Rochester Links

Our City

• Arts & Cultural:
• City Newspaper :
• Corn Hill:
• Frontier Phone Book:
• Great Homes of Rochester:
• High Falls:
• Images of Rochester (cool photos of Ontario Beach Park..) :
• InfoRochester.com:
• JayceLand.com:
• Kodak Bird Cam:
• Map Rochester:
• Monroe County Library:
• Moving Here:
• Moving To Rochester:
• My Rochester.com:
• NY Wines:
• NYS Canal System:
• Rochester Images:
• Rochester Insider :
• Rochester Maps:
• Rochester Neighborhoods:
  • RocWiki's Neighborhoods:
• Rochester oddities:
• Rochester's Olmsted Parks:
• Rochester Restaurant Guide:
• RocWiki:
• The Image & the City:
• The North Winton Village:
• The Refrigerator:
• The Seneca Nation of Indians:
• The South East Area Coalition:
• Visit Rochester:
• Welcome to Rochester

Rochester History

• History of the Erie Canal:
• Land Transportation in the Rochester Area:
• Map of the Seneca Villages and the Jesuit and French Contacts 1615-1708:
• Rochester History:
• Rochester's History; A Timeline:
• Rochester Historical Society:
• Rochester Regional links:
• The Erie Canal :
• The Lower Genesee Gorge:
• Vintage Views of Rochester:

Stuff To Do

• Blackfriars Theatre:
• Bread and Water Theatre:
• Carlson Metro YMCA:
• Concert Schedule:
• Dome Center:
• Downstairs Cabaret Theatre:
• Eastman School of Music:
• Erie Canalway Trail (Palmyra to Pittsford):
• FeadÁn Ór:
• Freetime Magazine:
• Garth Fagan Dance Company:
• Geva Theatre:
• Greater Rochester Golf Courses:
• Hochstein School of Music and Dance:
• Jazz @ Rochester:
• Little Theatre:
• Mercury Opera Rochester:
• Nazareth College : Arts Center:
• Rochester Broadway Theatre League:
• Rochester City Ballet:
• Rochester Gay Men's Chorus:
• Rochester Oratorio Society:
• Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra:
• Rochester Scottish Pipe Band:
• Sailing Info:
• Shipping Dock Theatre:
• Ski Resorts In NY:
• The Montage:
• The Water Street Music Hall:
• Todd Theatre; (U of R):
• UofR Cinema Group:
• War Memorial:

Local Sports

• Amerks; Hockey:
• Cornell University; Football :
• Raiders; Indoor Football:
• Rattlers; Lacrosse
• Razor Sharks; Basketball:
• Red Wings; Baseball :
  • Current stats:
• Rinos; Soccer:
• University of Rochester; Football
• Watkins Glen International:

Places To Visit

• Arena's Florist:
• ARTISANworks:
• City Parks:
• Craft Company No. 6:
• Gallery r:
• George Eastman House:
• Hartnett Gallery:
• House of Guitars:
• Image City Photography Gallery:
• Landmark Society Museums:
  • Layout of known apple varieties at The Stone-Tolan House orchard (pdf) : [note: East Avenue (south) is at the top of the page, with Pittsford to the left (east) & Rochester to the right (west).]
• Local Bed & Breakfasts:
• Memorial Art Gallery:
  • MAG Rochester Images Project:
• Monroe Avenue:
• Monroe County Parks:
• Mount Hope Cemetery:
• Oxford Gallery:
• Park Avenue:
• Parkleigh:
• Preferred Plants Inc.; 1300 University Ave. (no web site...)
• Record Archive:
• RIT's Art on Campus:
• Rochester Civic Garden Center:
• Rochester Museum & Science Center:
• Rochester's Public Market:
• S.C. Fine Art:
• Seneca Park Zoo:
• Strong Museum:
• Susan B. Anthony House:
• The Bop Shop:
• The Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Museum:
• The Jembetat Gallery:
• The Mercer Gallery:
• The New York Museum of Transportation:
• The Rochester Contemporary:
• Tinker Homestead and Farm Museum;
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Rochester
  • Monroe County Deaths in the Vietnam Conflict
• Wegmans:

Area Places to Visit

• 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum; (Geneseo):
• Corning Museum of Glass:
• Ganondagan; (Victor):
• Genesee Country Village & Museum; (Mumford):
• Glenn H. Curtiss Museum; (Hammondsport):
• Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum; (Canandaigua):
• Hill Cumorah Center; (Palmyra):
• Kingston, Ontario, Canada:
  • Wolfe Island ferry schedule:
• Lake Champlain ferry schedules:
  • Essex, NY-Charlotte, VT:
  • Port Kent, NY-Burlington, VT:
  • Plattsburg, NY-Grand Isle, VT:
• Medina Railroad Museum:
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; (Cooperstown):
• National Women's Hall of Fame; (Seneca Falls):
• NYS Museums & Historic Sites:
• NYS Tourism website:
• Rockwell Museum of Western Art; (Corning):
• Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum:
• The Adirondacks:
  • Adirondack Park:
  • Elk Lake Lodge:
  • Lake Placid Lodge:
  • Sagamore:
  • The Adirondack Museum:
  • The Point:
  • The Porcupine Inn:
  • The Wawbeek:
• The Antique Boat Museum; (Clayton):
• The Finger Lakes:
• The Jell-O Museum; (LeRoy):
• The Lockport Cave & Underground Boat Ride:
• The NYS Museum; (Albany):
• The 1000 Islands:
• U.S. Museums; New York:

NEW YORK CITY! (...just DO IT!)

• NYC Subway Map:
• NYC Metro Map:
• Boroughs & Neighborhoods:
• Museums in New York City:
  • (some favorites...)
    • American Museum of Natural History:
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
    • Guggenheim Museum:
    • The Frick:
    • The Museum of Modern Art:
    • The Museum of the City of New York:
    • Ellis Island:
    • Lower East Side Tenement Museum:
    • Museumofsex:
• The Metropolitan Opera:
• Central Park:
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
• New York Botanical Garden (Bronx):
• The Cloisters:
• Broadway Shows:
• NYC Restaurants:
• Murph Guide to Pubs:
• Grand Central Terminal:
  • Heart felt thanks to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and to all the others who worked to save this important landmark!
• Penn Station (how is was...):
  • "Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed."
    - "Farewell to Penn Station," New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
• The New York Public Library:
• Hotels
  • I usually stay at the Hotel Newton: or The Hotel Chelsea:
  • But you can spend lots more if you want...
    • Hotels For Everyone:
    • Expedia.com:
    • Hotel Directory:
    • Travelocity:
• New York Daily Photo:
• Here is New York (911 photos):

Festivals, Events, etc.

• Rochester Native American Film Festival:
• Gardenscape:
• Lilac Festival
• Greek Festival
• Maplewood Rose Festival
• Rochester International Air Show
• Rochester International Jazz Festival
• Rochester Twilight Criterium
• Rochester Harbor and Carousel Festival
• Corn Hill Festival
• Geneseo 'History of Flight' Air Show:
• Rochester Music Festival
• Park Avenue Merchants' Festival
• The Rochester Irish Festival
• Clothesline Festival
• A Gathering of Gardener's:
• Rochester's River Romance
• Savor Rochester; Festival of Food:
• ImageOut: Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival
• High Falls Film Festival
• George Bailey 5K race: (...ya gotta love it-)

Transportation

• RTS
• Rochester Fast Ferry:
  • Fast Ferry reflections:
• Amtrak - Catch the Next Wave in Train Travel
  • A pdf of Rochester train schedule:
• JetBlue Airways

Towns; (a few...)

• Brighton
• Irondequoit
• Mendon
• Penfield
• Perinton
• Pittsford
• Webster

Villages; (a few...)

• East Rochester
• Fairport
• Pittsford
• Webster

Colleges, Universities & Workshops

• BOCES (Adult Education):
• Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School:
• Eastman School of Music:
  • Continuing Education Programs:
• Empire State College:
• Finger Lakes Community College:
• Monroe Community College:
• Nazareth College:
• Roberts Wesleyan College:
• Rochester Info-Courses:
• Rochester Institute of Technology:
  • Online Learning:
  • The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:
• St. John Fisher College:
• SUNY Brockport:
• SUNY Geneseo:
• SUNY Purchase: (Alright, it's not local... but my daughter Hannah completed her undergraduate work there...)
• The Visual Studies Workshop:
• University of Rochester:
  • Rochester Continuing Studies:
    • Always Better Spring 2008: :
• Writers & Books:

Big Brother...

• City of Rochester
  • City Forester data:
  • The Legacy of Rochester's Trees:
  • City Tree Pruning:
  • Reforest Rochester Fund:
  • "City in a Forest" An Urban Forest Master Pan for the City of Rochester, NY:
• Monroe County
• New York State

Radio Stations; (a few...)

• WRUR; 88.5 FM
• WITR; 89.7 FM
• WGMC; 90.1 FM
• WBER; 90.5 FM
• WXXI; 91.5 FM & 1370 AM
  • The Thistle & Shamrock:
  • Car Talk:
  • Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
  • The Diane Rehm Show:
  • A Prairie Home Companion:
  • Says You!:
  • Whad'Ya Know?:
  • Star Date:
  • Hearts of Space:
• WJZR; 105.9 FM (no web site)

My 'Best of' Rochester...

