![This weekend's events include a unique worship service at Cinema Theater, a very tasty Holiday Market at Hart's, and one hilarious food drive for Foodlink. [PHOTO: M J M, Flickr]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/cinema-theater-rochester-ny.jpg)
IT’S THE WEEEEEEEKEND! Here are a few fun things to do this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as sent in to us by YOU RocSubway readers. We’ve got a unique worship service at Cinema Theater, a very tasty Holiday Market at Hart’s, and one hilarious food drive for Foodlink…
Archive: ‘Rochester News’...
To Do This Weekend
Thursday, December 18th, 2014Tags: Allens Hill Farm, Anderson Valley Brewing Company, BlackBird Cider Works, Brewery Ommegang, CanalTown Coffee Roasters, Cinema Theater, Cinema Theatre, Dollop Gourmet Frosting, East End, Equal Grounds Coffee House, event, Foodlink, Forge Hot Sauce, Happy Earth Tea, Hart's Local Grocers, Maggie's Mustard, Mendon Maple, Rochester, Rochester NY, Rohrbach Brewing Co, Schutt's Apple Mill, Seaway Trail Honey, South Wedge, Southern Tier Brewing Co, The Butter Man, The Pillar, VonBrake Spices
Posted in Events, Reader Submitted Stories, Rochester Destinations, Rochester News | 2 Comments »
New Life for Rochester’s Cunningham Carriage Factory: Before & After
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014![Carriage Factory, Rochester NY. [PHOTO PROVIDED BY: Preservation Studios]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/rochester-cunningham-carriage-factory-south-side-before.jpg)
The following is a guest post submitted by Michael Puma.
Submit your story today.
The transformation at the Carriage Factory building has been nothing short of amazing. Located at 33 Litchfield Street 
in the Susan B. Anthony neighborhood, the former factory building that was close to the landfill has been reborn as seventy-one affordable and special needs apartments. The rehabilitation of the building was a long time coming and was not without its challenges and delays…
Tags: adaptive reuse, architecture, Blanchard Dean, Carriage Factory, Christa Development, Cunningham car, Cunningham Carriage Company, Cunningham Carriage Factory, DePaul Properties, historic preservation, James Cunningham, James Karr, Preservation Studios, Rochester, Rochester apartments, Rochester NY, SWBR Architects, urban development
Posted in Reader Submitted Stories, Rochester History, Rochester Images, Rochester News, Urban Development | 6 Comments »
RocLinks: 12/13/14
Saturday, December 13th, 2014![RocLinks for 12/13/14. [PHOTO: Abrinsky and George Cheatle, Flickr]](http://rochestersubway.com/images/photos/roclinks-2014-12-13.jpg)
Ignoring how awesome today’s date is, we’re looking to start bringing RochesterSubway readers more content. And thanks to the glory of our hyperlinked internet, we can do that with other people’s content! Look for weekly Rochester links every Saturday from here on out, and if there’s ever any topic you’d like to see us hit more aggressively in these links, let us know. Also, feel free to use the comments thread of these posts as open discussion for anything in the links…
Tags: 13 month calendar, 300 Alexander Street, Christmas light display, Christmas lights, East High School, holiday lights, holiday windows, Inner Loop, Mark IV, Pittsford Westport Crossing, Rochester, Rochester NY, RocLinks, web sites
Posted in Rochester News | No Comments »
Wear to Where #2 . . . . . . Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge
Thursday, December 11th, 2014![Next in the Wear to Where series, we look to the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge. [PHOTO: Clarke Condé]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/rochester-fashion-wear-to-where-irondequoit-bay-01.jpg)
By Clarke Condé
Next in the Wear to Where series, we look to the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge. For years this span of 180 feet has been less of a unifier than a divider in this community, but Senator Chuck Schumer has an idea (or rather wants someone to come up with an idea) that could change that permanently…
Tags: Clarke Conde, Emerson & Oliver, fashion, Irondequoit Bay, Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge, Melania Velasquez, Paislee Boutique, photo, photography, Rochester, Rochester fashion, Rochester NY, Rust Belt chic, Sen. Charles Schumer, Senator Schumer, Stephanie Polowe-Aldersley, Wear to Where
Posted in Art + Culture, Rochester Destinations, Rochester Images, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure | 2 Comments »
See Ya Later Inner Loop. Hello, Inner Horseshoe?
