Daily Buffalo history
Nickel City Studio tells the stories Buffalo never stopped talking about. The storms, the places that are gone, the games, the characters. One short video a day, built from real photos and the memories of the people who were there. If you grew up here, or your family did, you are in the right place.
One email a week. The best story we told, the stories coming next, and first word on anniversary drops.
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January 28 to February 1, 2027 marks 50 years since the storm that shut down Western New York. We are building our biggest series ever for those five days, and it starts with your memories. We are collecting stories now.
From the archive
Start with the hits. Every one of these is under a minute.
Gate 4, the storage beds, the cold saws. For thousands of families, this plant was the paycheck, the whistle, and the whole rhythm of life.
New this week · told with Gate 4 memories from the men who worked it
Your Stories
The best Nickel City stories don't come from a history book, they come from the people who lived them. Send us yours, and it might become the next story that thousands of Buffalonians wake up to.
Tell it the way you remember it. Short is fine. Details are gold: the street, the sound, who was with you.
Share your storyWe read every story, and we check in before anything with your name on it is posted.
Our first piece of merch exists because a fan asked for one. A premium heavyweight pullover with the cream bison on the chest, built for Buffalo winters and for everyone who still calls this place home, wherever they live now.
$45 · Sizes S to 3XL · Made to order
Every email subscriber is automatically entered in the Nickel City Studio merch drawing, our way of saying thanks for helping keep Buffalo's stories alive. Winners are drawn monthly from the subscriber list.
For Local Businesses
3.3 million views from an audience that grew up here and still lives here. Sponsorships for the Blizzard of '77 50th series open this winter.
Your business named across the full Blizzard of '77 50th anniversary series, the biggest local-history moment of the decade.
Sponsor one story in the series. Your business appears in our story and gets recognized in our email, where our audience will see it.
Put your business in our lineup, and we share its story to millions of views across Western New York.
One honest note: we report the real numbers every time, and we never promise view counts. Buffalo can smell a sales pitch, and so can we. We keep our mission where it belongs, on the memories that made us.
About
Nickel City Studio is a faceless channel with a very local heart. No studio, no on-camera host. Just a small local team digging through archives, old photos, and the memories of Western New Yorkers, then cutting what we find into one 45-second story a day.
The channel is free, it runs every day, and it is built on your stories as much as ours. When a video makes you remember something, that memory is the next episode waiting to happen.
