BUFFALO, N.Y. — To the man who walks head down, eyes to the ground, the city is a mess of sewer caps and gutters. The world he observes is one of concrete, of pavement cracked by time and weather. To the man who looks up at the sky, gaze titled toward the heavens, the city [...]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Clouds of white, fruit-flavored smoke hang in the air of a cool spring night, further obscuring the faces of revelers sharing a hookah on John Crandall’s unlit porch. They are friends and strangers, these eclectic souls who have convened here on this Wednesday in May. Crandall, 31, a flight attendant with a [...]