Rochester
— — a river city that taught the country how to see.
Not only on a wall.
“Rochester sits where the Genesee River drops over three waterfalls on its way into Lake Ontario. The High Falls cuts through the middle of downtown, a 96-foot ledge a block from the old Kodak tower. George Eastman lived here, and so did Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, all within a few miles of each other. The Eastman School of Music runs into the East End. In May the city turns lilac, and the Highland Park festival has been the largest of its kind in the country since 1898. from the studio
Rochester, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Rochester sits on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in Monroe County, western New York, where the Genesee River cuts a gorge through the city and drops over three waterfalls before reaching the lake. The city population is about 211,000, with a metropolitan area near 1 million, making it the third-largest in New York State after New York City and Buffalo. The city grew in the 1820s as the first boom town of the Erie Canal and was nicknamed the Flour City for its grain mills, then renamed itself the Flower City a generation later when nursery agriculture replaced milling along the river.
The Genesee River runs north 157 miles from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario, dropping three waterfalls inside the Rochester city limits. The High Falls, at 96 feet, sits a block from the old Kodak office tower and once powered a corridor of mills along the lower river. The Lower Falls, at 110 feet, sits in a gorge a mile downstream. Genesee Brewing has poured beer at the head of the High Falls since 1878. The Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge gives the best view of the upper drop, named after Rochester's sister city in France.
Rochester is a four-hour drive west of Albany on the New York State Thruway and about 75 miles east of Buffalo. The greater Rochester International Airport sits four miles southwest of downtown. The walkable cultural core runs from the George Eastman Museum on East Avenue west into the East End theatre district and down to the High Falls and the Inner Loop. The signature event is the Lilac Festival in Highland Park, held the second and third weeks of May; the park's 1,200 lilac shrubs draw about half a million visitors a year.