Niagara Falls Airport Opens
The Niagara Falls Airport opens operations.
Buffalo Municipal Airport Opens
The Buffalo Municipal Airport opens on former farmland, and includes a small terminal building, one hangar, and four cinder runways.
First Electric Streetcar
The Buffalo Railway Company begins operating the area’s first permanent electric streetcars.
Public Transportation Begins
Public transportation in Buffalo begins with a horse-car line on Niagara Street.
Management Team
Margo Dawn Downey
Date Appointed: 06/20/2013
Commissioner Margo Dawn Downey was born in Kansas but spent most of her childhood in the Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas area. She graduated as valedictorian from the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, Texas. Her other educational experiences include a wide range of classes attended at several colleges in Texas and Louisiana, disability advocacy courses as well as training in the travel and hospitality industry.
Management Team
Philip G. Wilcox
Date Appointed: 06/14/2012
Committees: Vice Chair, Human Resources
Commissioner Wilcox has worked for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation for the past 23 years and acted as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 97 Business Representative for three years. In addition to serving as a Commissioner for the NFTA, Mr. Wilcox is WNY Chairman of Committee on Political Education.
Management Team
Stephen Tucker
Date Appointed: 07/23/2020
Board Committees: Chair of Human Resources
Stephen Tucker is the inaugural President & CEO of Northland Workforce Training Center (NWTC), the signature workforce strategy under former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion initiative. In this role, Mr. Tucker is responsible for the management, oversight, and day to day operations of the new 90,000 square foot state of the art facility focused on training and preparing Western New Yorkers for careers in advanced manufacturing and clean energy.
Management Team
Jennifer C. Persico
Date Appointed: 07/23/2020
Ms. Persico, a Partner with Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman, serves as the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Team Leader. She concentrates her practice in commercial litigation, including contract claims on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Ms. Persico also handles premises liability claims, corporate law, municipal law, foreclosures and real estate. She has had extensive experience in resolving complex disputes on behalf of her clients using both litigation and non-litigation methods.
Management Team
Adam W. Perry
Date Appointed: 01/29/2008
Committees: Chair, Aviation
Commissioner Perry is a partner in Hodgson Russ’s Business Litigation and Employment Litigation Practice Groups. His practice focuses on numerous areas in employment-related litigation such as employment discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and civil rights claims. He also handles other business litigation matters such as real estate, government relations, education law, municipal law, and nonprofit law.
Management Team
Dr. Wesley L. Hicks, Jr.
Date Appointed: 06/17/2013
Term Expires: 06/30/2016
Committees: Chair, Ad-Hoc Art; Vice Chair, Surface Transportation
In his professional life Wesley L. Hicks Jr., M.D. is: