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Rochester is a city in Monroe County
Monroe County, New York

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 735,343. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America....
, New York State, south of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City
History of Rochester, New York

This article documents the history of Rochester, New York part of present day New York State....
, and more recently as The Flower City
History of Rochester, New York

This article documents the history of Rochester, New York part of present day New York State....
. It is the county seat for Monroe County.

Rochester's population is approximately 207,000, making it New York's third largest city.






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Rochester is a city in Monroe County
Monroe County, New York

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 735,343. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America....
, New York State, south of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City
History of Rochester, New York

This article documents the history of Rochester, New York part of present day New York State....
, and more recently as The Flower City
History of Rochester, New York

This article documents the history of Rochester, New York part of present day New York State....
. It is the county seat for Monroe County.

Rochester's population is approximately 207,000, making it New York's third largest city. It is at the center of a larger Metropolitan Area
Rochester, New York metropolitan area

The Rochester, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in Western New York New York, anchored by the city of Rochester, New York....
 which encompasses and extends past Monroe County
Monroe County, New York

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 735,343. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America....
 and includes Genesee County
Genesee County, New York

Genesee County is a county located in Western New York New York, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 60,370....
, Livingston County
Livingston County, New York

Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 64,328. It is named after Robert Livingston , delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the United States Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, afte...
, Ontario County
Ontario County, New York

Ontario County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. The county seat is the city of Canandaigua , New York. "Ontario" is a corruption of the Iroquois word meaning "beautiful water." The population of Ontario County in the United States Census 2000 was 100,224, up from 95,101 at the United States Census, 1990....
, Orleans County
Orleans County, New York

Orleans County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 44,171. The county seat is Albion , Orleans County, New York....
 and Wayne County
Wayne County, New York

Wayne County is a County#United States located in the U.S. State of New York. It is part of the Rochester, New York metropolitan area and lies on the south shore of Lake Ontario, forming part of the northern border of the United States with Canada....
. This area, which is part of the Western New York
Western New York

Western New York refers to the westernmost region of New York State. It includes the cities of Buffalo, New York, Rochester, New York, Niagara Falls, New York, and surrounding suburbs....
 region, had a population of 1,037,831 people in the 2000 Census. As of July 1, 2005, this population rose slightly to 1,039,028.

Rochester was ranked #6 among 379 U.S. Metro areas in the 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac for Most Livable Cities. In 2007, Rochester was ranked as the top city in the country by Expansion Management Magazine for quality of life. Expansion Management rated the region's public schools sixth best nationwide among metropolitan areas of a million people or more.

The current mayor of Rochester is Robert Duffy
Robert Duffy

Robert J. "Bob" Duffy is the Democratic Party mayor of Rochester, New York. He was elected the 65th mayor of the city in November 2005 and took office on January 1 2006....
, who was previously the city's police chief.

Founding and early history

On November 8, 1803, a 100 acre (ca. 40 ha
Hectare

A hectare is a unit of area equal to , or one square hectometre , and commonly used for surveying.The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and land management, including law , agriculture, forestry, and town planning....
) tract in Western New York along the Genesee River
Genesee River

The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
 was purchased by Col. Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester was an American American Revolution soldier and Speculation, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York....
, Maj. Charles Carroll, and Col. William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1761-1839), all of Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County, Maryland, and the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland....
. The site was chosen because of three cataracts
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
 on the Genesee, offering great potential for water power. Beginning in 1811, and with a population of 15, the three founders surveyed the land and laid out streets and tracts. In 1817, the Brown brothers and other landowners joined their lands with the Hundred Acre Tract to form the village of Rochesterville.

Rochester Ny Broad Street Bridge 2002
By 1821, Rochesterville was the seat of Monroe County. In 1823, Rochesterville consisted of and 2,500 residents, and the Village of Rochesterville became known as Rochester. Also in 1823, the Erie Canal
Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a man-made waterway in New York state that runs about 365 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes....
 aqueduct over the Genesee River
Genesee River

The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
 was completed, and the Erie Canal east to the Hudson River
Hudson River

The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York....
 was opened. Later, after the advent of railroads, the presence of the canal in the center city became bothersome, and it was re-routed south of Rochester. By 1830, Rochester's population was 9,200 and in 1834, it was re-chartered as a city.

Rochester was first known as "The Young Lion of the West", and then as the "Flour City". By 1838, Rochester was the largest flour-producing city in the United States. Having doubled its population in only ten years, Rochester became America's first "boomtown
Boomtown

A boomtown is a community that experiences sudden and rapid population growth and economic growth. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resource such as gold, silver, or oil, although the term can also be applied to communities growing very rapidly for different reasons, such as a proximity to a major met...
." By the mid-nineteenth century, as the center of the wheat-processing industry moved west, the city became home to a booming nursery business, giving rise to the city's second nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
, the "Flower City." Large and small nurseries ringed the city, the most famous of which was the one started by German immigrant George Ellwanger and Irish immigrant Patrick Barry in 1840.

In 1847, Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
 founded the abolitionist
Abolitionism

File:BLAKE10.JPGAbolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups con...
 newspaper The North Star
North Star (newspaper)

this sucks buttDouglass published the North Star until June of 1851, when Douglass and Gerrit Smith agreed to merge the North Star with the Liberty Party Paper to form Frederick Douglass's Paper....
 in Rochester. Douglass, a former slave and an antislavery speaker and writer, gained a circulation of over 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. The North Star served as a forum for abolitionist views. The city was also home to abolitionist and women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent United States civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce History of women's suffrage in the United States....
.

Rochester experienced another period of renewed industrial activity in the post-Civil War years. It is in these years that companies like Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
 and Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb

Bausch & Lomb is an United States company based in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today....
 were founded in the city. This boom continued into the early twentieth century, when Rochester became a center of the garment industry, particularly men's fashions. It was home of enterprises such as Bond Clothing Stores
Bond Clothing Stores

Bond Clothing Stores, Bond Clothes, Bond Clothiers, or Bond Stores, was a men's clothing manufacturing company and retailer. The company catered to the middle class consumer....
, Fashion Park Clothes
Fashion Park Clothes

Fashion Park Clothes was a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer of men's tailored suits and apparel. They operated from the 1910's into the 1960's....
, Hickey-Freeman, and Stein-Bloch & Co.. It was home to the pioneer automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 company Cunningham, produced by carriage
Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
 maker James Cunningham and Sons.

The population reached 62,386 in 1870, 162,608 in 1900, and 295,750 in 1920. By 1950, population had reached a high of 332,488. It declined to 219,773 by 2000.

Geography and climate

Rochester is at (43.165496, -77.611504). The city is east of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
, west of Syracuse
Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is the fifth largest city in New York State, United States. According to the United States Census 2000, the city population was 147,306, and its Syracuse metropolitan area had a population of 732,117....
 and sits on the southern shore of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
. The Genesee River
Genesee River

The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
 bisects the city.

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (3.42%) is water.

Rochester's geography comes from the ice sheet
Ice sheet

An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometer . The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, the Wisconsin glaciation ice sheet covered n...
s during the Pleistocene
Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
 epoch. The retreating ice sheets reached a standstill at what is now the southern border of the city, melting at the same rate as they were advancing, depositing sediment along the southern edge of the ice mass. This created a line of hills, including (from west to east) Mt. Hope, the hills of Highland Park, Pinnacle Hill, and Cobb's Hill. Because the sediment of these hills was deposited into a proglacial lake they are stratified and classified as a "kame delta
Kame

A kame is a geology feature, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier....
." A brief retreat and readvance of the ice sheet onto the delta piled unstratified (moraine) material there, creating a rare hybrid structure called a "kame moraine
Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past ice age....
."

The ice sheets also left behind Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
 (one of the five fresh-water Great Lakes
Great Lakes

The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....
), the Genesee River with its waterfall
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
s and gorges, Irondequoit Bay
Irondequoit Bay

Irondequoit Bay is a large body of water located in northeastern Monroe County, New York, New York. The bay, roughly wide and in length, is fed by Irondequoit Creek to the south and flows into Lake Ontario at its northern end....
, Sodus Bay
Sodus Bay

Sodus Bay is a bay on the south shore of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes. Sodus Bay is located in Wayne County, New York, New York, United States....
, Braddock's Bay
Braddock's Bay

Braddock Bay is located northwest of Rochester, NY on Lake Ontario. Braddock Bay is renowned for being an excellent bird-watching location, as Bird of prey and other birds congregate when migrating north in Spring....
, Mendon Ponds
Mendon Ponds Park

Mendon Ponds Park is a county park located southeast of Rochester, New York near the town of Mendon, New York. At over 2500 acres , it is the largest park in Monroe County, New York....
, numerous local streams and ponds, the Ridge, and the nearby Finger Lakes
Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are a chain of lakes in the west-central section of Upstate New York that are a popular tourist destination. There are actually eleven lakes in the region, but only seven of the largest are commonly identified as the Finger Lakes....
.

According to the City of Rochester, the city has of public streets, of water mains, 44 vehicular and eight pedestrian bridges, 11 public libraries, two police stations (one for the east side, one for the west), and 16 fire stations. The principal source of water is Hemlock Lake
Hemlock Lake

Hemlock Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes. It is mostly located in Livingston County, New York, south of Rochester, New York, with a portion overlapping into Ontario County, New York....
, which, with its watershed, is owned by the city. Other water sources are Canadice Lake
Canadice Lake

Canadice Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes of western New York in the USA.Canadice Lake has a shoreline 6.5 miles long and a maximum depth of 95 feet ....
 and Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
. The 30-year annual average snowfall is The mean July temperature is , and the mean February temperature is .

Rochester lies in the Humid continental climate
Humid continental climate

The humid continental climate is a climate found over large areas of land masses in the temperate climates of the mid-latitudes where there is a zone of conflict between North Pole and Tropics air masses....
 zone, and has four distinct seasons, with often cold and snowy winters. Autumn features brilliant foliage colors, and summer sees comfortable temperatures that usually stay in the low to mid 80s (upper 20s Celsius). Precipitation is plentiful year round.

Demographics


In the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 219,773 people, 88,999 households, and 47,169 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 6,132.9 people per square mile (2,368.3/km˛). There were 99,789 housing units at an average density of 2,784.7/sq mi (1,075.3/km˛). The racial makeup was 48.30% White, 38.55% African American, 0.47% Native American, 2.25% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 6.58% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 3.81% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.75% of the population. Ancestries include: German
German American

German Americans are citizens of the United States of Germans ancestry, with traditions and self-identity based on German language and culture....
 (10.9%), Italian
Italian American

An Italian American is an United States of Italians descent and/or dual citizenship. The phrase refers to someone born in the United States or who has immigrated to the United States and is of Italian heritage....
 (10.0%), Irish
Irish American

Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey....
 (9.6%), English
English American

English Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. According to United States Census, 2000 data, Americans claiming English descent form the Ethnic groups in the United States#Racial makeup of the U.S....
 (5.8%), and Polish
Polish American

A Polish American is a Demographics of the United States of Poles descent. There are an estimated 10 million Americans of Polish descent.More than one million Poles immigrated to the United States, primarily during the late 19th and early 20th century....
 (2.7%).

Rochester has the largest per capita deaf population in the United States. Rochester is home to internationally recognized programs for the deaf at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
National Technical Institute for the Deaf

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing....
 (part of the Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
) and at the University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
.

There were 88,999 households of which 30.0% had children under 18 living with them, 25.1% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 23.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.0% were non-families. 37.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.19.

The city population was 28.1% under 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 or older. The median age was 31. For every 100 females there were 91.6 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 87.3 males.

