Buffalo was at one time known as the City of Light. One group is hoping a South Buffalo neighborhood will help reclaim the title this holiday season. YNN’s Jennifer Bernstein followed around Buffalo's B Team, as they put up lights and decorated with the Seneca Babcock Community.

BUFFALO, NY -- A curious onlooker watched as lights and holiday decorations were strung from this business and apartment on Seneca Street. This group of young Buffalo leaders, known as the B Team, and neighbors in the Seneca Babcock neighborhood worked together to make this building and street, light up for the holiday season.

"I think it's wonderful they are bringing something back to the Seneca Babcock community, and something back to the city of Buffalo," said Seneca Street Resident Matthew Zwetsch.

"In 1901, people came from all over the world to Buffalo for the Pan-American Exposition. With that being said we are trying to reclaim the title as the City of Light that we were dubbed at that event," said B Team Chairman Joe Malczewski.

It's the second year the B Team held its city of light project. Last year the group decorated a neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo.

"The Seneca Babcock community is one that works extremely hard year round, and this project will not only light up the neighborhood but shine light on a neighborhood that is doing great things," said Malczewski.

Back in the sixties, this neighborhood had 7,000 people, it now has 2,000. But neighbors say it's revitalizing itself.

“We’ve gotten it so we've stabilized it, and now we want to build. By lighting up Seneca Street, we are showing we are back and we are here to stay," said Art Robinson of the Seneca Babcock Community Block Club.

"Seneca Babcock isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is," said Zwetsch. It was a bright moment for a neighborhood that needs a small boost this holiday season. "We've been through it all, everyone knows each other, we've stuck together through thick and thin," said Zwetsch.