• My favorite 'easy' restaurant is The Brighton; 1881 East Avenue (no web site...). This is an 'adult' pub. I love to eat at the bar & order their (always satisfing) open face steak sandwich or get the best hamburger in town. And (believe it or not), they have great steamed clams (when available...). It's where I love to watch the Yankees beat the Red Socks on a summer night , listen to great classic rock on their satellite radio, enjoy some conversation and admire their pretty female employees ... The beer selection on tap is not extensive, but there's always somthing very drinkable and they pour a very generous scotch! It's only a few blocks south from home, so if I get home late and the kitchen's closed, I'm there!!!
• But there are certainly other restaurants/pubs that I visit and enjoy.
  • Fancy night out (a few...):
    • Restaurant 2 Vine:
    • Ristorante Lucano:
    • Rooney's Restaurant:
    • The Olive Tree: (a New Year's Eve tradition...)
    • Tapas 177:
    • Remington's:
    • Richardson's Canal House:
    • bamba bistro:
  • Less fancy...
    • Timothy Patrick's:
    • Northside Inn; 311 N Washington St, East Rochester (no web site...)
  • BBQ:
    • The Beale Street Cafe: (Plus, the best 'wings' in town. Tell them to do them 'crisp'...)
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que:
    • Sticky Lips Pit BBQ:
    • Country Sweet Chicken & Ribs: (Sometimes ya just gotta have it...)
  • Mexican:
    • Salenas:
  • Breakfast:
    • James Brown's Place:
  • Pizza:
    • Veneto Woodfired Pizza and Pasta:
    • Guida's Pizzeria (404 Empire Blvd.location):
      • Pizza; Slices (a few):
        • Little Venice; 742 South Avenue:
        • J & L's:
        • Pontillo's:
          • 665 Rt. 96; Bushnell's Basin
          • 725 Park Avenue; Rochester
        • Wegmans:
          • Perinton Store
          • Pittsford Plaza Store
        • Orginal Bay Goodman Pizza
          • N.Winton Road @ Blossom Road
  • Japanese:
    • Plumhouse Japanese Restaurant; 686 Monroe Ave. (no web site...)
  • Chinese: I deferred to my friend Nancy Gong for this one! (Gong Glass Works:) Here are her recommendations:
    • Wokery Chinese Restaurant:
    • Royal Dynasty; 1900 Empire Blvd. (no web site)
    • The Cantonese House; 315 Winton Rd. S. (no web site) To quote Nancy, "The Cantonese House is very good, if you can get past the authenticity of the greasy housekeeping." (Sounds just like home to me... )
  • German:
    • Flour City Dinner:
    • Swan market:
  • Coffee:
    • Canaltown Coffee Roasters:
    • Starry Nites Cafe:
  • Bagels:
    • Balsam Bagels:
  • Lunch:
    • Magnolia's:
    • Park and Oxford Café and Delicatessen:
    • Nathan's Old Fashioned Soups:
    • Dogtown:
    • Nick Tahou Hots: (If you gotta have a 'garbage plate' go to the orginal!)
    • A tribute to Nick's:
    • Tahou stories:
    • How to eat a Nick Tahou's Garbage Plate:
    • Make it at home?:
    • PS-- Horizons at the Lodge at Woodcliff, an upscale Perinton hotel, has added a knockoff to their menu. It is called the Plat De Refuse, available to diners at a price of $15.75 per plate. The burger is made from elk and topped by Vermont Cheddar, the hot dog bison, the macaroni flecked with grape tomatoes, the beans homemade, and the hot sauce is actually a wild game chili.)
    • LDR Char Pit: (Plus great photos on the walls of Ontario Beach Park in it's prime; 1890's)
    • Vic & Irv's; 4880 Culver Road; ( On the list only because of how it was. Now it's just 'a shadow of it's former self' - no web site...)
      • Vick turns 90
    • Chimo's Sandwich Shop; 1038 North Clinton (Get their Cuban sandwich!) (no web site...)
    • Rich Port Pastries & Breads:
  • Pubs:
    • MacGregor's Grill and Taproom:
    • Richmonds Bar & Grill:
    • Montys Korner:
    • Johnny’s Irish Pub:
    • Jeremiah's:
    • Pittsford Pub:
    • The Old Toad:
      • Old Toad Quiz Archive: (These can be very challenging.)(...Scratch that!! These ARE very challenging!)
  • Pubs (& restaurants); Out of town ....E-mail me with additional suggestions!
    • Portland, OR.; Horse Brass Pub
    • Tarrytown, NY; Horsefeathers Restaurant (my daughter's local...)
