English: Looking south along Main Street from near the corner of Niagara Street in Tonawanda, New York on an April 2022 evening. There was a time when brick commercial blocks such as these could be found all throughout the city's commercial district, but this is practically the last block to feature that old-fashioned streetscape. In the middle 20th century, much of downtown Tonawanda - an arguably even greater proportion than in neighboring city of Buffalo - was razed for ill-conceived urban renewal schemes.