The median income for a city household was $27,123, and the median family income was $31,257. Males had a median income of $30,521, versus $25,139 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $15,588. About 23.4% of families and 25.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 37.5% of those under age 18 and 15.4% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

The Rochester area is home to a number of international businesses, including Fortune 1000
Fortune 1000

Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune . The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone....
 companies Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
, Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands

Constellation Brands, Inc., headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a large international producer and marketer of Alcoholic beverage brands with a large portfolio of products including wine, imported beer and Distilled beverage....
, and Paychex
Paychex

Paychex, Inc. is a payroll and human resource service company which serves approximately 572,000 businesses nationwide. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY and has more than 100 locations across the country....
, as well as several national and regional companies. Xerox Corporation
Xerox

Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
 was founded in Rochester in 1906 as The Haloid Company, and retains a significant presence in Rochester, although its headquarters are now located in Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 84,437, making it the sixth largest city in Connecticut, and the third largest in Fairfield County....
. The Gannett newspaper company and Western Union
Western Union

The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is at Englewood, Colorado, and its international marketing and commercial services headquarters are in Montvale, New Jersey....
 were both founded in the Rochester area by Frank Gannett
Frank Gannett

Frank Ernest Gannett founded the Gannett media corporation. He was born in South Bristol, New York and graduated fromCornell University.At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira, New York Gazette ....
 and Hiram Sibley
Hiram Sibley

Hiram Sibley , was an industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.Sibley was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, and later resided in Rochester, New York, New York....
 respectively.

Because of the high prevalence of imaging and optical science among the industry and the universities, Rochester is known as the world capital of imaging. The Institute of Optics
The Institute of Optics

The Institute of Optics is a academic department and research center at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. The Institute grants degrees at the bachelors degree, masters degree and doctorate levels through the University of Rochester College of Arts Sciences and Engineering....
 of the University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
 is ranked number one in the country, and the Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
 has one of the best imaging science departments in the country. In 2006, the University of Rochester became the largest employer in the Rochester area, surpassing Kodak.

Food and beverage

One food product that Rochester calls its own is the "white hot
White Hot

The white hot is a variation on the hot dog eaten mostly in the Rochester, New York area. It is composed of some combination of uncured and unsmoked pork, beef, and veal; the lack of smoking or curing allows the meat to retain a naturally white color....
," a variant of the hot dog
Hot dog

A hot dog is a type of fully cooked, curing and/or Smoking moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor. It is usually placed hot in a soft, sliced hot dog bun of approximately the same length as the sausage, and optionally garnished with condiments and toppings....
 made by the local Zweigle's
Zweigle's

Zweigles Inc. is a food manufacturer of hot dogs, sausages, and deli products. The company is based in Rochester, New York and was founded in 1880 by C....
 company. Another local specialty is the "garbage plate," first served at Nick Tahou Hots
Nick Tahou Hots

Nick Tahou Hots, originally known as Hots and Potatoes, is a Rochester, New York landmark restaurant featuring a dish called the Garbage Plate....
. Rochester was home to French's
French's

French's is an United States manufacturer of prepared Mustard condiment. Created by Robert Timothy French, French's mustard debuted to the world at the 1904 St....
 Mustard, whose address was 1 Mustard Street.

Rochester is also home to Wet Planet Beverages
Wet Planet Beverages

Wet Planet Beverages, of Rochester, New York, New York is the company which produces Jolt Cola, Napa Valley Soda, Thornwood Estates, Autumn frost, and DNA . They are also a distributor for Martinelli's....
, producer of Jolt Cola
Jolt Cola

Jolt Cola is a Carbonation soft drink produced by Wet Planet Beverages. It was created in 1985 by C. J. Rapp as a highly caffeine cola. It is targeted towards students and young professionals, stressing its use as a stimulant in a similar manner as energy drinks....
 and other beverages. High Falls Brewing Company
High Falls Brewing Company

High Falls Brewing Company is an American brewery located along the Genesee River in Rochester, New York. Until 2000 the company was known as the Genesee Brewing Company....
, maker of the Genesee beers and JW Dundee's brand (Honey Brown) also calls Rochester home. Arbor Mist
Arbor Mist

Arbor Mist is the brand name of an alcoholic beverage which blends seasonal wines such as merlot, zinfandel and chardonnay with fruit flavorings....
 wines are produced in nearby Canandaigua, NY
Canandaigua (city), New York

Canandaigua is a city in Ontario County, New York, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. The population was 11,264 at the 2000 census....
 by owner Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands

Constellation Brands, Inc., headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a large international producer and marketer of Alcoholic beverage brands with a large portfolio of products including wine, imported beer and Distilled beverage....
.

National frozen food manufacturer Birds Eye
Birds Eye

__FORCETOC__Birds Eye is an international brand of frozen foods such as seafood, meat and vegetables.Birds Eye is considered to be one of the founders of the modern frozen food industry and is credited with inventing a fast freezing process that preserves the quality of food....
 is headquartered in suburban Rochester. The Ragú
Ragú

Rag? is a brand name, marketed version of an Italian cusine-style sauce known as rag?. The Rag? brand was first sold in 1937 - and currently one of many consumer brands in the portfolio of Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever....
 brand of pasta sauce was originally produced in Rochester, and the Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauce is manufactured in Rochester. Barilla
Barilla

Barilla S.p.A. is a major Italy food company. It was founded in 1877 in Parma, Italy. It controls Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Pavesi, Voiello and Academia Barilla , Wasabr?d , Misko , Filiz , Yemina and Vesta trade marks....
 and Kraft foods
Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods, Inc. is the second-largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the third largest in the world .The Philip Morris Company , acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985....
 have food manufacturing plants in nearby Livingston County, in the Village of Avon. Heluva Good Cheeses are in nearby Wayne County and Seneca Foods
Seneca Foods

Seneca Foods Corporation is a food processor headquartered in Marion, New York. The company is a leading producer and distributor of canned vegetables....
 are in nearby Marion, Wayne County and Mount Morris, Livingston County,.

Other local franchises include: Bill Gray's
Bill Gray's

Bill Gray's is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Rochester, New York, New York, that currently has 15 restaurants opened in the Rochester, Batavia and Buffalo areas in western New York; 6 of these locations also sell Abbott's Frozen Custard....
 (a hamburger/hot dog joint that lays claim to having "The World's Greatest Cheeseburger"), Country Sweet (known for their chicken wings and BBQ sauce), Boss Sauce, described as a "tantalizing sweet, spicy-hot gourmet after-sauce," was born from the restaurant Eddie's Chicken Coop, Tom Wahl's
Tom Wahl's

Tom Wahl's is a chain of fast-food restaurants based in Rochester, New York, that currently has several restaurants around the Rochester/ Finger lakes region in western New York....
, Dibella's
Dibella's

Dibella's Old Fashioned Submarines shop is a restaurant chain based in Rochester, NY.DiBella's was founded in 1918. It first began as a family owned and operated grocery store, and later operated as an Italian-style deli....
, Great Northern Pizza Kitchen, Zebb's, Don's Original, and Abbott's Frozen Custard
Abbott's Frozen Custard

Abbott's Frozen Custard is an ice cream franchise founded and based in Rochester, New York. The franchise has stores throughout New York state along with five stores in Florida and one store in Massachusetts, with plans to expand into the Orlando, Florida area....
. Dinosaur Bar-b-que
Dinosaur Bar-b-que

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is a landmark restaurant, blues venue, and motorcycle bar in Syracuse, New York. Opened in 1988 on Willow Street, Located in downtown Syracuse, it specializes in authentic barbecue, using a wood-fueled barbecue pit....
, which originated in Syracuse
Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is the fifth largest city in New York State, United States. According to the United States Census 2000, the city population was 147,306, and its Syracuse metropolitan area had a population of 732,117....
, also operates their second franchise downtown in the former Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad

File:1884 PRR RDG LVRR.jpgThe Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of a number of railroads built in the northeastern United States primarily to haul anthracite coal....
 station on the Genesee River
Genesee River

The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
.

The Rochester area is the birthplace of the Wegmans Grocery store chain, which has locations throughout the Northeast and Northern Virginia. In 2005, Wegmans was ranked the best company in America to work for by Fortune Magazine; it has been ranked the best grocery store in America by Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is an United States magazine published monthly by Consumers Union. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory....
 and Food Network
Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
.

Major shopping centers


  • Eastview Mall
    Eastview Mall

    Eastview Mall, located in Victor, New York and managed by Mike Kauffman, is an indoor shopping center owned and operated by Wilmorite Management Group, LLC....
     (Victor, New York
    Victor, New York

    Victor, New York is both a town and a village in Ontario County, New York:*Victor , New York*Victor , New York...
    )
  • The Mall at Greece Ridge Center (Greece, New York
    Greece (town), New York

    Greece is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. As of the 2000 United States census, the town had a total population of 14,614....
    )
  • Medley Centre
    Medley Centre

    Medley Centre is a currently mostly vacant shopping mall in Irondequoit, New York near Rochester, New York. The mall opened in 1990 as Irondequoit Mall, but early success gave way to dwindling patronage in the face of competition and a perception that crime was common....
     (formerly known as Irondequoit Mall) (Irondequoit, New York
    Irondequoit, New York

    Irondequoit is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 52,354.The Town of Irondequoit is a major suburb of the Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, lying just north and east of the city limits....
    )... now closed
  • The Marketplace Mall
    The Marketplace Mall

    The Marketplace Mall is managed by Wilmorite Management Group, LLC and located in the heart of the Rochester, New York metropolitan area on Hylan Drive, in the suburb of Henrietta, New York....
     (Henrietta, New York
    Henrietta, New York

    Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 39,028 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Pittsford Plaza (Pittsford, New York
    Pittsford (town), New York

    Pittsford is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States and is an affluent suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 27,219 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Rochester Public Market
  • Village Gate Square


Tallest structures

As of February, 2008 the top ten tallest buildings in the city are:

Building nameHeight
ftm
Xerox Tower
Bausch & Lomb Place
Chase Tower
Kodak Tower
First Federal Plaza
One HSBC Plaza
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Times Square Building
Midtown Tower (to be demolished)
St. Michael's Church
Paetec Tower (proposed)


According to the April 4, 2008, issue of The Democrat and Chronicle, Paetec Holding Corporation's CEO Arunas Chesonis stated that the new tower to be built as the company's headquarters will rise slightly taller than the Xerox Tower. There has not been a confirmed height. The tower, according to Chesonis, should feature a public observation at the top and other public areas and condominiums.

