{"id":10055,"date":"2015-01-24T00:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2015-07-09T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:21:22","slug":"roclinks-12415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/01\/roclinks-12415\/","title":{"rendered":"RocLinks 1\/24\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Motorcycles in an abandoned warehouse in Lockport, NY. [PHOTO: Chris Seward]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks-2015-01-24\" href=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/lockport-motorcycles-chris-seward.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/lockport-motorcycles-chris-seward.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Motorcycles in an abandoned warehouse in Lockport, NY. [PHOTO: Chris Seward, Flickr]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/01\/contributors\/#about-matthew-denker\">Matthew Denker<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s RocLink photo was taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/8kCGRr\" target=\"_new\">Chris Seward <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> on April 3, 2010 in an abandoned building in Lockport. Chris says the three-story building was brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com\/graveyard.html\" target=\"_new\">this article <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> the bikes made their way here from Kohl\u2019s Cycle Salvage shop on the north side of the Erie Canal. The Mr. Kohl died in 2002, and the motorcycles were left here until the building crumbled around them.<\/p>\n<p>And now, from local development to just plain news of the weird, here are your RocLinks for this past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a title=\"Rochester, NY... Before &#038; After. [PHOTO: Institute for Quality Communities]\" rel=\"lightbox-roclinks-2015-01-24\" href=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-before-and-after-1951-2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:6px\" src=\"http:\/\/rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-before-and-after-1951-2014.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester, NY... Before &#038; After. [PHOTO: Institute for Quality Communities]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Before and After<\/h3>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/iqc.ou.edu\/2015\/01\/21\/60yrsnortheast\/\" target=\"_new\">this incredible before and after <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> of Rochester (and other Northeast Cities). I want to apologize in advance to the RocSubway reader who made something similar that I cannot, for the life of me, find the link to. But thanks to Philip Tifone for sharing this one with us.<\/p>\n<h3>Follow Up<\/h3>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s Department of Good Things Sometimes Happen, we offer <a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=f87e0f6a73eeba2fc2f1f793c&amp;id=e5d5f1c2ee\" target=\"_new\">an update <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> on the Chautauqua Institute&#8217;s Plans to &#8216;renovate&#8217; the Amp. Spoiler alert: they&#8217;re holding off to see CJS&#8217;s idea (Never a bad plan).<\/p>\n<h3>Follow Up Part Deux<\/h3>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/rochester-parking-summit-bicycles-transportation-alternatives-pedestrians\/22140729\/\" target=\"_new\">parking summit <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> appears to have flummoxed the fine folks at the D&amp;C. It seems to have been more about getting around downtown and did not propose to tear down the Windstream building to provide parking for the new D&amp;C headquarters they are about to construct next door to it.<\/p>\n<h3>Those Guys<\/h3>\n<p>As if the Harts guys didn&#8217;t already steal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2013\/02\/filling-in-capron-and-geva\/\" target=\"_new\">my idea<\/a> for opening a grocery store downtown, they&#8217;ve now taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2013\/05\/filling-in-933-university\/comment-page-1\/#comment-202048\" target=\"_new\">my concept<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/rbjdaily.com\/article.asp?aID=212762\" target=\"_new\">grocery delivery <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> in Rochester. Next thing I know, they&#8217;re going to announce that they already have the mind-reading device I&#8217;ve been developing.<\/p>\n<h3>Circular Reference Warning<\/h3>\n<p>And finally, because they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2013\/03\/filling-in-88-elm\" target=\"_new\">linked to me<\/a>, I&#8217;m legally obligated to link back with the convenient pretense that I LOVE development. That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/therochesteriat.com\/10-developments-in-2015-pt-1\/\" target=\"_new\">Pt. 1 of the Rochesteriat&#8217;s 10 developments to watch in 2015.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:20px 0px 20px 0px\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<p>As always, use the comments below as open discussion for anything in these links \u2013 or let us know if there\u2019s a topic you\u2019d like to see us hit more aggressively in future RocLinks. Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Denker Today&#8217;s RocLink photo was taken by Chris Seward on April 3, 2010 in an abandoned building in Lockport. Chris says the three-story building was brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. According to this article the bikes made their way here from Kohl\u2019s Cycle Salvage shop on the north side of the Erie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242,788,114],"tags":[1685,1684,1623,3119,3118,2572,2591,3133,3134,934,2559,225,224,53,151,857,3597,835,3015,809,57,3014],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester-destinations","category-old-photos-of-rochester-ny","category-rochester_news","tag-abandoned","tag-abandoned-places","tag-aerial-photography","tag-chautauqua-amphitheater","tag-city-of-rochester-parking-study","tag-cjs-architects","tag-harts-local-grocers","tag-kohl-motorcycles","tag-lockport","tag-parking","tag-parking-lots","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-ny","tag-rochester-photos","tag-rochester-subway","tag-rochester-subway-photos","tag-roclinks","tag-urban-exploration","tag-urban-renewal","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}