Dave Miran has been on the streets for almost 22 years. A Rochester native, Miran is the proprietor of Dave’s Sidewalk Cafรฉ, a hot dog cart — or “mobile vending unit,” in Rochester City Code parlance — that has operated on the corner of Court Street and St. Mary’s Place for the past eight years. […]
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Here comes the bus
Poor People United’s Charles Kellum calls Rochester’s winter cold “a natural disaster.” Last year, prompted by PPU, Monroe County came up with the idea for emergency shelter nights: when the weather is particularly cold, the homeless are allowed into shelters without admission restrictions and without curfews. But according to Kellum, those emergency nights aren’t effective […]