Top private employers

As of 2006, the top private employers in Greater Rochester are:
  • University of Rochester/Strong Health
    University of Rochester

    The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
    —    17,199
  • Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.—14,461
  • Eastman Kodak
    Eastman Kodak

    Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
    —    14,100
  • Paychex
    Paychex

    Paychex, Inc. is a payroll and human resource service company which serves approximately 572,000 businesses nationwide. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY and has more than 100 locations across the country....
    —    12,200
  • Xerox
    Xerox

    Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
    —    8,250
  • ViaHealth/Rochester General Hospital—6,728
  • Unity Health System—5,002
  • Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield
    Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield

    Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, headquartered in Rochester, New York, is part of a $4 billion family of companies that finances and delivers health care services across upstate New York and long-term care insurance nationwide....
     —4,086
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
    —    2,827
  • ITT Corporation
    ITT Corporation

    ITT Corporation is a global diversified manufacturing company with 2007 revenues of $9.0 billion. ITT participates in global markets including water and fluids management, defense and security, and motion and flow control....
    —    2,613
  • Tops Markets—2,600


Companies


Wegmans Exterior
Several companies have corporate headquarters in the Greater Rochester area.
  • Ambrosia Software
    Ambrosia Software

    Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Apple Macintosh software company located in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games....
     - Software firm
  • Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb

    Bausch & Lomb is an United States company based in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today....
     - Contact lens care & Eye health
  • Barley Yards Brewing Company
    Barley Yards Brewing Company

    Barley Yards Brewing Company, part of the Three Brothers Wineries & Estates, is a microbrewery operated by brothers Dave, Mark and Mike Mansfield and located on Seneca Lake in Geneva, New York....
     - Microbrewery
  • Bird's Eye - Producer of frozen and packaged foods
  • Carestream Health
    Carestream Health

    Carestream Health, formerly Eastman Kodak's Health Group, is an independent subsidiary of Onex Corporation, Toronto, Canada....
     - Health equipment and technology
  • Choice One Communications
    Choice One Communications

    One Communications is a Rochester, NY and Burlington, MA-based CLEC providing Telecommunications services to commercial entities. The company was founded in 1998 as an "alternative to the incumbent local phone carriers"....
     - Telecommunications
  • Constellation Brands
    Constellation Brands

    Constellation Brands, Inc., headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a large international producer and marketer of Alcoholic beverage brands with a large portfolio of products including wine, imported beer and Distilled beverage....
     - Alcoholic beverages, importer of Corona (beer)
    Corona (beer)

    Corona is an American-style lager brewed in Mexico. It is the top-selling beer in Mexico and is one of the top selling beers worldwide. Corona beer is available in over 150 countries....
  • Connection Technology Center
    Connection Technology Center

    CTC is a leading manufacturer of ruggedized instrumentation and accessories used in Industrial Vibration Analysis. Their product line includes: accelerometers, velocity sensors, displacement probes, relay system s, and associated cables, junction boxes and mounting hardware....
     - Electronic part manufacturer
  • Eastman Kodak Company - Photography and Printing
  • eBaum's World
    EBaum's World

    eBaum's World is a website based in Rochester, New York featuring entertainment media such as videos, Adobe Flash cartoons and browser game. It is controversial for many reasons, primarily due to the fact that much of the content on the website is taken from other sources without permission and rebranded with the eBaum's World logo....
     - Internet humor website
  • Frontier Telephone - Telecommunications
  • Gatehouse Media
    GateHouse Media

    GateHouse Media Inc. is a United States newspaper publisher, headquartered in Fairport, New York, that publishes 97 dailies in 20 states and 198 paid weeklies, in addition to free papers, shoppers and specialty and niche publications....
     - Owner/Publisher of regional periodicals
  • Gleason Corporation
    Gleason Corporation

    Gleason Corporation is a prominent machine tool company based in Rochester, New York, USA. It has manufacturing plants in the USA, Britain, India, and Germany, and sales offices in those and additional countries....
     - Gear equipment manufacturer
  • Harris Interactive
    Harris Interactive

    Harris Interactive is an United States market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and wikt:online surveys on online panels....
     - Online surveys
  • Hickey-Freeman - hand made suits and clothing, including the Bobby Jones
    Bobby Jones (golfer)

    Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28....
     line
  • High Falls Brewing Co.
    High Falls Brewing Company

    High Falls Brewing Company is an American brewery located along the Genesee River in Rochester, New York. Until 2000 the company was known as the Genesee Brewing Company....
     (Genesee Brewing Co.)
  • Home Properties
    Home Properties

    Home Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded apartment real estate investment trust that owns, operates, develops, acquires and rehabilitates apartment communities primarily in selected Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Florida markets....
     - Apartment and Properties firm
  • Lidestri Foods - Sauce and Salsa Production
  • Monro Muffler and Brake
    Monro Muffler and Brake

    Monro Muffler Brake is a company was founded by Charles J. August in 1957 as a franchise of another company. After several years, Chuck decided that his muffler shops should offer an expanded list of services....
     - Auto care chain
  • Nalgene
    Nalgene

    Nalgene is a distributor and manufacturer of plastic laboratory containers that has diversified into the field of containers for outdoor sports....
     - Maker of Nalgene brand scientific and consumer products
  • PAETEC Holding Corp. - Telecommunications
  • Paychex
    Paychex

    Paychex, Inc. is a payroll and human resource service company which serves approximately 572,000 businesses nationwide. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY and has more than 100 locations across the country....
     - Payroll and human resources
  • Pictometry
    Pictometry

    Pictometry International is a Rochester, New York-based company that provides detailed aerial photography. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle from low-flying airplanes....
     - Oblique aerial photography
  • Rochester Midland Corporation
    Rochester Midland Corporation

    Rochester Midland Corporation is a closely held specialty chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Rochester, New York. With sales and operations in nearly seventy countries, production facilities in Rochester, New York, Aurora, Illinois and Oakville, Ontario, Rochester Midland Corporation maintains a diverse portfolio of products to i...
     - Chemical manufacturing
  • Rohrbach's
    Rohrbach's

    Rohrbach's is a microbrewer of craft beer in Rochester, NY.External links*...
     - Microbrewery
  • Sentry Safe - Security systems
  • Upstate Airport Express - Car Service/Airport Transportation
  • Ward's Natural Science
    Ward's Natural Science

    Ward's Natural Science has been a leading supplier of science education materials for high school and college-level studies since 1862. Areas of focus include: geology, earth science, biology, chemistry, environmental science, forensic science, and physical science....
    - Science educational materials
  • Wegmans - Grocery store chain
  • Wet Planet Beverages
    Wet Planet Beverages

    Wet Planet Beverages, of Rochester, New York, New York is the company which produces Jolt Cola, Napa Valley Soda, Thornwood Estates, Autumn frost, and DNA . They are also a distributor for Martinelli's....
     - Creator of Jolt cola
    Jolt Cola

    Jolt Cola is a Carbonation soft drink produced by Wet Planet Beverages. It was created in 1985 by C. J. Rapp as a highly caffeine cola. It is targeted towards students and young professionals, stressing its use as a stimulant in a similar manner as energy drinks....


Locally founded corporations that have since moved their headquarters to other locations include French's
French's

French's is an United States manufacturer of prepared Mustard condiment. Created by Robert Timothy French, French's mustard debuted to the world at the 1904 St....
, Gannett, Western Union
Western Union

The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is at Englewood, Colorado, and its international marketing and commercial services headquarters are in Montvale, New Jersey....
, Champion
Champion (sportswear)

Champion is a manufacturer of clothing, specializing in sportswear. The brand is a subsidiary of HanesBrands Inc. , which was Spin out by the Sara Lee ....
 and Xerox
Xerox

Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
.

Many other large companies have a significant presence in Rochester.
  • Arch Chemicals - Specialty chemicals to control dandruff, mold, and mildew
  • Barilla Group - Pasta production
  • CooperVision
    CooperVision

    CooperVision was founded in 1979 and is the 4th largest contact lens maker in the world and the number one manufacturer of toric lenses. With headquarters in Lake Forest, California it manufactures in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Juana D?az, Puerto Rico; Norfolk, Virginia; Rochester, New York; Adelaide, Australia; Hamble in Hampshire England;...
    - Contact Lens manufacturer
  • Corning Incorporated - Glass and related products
  • Delphi
    Delphi (auto parts)

    Delphi is an automotive parts company headquartered in Troy, Michigan, United States. Delphi is one of the world's largest automotive parts manufacturers and has approximately 169,500 employees ....
     - auto parts manufacturer has a research and development department
  • Eastman Chemical Company
    Eastman Chemical Company

    Eastman Chemical Company is a United States based chemical company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, fibers, and plastics. Eastman has 16 manufacturing sites in 10 countries, supplying its products throughout the world....
     - Chemical manufacturing and research
  • Exxon Mobil - Research and Development
  • FedEx
    FedEx

    FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used until 2000....
     - Transportation - Express, Ground and Freight terminals located in Rochester. Empire District office and FedEx Services located in nearby Henrietta.
  • Firth Rixson - Jet engine parts manufacturer
  • General Electric
    General Electric

    The General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational corporation United States technology and Service s conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York....
     - Digital Energy Communications division, known as GE MDS
  • General Motors
    General Motors

    General Motors Corporation , founded in 1908, is the world's second-largest automaker after Toyota, ranked by 2008 global unit sales. GM was the global sales leader for 77 consecutive calendar years from 1931 to 2008....
     - hydrogen powered research and development
  • Global Crossing
    Global Crossing

    Global Crossing Limited is a telecommunications company that provides computer networking services worldwide. It maintains a large backbone and offers peering, VPN, leased lines, audio and video conferencing, long distance telephone, managed services, dialup, colocation and VoIP, to customers ranging from individuals to large enterprises and...
     - Telecommunications
  • Harris
    Harris Corporation

    Harris Corporation is an international communications equipment company that produces wireless equipment, electronic systems, and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, and commercial sectors....
      - RF engineers radios and communications equipment
  • ITT Corporation
    ITT Corporation

    ITT Corporation is a global diversified manufacturing company with 2007 revenues of $9.0 billion. ITT participates in global markets including water and fluids management, defense and security, and motion and flow control....
     - Space Systems Division headquartered here
  • Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson

    Johnson & Johnson is a global United States pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....
    's Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
    Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics

    Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is a Johnson & Johnson company that makes in vitro diagnostics products. It was created following Johnson and Johnson's acquisition of Eastman Kodak's Clinical Diagnostics Division in 1994 , which was then merged with Ortho Diagnostic Systems in 1997....
     division - Chemical and Pharmaceutical applications
  • JPMorgan Chase - Large home equity operations center located downtown
  • M&T Bank
    M&T Bank

    M&T Bank is an United States commercial bank. It was founded in 1856 in western New York, and is today headquartered in Buffalo, New York at One M & T Plaza....
     - largest local banking franchise
  • Pactiv
    Pactiv

    Pactiv Corporation has two operating segments:* Hefty Consumer Products manufactures and sells waste bags, food-storage bags, and disposable tableware and cookware in the consumer market, through grocery stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, and discount chains....
     - Producer of packaging materials, such as Hefty
    Hefty

    Hefty is a brand name of Bin bag, foam disposable tableware, children?s disposable tableware, slider closure food storage and freezer bags, and disposable cookware....
  • Stantec- Engineering and architecture consulting company
  • Toshiba
    Toshiba

    is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components....
     - Headquarters of wholly-owned subsidiary, Toshiba Business Solutions - NY
  • Thomson Reuters
    Thomson Reuters

    Thomson Reuters is an information company created by The Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters on 17 April 2008. It is a dual listed company with two parent companies: Thomson Reuters plc is a British company and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, and Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian company and a constituent of the S&P...
     - An office of their Thomson West
    Thomson West

    West publishes legal, business, and regulatory information in print, and on electronic services such as Westlaw. Its headquarters is in Eagan, Minnesota and has offices in Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, New York....
     division, a publisher of law books and the Westlaw
    Westlaw

    Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of Thomson West....
     online service
  • Verizon wireless
    Verizon Wireless

    Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on a total of 83.7 million U.S....
     - Upstate NY call center
  • Xerox
    Xerox

    Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
     - Manufacturing and Operations


Government

Rochester is governed by a mayor and city council consisting of 4 district members and 5 at-large members.

Neighborhood Empowerment Team

Enforcement of property code violations in Rochester is currently handled by the Neighborhood Empowerment Team, or NET. Rather than utilizing a centralized code enforcement office as most cities do, each neighborhood in Rochester is assigned its own NET office, leading to considerable discrepancies in the manner and severity of enforcement. On July 16, 2008, it was announced that two of the NET offices would be closed, and another one relocated, due to the high cost and low value of operating the decentralized network.

