BUFFALO, N.Y. — The big question is will Sean Ryan announce this weekend that he is running for mayor of the City of Buffalo?
2 On Your Side's Claudine Ewing caught up with him at an event where he was announcing millions of state funding coming to help rental properties.
When asked about his Saturday announcement, Ryan said, "It's a surprise."
2 On Your Side also asked if the city needs to move forward. Ryan said, "The city does need to move forward, but looking at things in a different way. So we've had 20 years of the same leadership, sort of the same way to look at solving, but this gives us a new opportunity to look at our problems through a fresh lens with a fresh set of eyes."
Ryan is focusing a lot on neighborhoods in the city, even though he is a New York State senator.
"If you go around the city, Seneca-Babcock will tell you our neighborhoods are are suffering. Lovejoy says our neighborhoods are are suffering. Cold Springs says neighborhoods suffering. Black Rock, Riverside, they all say the same thing because there hasn't been a plan that helps lift up the neighborhoods in 20 years," Ryan said Friday at the event.
"So we need really need to look at our neighborhoods because, you know, after all, what's the city all about? We call ourselves the City of Good Neighbors, but we want to be the City of Good Neighborhoods."