Unknown Stories of WNY: Model City, from utopia to Love Canal
How plans for a utopian community wound up in one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history Author: Peter Gallivan Updated: 7:12 AM EDT May 4, 2021
LEWISTON, N.Y. It is a story about a man with a dream of a utopian community, a place he called Model City. Although his dream was never realized you can still find it on a map in Niagara County, but as we find in this week s Unknown Story of WNY, while his intentions may have been for a utopia, his legacy is one of devastation.