From 5000 feet (1524m) in the air the shape of Corn Hill resembles an anatomic heart, apposite to its location and history. Closer to Earth
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This neighborhood has gone by many names over the years: Athens, Thousand Acre Tract, Clyde, Brewer’s Dock, North Rochester, Lower Town, and Butterhole. The designation
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Whether fortuitous or not, the location of McCrackenville – one of the few original settlements that comprised the original City of Rochester – was directly
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I’ll turn a phrase borrowed from an Academy Award-winning film of the ’90s to describe this neighborhood: A highway runs through it. Perhaps one of
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I tend to judge communities with a short rubric: how strong is their neighborhood identity? Do I see neighbors interacting with each other? How many neighborhood gardens and other communal projects are there? PLEX checks all of these boxes.
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Immediately north of Brown Square is the noteworthy but unassuming neighborhood of Edgerton. Originally called the Jones Tract, this neighborhood used to be waterfront property,
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Work around the downtown library building exposes the subway bed below. While half of Rochester spends their days indoors, patiently sheltering in place, significant work
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