No suggestions but for some reason your post reminded me of a rail trip I took from Toronto to NY City. At that time, early 80's I guess, you travelled from Toronto in an old VIA Budd rail car and then changed to AMTRAK in Buffalo.
Usually trains don't go through the best areas of a town but still, I found what I saw of Buffalo's housing to be rather depressing. However, the train station was interesting. And as I recall, there was a baseball stadium close to hand. I remember being able to see it from the platform I was waiting on. (But could I have imagined that? A false memory?) I thought that was pretty damn neat.
I've read that there's some interesting architecture in the Queen city and perhaps some day I'll make a point of travelling there to see it. There's definitely some sort of attraction for me. Maybe a result of growing up in the 50's when, from a Toronto vantage, all the best tv stations seemed to be in that city.
jwm