MonroeCounty 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 GeneseeRiver and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are a constant […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’10: Rochester Basics
Every city has certain people, places, and things that help to define it. Deep-dish pizza is Chicago. The Golden GateBridge is San Francisco. Harry Connick Jr. is New Orleans. The list goes on. While Rochester may not be a booming metropolis like those previous examples, it has its own signature, and certain details that are […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’09: Choices
DINER | HIGHLAND PARK DINER As a 6-year-old with a taste for scrumptious food (read: plain noodles with peanut butter) there was only one place to head to for Sunday brunch with the family: the Highland Park Diner (960 S Clinton Ave, 461-5040). The Highland Park is located in an authentic diner car complete with […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’08: Rochester favorites
Every year City Newspaper asks its readers to tell us what’s great about our fair city. And every year hundreds replay with their choices for the best of Rochester. From pie shops to strippers, radio shows to beauty salons, you’ll find their picks here. For additional Best Of content, including picks by City Newspaper’s critics, […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’07: Rochester Suburbs
Rochester owes much of its development and prosperity to the GeneseeRiver, which cuts a path right down the center of the city. In the early days, many of the neighborhoods in the city, as well as suburban villages, began as small settlements that depended on the river to receive and sell goods. Certain types of […]
