Amherst Street (Metro Rail)
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Amherst Street Station is a Metro Rail underground station located on Main Street at Amherst Street, in the City of Buffalo.
Amherst Street station is served by:
Out of the seventy proposals submitted, twenty-two were chosen and are currently positioned inside and outside of the eight underground stations.
Amherst Station is home of three pieces of work, from Aleksandra Kasuba (New York City), Ray Hassard (Buffalo) and Robert Lobe (New York City).
Bus connections
Located on a triangular tract of land bounded by Main Street, Amherst Street, and Parker Avenue, this station does not offer a bus loop for passengers to transfer to and from buses. When the station opened, bus routes were modified to stop on one of the three sides of the station. Route 32 buses heading to Niagara Street are the only buses that do not board at a curb on the same side as the station.Amherst Street station is served by:
- 8 Main
- 23 Fillmore-Hertel
- 32 Amherst
Points of interest
Amherst Street station is near:- All-High StadiumAll-High StadiumAll-High Stadium is a football stadium in Buffalo, New York. It was opened in 1926 and was refurbished for the fall of 2006. It is part of the Bennett High School complex...
- Bennett High SchoolBennett High School, New YorkBennett High School, Public School 200, is located in the University Heights section of Buffalo, New York. The principal is Dr. David Mauricio. It is named for Lewis J. Bennett, who donated the land for the school and for All High Stadium. Portions of the movie The Natural were filmed in All High...
- Bethune Hall (University at Buffalo)
- Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (Fairfield Branch)
- Buffalo Zoological GardensBuffalo ZooFounded in 1875, the Buffalo Zoo located in Buffalo, New York is the third oldest zoo in the United States. Each year, the Buffalo Zoo welcomes approximately 400,000 visitors and is the second largest tourist attraction in Western New York, second only to Niagara Falls...
- Delaware Park
- Central Park Neighborhood
- Central Park Plaza
- Darwin D. Martin House ComplexDarwin D. Martin HouseThe Darwin D. Martin House Complex, also known as the Darwin Martin House State Historic Site, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built between 1903 and 1905...
(Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
) - Delaware Park Golf Course
- Tri-Main Center
Artwork
In 1979, an art selection committee was created, composed of NFTA commissioners and Buffalo area art experts, that would judge the artwork that would be displayed in and on the properties of eight stations on the Metro Rail line.Out of the seventy proposals submitted, twenty-two were chosen and are currently positioned inside and outside of the eight underground stations.
Amherst Station is home of three pieces of work, from Aleksandra Kasuba (New York City), Ray Hassard (Buffalo) and Robert Lobe (New York City).