Thursday, December 11th, 2014
Google Maps updated their view of Rochester this week. Notice anything different? Let’s zoom in on that visual a bit…
Tags: downtown Rochester, Google, Google Maps, I-490, Inner Horseshoe, Inner Loop, Inner Loop East Reconstruction Project, maps, Rochester, Rochester NY
Posted in Opinion, Rochester Images, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | 22 Comments »
Development Update… 179 Atlantic Avenue
Monday, December 8th, 2014![179 Atlantic Avenue has been completely overhauled inside and out. The building is nearing completion and almost ready for occupants sometime around the new year. [PHOTO: Steve Vogt]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/179-atlantic-avenue-rochester-01.jpg)
By Steve Vogt
There’s tons of development happening all over the city of Rochester. In addition to the bigger ones, I thought I’d keep you updated on some of the smaller projects that are less spoken about.
179 Atlantic Avenue has been completely overhauled inside and out. The building is nearing completion and will be ready for occupants sometime around the new year…
Tags: 179 Atlantic Avenue, ARTwalk, Artwalk Tile, development, Neighborhood of the Arts, NotA, urban development
Posted in Rochester News, Urban Development | 13 Comments »
Rochester Mini Maker Faire: A Kid’s Perspective
Sunday, December 7th, 2014![Rochester Mini Maker Faire was jam packed with cool robots, fun activities, and creative stuff to make, and buy. Ella (10) from Iroquois Middle School tells us about some of her favorite things that she saw there. [PHOTO: Ella's Mom]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/rochester-mini-maker-faire-01.jpg)
The following is a guest post submitted by Ella (10) of Iroquois Middle School. Submit your story today.
On Sunday [November 22] my mom took my little brother and me to Rochester Mini Maker Faire . There were a lot of cool robots, fun activities, and art to make, and buy. I want to tell you about some of my favorite things that I saw there…
Tags: Big Ben, Bird Brain Technologies, Burj Khalifa, Earrings by Cayla, Empire State Building, Maker Faire, painted record Christmas wreaths, R2D2, reclaimed jewelry, robot, robots, Rochester, Rochester Maker Faire, Rochester Mini Maker Faire, Rochester NY, Squishy Circuits, Stan Munro, Toothpick World, Yankee Stadium
Posted in Art + Culture, Events, Rochester News | No Comments »
To Do This Weekend
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
Because we’re always thinking ahead to the weekend, here are a couple of fun things you might want to check out. We’ve got a Christmas celebration going on in the South Wedge, and one heck of a shopping alternative to the big box stores…
Tags: Calvary St. Andrew’s, Calvary St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Parish, event, Metro Justice, Metro Justice Alternative Fair, Rochester, Rochester NY, South Wedge
Posted in Events, Reader Submitted Stories, Rochester Destinations, Rochester Gifts, Rochester News | No Comments »
Bus Stop Cubes Could Give Transit Riders in Rochester a Place to Rest
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014
Have you ever noticed someone standing on the side a busy road or sitting on the curb while waiting for a bus? The lack of seating at bus stops in our area is a real problem, especially for seniors and people with disabilities. This week however, Reconnect Rochester unveiled a clever solution which they believe could change this picture…
Tags: bus, bus stop cube, bus stop seat, bus-stop, cube seat, guerilla bus stop seat, mass transit, mass transportation, public transit, public transportation, Reconnect Rochester, Regional Transit Service (RTS), Rochester, tactical urbanism, urban furniture
Posted in Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure | 10 Comments »
RIT Student Concepts for Ward Supply Building
Monday, November 17th, 2014![The old Ward Plumbing Supply building at 739 South Clinton Ave. [PHOTO: Google]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/rochester-edge-of-the-wedge-02.jpg)
While Buckingham Properties is hard at work breathing new life into Rochester’s old Ward Plumbing Supply building at 739 South Clinton Avenue a group of RIT architecture students is simultaneously using the project to test their own chops. The wild concepts the students came up with are fun to compare with the actual project…
Tags: 739 South Clinton Avenue, adaptive reuse, architecture, Buckingham Properties, development plans, Edge of the Wedge, Emily van Keuren, James Reynolds, Ken Glazer, Larissa Reyna Lembert, Ming Hu, Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester NY, South Wedge, Thomas Button, urban design, urban development, Ward Supply Building
Posted in Rochester News, Urban Development | 4 Comments »
Rochester’s First Parklet
Monday, November 3rd, 2014![Next spring construction will begin on Rochester's first parklet in front of Joe Bean Coffee Roasters. [IMAGE: Staach]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/parklet-at-joe-bean-coffee-rochester-ny-03.jpg)
By Mike Governale
Story updated October 12, 2015.
