalo areas. It left many UB commuter students in Lancaster, Orchard Park and West Seneca unable to drive to school with unplowed roads and buried cars.

Laura Mannara (far left), president of
College Democrats, went with other members
in her club (Sean Kaczmarek, Melissa Kathan, 
and Carly Gottorff) to watch the gubernatorial
debate watch party for Gov. Andrew
Cuomo. Curtosy of Laura Mannara

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On-campus political groups expect low student voter turnout

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 2, 2014

Laura Mannara (far left), president of College Democrats,

UB students without cars will often use the NFTA metro system, but also
find the rail inconvenient to use. Some feel commuter passes will incentivize
students to use public transportation. Yusong Shi, The Spectrum

NEWS

Rail roadblocks

By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 7, 2014

UB students without cars will often use the NFTA metro system, but also find the rail inconvenient to use.

OPINION

Donut forget Paula's

By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 7, 2014

Spectrum File Photo

The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex. The neighborhood was worried about the prospect of being relocated if UB bought the area. The neighborhood is located immediately south of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Jackie Shi, The Spectrum

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McCarley Gardens residents 'at ease' for now in Buffalo

By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 30, 2014

The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex.

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UB community responds to media coverage of the Heights

By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 10, 2014

John Della Contrada, UB?s spokesperson, believes WIVB News 4 ?sensationalized? its coverage of student parties near South Campus on the first weekend of the semester. On Sept.

Kevin Mathias holds his first place trophy from event number one of the Western New York Poker Challenge. Mathias says he has won about $25,000 in earnings from poker. Courtesy of Kevin Mathias

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PokerStars.UB

By ANDY KONIUCH | June 28, 2014

Kevin Mathias holds his first place trophy from event number one of the Western New York Poker Challenge.

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Accidents lead to the deaths of two UB students

By AMANDA LOW and TORI ROSEMAN | June 28, 2014

Two UB students died in June in unrelated accidents. On June 2, Rajan Verma, a 28-year-old first-year UB medical resident died in an accident at the Tralf Music Hall in downtown Buffalo.

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Center of Material Informatics seeks to reinvent the 'Rust Belt'

By MADELAINE BRITT | Apr. 1, 2014

The Center for Material Informatics (CMI) is doing what it can to revitalize the City of Buffalo. Founded two years ago, CMI is a catalyst for regional growth and economic development in the Buffalo-Niagara region, spurring progress in manufacturing technology. For local companies, the center is a resource for research and development, faculty and student expertise and modern facilities that allow for businesses to expand and reinvent their products in the area of materials informatics.

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One Region Forward creates new Citizen Planning School

By AMANDA LOW | Mar. 25, 2014

People from all over Erie and Niagara Counties will have the opportunity to champion an idea for community change. UB's Regional Institute (UBRI), a subset of UB's School of Architecture and Planning, is offering a new program to teach Buffalo residents how to create sustainable developments in the two-county region.

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LPCiminelli to construct first phase of downtown medical campus

By GISELLE LAM | Mar. 11, 2014

The SUNY Construction Fund has chosen LPCiminelli, a Buffalo commercial construction company, to build the first part of UB's new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo. The SUNY Construction Fund awarded LPCiminelli a contract worth approximately $52.05 million.

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I DO Love Buffalo

By ANDREA SAADAN | Feb. 11, 2014

On Monday, gay rights in the United States reached another milestone with the government expanding recognition of same-sex marriages in federal legal matters. On March 13, Buffalo will also hit a marriage-equality milestone. 'I DO Love Buffalo,' a new organization, will host its business premiere and first event expo geared toward, but not limited to, the

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Buffalo news briefs

Feb. 9, 2014

Shooting by South Campus On Saturday around 11 p.m., a person was injured in a shooting in the University Plaza on Main Street by South Campus.

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Food Lab takes steps toward a healthier Buffalo

By MADELAINE BRITT | Feb. 2, 2014

It's easy to miss the Hayes A. Annex building on South Campus. The small aluminum-sided warehouse, nestled in between Diefendorf Hall and the Health Sciences Library, resembles more of a temporary construction site than a research lab with a nationally award-winning staff. Yet according to the staff of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, or the "Food Lab," the research being conducted in the facility is anything but quaint.

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UB expands health care options for students

By SAM FERNANDO | Feb. 2, 2014

On Thursday, UB announced a new connection with MASH Urgent Care service for students seeking treatment after hours. The new collaboration is available to students immediately.

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UB Safe Day offers precautionary advice for students on and off campus

By SHARON KAHN | Oct. 10, 2013

Hongzheng Han was walking back to his Goodyear dorm from the Health Sciences Library on South Campus when he felt a gun pointed at his head. In shock and fear, Han looked around to see if there was help nearby. A car noticed Han and his attacker and pulled over to help.

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Getting dirty for a cause that's worthy

By SHARON KAHN | Sep. 12, 2013

Madison Darling, a junior health and human services major, was covered in mud from head to toe and she loved every second of it. Approximately 10,000 females covered in pink and brown climbed, crawled and challenged themselves to complete the Dirty Girl Mud Run in support of cancer awareness in Buffalo suburb Lancaster on Saturday and Sunday. The participants organized in teams to take on various woman-themed obstacles at the non-competitive 5K race.