Mayor Lovely Warren pleaded on Facebook to stop the violence after a Memorial Day weekend rife with high-profile fights.
Charlotte
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Mayor, City Council member trade barbs over Charlotte development
Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council member Jose Peo accuse the other of lying and playing favorites in the process of developing the Port of Rochester.
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Beyond burgers at Charlotte’s LDR Char Pit
For more than 70 years LDR has been a classic beach-side burger joint. But it also fits squarely in CITY’s ongoing series exploring local diners.
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Charlotte residents and businesses seek a community vision
Charlotte, that appendix of a neighborhood at the northern tip of the city, has a dilemma: It’s in the city, but it doesn’t feel like it is. It’s a beach community, but it doesn’t always feel much like that, either. After the summer’s burst of activity, the area becomes quiet by November. Charlotte’s residents hope […]
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Feedback 12/28
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Charlotte to give input on port design
Attempts to invigorate the port area have met with mixed success, and some believe that, given Rochester’s harsh winters, the port will always struggle to be a year-round destination.
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The urban balancing act: residents vs. developers
For many of us, Rochester’s neighborhoods – their character, their collection of old houses, their lawns and trees and sidewalks, their small commercial areas – are a big reason we decided to live in the city. And city residents have been fiercely protective of their neighborhoods, fighting for zoning changes and code enforcement, for police […]
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Metro ink – 3.1.06
MORE THAN MEDICINE Dr. Allen Power, Associate Director of St. John’s Nursing Home, has never been able to keep music out of his life. Even as a pre-med student at the University of Rochester in the early ’70s, Power flirted with the idea of jumping tracks and pursuing music. Nonetheless, he decided on gerontology. “I […]
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The art of the possible
A five-story observation deck, crowned with a rotating restaurant? A chain of islands in LakeOntario?A museum and research center? These were among the ideas floated last week as attractions for the waterfront area around the ferry terminal. Despite a layer of icy freezing rain, about 30 participants turned out for a second public hearing on […]
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Room with a view: the other big project
Five years from now (assuming the fast ferry’s still around) what will a Torontonian visiting Rochester for the first time experience? Posh housing? Streets lined with hip boutiques? A waterfront park? A combination of all those or something completely different? That’s the question city officials are starting to wrestle with now, as they enter the […]