Next spring construction will begin on Rochester’s first parklet—a mini public space—in front of Joe Bean Coffee Roasters . Parklets are a relatively new urban feature you may have seen popping up in metros across the country. These makeshift public spaces typically extend out from the sidewalk into adjacent parking spaces offering people a place to stop, to sit, and to rest while taking in the activities of the street…
[UPDATE: Help fund this project on Kickstarter ]
Tags: Anton Siekmann, Brandon Colaprete, City of Rochester, Erik Frisch, Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, Kathy Turiano, Madelaine Britt, Mary Turner, Nancy Johns-Price, Nicole Howley, parking, parklet, Rochester, Rochester NY, Seth Eshelman, Staach, tactical urbanism, University Avenue, urban planning
Posted in Rochester Destinations, Rochester News, Urban Development | 18 Comments »
Sneak Peek Inside the Future ‘Woodbury Place’
Monday, November 3rd, 2014![Merkel Donahue building, Oct 2014. Development Update on 210 South Avenue, Rochester NY. [PHOTO: Steve Vogt]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/development-update-210-south-ave-rochester-ny-01.jpg)
By Steve Vogt
RocSubway is excited to share with you some exclusive pictures of an exciting downtown development. 210 South Avenue is currently being transformed into future commercial and residential space in the heart of downtown Rochester. The building currently known as the Merkel Donohue building—and its connected buildings—will be transformed into a mix of commercial & residential space and will go by the name of Woodbury Place…
Tags: 1 Capron, adaptive reuse, Capron Street, construction, development, Dutton & Company, Eduard Nakhamkin, Erie Canal, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fashion Week, Geva Theater, Geva Theatre, Horizon Solutions, Merkel Donohue, multi-use construction, Patrick Dutton, Rochester, Rochester NY, S.B. Roby Co., Sidney B. Roby, South Avenue, Steve Vogt, The Lofts at Capron, urban development, urban revitalization, Woodbury Place
Posted in Rochester News, Urban Development | 11 Comments »
Transit Authority May Rename Mortimer Street “RTS Way”
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Next month Rochester’s transportation authority, Regional Transit Service (RTS) will open a new $50 million transit center at Mortimer Street in downtown Rochester. According to a D&C story RTS has requested that the City change the name of Mortimer Street to “RTS Way.” Mortimer Street has quietly existed between N. Clinton Ave and Saint Paul Street since Rochesterville was incorporated in 1817.
I’ve spent the last five years of my life advocating for Rochester’s public transit system and building a good working relationship with folks at RTS. That’s why I know they will take what I’m about to say as constructive criticism, and nothing more. Here it goes:
Renaming Mortimer Street after yourself is a bad idea. Don’t do it!! Now, let me explain…
Tags: 100 acre tract, Abelard Reynolds, Athenaeum Library, City of Rochester, Col. Nathaniel Rochester, hundred acre tract, Lydia Reynolds, Mortimer Reynolds, Mortimer Street, Regional Transit Service (RTS), Reynolds Arcade, Reynolds Library, Rochester, Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics' Association, Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester NY, Rochester Public Library, Rochesterville, RTS, RTS Transit Terminal, Rundel Library, Rundel Memorial Building
Posted in Opinion, Rochester History, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | 34 Comments »
Filling In: 19 Eiffel Place
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Welcome back to Filling In. As you know, we have a soft spot for city-owned property. And in fact, we really like city property that is currently up for sale or out for proposal right now. With that in mind, let’s talk about 19 Eiffel place…
Tags: City of Rochester, development, Eiffel Place, Filling In, Joseph Avenue, Matthew Denker, property for sale, Rochester, Rochester NY
Posted in Reader Submitted Stories, Rochester News, Urban Development | 3 Comments »
Lonely Medley Centre Tells All… sort of
Friday, October 17th, 2014
If you’re a regular follower of the #ROC Twitter scene, you have undoubtedly come across the musings of Lonely Medley Centre. The parody Twitter account @MedleyCentre has racked up over 1,000 followers since February and has catapulted into this year’s Best of Rochester contest alongside @RachelBarnhart.
