About Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc.

Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc. (HCN) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Community Development Corporation created to stabilize Buffalo's core communities bounded by Michigan Avenue on the east, Lake Erie on the south, the Niagara River on the west and Porter Avenue on the north, through redevelopment, neighborhood stabilization, and affordable housing development.

Working together with residents and neighborhood organizations such as West Side Neighborhood Housing Services, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Community Preservation Corporation, and financial institutions and real estate professionals to make stabilizing and creating integrated, mixed income neighborhoods where individuals and families of all incomes will have a better quality of life and take pride in their property, their street, and their community.

Heart of the City Neighborhoods

42 Plymouth Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14201
Tel: (716) 882-7661
Fax: (716) 882-7662

Staff

• Stephanie Simeon, Executive Director
  
• D. Darlie Al-Haqq, Housing Development Specialist
  

Board of Directors

• Tim Favaro, President
• Isabel Hartenberg, Vice-President
• Tysha Martin, Secretary
• Jeffery Kruszka, Treasurer

Members

• Charles Saunders
  Owner, AMTHOR Glass
• Manuel Rivera III
  Architectural Designer III, Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects, LLC
• Lorilee Green
  Private Banking Senior Specialist, HSBC Bank
• Dinah Gamin
• Kathleen Palka-Armstrong
  Paralegal, City of Buffalo Law Department
• Tim Wilkinson