Cityscape


Principal suburbs


Principal suburbs of the city include Brighton
Brighton, Monroe County, New York

Brighton is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 35,588 at the 2000 census....
, Chili
Chili, New York

Chili is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 27,638 at the 2000 census.The Town of Chili was established in 1822 from part of the Riga, New York....
, East Rochester
East Rochester, New York

East Rochester is a wikt:coterminous town and village located southeast of the Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The village, home to about 6,700 people, is bounded by Pittsford , New York to the west and south and Perinton, New York to the north and east....
, Fairport
Fairport, New York

Fairport, New York is a village located in the Perinton, New York which is part of Monroe County, New York, New York. Fairport is a suburb east of Rochester, New York and Perinton is adjacent to the village of East Rochester, New York , and the towns of Victor_,_New_York , Macedon_,_New_York , Pittsford , New York , and Penfield, New York...
, Gates
Gates, New York

Gates is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York. The town is named after General Horatio Gates.The population was 29,275 at the 2000 census....
, Greece, Henrietta
Henrietta, New York

Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 39,028 at the 2000 census....
, Irondequoit
Irondequoit, New York

Irondequoit is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 52,354.The Town of Irondequoit is a major suburb of the Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, lying just north and east of the city limits....
, Penfield
Penfield, New York

Penfield is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 34,645 at the 2000 census, increasing 14.6 percent from 1990....
, Pittsford
Pittsford (town), New York

Pittsford is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States and is an affluent suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 27,219 at the 2000 census....
, Spencerport
Spencerport, New York

Spencerport is a village in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States, and a suburb of Rochester, New York. The population count was 3,559 at the 2000 census....
, Hilton
Hilton, New York

Hilton is a village in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 5,856 at the 2000 census. The community was named for the Rev....
, Brockport
Brockport, New York

Brockport is a village located in the Sweden, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 8,103 at the 2000 census....
, Victor
Victor (town), New York

Victor is a town in Ontario County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 9,977 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Claudius Victor Boughton, a hero of the War of 1812....
, and Webster
Webster (town), New York

Webster is a town in the northeast corner of Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The town is named after orator and statesman Daniel Webster....
.

Neighborhoods

Rochester has a number of neighborhoods, as well as popular communities in the inner ring suburbs, Brighton
Brighton, Monroe County, New York

Brighton is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 35,588 at the 2000 census....
, Irondequoit
Irondequoit, New York

Irondequoit is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 52,354.The Town of Irondequoit is a major suburb of the Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, lying just north and east of the city limits....
 and Greece
Greece (town), New York

Greece is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. As of the 2000 United States census, the town had a total population of 14,614....
. 19th Ward, 14621 Community, Barnard, Beechwood, Browncroft, Cascade District, Cobbs Hill, Charlotte, Corn Hill, Dewey, Dutchtown, Edgerton, German Village, Grove Place, High Falls District, Lyell-Otis, Maplewood, Marketview Heights, Mt. Read, Park Avenue, Plymouth-Exchange, Southwest, East End, South Wedge, Swillburg, University-Atlantic, Upper Monroe, and more are all recognized communities.

19th Ward
The 19th Ward is a southwest neighborhood bordered by Genesee Street, West Avenue, the Erie Canal, and is across the river from the University of Rochester. Now known by its slogan "Urban by Choice", in the early 1800s the area was known as Castletown and by 1930 was a booming residential area for doctors, lawyers, and skilled workers. Homes in the neighborhood typically have gumwood trim, leaded glass, fireplaces, hardwood floors, and open porches. The 19th Ward has had an active community association since 1965, and is known for its diversity. The current "Brooks Landing" development is bringing new economic development to the community.

Browncroft
The Browncroft neighborhood is a hidden gem. Built on the former nursery grounds of the Elwanger and Barry nursery, these homes are grand and well preserved. The business district situated on Winton Rd has an eclectic mix of restaurants and shops. Homes found on Dorchester, Gramercy Park, Corwin, and Windemere have beautiful architecture.

Charlotte
Charlotte
Charlotte, Rochester, New York

Charlotte is a neighborhood in Rochester, New York located at the mouth of the Genesee River along Lake Ontario. It is the home of the Port of Rochester....
 (shar-LOT) is a lake front community in Rochester bordering Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
. It is home to Ontario Beach Park, commonly known as Charlotte Beach, which is a popular summer destination for Rochesterians. A new terminal was built following the purchase of a ferry that was slated as a gateway between Rochester and Toronto, but was later sold due to poor management. The terminal still exists, housing a burger, sushi, and ice cream parlor.

Corn Hill
The Corn Hill neighborhood near downtown is one of the nation's best preserved Victorian neighborhoods and a center for art. It is also home to Corn Hill Landing, a shopping and housing strip located on the Genesee River. The annual Corn Hill Art Festival is one of the city's most popular gatherings for art display.

East End
The East End is a residential neighborhood in Downtown Rochester but also the main nightlife district. The Eastman Theater and the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
 are in the East End, along with the Little Theatre
Little Theatre

The Little Theatre is a movie theatre located on historic East Avenue in downtown Rochester, New York and a modest non-profit multiplex specializing in art film, including independent and foreign productions outside the United States....
, an independent film theatre and many clubs, bars and high-end restaurants.

Maplewood
Maplewood is a northwest neighborhood located south of Eastman Business Park and between the Genesee River
Genesee River

The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
 and Dewey Avenue. Much of the area's charm comes from the use of parkways as well as parks and greenspace bordering the river. These features are the result of plans designed by Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an United States journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, New York....
. The Maplewood Rose Garden is the second largest Rose Test Garden in the United States.

Park Avenue
The area around Park Avenue in southeast Rochester is considered by some the Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
 of Rochester. It is a popular area, especially for students and young people. Lining the streets are cafes, shops, pubs and restaurants. In a broader view, the total area surrounding University Avenue is one of the most culture and art-rich sections of the city. Located here are the Village Gate, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Museum and Science Center
Rochester Museum and Science Center

The Rochester Museum and Science Center, or RMSC, is a museum in Rochester, New York that features many exhibits related to science. These include AdventureZone, the newly expanded Expedition Earth, How Things Work, and other traveling interactive exhibits, in addition to the permanent historical galleries....
, Rochester Public Market, ARTWalk, George Eastman House
George Eastman House

The George Eastman House is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA....
 and high-end residential streets such as Granger Drive, East Boulevard, Douglas Road, Westminster Street, and Berkeley Street.

Plymouth-Exchange
Also known by the abbreviation PLEX, the Plymouth-Exchange neighborhood serves it purpose by the affordable housing for lower income families. Also home to many University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
 students, both grad and undergrad, it has a richly knit community and an active neighborhood association.

South Wedge
The South Wedge neighborhood dates back to 1827, prior to the incorporation of Rochester as a city.. The area is bordered by Byron street in the north, Goodman St. and Interstate 490
Interstate 490 (New York)

Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
 on its east, Highland Park on its south, and The Genesee River on the west. Construction of the Erie Canal
Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a man-made waterway in New York state that runs about 365 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes....
 (the old canal bed which went by the neighborhood is now used by Interstate 490) brought workers to the area, who set up camps for the months that it took to complete this section of the canal. This diverse neighborhood is one of the neighborhoods in Rochester currently undergoing the process of gentrification, partially due to a recent increase in homeownership in the area.

Swillburg
This pie-shaped piece of the city is bordered by S. Clinton, Field St, and 490. The neighborhood received its moniker when a 19th century Rochester pig farmer utilized the area to collect swill for his swine. The neighborhood association humorously honors its roots by using street signs featuring the Swillburg Pig. The area has one of the highest rates of homeownership in the city and is currently undergoing gentrification as well.

Colleges and Universities

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Education is one of Rochester's primary economic areas. The city and its suburbs are home to a number of colleges and universities:
  • Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
    Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

    Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School is a theological college of Baptist origins. The present day school, which sits on the top of a hill in the beautiful setting of Highland Park, Rochester, New York in Rochester, New York is a product of several mergers....
  • Monroe Community College
    Monroe Community College

    Monroe Community College is a college located in Monroe County, New York with two campuses, one located in the town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York and another, the Damon City Campus, in the city of Rochester....
  • Nazareth College
  • Roberts Wesleyan College
    Roberts Wesleyan College

    Roberts Wesleyan College is a Christian liberal arts college located in Chili, New York, New York. It is the first educational institution established for Free Methodists in North America....
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
  • St. John Fisher College
  • St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry
    St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry

    St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry is a Roman Catholic theological school in Rochester, New York. It was founded in 1893 as a seminary, and was one of the first US seminaries to accept laity....
  • SUNY Brockport
  • Empire State College
    Empire State College

    Empire State College, one of the thirteen Liberal arts college of the State University of New York, is a multi-site institution offering associate's degree, bachelor's degree, and master's degrees....
  • University of Rochester
    University of Rochester

    The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
     (including the Eastman School of Music
    Eastman School of Music

    The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
    )
Together with Alfred University
Alfred University

Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Alfred , New York in Western New York New York, United States, an hour south of Rochester, New York and two hours southeast of Buffalo, New York....
, Alfred State College
Alfred State College

Alfred State College is a State University of New York College of Technology located in Alfred , New York, New York in Allegany County, New York....
, Empire State College
Empire State College

Empire State College, one of the thirteen Liberal arts college of the State University of New York, is a multi-site institution offering associate's degree, bachelor's degree, and master's degrees....
, Finger Lakes Community College
Finger Lakes Community College

Finger Lakes Community College is a college affiliated with the State University of New York. The college has three locations: Canandaigua , New York Geneva, New York, and Newark, New York, in order to serve the needs of Ontario County, Wayne County, Yates County and Seneca County in the Finger Lakes region of New York....
, SUNY Geneseo, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, New York, are together a Liberal arts colleges in the United States offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees....
, each within an hour of Rochester, these institutions comprise the Rochester Area Colleges
Rochester Area Colleges

The Rochester Area Colleges is a consortium of higher education institutions in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1970, Rochester Area Colleges has numerous area public university and private university colleges as members, and provides numerous collaborative working opportunities for colleges and their students....
 consortium.

University of Rochester

The University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
 (U of R), ranked as the 35th best university in the nation by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
 and was deemed "one of the new Ivies." The nursing school has received many awards and honors and the Simon School of Business
William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration

The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration is the business school of the University of Rochester. It was renamed after William E....
 is also ranked in the top 30 in many categories.

The University of Rochester's Laboratory For Laser Energetics
Laboratory for Laser Energetics

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics is a scientific research facility which is part of the University of Rochester south campus, located in Rochester, Monroe County, New York....
 (LLE) is home to the highest power laser
Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
 in the world, the OMEGA EP laser.

The university is also home to the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
, which in 2004 was ranked the number one music school in America.

Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
 (RIT) was founded in 1829 and is the tenth largest private university in the country in terms of full-time students. It is internationally known for its science, computer, engineering, and art programs, as well as for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
National Technical Institute for the Deaf

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing....
, a leading deaf-education institution.

RIT is among the top colleges and universities in the nation for programs in the fine arts, placing in the top 10 for many of the college's programs, including Photography (3rd), Glass art (2nd), Industrial design (8th) and others. RIT's undergraduate programs have been featured as one of nation's best in the Princeton Review, and its engineering programs have been ranked in the top 70 in the country by the US News and World Report.

Monroe Community College

Monroe Community College
Monroe Community College

Monroe Community College is a college located in Monroe County, New York with two campuses, one located in the town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York and another, the Damon City Campus, in the city of Rochester....
, the largest community college in Upstate New York, has had the top ranking community college athletic program two years in a row and was rated as the tenth best associates degree producing two year college by Community College Week. MCC has four campuses: the Damon City Campus, the main Brighton Campus which houses the Mercer Gallery, the Applied Technologies Center, and the Public Safety Training Facility.

