Rochester City Council is set to vote on a study that would look at repurposing the long-empty RG&E Station Four as a viewing platform for High Falls.
High Falls
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Work progressing at MCC’s future home
Crews are six months into construction of Monroe Community College’s future Damon City Campus, which officials expect to open in time for the fall 2017 semester. The project spans four connected buildings, all previously owned by Kodak, which provide a total of 255,000 square feet of space. DiMarco Constructors and LaBella Associates, the contractors on […]
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On the streets where you live
Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are […]
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Greening High Falls
Friends of the GardenAerial has new renderings for its plan to remake the High Falls area into an urban green space. Representatives of the organization will unveil conceptual drawings for three installations during a February 7 event organized by the local Sierra Club. GardenAerial representatives will present concepts for an arboretum on the Pont de […]
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Dash and swoop
Not 10 minutes after I stepped onto the pedestrian bridge at High Falls, a Peregrine Falcon swooped up from the falls side of the bridge and made a breathtaking flyover. “It’s Hafoc,” said one of the regular falcon watchers, not even raising his binoculars. The bird was barely eight feet above us — close enough […]
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Catching a buzz
It’s pretty early on a Thursday night — just 10:30 p.m. — but East Avenue at Alexander Street is already jumping. People are everywhere: The Old Toad, BarFly, Whiskey, Coyote Joe’s. By midnight, elbowroom at the hottest spots and any hope of decent parking are long gone. Cross over to the other side of […]
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Reader feedback 8.27.03
Transit center problems, golf pollution, Republican budgets
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News briefs 4.30.03
Expressions of guilt Sarah Brownell — one of the “Rochester 13” who dared pray for peace on Federal Building property and were arrested for criminal trespass — pleaded guilty on numerous counts before City Court Judge Ann Pfeiffer on April 22. Actually, Brownell, 28, agreed to pay $160 in fines and court costs on […]
