City & State’s office is in Manhattan, but we want to keep living up to our name, God forbid we become known as City & Downstate. And I had a great guide in City & State New York Advisory Board member and de facto upstate ambassador Jack O’Donnell. The trip will inspire some City & State stories – and maybe even a ghost story. I was tickled to stay at the Richardson Hotel, which was once the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, and has been dubbed one of America’s most haunted hotels. The chill down my spine had me running to call my chauffeur … but my chauffeur never existed.