    • Edinburgh, Scotland: If you travel across the pond , stop for a pint or a dram at The ENSIGN EWART. While visiting the castle, after you've finally had enough of watching your wife or girlfriend gawk at young guys in kilts, tell her to meet you in the 1st pub she comes to on the right when walking back down The Royal Mile. Good pub grub & weekend music too!
    • NYC; stop by the Dive Bar on the corner of Amsterdam Ave. & 96th St. (one of my favorite pub stops in the city...); And my Scapa* is on the board! (*see 'My Web Site' below...)
    • NYC; McSorley's Old Ale House. Ya gotta check out this place! Go to the photos on the website...Plus, check out The Urinals of McSorley's Old Ale House:
    • NYC; Fanelli Cafe: (I've always had a great time here...)
    • NYC; Blue Smoke: (BBQ)
    • NYC; Birdland: (jazz mecca...)
    • NYC; Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant:
      • Oyster Bar beer list (wow!)
    • Boston; Legal Sea Foods
    • NYC; Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint: (Go for breakfast; have the Challah bread French Toast with sausage washed down with a large fresh squeezed glass of orange juice on ice and coffee. The best! & yeah; I love 'joints'...)
    • NYC; Zabar's (great food market & kitchen supplies):
    • NYC; Katz's: (famous deli; lower east side)
    • NYC; Arties: (famous deli; upper west side)
    • NYC; Pearl Oyster Bar:
    • NYC; Mary's Fish Camp:
    • NYC; Papaya King:
    • Syracuse: The Blue Tusk Pub:
  • Local Brewers:
  • Custom BrewCrafters:
  • Rohrbach Brewing Company:
  • The Distillery:
  • High Falls Brewery:
    • Other 'beer' sites...
      • Beer History:
      • Beer Links:
      • Brew Monkey:
      • Beer Rating:
      • Lake Placid Pub and Brewery:
      • Guinness:
      • Shmaltz Brewing Co.: (Oy, Amerike ganef! Mazl-tov! Sh'koyak! L'Chaim! )
      • History of Rochester Brewing.pdf:
  • Fish fry (take out):
    • Captain Jim's Fish Market; 2329 Main St E. (no web site...)
    • Pittsford Seafood; 510 Monroe Avenue (no web site...
  • Sea Food
    • Can't find anything decent in Rochester! (Bummer!) Head to NYC or Boston...)
  • Bakery:
    • Wegman's at Pittsord Plaza:
    • The Ravioli Shop: (A fait une baguette ecellente!)
  • Steak:
    • Do it right; Buy a 'cut to order' porterhouse from R's Food Market, Inc. ; 2294 Monroe Ave.or Village Fair; 119 W Commercial St.; East Rochester & do it up over real charcoal briquettes on the grill on a Saturday or Sunday evening. Sit on the deck with a book, beer & some good cheddar cheese and crackers while waiting for the fire to burn down to cooking coals. Don't forget to have a fresh green salad thrown together, have some good bread on hand and pop open a good bottle of merlot...enjoy! La vie est bonne!
      • Is Barbecue Good For You?:
  • Liquor Store:
    • Whitehouse Liquor:
  • Hungry, but don't want to go out or cook? Here's a very cool option; To Go Taxi:
  • A very well done food blog site; Tastingmenu.com:
  • Our own local culinary journal blog site; Mise En Place:

 

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48 hour Neighbor Notification Issue

• Open letter sent to my customers
• Regarding the petition
• Petition (PDF)
• Suggested Notification Option
• FAQ
• Talking Points
• Need To Know
• Lawn Medic note to customers
• NYSLCA note to contractors
• Open letter from Broccolo TLC
• County Legislator Info
• Details of the Proposed Law
• My letter to Maggie Brooks & select legislators
• My turf sprayer (PDF)
• Broccolo/One Step petition example
• Broccolo/One Step; Questions...
• My editorial response
• Thanks for your support
• Final forum message & my response to the vote to 'opt-in'

My Web Site:

• Host: Java Servlet & JSP Web Hosting:
• Web creating software: Dreamweaver MX 2004:
• Web uploading software: Transmit
• And it was all done on my 15" Apple G4 PowerBook:
• And many thanks to my good friend Peter Boyd who has been an exceptionally patient teacher while teaching a less than 'gifted' student how to do this stuff... (And all it cost me was filling up his glass with my single malt scotch every time it 'evaporated' with my Scapa 12 yr. old. See review.) He's now teaching at The American University in Kosovo. (Gee Peter, you didn't have to go that far to avoid my annoying guestions! Enjoy Bro-