The best public view of the Hydraulics, where nearly every major industrial building can be witnessed in a single, striking panorama, is from the Hamburg Street bridge looking east over Exchange Street.

From here, one can capture a view of the :
• F. N. Burt Co. (1901-1927), once the largest small box manufacturer in the world
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. warehouse (1917) and bakery (1930) complex
• New York Central rail corridor (1843)
• Larkin Power House (1902)
• Larkin L/M Warehouse (1904)
• Seneca Industrial & Warehouse Complex (1897-1913), the interconnected Larkin factory buildings containing upwards of 1.5 million square feet of affordable space, ideal for upstart urban entrepreneurs.
• Larkin Terminal Warehouse (1912), now one of Buffalo’s most successful Class A office buildings, dubbed Larkin at Exchange
• Iroquois Door Co. (1903), designed by female architect Louise Blanchard Bethune; and
• the Buffalo Lounge Co. (1901?), a loft building that is now tenanted by artists, start-up firms, and creative industries.

The Hydraulics is a small quarter, but is quite vast in terms of its scope of architectural and industrial history. Looking over Exchange Street, one can comprehend nearly all of it in a single urban montage.

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