Roberts Wesleyan College

Roberts Wesleyan was ranked the third-best value private college in the U.S. by the Princeton Review in 2007—the only school in New York State ranked in the top 10. It is also Rochester's only college affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.

Culture and recreation

Rochester has many cultural institutions for its size. These include the world-renowned Garth Fagan
Garth Fagan

Gawain Garth Fagan, Order of Distinction is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York....
 Dance, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is an American orchestra based in the city of Rochester, New York. Its primary concert venue is the Eastman Theatre at the Eastman School of Music....
, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Rochester Contemporary Art Center

Rochester Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit located in Rochester, New York, United States that exhibits and supports thoughtful Contemporary Art of all forms....
, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Strong - National Museum of Play
Strong - National Museum of Play

Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, USA, is a museum founded in 1982 that documents the history of play in United States culture....
, the A|V Space, the Strasenburgh Planetarium
Strasenburgh Planetarium

The Strasenburgh Planetarium is a public planetarium located at 663 East Avenue in the city of Rochester, NY. It is named after its benefactors, Edwin and Clara Strasenburgh....
, and numerous arts organizations. Geva Theatre Center
Geva Theatre Center

Geva Theatre Center is Rochester, New York leading professional theatre, operating in the Naval Armory-Convention Hall. It is the birthplace of many new and popular works such as Gregg Coffin's Convenience and Five Course Love....
 is the city's largest professional theatre. Unfortunately, some of the smaller venues in Rochester have recently been shut down by the city.

Nightlife

The East End District in the southeast of Rochester's downtown has the most nightspots. The St. Paul Quarter, Monroe Avenue, Upper Monroe Avenue, and Park Avenue have restaurants, bistros, and nightclubs. The South Wedge neighborhood has a wine bar, a British pub, an Irish pub, a cajun grill, and other restaurants and bars.

Park lands

Rochester Ny Highland Park Lamberton Conservatory
The city's Victorian era Mt. Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester

Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people....
 includes the final resting place of Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent United States civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce History of women's suffrage in the United States....
, Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
, and George Baldwin Selden. Other scenic cemeteries are Holy Sepulchre
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Rochester, New York)

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Rochester, NY. The cemetery is across Lake Avenue from Riverside Cemetery ....
 and its neighbor the Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery (Rochester, New York)

Riverside Cemetery in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York was founded in 1892 to serve the growing population in the northern part of the city....
. Rochester is also known for its parks, including Highland Park, Cobb's Hill Park, Durand-Eastman Park
Durand-Eastman Park

Durand-Eastman Park is a large park in Rochester, New York. It is administered by the Monroe County, New York Parks Department under an agreement with the City of Rochester....
, Genesee Valley Park
Genesee Valley Park

Genesee Valley Park is located south of Rochester, New York along the shores of the Genesee River. The New York State Barge Canal crosses the Genesee River within the park....
, Maplewood Park, Edgerton Park, Seneca Park, and Ontario Beach Park.

The city has 13 full-time recreation centers, 19 swimming programs, 3 artificial ice rinks, 66 softball/baseball fields, 47 tennis courts, 5 football fields, 7 soccer fields, and 43 outdoor basketball courts. As a legacy of its time as "The Flower City", Rochester hosts a Lilac Festival for ten days every May, when nearly 400 varieties of lilacs bloom, and 100,000 visitors arrive.

Near Rochester
Twenty miles southwest of Rochester, the Genesee Country Village and Museum
Genesee Country Village and Museum

The Genesee Country Village and Museum is a 19th-century living history museum covering more than located in small hamlet of Mumford, New York, about from Rochester, New York, United States....
 in Mumford, a hamlet in the town of Wheatland, contains a model historic village preserving local architecture, a nature center, model gardens, and sporting, art and carriage museums. South of Rochester, the "Grand Canyon of the East" 14,350 acre Letchworth State Park
Letchworth State Park

Letchworth State Park is a List of New York state parks located 35 miles south of Rochester, New York and 60 miles east of Buffalo, New York in Livingston County, New York and Wyoming County, New York....
 has cliffs up to high and waterfalls up to high. South and Southeast of Rochester, the glacially formed, Finger Lakes
Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are a chain of lakes in the west-central section of Upstate New York that are a popular tourist destination. There are actually eleven lakes in the region, but only seven of the largest are commonly identified as the Finger Lakes....
 Region has a wine industry and many lakes and waterfalls spread across 14 counties: Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Waynes, and Yates.

Festivals

Lilacfestival 2005
Rochester has many festivals in late spring and summer, including the Rochester International Jazz Festival
Rochester International Jazz Festival

Established in 2002, the Rochester International Jazz Festival takes place in June of each year, in Rochester, New York. It is produced by John Nugent, Artistic Director and Marc Iacona, Executive Director....
 established in 2002, the Corn Hill Festival (arts, crafts, and food in this Third Ward neighborhood), the Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival
Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival

The Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Rochester, New York. In June 2007, the festival was organized as the merger of two existing local film festivals, the High Falls Film Festival and the Rochester International Film Festival ....
 held at the George Eastman House
George Eastman House

The George Eastman House is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA....
's Dryden Theatre
Dryden Theatre

The Dryden Theatre is located within the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York in the United States.The theatre is the primary exhibition space for showcasing the museum's collection of motion pictures, recent preservations as well as travelling exhibitions, and premiers of new foreign, and indie films....
 and the Little Theatre
Little Theatre

The Little Theatre is a movie theatre located on historic East Avenue in downtown Rochester, New York and a modest non-profit multiplex specializing in art film, including independent and foreign productions outside the United States....
 downtown), ImageOut, The Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival held at the Little Theatre, Clothesline Art Festival (artists from the region display their works on the grounds of the Memorial Art Gallery
Memorial Art Gallery

The Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, is an art museum of the University of Rochester and also a community art gallery for the city of Rochester founded in 1913....
), Park Avenue Merchants Festival, Lilac Festival at Highland Park, St. Patrick's Day parade (March), Rose Festival at Maplewood Park, Irish festival (September), two Greek festivals - one on East Avenue (in June) and one on South Avenue (in September), Gay Pride Festival (July), Puerto Rican Festival(August), Rochester Music Festival, and the Cold Rush Winter Celebration (celebrating winter sports in the Rochester area). In the summer, especially on the Fourth of July, downtown after dark is lit with fireworks and a laser show at the High Falls
High Falls

High Falls may refer to:* High Falls, New York, U.S.A.* High Falls, Ontario, Canada* High Falls State Park, Georgia, U.S.A.* The High Falls of the Baptism River in Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota, U.S.A....
 venue.

Vernacular

In the Greater Rochester Area, hotdogs can be called "red hots" or "white hots" to distinguish the common red hotdog from its local white hotdog variant which includes veal and powdered milk in its ingredients. A banquet facility is known as a "party-house".

The nearby town of Chili
Chili, New York

Chili is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 27,638 at the 2000 census.The Town of Chili was established in 1822 from part of the Riga, New York....
 is pronounced with long "i"s: "CHY-lye" []. The neighborhood of Charlotte
Charlotte, Rochester, New York

Charlotte is a neighborhood in Rochester, New York located at the mouth of the Genesee River along Lake Ontario. It is the home of the Port of Rochester....
 is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable: "shar-LOT" []. The suburbs of Riga
Riga, New York

Riga is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 5,437 at the 2000 census.The Town of Riga is southwest of the Rochester, Monroe County, New York on the western border of the county....
 and Lima
Lima, New York

Lima, New York refers to two locations south of the City of Rochester, New York in Livingston County, New York:*Lima , New York*Lima , New York...
, are pronounced "RYE-ga" [] and "LIE-ma" []. The suburb of Bergen
Bergen, New York

Bergen, New York is the name of two places in Genesee County, New York:*Bergen , New York*Bergen , New York----For other places with a similar name, see Bergen ....
 is pronounced "BER-jin" [].

Accent
A "Rochester accent" can be described as a form of Inland Northern American English
Inland Northern American English

The Inland North dialect of American English is spoken in a region that includes most of the cities along the Erie Canal and on the U.S. side of Great Lakes region , reaching approximately from Utica, New York to Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well as a corridor extending down across central Illinois from Chicago to St....
, like a Chicago or Detroit accent. It has been described as nasal, recognized by the vocalization of the short "a" (ć) sound
Phonological history of English short A

The pronunciation of "short A" varies in English language....
: "and" is closer to "i-uhnd" []. It is often described as including the pronunciation of the city itself as "Rach'str" [].

Media

The Democrat and Chronicle
Democrat and Chronicle

The Democrat and Chronicle is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in the greater Rochester, Monroe County, New York area. Located at 55 Exchange Boulevard in downtown Rochester, the Democrat and Chronicle operates under the ownership of Gannett....
 is Rochester's only daily newspaper. "City
City Newspaper

City Newspaper is the alternative weekly newspaper of Rochester, New York. It has been published since 1972 and it's current circulation makes it the second-largest newspaper in the greater Rochester region....
" newspaper and the "Freetime" entertainment magazine are free, weekly publications. "The Good Life Magazine" is a free bi-monthly publication. There is also a grassroots, democratically-run, Independent Media Center called Rochester Indymedia.

Rochester has eight broadcast television stations:
  • CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
    : WROC
    WROC-TV

    WROC-TV is the CBS affiliate in Rochester, New York. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 8 and its digital signal on UHF channel 45. The station is owned and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group....
     8 (cable 8)
  • NBC: WHEC
    WHEC-TV

    WHEC-TV is a television station in Rochester, New York. It is an NBC network affiliate, and broadcasts on channel 10. The station is owned by the Hubbard Broadcasting Corporation....
     10 (cable 10)
  • ABC: WHAM
    WHAM-TV

    WHAM-TV, channel 13, is the American Broadcasting Company network television affiliate in Rochester, New York. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 13, and its digital signal on UHF channel 59....
     13 (cable 13)
  • PBS: WXXI
    WXXI-TV

    WXXI is a public television station which operates on Channel 21 in Rochester, New York, and is the Public Broadcasting System member station for that city and the surrounding metro area....
     21 (cable 11)
  • FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company

    The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
    : WUHF
    WUHF

    WUHF is a broadcast television station in Rochester, New York, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company network. It broadcasts its digital signal on channel 28 and formerly broadcast its analog television signal on channel 31, and is seen on cable channel 7 in most of the market....
     31 (cable 7)
  • MyNetworkTV
    MyNetworkTV

    MyNetworkTV is a television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation. It is the lowest-rated of the six major US English-language commercial broadcast networks....
    : WBGT
    WBGT-CA

    WBGT-CA is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Rochester, New York. It broadcasts on Ultra high frequency channel 40; the "18" in its branding represents its cable slot on Time Warner Cable systems....
     40/26 (cable 18)
  • CW
    The CW Television Network

    The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-07 United States network television schedule....
     CW-WHAM (13-2) (cable 16)
Rochester has multiple AM and FM radio stations including WXXI (Public Radio), WCMF (Rock and Roll), WDKX (Urban Contemporary Radio), and WHAM (News and Talk Radio)

Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American national cable television company that operates in 27 states and has 31 operating divisions. Its corporate headquarters are located in Stamford, Connecticut, and has other corporate offices in Charlotte, North Carolina; Herndon, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado....
 provides Rochester's cable, cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
, and R News
R News

R News is a 24-hour newscast broadcasted in Rochester, New York on Time Warner Cable Channel 9 and available elsewhere on Channel 14. The station debuted on Channel 5....
, a 24-hour local news channel.

