Another is the charge that the News is relying too heavily on New York Times obituaries ... the deceased had no connection to Buffalo. In fact, most were complete strangers to a vast majority ...

“I decided to try to capture that culture,” he told the New York Times in 2021 ... Born Irwin Edmund Glaser in Buffalo, he was the younger of two sons of Benjamin and Edna Prince Glaser ...

Friends remember the South Buffalo native as a devoted family man and a talented athlete who was a star pitcher at Bishop Timon High School. He was a member of the Western New York baseball and ...