Elmwood Strip is a Buffalo neighborhood and commercial district along Elmwood Avenue from Forest Avenue at its northern end to North Street at its southern end. The neighborhood district is bounded on the north by Delaware Park (no neighborhood district) and on the east by Deleware District, on the south by Allentown neighborhood, and on the west by West Side.

The "district includes a variety of cafes, ethnic restaurants, nightclubs and specialty shops catering to neighborhood residents and the students of nearby Buffalo State College. The blocks running off of Elmwood Avenue are lined with fine examples of residential Victorian architecture. Leaded glass windows and wooden "tracery" embellish these older single and multiple family houses. ¹