Asked for signs of neighborliness in action, Sandra Cochran leapt to mention Friends of Night People. The shelter serves 72,000 meals a year and provides eye, foot and health care for 1,600 children, women and elderly annually. MacGregor noted the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Yet it is permeated by positive feelings, she says. Talk turns to that inescapable word, and once again the Buffalonians puff with pride.
People come out of their houses, smiling and greeting one another on the street.
Our city never closes. Most people would be calling the moving vans if they spent seven hours of a snowstorm trapped in a subway station like Monica Huxley. MacGregor was among 200 who huddled in the Christmas wonderland of the tree-decorated Hyatt hotel lobby. They then kept the tree lights on and turned the hall lights off. When the cycle is repeated over and over again over the years, you end up with a City with Heart.