🏛️🇵🇱 Chicago gets all the attention when it comes to Polish America — but there is a city on Lake Erie with a claim that most people have never heard, and it will stop you in your tracks. With the founding of St. Stanislaus Parish in 1873, Buffalo's East Side became the second largest Polish-American colony in the world outside of Poland itself — not second in the United States, second in the entire world. #BuffaloPolonia #PolishAmerican #BuffaloNewYork #PolishHeritage #Polonia Buffalo Polonia Polish American, Buffalo New York Polish community history, second largest Polish community world, Polish Americans Buffalo East Side