Points of interest

  • Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial
  • Cobbs Hill Park and Reservoir
  • Eastman Business Park
  • Ellwanger Garden
    Ellwanger Garden

    Ellwanger Garden is a historical garden located at 625 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, New York. It is open only during the Lilac Festival , Peony Weekend , and by appointment....
  • Genesee Country Village and Museum
    Genesee Country Village and Museum

    The Genesee Country Village and Museum is a 19th-century living history museum covering more than located in small hamlet of Mumford, New York, about from Rochester, New York, United States....
    , about away
  • George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
  • Geva Theatre Center
    Geva Theatre Center

    Geva Theatre Center is Rochester, New York leading professional theatre, operating in the Naval Armory-Convention Hall. It is the birthplace of many new and popular works such as Gregg Coffin's Convenience and Five Course Love....
  • Hamlin Beach State Park
    Hamlin Beach State Park

    Hamlin Beach State Park is located on the shore of Lake Ontario in the Hamlin, New York in Monroe County, New York in the United States of America....
  • High Falls
    Genesee River

    The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
     and the High Falls Entertainment District
  • Highland Park
  • House of Guitars
    House of Guitars

    House of Guitars, Inc. is a store selling guitars, Percussion instrument and other music-related items in Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, New York....
  • Liberty Pole
  • Little Theatre
    Little Theatre

    The Little Theatre is a movie theatre located on historic East Avenue in downtown Rochester, New York and a modest non-profit multiplex specializing in art film, including independent and foreign productions outside the United States....
    , one of the oldest art-house movie theaters in the country
  • Maplewood Park Rose Garden
  • Mendon Ponds Park
    Mendon Ponds Park

    Mendon Ponds Park is a county park located southeast of Rochester, New York near the town of Mendon, New York. At over 2500 acres , it is the largest park in Monroe County, New York....
  • Midtown Plaza
    Midtown Plaza (Rochester)

    Midtown Plaza was an indoor shopping mall in downtown Rochester, New York, the first urban indoor mall in the United States....
    , the nation's first downtown shopping mall
  • Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester
    Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester

    Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people....
    , the nation's first Victorian cemetery
  • Nick Tahou Hots
    Nick Tahou Hots

    Nick Tahou Hots, originally known as Hots and Potatoes, is a Rochester, New York landmark restaurant featuring a dish called the Garbage Plate....
     featuring the Garbage Plate and a charity run in its name
  • Ontario Beach Park and the Port of Rochester at Charlotte
    Charlotte, Rochester, New York

    Charlotte is a neighborhood in Rochester, New York located at the mouth of the Genesee River along Lake Ontario. It is the home of the Port of Rochester....
  • The Rochester Auditorium
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
  • Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
    Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum

    The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is an operation of the Rochester Chapter National Railway Historical Society located in Industry, New York....
  • Rochester Riverside Convention Center
  • SeaBreeze amusement park.
  • Seneca Park Zoo
    Seneca Park Zoo

    Seneca Park Zoo is a zoo located in Rochester, New York. The Zoo covers an area of 12 acres and houses 300 animals. The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ....
    , one of the top three family attractions in the area
  • Strong - National Museum of Play
    Strong - National Museum of Play

    Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, USA, is a museum founded in 1982 that documents the history of play in United States culture....
    , nation's second-largest children's museum housing the National Toy Hall of Fame
    National Toy Hall of Fame

    The National Toy Hall of Fame is an American Hall of Fame that recognizes the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for many years....
  • Strasenburgh Planetarium
    Strasenburgh Planetarium

    The Strasenburgh Planetarium is a public planetarium located at 663 East Avenue in the city of Rochester, NY. It is named after its benefactors, Edwin and Clara Strasenburgh....
    , part of the Rochester Museum & Science Center
  • Susan B. Anthony
    Susan B. Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent United States civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce History of women's suffrage in the United States....
     House
  • Times Square Building, noted for its "Wings of Victory" statue.
  • University Avenue and Park Avenue Artistic Districts
  • University of Rochester
    University of Rochester

    The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
  • University of Rochester Arboretum
    University of Rochester Arboretum

    The University of Rochester Arboretum is an arboretum located across the River Campus of the University of Rochester, 612 Wilson Boulevard, Rochester, New York, USA....
  • University of Rochester
    University of Rochester

    The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
    's Eastman School of Music
    Eastman School of Music

    The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
     and Eastman Theatre
    Eastman Theatre

    The Eastman Theatre is a performance space in Rochester, New York at the Eastman School of Music, the professional music school of the University of Rochester....
  • Water Street Music Hall
    Water Street Music Hall

    Water Street Music Hall is a concert hall in Rochester, New York, located in the St. Paul Quarter entertainment district of Rochester, NY - conveniently located directly off Interstate 490....


Sports


Rochester was named the top minor league sports market in the country by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal in July 2005, the number 10 "best golf city" in America by Golf Magazine in 2007, and the fifth-best "sports town" in the country by Scarborough Research in September 2008.

Professional sports
Although Rochester is home territory of the Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008....
 and the Buffalo Sabres
Buffalo Sabres

The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
, and the Sabres are further tied to Rochester through their owner, Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano
Tom Golisano

Blase Thomas Golisano is an United States billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the United States and co-owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and of the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team....
, Rochester has eight professional sports teams of its own:
Club Sport Began play League Venue League championships Championship years
Rochester Red Wings
Rochester Red Wings

The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York, New York. The oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports, the team plays in the International League and is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club....
 Baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 1899 International League
International League

The International League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States. Like the Pacific Coast League, it plays at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball....
 Frontier Field
Frontier Field

Frontier Field is a baseball stadium located at One Morrie Silver Way in downtown Rochester, New York. The park opened in 1996, replacing the aging Silver Stadium in northern Rochester, which had been home to professional baseball in Rochester since 1929....
 20 1899, 1901, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1939, 1940, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1971, 1974, 1988, 1990, 1997
Rochester Americans
Rochester Americans

The Rochester Americans are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team plays its home games in Rochester, New York, at the Blue Cross Arena, formerly known as Rochester War Memorial Arena, which was renovated in the mid-1990s....
 Ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
 1956 AHL
American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League ....
 Blue Cross Arena
Blue Cross Arena

The Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Rochester, New York. It is home to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, the Rochester Razorsharks of the Premier Basketball League, the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League, and the Rochester Raiders of the Indoor Football L...
 6 1964-65, 1965-66, 1967-68, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1995-96
Rochester Knighthawks
Rochester Knighthawks

The Rochester Knighthawks are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League. They play in Rochester, New York at the Blue Cross Arena....
 Indoor lacrosse
Box lacrosse

Box lacrosse, also known as indoor lacrosse and sometimes shortened to simply box, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America....
 1995 NLL
National Lacrosse League

The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
 Blue Cross Arena 2 1997, 2007
Rochester Rhinos Soccer 1996 USL First Division
USL First Division

The United Soccer Leagues First Division is a professional men's football league in North America. It is the second tier of soccer in the United States and Canada American Soccer Pyramid behind Major League Soccer....
 PAETEC Park
PAETEC Park

Rochester Rhinos Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Rochester, New York. It is home to the Rochester Rhinos football team of the USL First Division and was the final home of the now-defunct Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse....
 3 1998, 2000, 2001
Rochester Razorsharks
Rochester Razorsharks

The Rochester Razorsharks are a professional basketball team based in Rochester, New York. They are members of the East Division of the Premier Basketball League and play their home games at the Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester....
 Basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 2005 PBL
Premier Basketball League

The Premier Basketball League is a professional men's basketball sports league that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season....
 Blue Cross Arena 2 2005-06, 2008
Rochester Raiders
Rochester Raiders

The Rochester Raiders are a professional indoor football team based in Rochester, New York. They are currently a member of the Indoor Football League and play their home games at the Blue Cross Arena....
 Indoor football
Indoor football

Indoor football is a variation of American football with rules modified to make it suitable for play within indoor arenas....
 2006 AIFA Blue Cross Arena 2 2007, 2008
Rochester Greywolves Indoor lacrosse 2008 CanAm Genesee Valley Ice Rink 0 -
Western New York FC Pride Soccer 2009 W-League
W-League

The USL W-League is currently the second highest level of professional women's soccer in the United States American Soccer Pyramid.The W-League currently provides the most complete women?s player pool in the world and is recognized as North America?s best women?s developmental organization....
 PAETEC Park - -


Among cities in North America with at least seven current professional teams, Rochester was determined in 2007 to be the only one whose teams all had cumulative winning regular season records.

The Rochester Red Wings
Rochester Red Wings

The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York, New York. The oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports, the team plays in the International League and is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club....
 baseball club, the AAA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Twins are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
, play in the International League
International League

The International League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States. Like the Pacific Coast League, it plays at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball....
. The Rochester Americans
Rochester Americans

The Rochester Americans are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team plays its home games in Rochester, New York, at the Blue Cross Arena, formerly known as Rochester War Memorial Arena, which was renovated in the mid-1990s....
 ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
 team, the AHL
American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League ....
 affiliate for the NHL
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
 Florida Panthers
Florida Panthers

The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
, are known as the "Amerks". The Rochester Rhinos soccer
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
 club play in the USL First Division
USL First Division

The United Soccer Leagues First Division is a professional men's football league in North America. It is the second tier of soccer in the United States and Canada American Soccer Pyramid behind Major League Soccer....
, which is the second-highest level American soccer league.

Lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
 has seen some popularity in Rochester. The Rochester Knighthawks
Rochester Knighthawks

The Rochester Knighthawks are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League. They play in Rochester, New York at the Blue Cross Arena....
 play box lacrosse
Box lacrosse

Box lacrosse, also known as indoor lacrosse and sometimes shortened to simply box, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America....
 in the National Lacrosse League
National Lacrosse League

The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
 during winter and spring. In outdoor lacrosse, the Rochester Rattlers
Rochester Rattlers

The Rochester Rattlers were a men's field lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York. They were a charter member of Major League Lacrosse. From their inaugural season in 2001 to 2006, they were in the National Division....
 were a charter member of Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of 5 teams in the United States and 1 team in Canada. The league currently has all six teams in one conference....
, but the franchise was transferred to the new Toronto Nationals (MLL) in 2009. Also during the summer months, the Rochester Greywolves, with mostly local talent, play box lacrosse in the second-tier CanAm Lacrosse League.

Two newer but very successful teams are the Rochester Razorsharks
Rochester Razorsharks

The Rochester Razorsharks are a professional basketball team based in Rochester, New York. They are members of the East Division of the Premier Basketball League and play their home games at the Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester....
 (of the Premier Basketball League
Premier Basketball League

The Premier Basketball League is a professional men's basketball sports league that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season....
) and Rochester Raiders
Rochester Raiders

The Rochester Raiders are a professional indoor football team based in Rochester, New York. They are currently a member of the Indoor Football League and play their home games at the Blue Cross Arena....
 (American Indoor Football Association); both have dominated their competition, despite some instability in their leagues, and both have championship trophies already.

In women's sports, Rochester is home to the Empire State Roar
Empire State Roar

The Empire State Roar is a Women's American football team. They play in Rochester, New York at the East Rochester High School Field and are currently a member of the Women's Football Alliance....
, a semi-pro team in the league known as the Women's Professional Football League
Women's Professional Football League

The Women's Professional Football League is the original and longest operating women's professional American football league in the United States of America....
. The fully professional Western New York FC Pride will begin play in 2009 in soccer's W-League, replacing the amateur Rochester Rhinos Women
Rochester Rhinos Women

Western New York Pride is an American women?s soccer team, founded in 2008. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues W-League, the second tier of women?s soccer in the United States and Canada....
.

