New York Railroad Archive

Kensington Avenue

Kensington Avenue was an Erie Railroad passenger station in Buffalo, NY on the Erie’s Niagara Falls Branch.

Detail of an 1898 map showing the location of the Erie Railroad’s Kensington Avenue station in Buffalo, NY. Leventhal Map Collection, Boston Public Library.

A 1917 Sanborn fire insurance map shows the station on the west side of the tracks on the north side of Kensington Avenue.

Photo of a train station.
A view of the street side of the Erie Railroad’s Kensington Avenue station in Buffalo, NY. facebook.com.

The former right-of-way of the Erie Railroad and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad between Kensington Avenue and Delevan Avenue is now the William L. Gaiter Parkway. It built in the 1990s as the Northeast Parkway and was later named to recognize civil rights leader William L. Gaiter.

Cover: An early 1900s photo of the Erie Railroad station on Kensington Avenue in Buffalo, NY. Steamtown National Historic Site Archives, found on rootsweb.com.