{"id":1,"name":"RochesterSubway.com","url":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com","description":"RochesterSubway.com exists to ignite an public dialogue about how we can better connect the neighborhoods of Rochester NY, its cultural offerings, and surrounding communities. We will do this by offering unique insight into Rochester's history and the possibilities for the city's future.\r\n\r\nRochester is the 3rd largest city in New York state but feels much more like a small town\u2014with about 220,000 people. The city of Rochester is nestled just off the southern shore of Lake Ontario, but the wider region known as \"Rochester\" is a wildly diverse area that spans across 6 counties stretching from Lake Ontario south into the Finger Lakes wine country, and from the fringes of Buffalo east toward Central New York and Syracuse.\r\n\r\nRochester grew rapidly along the banks of the Genesee River and the Erie Canal during the 1800's. So fast in fact Rochester became Americas first \"boom town\" and was dubbed the \"Young Lion of West\". By the end of the 1800's traffic on the Erie canal became so heavy and the population of downtown Rochester so dense, that the canal was redirected to the south of the city so it could be made wider. In the 1920's the empty portion of the canal was converted into an underground light rail transit system known as the \"subway\".\r\n\r\nRochester's network of streetcar, interurban, and railroad lines running in and out of the city was one of the largest in the country. The subway's main purpose was to provide a connection between many of these independent surface lines. But by the time the subway began operation in 1927, many of the region's interurban lines were already dying off at the hands of the automobile. The subway struggled to survive for most of its almost 30 year run, until it was closed in 1956 to make way for the construction of Interstate 490.\r\n\r\nThe audacious road and interstate building projects of the 1950's were no doubt intended to bring the cities of America closer together. The unforeseen side effect was that neighborhoods were driven further apart.","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/author\/admin\/","slug":"admin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3e4cb0ff17b0820a537b2de985fac860903177db173f41e9b40741298046937?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3e4cb0ff17b0820a537b2de985fac860903177db173f41e9b40741298046937?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3e4cb0ff17b0820a537b2de985fac860903177db173f41e9b40741298046937?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}