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Batavia moves up to #2 in micropolitan rankings

By Howard B. Owens
Mar 7, 2018, 2:46pm

Press release:

While Batavia and Genesee County have long been recognized as one of the top micropolitan regions in the United States, the area received its highest ranking ever as it climbed all the way to number 2 among 575 micropolitans across the country. The annual rankings are compiled by

Before Urban Renewal: My Downtown Batavia favorites

By David Reilly
Nov 26, 2023, 3:11pm

Since 2018 I have been writing nostalgic stories for The Batavian about growing up in Batavia, New York, in the 1950s and 1960s. In some of those stories, I made mention of some of the businesses that were located in what we always called “Downtown.”

Due to “urban renewal”