Professional golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 regularly comes to Rochester. The PGA Championship
PGA Championship

The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
 and the US Open
U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
 have been held at Oak Hill Country Club
Oak Hill Country Club

0::See also Oak Hill Country Club Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford , New York, a suburb of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, has a rich history of golf....
, as was the 1995 Ryder Cup
1995 Ryder Cup

The 31st Ryder Cup Matches were held at the Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.The European team won the competition by a margin of 14? to 13? points to win back the Cup....
. The Xerox Classic
Xerox Classic

The Xerox Classic was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 2005 to 2008. It was played in August at Irondequoit Country Club in Rochester, New York, United States....
 Tournament on the Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour

The Nationwide Tour is the developmental golf tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level....
 comes every August. The Wegmans LPGA
Wegmans LPGA

Wegmans LPGA is an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour. It has taken place every year since 1977 at the Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford , New York....
 tournament is yearly in June at Locust Hill Country Club
Locust Hill Country Club

Locust Hill Country Club is a championship golf club located in Pittsford, New York, a suburb six miles southeast of downtown Rochester, New York....
.

USA Cycling
USA Cycling

USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado, is the national sport governing body for bicycle racing in the United States....
 has an annual tour stop in Rochester; the Rochester Omnium is newly expanded to a three-day professional cycling event featuring the Rochester Twilight Criterium. The city also has three independent pro-wrestling leagues: Pier 6 Wrestling, Next Era Wrestling and NWA Upstate.

While Rochester currently has no teams at the top level of the major American sports, the city does host training camp for the NFL's Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008....
 each summer since 2000 at St. John Fisher College in the suburban of Pittsford
Pittsford

Pittsford may refer to:Places in the United States:*Pittsford, Michigan*Pittsford , New York*Pittsford , New York*Pittsford, Vermont...
. The absence of a major pro sports team has not always been the case. From 1920–1925, Rochester was home to the Rochester Jeffersons
Rochester Jeffersons

The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century, the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing field on Jefferson Avenue....
, a charter member of the National Football League
National Football League

The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
. From 1948–1957, the Rochester Royals played in the National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
, winning the NBA championship in 1951. In soccer, the Rochester Lancers
Rochester Lancers

The Rochester Lancers were a soccer team based out of Rochester, New York that played in the American Soccer League from 1967 until 1969 and the North American Soccer League from 1970 to 1980 at Aquinas Stadium ....
 played from 1970–1980 in the top-level North American Soccer League
North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional football league with teams in the United States of America and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984....
.

Since 1877, 29 teams in eight professional sports have represented Rochester, according to The Rochester Sports Project by local sports historian Douglas Brei
Douglas Brei

Douglas Brei is a former minor league sports executive who has recently garnered national attention as a sports historian in his hometown of Rochester, New York, United States....
. In spring 2006, Brei showed that Rochester's professional sports teams were collectively approaching 25,000 games played. That game was played on June 16, 2006, when Red Wings hosted the Indianapolis Indians
Indianapolis Indians

The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team, which plays in the International League, is the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates major-league club....
 at Frontier Field. He also reports that only six active franchises in the history of North American professional sports have played in the same city and same league continuously and uninterrupted since the 1800s: Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members and currently the two-time defending champions of the National League Central of Major League Baseball's National League....
, Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the National League Central of the National League....
, Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and are the reigning 2008 World Series champions....
, Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They play in the National League Central of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions and played in the first one....
, St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Cardinals

The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
, and Rochester Red Wings
Rochester Red Wings

The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York, New York. The oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports, the team plays in the International League and is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club....
.

College sports
Almost all area college sports are played at the NCAA Division III
Division III

Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States....
 level. An exception is the RIT
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
 men's ice hockey team, which moved up to the Division I level in 2005. Hobart College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, New York, are together a Liberal arts colleges in the United States offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees....
, an hour away from Rochester in Geneva
Geneva, New York

Geneva is a city in Ontario County, New York and Seneca County, New York counties in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 13,617 at the 2000 census....
, has a Division I men's lacrosse team.

Among junior colleges, MCC
Monroe Community College

Monroe Community College is a college located in Monroe County, New York with two campuses, one located in the town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York and another, the Damon City Campus, in the city of Rochester....
 is dominant in NJCAA Division II sports.

Club Sports
Rochester is home to two men's rugby
Rugby football

Rugby football may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of England....
 teams, the Rochester Aardvarks
Rochester Aardvarks

The Rochester Aardvarks are an amateur rugby union club representing the City of Rochester, New York, New York in the sport nationally since 1966....
 and the Rochester Colonials. Both have long histories, with the Aardvarks celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2006, and the Colonials celebrating 25 years in 2005. The Aardvarks are one of the few rugby teams in the country to own its own pitch: Aardvark Park in Henrietta, New York
Henrietta, New York

Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 39,028 at the 2000 census....
. The Aardvarks and the Colonials both have hosted local and state-wide tournaments and the Colonials hosted the 2007 USA Rugby National Collegiate All-Star Championships. Rochester also has a Women's Rugby club, the Renegades, who celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2008. The Renegades started the New York State Rugby Womens Division.

The Rochester Bicycling Club is a social and fitness bicycling club.

Transportation

Rochestercanal Rochesterny

Maritime transport

There is marine freight service at the Port of Rochester on Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S....
, which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
 via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

A short-lived, high-speed passenger/vehicle ferry
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
 Spirit of Ontario I
Spirit of Ontario I

Spirit of Ontario I is the former name of Tanger Jet II, an Auto Express 86 Class wave piercing catamaran passenger-vehicle ferry constructed by Austal Ships in Perth, Western Australia, Australia....
, nicknamed The Breeze, linked Rochester to Toronto, Ontario across Lake Ontario. It operated between June 17, 2004, and December 12, 2005, and cost the city $42.5 million. It was sold to Forde Reederei Seetouristik, a German company, for $30 million.

Air transport

Rochester is served by the Greater Rochester International Airport
Greater Rochester International Airport

Greater Rochester International Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Rochester, New York, a city in Monroe County, New York, New York, United States....
. Daily scheduled air service is provided by Air Canada
Air Canada

Air Canada is Canada's largest airline and flag carrier. The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transportation for passengers and cargo to 160 destinations worldwide....
 / Air Georgian
Air Georgian

Air Georgian is an airline based in Mississauga, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. It was established and started operations in 1994 and operates as a charter passenger and cargo carrier....
, AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways

AirTran Airways is a low-cost carrier airline that is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, Florida, USA and is a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings....
, American
American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. is a major carrier of the United States. It is the world's largest airlines in passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size; second largest, behind FedEx Express, in aircraft operated; and second behind Air France-KLM in operating revenues....
, Continental
Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines, Inc. is a United States certificated Airline. Based in Houston, Texas, it is the fourth-largest airline in the US based on revenue passenger miles....
, Delta
Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines, incorporation is a United States airline based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia . Delta operates an expansive domestic and international network, spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean....
, JetBlue, Northwest
Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines, Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Inc., is a major United States airline headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, near Minneapolis-St....
, United
United Airlines

United Air Lines, Inc., trading as United Airlines , is a major carrier of the United States. It is a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago at 77 West Wacker Drive, and its operations base in nearby Elk Grove Village, Illinois....
, and US Airways
US Airways

US Airways, Inc., an operating unit of US Airways Group, is the fifth largest airline in the United States. A member of the Star Alliance, it has a fleet of 353 mainline jet aircraft and 319 regional jet and Turboprop aircraft connecting 200 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe....
.

Mass transit

Amtrak
Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide Inter-city rail train#Passenger trains service in the United States....
 (passenger) and freight lines provide rail service to Rochester. Rochester has intercity and transcontinental bus service via Greyhound
Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and incorporated as "Greyhound Corporation" in 1929....
 and Trailways
Trailways Transportation System

The Trailways Transportation System is a group of 80 independent bus companies that have entered into a franchising agreement....
.

Local bus service in Rochester and its county suburbs is provided by the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority

The Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority is a public benefit organization which provides transportation services in the area in and around Rochester, New York....
 (RGRTA) via its Regional Transit Service (RTS) subsidiary. RTS also provides suburban service outside the immediate Rochester area and runs smaller transportation systems in outlying counties, such as WATS (Wayne Area Transportation System).

From 1927 to 1957, Rochester had a light rail
Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail transit public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than Passenger_rail_terminology#Heavy_rail and rapid transit systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than street-running tram systems....
 underground transit system called the Rochester Subway
Rochester Subway

The Rochester Subway or Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway was an underground rapid transit system in the city of Rochester, New York from 1927 to 1956....
. It was the smallest city in the world to have one. There are proposals to put in a new system, possibly using some of the old tunnels. One includes converting the Broad Street bridge tunnel—the former canal aqueduct—into an underground pedestrian walkway, which would also include a Rochester Transportation Museum, and a tram system. The former canal and subway tunnels have become a source of controversy. Many city homeless use the tunnels for shelter, and a few areas near tunnel entrances have gained the reputation as being dangerous. The city has considered multiple solutions for the space including recreating a canal way, putting the subway system back in or filling the tunnels entirely. The plan to fill the tunnels in has generated criticism as the cost of filling would be comparable to restoring the subway.

The Broad Street bridge over the Genesee that the subway used still retains the lower track level.

Major Highways and Roads that serve the Greater Rochester Area

There are three exits off the New York State Thruway
New York State Thruway

The New York State Thruway is a limited-access toll road highway in the U.S. state of New York. Built in the 1950s by the State of New York in order to connect the major cities of New York, it is the longest toll road in the United States, with the 496.00 mile mainline extending from the Pennsylvania/New York State border in the west t...
 (Interstate 90
Interstate 90

Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate. Its western terminus is in Seattle, Washington, at 4th Avenue S....
) that serve Rochester. Rochester has an extensive freeway
Freeway

A freeway is a type of road designed for Road safety#Motorway high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections....
 (expressway
Expressway

An expressway is a divided highway for high-speed traffic with at least partial control of access. The degree of access allowed varies between country and even between regions within the same country....
) system which connects all parts of the city and the city with the Thruway. During the Thruway's construction, a disagreement between the governor of New York and mayor of Rochester resulted in a bypass of downtown Rochester, leaving the city struggling for growth.

Rochester's expressway system, conceived in the 1950s, was designed as two concentric circles with feeder expressways from the west, south and east. The system allows for quick travel within the metropolitan area and a lack of the traffic gridlock typically found in cities of comparable size; in part this is because the system was designed to accommodate an anticipated year-2000 metro population of 5 million, whereas the present-day population is just over one million.

The Outer Loop
New York State Route 47

New York State Route 47 was a long state highway around Rochester, New York in the U.S. state of New York. Originally, NY 47 was routed along surface streets through the city, but the designation was later moved to new sections of expressway as they were built around the edge of the city....
 circles just outside the city limits while the Inner Loop
Inner Loop (Rochester)

The Inner Loop is an expressway that encloses downtown Rochester, New York, United States. Although the expressway is a continuous loop, only the portion of the loop north of Interstate 490 is signed as the "Inner Loop"....
 circles around the immediate downtown area within the city proper. From the west are Lake Ontario State Parkway
Lake Ontario State Parkway

The Lake Ontario State Parkway is a long parkway along the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York, USA. The western end of the parkway is in Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton, New York, Orleans County, New York....
, NY-531
New York State Route 531

New York State Route 531 is an long state highway currently located entirely within Monroe County, New York in western New York. The route, a limited-access highway for all eight miles , serves as a connector between the northwestern suburbs of Rochester, New York and Interstate 490 ....
 and I-490
Interstate 490 (New York)

Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
; Interstate 390
Interstate 390

Interstate 390 is a long north-south auxiliary Interstate Highway located entirely in the state of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at the Southern Tier Expressway in the town of Avoca , New York....
 feeds from the south; and NY-104
New York State Route 104

New York State Route 104 is a 182.41 mile long east-west highway in Upstate New York, USA. The entire length of the road west of Maple View, New York was designated U.S....
, NY-441
New York State Route 441

New York State Route 441 is an east-west state highway in the eastern suburbs of Rochester, New York. Its western terminus is at New York State Route 96 in Brighton, Monroe County, New York, and its eastern terminus is at New York State Route 350 in Walworth, New York....
, and I-490
Interstate 490 (New York)

Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
 approach from the east.

