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Community Assets



Hamlin Park counts among its assets a restored mansion style house located at 15 Eastwood Place (a former church rectory), a 150-year-old stone farm house at 60 Hedley Place, the oldest and largest extant building in the community (currently under restoration), an elaborate Second Empire-Queen Anne house at 183 Northland Avenue (former home of Luke Easter, Buffalo's first African American professional baseball player), two small parks, two elementary schools, a YMCA, a Boys' and Girls' Club, two colleges in or near the community, a branch of the Public Library (the repository for Black history),  five large churches and numerous others, three nearby banks, and various business places, including a nearby supermarket,  the Em Tea Coffee Cup Café  and the Humboldt Inn (both, popular meeting places).