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English: As seen on a February 2023 afternoon, the sign outside Hamlin Park School No. 74 at the northeast corner of Wohlers Avenue and Donaldson Road in the Buffalo, New York neighborhood of the same name succinctly summarizes the past two months of the city's history, offering "condolences to the victims of the blizzard" of late December of the previous year, which brought four feet of snow, hurricane-force winds, whiteout conditions, and 46 deaths in what Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described as "the worst storm in [the] community's history, surpassing the Blizzard of '77", and "thoughts of healing for [Buffalo Bills safety] Damar Hamlin", who suffered cardiac arrest during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals the following January 2. The similarity of Hamlin's name to the school and neighborhood is a coincidence; both of the latter were named after Cicero Hamlin (1819-1905), a local merchant, industrialist, landholder, and horse racing enthusiast whose Buffalo Driving Park occupied most of the land in the modern-day neighborhood from 1868 until its 1912 sale to Canadian real estate developer John J. Cook.