“When you flee your country, you don’t even know where you’re going, what direction you’re going. You say, ‘OK, I need to save my life.’” IsseAbukar pulls out a box of pictures, a postcard of Mogadishu, Somalia, before it was ravaged by civil war, and a business card, frayed and yellow with age. The box, […]
Sujata Gupta
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The best parts are often hidden
“Cool” in Rochester is the youth-oriented Park Avenuearea, or the East End-Alexander area on a summer night, with crowds from clubs and bars spilling out onto the sidewalks. But there’s lots to experience in the city. And lots of development under way or in the planning stages. Alongside large-scale ventures, such as the HighFalls entertainment […]
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Rail to trail: Creating an urban green space
A man and his dog have been walking along a portion of the abandoned CSX railroad track that runs parallel to Conkey Avenue and Hollenbeck Street. On this blustery February day, the pair are no longer visible, but their footprints remain etched in the snow. It is nothing but a detail, a small one at […]
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Religion versus medicine
An insider’s story of political influence in the FDA
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The Cinema’s owner ponders its future
When Jo Ann Morreale hinted a few months ago that she might be getting out of the movie business, scores of city residents balked. While Morreale has operated the one-screen theater at the Clinton-Goodman intersection for more than two decades, the building itself has been a movie house for almost 90 years. Many who grew […]
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Changes in store for controversial city program
On any given day, Joe Pizzo can see drug dealers and prostitutes hanging out on Lyell Avenue near his bar, Smokin Joe’s. “We call it ‘Lyell vision,’” laughs Pizzo mirthlessly. At 52, Pizzo, a Rochester native, has seen it all. “There are so many problems,” he says. “How do you address all these problems?” Pizzo […]
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City gets tough lead law
For years, Tim Mains has lobbied for legislation to end poisoning from lead-based paint in the city of Rochester. Finally, last Tuesday, inside a packed chamber, Mains, a 20-year Council veteran and a city school principal, got his wish. During its last meeting of the year and Mains’ final session as a Council member, City […]
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Downtown’s next in Center’s sights
The downtown bus garage is not a place Audrey Stewart frequents late at
night
