City seeks funding for Hostel Buffalo-Niagara

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Common Council Member Mitch Nowakowski and the City of Buffalo are looking to obtain millions in state funding to help rehabilitate a building that once served as a hostel in the Theatre District.The announcement comes eight months after the City of Buffalo shut down the building. In April, the city cut power to the hostel, ordering it to cease all operations due to unsafe conditions.The city claimed an inspector and National Grid walkthrough of the building revealed ther