The 19th Ward is like the kid who liked to party in high school but ended up getting a decent job and settling down. Its close friends knows it’s still cool, but people on the outside might still believe more in the reputation than the reality.
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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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Let me start by saying I’ve been looking forward to riding and writing about Beechwood. Here is a strong contender for my favorite neighborhood in
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Italian immigrants helped shape this neighborhood. Now it’s a diverse area which claims some of the best baked goods in Rochester.
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In the final weeks of 2011 it became clear that Rochester was going to lose a part of its history. As my luck would have it I had the opportunity to tour the old building in the hopes of saving something of the 122 year old tower.
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Beyond the pall of the Kodak Park smokestacks sits a quiet neighborhood (or two, or three) with a very suburban feel. Barnard, or Uptonville, or
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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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In relatively ancient times, when the land we now call Irondequoit, Brighton and Rochester was still Seneca hunting ground and trade routes, a man named
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Sandwitched between the Inner loop and the Public Market, South Marketview Heights neighborhood is an area of contrasts. Grand Queen Anne-style homes on long lots
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I brought my bike over to the West End Business Park and took a ride down Cairn St, to Chili Ave, and into Lincoln Park.
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