No one seems to know who is behind the account which describes itself as “Just an empty mall looking for a few friends.” So I thought, as an empty subway tunnel, maybe we could hang out and get to know each other…
Tags: @MedleyCentre, Adam Bello, Armand Schaubroeck, interview, Irondequoit, Irondequoit Mall, Lonely Medley Centre, Medley Centre, Rachel Barnhart, Scott Congel, Twitter
Posted in Art + Culture, Interviews, Rochester News | 3 Comments »
Rochester Museum and Science Center Expansion
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Rochester Museum and Science Center is planning an expansion to link the main museum building on East Avenue with the Strasenburgh Planetarium next door. The $7 million project will be paid for with the help of private donations and a variety of grants.
Now, most people seem to agree the link between the two buildings is greatly needed. However, since renderings were released last spring, the design aesthetic has been a hotly debated topic…
Tags: architecture, Christopher Brandt, development plans, East Avenue, Labella Associates, Matthew Denker, Rochester, Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester Museums, Rochester NY, SWBR Architects
Posted in Art + Culture, Opinion, Rochester Destinations, Rochester News, Urban Development | 10 Comments »
Historic Cunningham Carriage Returns to Rochester
Monday, October 6th, 2014
The following post by Amy Cavalier was originally published at DePaul.org.
Thousands of miles, several movie appearances and more than 140 years after leaving the Cunningham Carriage Factory on Litchfield Street in Rochester NY, a late-19th century brougham-style carriage returned home on Tuesday, September 30…
Tags: adaptive reuse, affordable housing, Carriage Factory, Cunningham Automobile Factory, Cunningham car, Cunningham Carriage Factory, DePaul, DePaul Properties, Gillian Conde, historic preservation, Inc., John Greenall, Litchfield Street, Rochester, Rochester New York, Rochester NY
Posted in Rochester Destinations, Rochester History, Rochester Images, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | 3 Comments »
TEDxRochester 2014
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
As an alumn of TEDxRochester, I want to give a quick plug for this upcoming event. And I’m doubly happy to tell you about this year’s speakers as there are several whom I have personal connections with, and deep respect for. This is a jam packed line up…
Tags: cancer, Dan Lill, eNABLE, Jeff Gabel, Jerry DeCarolis, Jon Schull, One Team One Fight, Partners + Napier, R Community Bikes, Rochester, Rochester NY, Stadiumville, Susan Spencer, TEDxRochester, Tiffany Staropoli
Posted in Events, Rochester Destinations, Rochester News | 3 Comments »
Toast Our Region on the Niagara Wine Train
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014![A new way to enjoy Rochester's wine trails, Niagara Wine Trail Train Excursions will begin on September 27. [PHOTO: Mike Dorofy]](https://www.rochestersubway.com/images/photos/niagara-wine-trail-train-01.jpg)
The Niagara Wine Trail—right in our backyard—features 20 wineries and stretches from Lewiston to Rochester, along the Niagara Escarpment and the Lake Ontario shore. This region has been quickly gaining national attention for the variety and quality of its wines, including late-harvest, ice, and traditional vinifera. Now you can experience the Niagara Wine Trail in true style; via train…
Tags: A Gust of Sun Winery & Vineyard, Benjamin Woelk, Flight of Five Winery, Long Cliff Vineyard & Winery, Medina Railroad Museum, Michael Gaughn, Niagara Escarpment, Niagara Wine Trail, Niagara Wine Trail Train Excursions, railroad, Rochester, Rochester NY, Schulze Vineyards & Winery, train, train rides, Victorianbourg Wine Estate, Vizcarra Vineyards at Becker Farms, western New York, wineries, WNY Excursions
Posted in Art + Culture, Events, Rochester Destinations, Rochester News, Train/Railroad Stuff | No Comments »
Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
Monday, September 15th, 2014
On Monday, September 29, Reconnect Rochester will host a discussion with author and transit advocate Benjamin Ross. Mr. Ross will be at the Public Library on Monroe Ave. at 6:30 p.m. to talk about his new book, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
Ross was the head of Maryland’s Action Committee for Transit during much of its long fight to build a light rail line outside Washington, D.C. After a 25-year battle, the Purple Line will begin construction next year…
Tags: Benjamin Ross, book tour, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism, event, Reconnect Rochester, suburban sprawl, urbanism
Posted in Events, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | No Comments »
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