Four Interstate Highways
Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System , is a list of highway systems with full control of access and no cross traffic in the United States that is named for United States President Dwight D....
 run through the Greater Rochester area:

I 90
Interstate 90 (New York State Thruway
New York State Thruway

The New York State Thruway is a limited-access toll road highway in the U.S. state of New York. Built in the 1950s by the State of New York in order to connect the major cities of New York, it is the longest toll road in the United States, with the 496.00 mile mainline extending from the Pennsylvania/New York State border in the west t...
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  • I-90 runs from Seattle to Boston. I-90 connects to I-390 and I-490 to serve the Greater Rochester Area.
I 390
Interstate 390 (Genesee Expressway)
  • I-390 runs south-north, crossing I-90
    Interstate 90

    Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate. Its western terminus is in Seattle, Washington, at 4th Avenue S....
     (exit 46) and routing north through Rochester's western suburbs. Its northern end is at I-490
    Interstate 490 (New York)

    Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
    , however it continues north as NY-390
    New York State Route 390

    New York State Route 390 is an long north-south limited-access highway state highway located along the western edge of the city of Rochester, New York....
     until it merges into the Lake Ontario State Parkway
    Lake Ontario State Parkway

    The Lake Ontario State Parkway is a long parkway along the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York, USA. The western end of the parkway is in Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton, New York, Orleans County, New York....
    . South of I-90, I-390 runs to Avoca, New York
    Avoca, New York

    Avoca, New York is the name of a town and a village in Steuben County, New York:*Avoca , New York*Avoca , New York...
    , where it meets up with U.S. Highway 15 and the Southern Tier Expressway, I-86
    Interstate 86 (east)

    Interstate 86 is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It is an upgrade of the existing New York State Route 17....
    .
I 490
Interstate 490
Interstate 490 (New York)

Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
 (Western/Eastern Expressway)
  • I-490 runs west-east through Rochester, starting at Le Roy, New York
    Le Roy (town), New York

    Le Roy or more commonly LeRoy is a town in Genesee County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 7,790 at the 2000 census....
     and ending in Victor, New York
    Victor (town), New York

    Victor is a town in Ontario County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 9,977 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Claudius Victor Boughton, a hero of the War of 1812....
    . It interchanges with the two other Interstates in Rochester: I-390
    Interstate 390

    Interstate 390 is a long north-south auxiliary Interstate Highway located entirely in the state of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at the Southern Tier Expressway in the town of Avoca , New York....
     at the western city limit and I-590
    Interstate 590

    Interstate 590 is a long north-south auxiliary Interstate Highway that skirts the southeast border of the City of Rochester, New York. The northern terminus of I-590 is at Interstate 490 , just inside the Rochester city line, while the southern terminus is at the junction with Interstate 390 in Brighton, Monroe County, New York....
     at the eastern limit, as well as connecting at both ends with the Thruway, I-90
    Interstate 90

    Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate. Its western terminus is in Seattle, Washington, at 4th Avenue S....
     (exits 47 and 45). In July 2007, a new bridge over the Genesee River
    Genesee River

    The Genesee River's name is derived from the Seneca tribe word meaning good valley or pleasant valley. It flows northward through western New York from its source south of the town of Genesee, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, near Wellsville , New York and empties into Lake Ontario north of the City of Rochester, New York, New York....
     was completed and named the Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge
    Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge

    The Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge is a triple steel arch bridge carrying Interstate 490 over the Genesee River and New York State Route 383 in downtown Rochester, New York, New York....
    .
I 590
Interstate 590
  • I-590 runs south-north through Rochester's eastern suburbs. Its southern end is at I-390
    Interstate 390

    Interstate 390 is a long north-south auxiliary Interstate Highway located entirely in the state of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at the Southern Tier Expressway in the town of Avoca , New York....
    , while the northern end is at I-490
    Interstate 490 (New York)

    Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
    ; the highway continues north to the shore of Lake Ontario as NY-590
    New York State Route 590

    New York State Route 590 is a long north-south state highway located in the close suburbs of Rochester, New York, United States. The southern terminus of the route, a limited-access highway extension of Interstate 590, is at the Can of Worms , an interchange between Interstate 490 and I-590 on the Brighton, Monroe County, New York/Rochester...
    .


  • In decreasing usage is the term "Can of Worms", referring to the previously dangerous at-grade intersection of Interstate 490
    Interstate 490 (New York)

    Interstate 490 is an Interstate Highway loop route that serves the City of Rochester, New York in Monroe County, New York, New York. The western terminus is located in the Le Roy , New York at Interstate 90 ....
     and expressway NY-590
    New York State Route 590

    New York State Route 590 is a long north-south state highway located in the close suburbs of Rochester, New York, United States. The southern terminus of the route, a limited-access highway extension of Interstate 590, is at the Can of Worms , an interchange between Interstate 490 and I-590 on the Brighton, Monroe County, New York/Rochester...
     on the eastern edge of the Rochester city limits, bordering the suburb of Brighton
    Brighton, New York

    There are several places named Brighton in New York State. They are:*Brighton, Franklin County, New York*Brighton, Monroe County, New York*Brighton, Syracuse, New York is a neighborhood in Syracuse, New York...
    . In the 1980s, a multimillion dollar project created a system of overpasses and ramps that reduced the danger but resulted in the loss of certain exits.


New York State Route Expressways:

Ny 104
New York State Route 104
New York State Route 104

New York State Route 104 is a 182.41 mile long east-west highway in Upstate New York, USA. The entire length of the road west of Maple View, New York was designated U.S....
 (Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway, West Ridge Road)
  • NY 104 - Just east of the NY 590 interchange, NY 104 becomes the Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway and crosses the Irondequoit Bay Bridge
    Irondequoit Bay Bridge

    Irondequoit Bay Bridge is located near Rochester, New York and carries New York State Route 104 across the Irondequoit Bay from Irondequoit, New York to Webster, New York near intersection with New York State Route 590....
    . On the other side of the Bay Bridge, in the town of Webster, NY 104 has exits before returning to an at-grade highway at Basket Road.
Ny 390
New York State Route 390
New York State Route 390

New York State Route 390 is an long north-south limited-access highway state highway located along the western edge of the city of Rochester, New York....
  • NY 390 is an extension of Interstate 390 from the I-390/I-490 interchange in Gates. The northern terminus is at the Lake Ontario State Parkway in Greece, less than a mile from the Lake Ontario shoreline.
Ny 531
New York State Route 531
New York State Route 531

New York State Route 531 is an long state highway currently located entirely within Monroe County, New York in western New York. The route, a limited-access highway for all eight miles , serves as a connector between the northwestern suburbs of Rochester, New York and Interstate 490 ....
 (Spencerport Expressway)
  • NY 531 serves as a connector between the northwestern suburbs of Rochester and Interstate 490.
Ny 590
New York State Route 590
New York State Route 590

New York State Route 590 is a long north-south state highway located in the close suburbs of Rochester, New York, United States. The southern terminus of the route, a limited-access highway extension of Interstate 590, is at the Can of Worms , an interchange between Interstate 490 and I-590 on the Brighton, Monroe County, New York/Rochester...
  • NY 590 is a limited-access extension of Interstate 590 at runs from an interchange between Interstate 490 and I-590 on the Brighton/Rochester border. The northern terminus is at Culver Road in Irondequoit, near Sea Breeze (the western shore of Irondequoit Bay at Lake Ontario).


New York State Parkways:

Lake Ontario State Parkway
Lake Ontario State Parkway
Lake Ontario State Parkway

The Lake Ontario State Parkway is a long parkway along the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York, USA. The western end of the parkway is in Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton, New York, Orleans County, New York....
  • Lake Ontario State Parkway travels from Lakeside Beach State Park
    Lakeside Beach State Park

    Lakeside Beach State Park is a New York state park, located in western New York in the Carlton, New York in Orleans County, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario....
     in Carlton, Orleans County. The eastern end is at Lake Avenue in the city of Rochester in Monroe County.


Notable citizens

See List of people from Rochester, New York
List of people from Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York in the United States is or has been home to many famous people from past and present times. These people have been businessmen, civil rights activists, politicians, entertainers, educators and much more....


Sister cities

Rochester has eleven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International
Sister Cities International

Sister Cities International is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and fostering town twinning, especially between cities in the United States and cities in other countries....
. They are all dedicated by a branched concrete walkway over the Genesee River, dubbed the Sister Cities Bridge (known as the Frank and Janet Lamb Bridge since October 2006):

Country City County / District / Region / State Date
France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Rennes
Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the Capital of the Bretagne Regions of France, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine Departments of France....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Brittany
Bretagne

Bretagne is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south....
 1958
Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! | 		Würzburg
Würzburg

W?rzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
 1964
Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! | 		Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta

Caltanissetta is a city located on the western interior of Sicily, capital of the province of Caltanissetta. It lies in an area of rolling hills with small villages and towns, crossed by the river Salso....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 1965
Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! |		 Center District
Center District (Israel)

The Center District of Israel is one of Districts of Israel, including most of the Sharon plain region. The district capital is Ramla. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion....
 1972
Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! | 		Kraków
Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Malopolskie
Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Lesser Poland Voivodeship is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,267,731 .It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Krak?w Voivodeship, Tarn?w Voivodeship, Nowy Sacz Voivodeship and parts of Bielsko-Biala Voivodeship and Katowice Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 199...
 1973
Country City County / District / Region / State Date
Mali
Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Bamako
Bamako

Bamako, population 1,690,471 , is the Capital and largest city of Mali, and currently estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa . It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys, in the southwestern part of the country....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! |		 Gao Region
Gao Region

The Gao Region is located in western Mali. The region's capital city ismGao Region is bordered to the south and east by Niger, to the north by Kidal Region, and to the west by Tombouctou Region....
 1975
Ireland ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! | Waterford
Waterford

Waterford is the primary city of the South East region. Founded in 914 in Ireland AD, by the Vikings, it is Ireland's oldest city. It is the fifth largest city in the country of Republic of Ireland....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! |		 County Waterford
County Waterford

County Waterford is a county in the province of Munster on the south coast of Republic of Ireland. It is the smallest county in Munster in terms of both area and population....
 1983
Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod is the foremost historic Types of inhabited localities in Russia of North-Western Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast

Novgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod....
 1990
Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Hamamatsu
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka

is a cities of Japan located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is the largest city in the prefecture. On July 1, 2005, the city merged with 11 surrounding cities and towns....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! |		 Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu. The capital is the city of Shizuoka, Shizuoka....
 1996
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Puerto Plata
San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican Republic Provinces of the Dominican Republic Puerto Plata ....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! | 		Puerto Plata Province 1997
China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 ! style="background: #FFFFCF; color: #000000" ! |		 Xianyang
Xianyang

Xianyang is a city in Shaanxi province, near Xi'an. The city site was located a few kilometers to the northwest of present-day Xi'an. It has an area of 10,213 square kilometers and a population of 4,800,000....
 ! style="background: #FFFFEF; color: #000000" ! |		 Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
 2008


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