When the Hotel Lafayette underwent its 42 million dollar renovation a decade ago, Jackie Albarella was there with her camera. She says "The first time I started taking pictures I said I can't leave here until this is done."
Dec. 28, 2020
Bradley Cooper leaves the Statler Hotel during the filming of Guillermo del Toro s Nightmare Alley. Harry Scull Jr./Buffalo News
An ice house, a bag ban, Bradley Cooper in Buffalo and other news you may have forgotten
We all know what the biggest story of the year was, and it overshadowed just about everything else in Western New York.
But 2020 cannot be remembered just for the Covid-19 pandemic. There were other things that occurred that, in a normal year, we would have had no trouble recalling.
Some of them had to do with the weather. Others affected what we do for fun, how we get from here to there or our attraction for moviemakers.