Lackawanna, New York For other places with this name, see Lackawanna .
Lackawanna, New York Lackawanna's City Hall Lackawanna's City Hall Location of Lackawanna in Erie County and New York Location of Lackawanna in Erie County and New York Lackawanna is positioned in New York Lackawanna - Lackawanna Location of Lackawanna in Erie County and New York State New York Lackawanna is a town/city in Erie County, New York, United States just south of the town/city of Buffalo in the part of New York state.
The populace was 18,141 at the 2010 census. The name derives from the Lackawanna Steel Company. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls urbane area.
The town/city of Lackawanna is in the county's southwestern part and is part of the Southtowns.
7 Notable citizens from Lackawanna The town/city of Lackawanna has a mayor-council form of government.
The region now known as Lackawanna was then called West Seneca or Limestone Hill.
Lackawanna was a center of steel manufacture throughout most of the 20th century.
In 1899 all the territory along the West Seneca shore of Lake Erie was purchased by the Lackawanna Steel Company, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania since its founding.
Construction was started in 1900 and the Lackawanna Steel Company relocated to the region in 1902.
Later, in 1909, the inhabitants of the region voted to split off from West Seneca, forming the town/city of Lackawanna. In 1922 the Lackawanna Steel Company was acquired by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
With the 20th-century expansion of the Bethlehem Steel plant, at one time the biggest in the world, came the continued expansion of the town/city and its establishments.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, originally the Lackawanna and Western Railroad, directed from 1851 to 1960.
In 1960 it was merged with the Erie Railroad to turn into the Erie Lackawanna Railway.
The town/city of Lackawanna was the defendant in the 1971 precinct court decision Kennedy-Park Homes Association v.
City of Lackawanna.
This decision forbade the municipal government (Lackawanna) from interfering with the assembly of a low-income housing evolution in a dominantly white section of the city.
The Lackawanna Six (also known as the Buffalo Six) are a group of Yemeni Americans who were convicted of providing "material support" to Al-Qaeda.
A member of the Lackawanna Cell, Jaber A.
The incident of the Lackawanna Six has tarnished the city's reputation, but it is recovering. In July 2009, it was reported that before to authorities sending in 130 federal and small-town members of the Western New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, there were suggestions that federal troops be used to capture the suspects. At the time, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believed that the Yemeni men should be declared enemy combatants and could have been tried by a military tribunal.
The town/city of Lackawanna is home to fourteen Protestant churches, the Masjid Alhuda Guidance Mosque (the biggest mosque in the Buffalo area), ten Roman Catholic churches, including Our Lady of Victory Basilica (OLV); and Saint Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church.
Our Lady of Victory Basilica, positioned in Lackawanna, is a National Shrine.
He also supervised assembly of an infants' home in 1907, a maternity home in 1915, Our Lady of Victory Hospital in 1919, and the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in 1926.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.6 square miles (17.1 km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.75%, is water. Lackawanna sits on Lake Erie, although the waterfront is occupied by the remnants of the Bethlehem Steel facility.
Smokes Creek (named after Seneca Indian Chief Sayenqueraghta who was nicknamed "Old Smoke") runs through the town/city before it discharges into Lake Erie.
I-90.svg NYS Thruway Sign.svg Interstate 90 (New York State Thruway), runs through the extreme southeast corner of the city.
Route 62 (South Park Ave.), North-South roadway that runs through the town/city from Buffalo into Blasdell and Hamburg.
NY-5.svg New York State Route 5 (Fuhrmann Blvd., Hamburg Tprk.), North-South (signed east-west) roadway through the town/city that runs from Hamburg to Buffalo.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.5% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Children in Lackawanna attend school in the Lackawanna City School District.
In a shared building, Grades 6 through 8 are in the Lackawanna Middle School section and Grades 9 through 12 are in Lackawanna High School section. Lackawanna Senior High School was famous in the 1960s and early 70s because of its dominant football squads (quarterbacked by Ron Jaworski for some of those years). Our Lady of Victory Elementary School, a private school affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, offers education from Kindergarten through Grade 8. The Global Concepts Charter School, a charter school in the New York State system, offers education from Kindergarten through Grade 10. Father Nelson Baker, Roman Catholic priest responsible for building the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory.
Raymond Castilloux, racing cyclist, winner of first place classification at New York Central Park representing US cycling team at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics Gallagher, former New York State Senator Ron Jaworski, ESPN broadcaster and former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, and Kansas City Chiefs Kozub, former Erie County legislator and City of Lackawanna Councilmember Ogarek, former Erie County Legislator and Mayor of Lackawanna Mark Poloncarz, current county executive of Erie County and a 2004 and 2008 delegate to the Democratic National Committee's National Convention Pordum, former New York State Assemblyman He set his musical Lackawanna Blues in the Lackawanna improve of 1956. Major acting part was in ABC series "Castle." His parents owned a store in Lackawanna.
Wind turbines of the Steel Winds universal at former Bethlehem Steel plant along Lake Erie Flag of New York.svg New York portal Metropolitan & Central City Population: 2000-2005.
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City of Lackawanna, New York".
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"Design - Hospital finds new life in senior housing".
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