A big week of events — from Black Kids Matter to The Suffragist City Parade — marks a big time for change here in Rochester.
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Urban Action 8/21
This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.) Paying black women fairly The Pay Equity Coalition, which consists of nearly a dozen local activist groups, will hold a Black Equal Pay Day rally on Thursday August 22. The rally is being […]
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Northwest neighborhoods will get a ‘history survey’
Rochester has an unusually large number of older buildings: homes, small commercial buildings, houses of worship, former factories. And street by street, the Rochester-based Landmark Society of Western New York has been documenting them. The next stage: surveying part of northwest Rochester, including the Brown Square, Edgerton, and Lyell-Otis neighborhoods. City Council approved the study […]
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Urban Action 2/21
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Whole Foods meeting moved The Town of Brighton will hold a public hearing concerning a zoning application for the proposed Whole Foods Plaza project at 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 28 – at a […]
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Landmark Society shines a spotlight on porches, a roundhouse…
Older buildings can give a neighborhood and an entire city or village a unique character that new developments don’t have – especially when there are a lot of older buildings, as there are in the Greater Rochester area. And preserving the buildings is important, not just because they’re nice to look at but also because […]
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Historic district for Park Avenue area?
Rochester has an impressive collection of houses, schools, small retail buildings, and other structures built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. And many of them have been preserved so well that entire neighborhoods look very much the way they did a century ago. Neighborhoods like those may be eligible for designation as a state […]
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Preserving gay Rochester
The Landmark Society of Western New York is identifying sites that are important to the history of Rochester’s LGBTQ community for recognition and possibly preservation. The organization has developed a list of more than two dozen potential sites. And it will hold a public meeting from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 16, […]
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Bridges make save list
The Preservation League of New York State has named three Olmsted pedestrian bridges in Genesee Valley Park to its “Seven to Save” list for 2014-2015. The list identifies what the league considers to be the state’s most threatened historic resources. The concrete bridges were designed by the Olmstead Brothers landscape design firm and built in […]
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Feedback 07-24-13
Facing the art I take umbrage at Dr. Wilson’s diagnoses of our response as “acute inflammation followed by quiescence” (“Worlds Collide on Walls: Wall/Therapy”). Although I am no physician, I would be inclined to call the current status as “chronic indignation.” We understand that continued public comment is useless since the works are generally on […]
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City should turn down University Ave. project
For more on this topic: See Christine Carrie Fien’s “Rochester’s apartment boom” in this week’s news section. The owners of Craft Company No. 6 have written a letter in opposition to the project. It’s not an attractive piece of property right now: a blacktopped parking lot and a mid-1920’s stucco house on University Avenue, to […]
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Future uncertain for Letchworth bridge
The stunning view from the original Portageville railroad bridge helped convince William Pryor Letchworth to buy land around the Genesee River Gorge. He later donated the land to New York State, and it became the heart of Letchworth State Park. The current railroad bridge, built in 1875 and listed on the National Register of Historic […]
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Makeover for mayor’s mansion
Ozzy Arroyo’s plans for the Child mansion in Rochester are nearly as grand as the building itself. He envisions a premiere event space, a café and catering operation to help young people begin culinary careers, and a reality-show-type setting for brides on their big day — the latter inspired by the spectacle and grandeur of […]
