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East Aurora is a village in Erie County, New York, United States, southeast of Buffalo. It lies in the eastern half of the town of Aurora. The village population was 5,998 per the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. In 2015, East Aurora was rated the third-best town to raise a family in New York State by ...
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo.
Joseph Harold Baum (August 17, 1920 – October 5, 1998) was an American restaurateur and innovator responsible for creating the country's first themed restaurants, including The Four Seasons Restaurant, Windows on the World, and the restored Rainbow Room. He was the first restaurateur to bring contemporary architects, artists and designers ...
A trial commenced Thursday for the 22-year-old son of a Honolulu police sergeant accused of murdering an 18-year-old man who tried to stop a robbery on Tantalus in 2022.
Aurora is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 13,782 at the 2010 census. [ 1 ] It is one of the " Southtowns " of Erie County and is also erroneously called "East Aurora", the name of its principal village.
A Pythagorean Cup (also known as a Pythagoras Cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice, Anti Greedy Goblet or Tantalus Cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.
George and Gladys Scheidemantel House is a historic home located at East Aurora in Erie County, New York. It is a locally distinctive example of the Arts and Crafts movement style of architecture built in 1910. It is a two-story, frame, bungalow that combines elements of the American Foursquare and Craftsman styles. George Scheidemantel was for ...
Ratner's was founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and his brother-in-law Alex Ratner, who supposedly flipped a coin to decide whose name would be on the sign. [1] Ratner sold his share in the restaurant to Harmatz in 1918, and it remained in the Harmatz family from then on.