A Tour of Rochester NY
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2020
- Do not underestimate Rochester NY. In this video, I take you through downtown Rochester, New York, showing you the major attractions the Flower (flour?) city has to offer. We look at great buildings such as the Xerox tower, the powers building, and the Kodak tower, as well as a great deal of the history of the city. Its not every town that has an abandoned subway and a beautiful waterfall on the Genesee river.
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Thank you everyone for giving this a look and supporting beautiful Rochester!
A couple of unforced errors: It is Clinton AVENUE, not Clinton Street. And the Sibley Tower Building and Department Store was built circa 1907, not late 1800s. Obviously not a native or a native who doesn't know much local history. I grew up in Rochester.
I really enjoyed this video tour of Rochester. This city is a gem with so much amazing historic and modern architecture. My hope is that this city bounces back. It has the bones and I love the scenery. We can't afford to let cities like this die. Thanks for an amazing tour of Rochester. Great work!!!
@@jairousparker2311 This is my city and I respect the respect you have for it! I'm always doing YT thing and this is my alt channel. My main channel is gamingg related but I wanna step out of that scene.
i live in rochester ny
I find myself often complaining about living in Rochester but the truth is I can never leave this place because I love it so much.. I lived in the former midtown plaza and that's when I fell back in love with Rochester
I love the hotel next to the river
I worked in The Metropolitan when it was first built. It was originally called The Lincoln First tower and the exterior was covered in a white marble (I think it was marble). I was born in 1950 and have lived in the area my entire life. It’s been through a lot of changes, and I miss much of the past, but I still have great pride in my hometown. You left out Highland Park, which is absolutely gorgeous. There is also a lot of history, e.g., Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Nice job, though, thank you!
Rochester is a wonderful place to have pride in! I plan to do another video about Rochester in the future that will touch on some of the things I left out this time.
Great job! I grew up in Rochester. Living there back then, it was so large to me. But, leaving Rochester and returning years later, a big difference. It's not the same. I am glad that I still have my memories.
Going to college in Rochester soon. Thanks for the tour!
Congrats! Spend a lot of time exploring the city, the more you learn about it the more you’ll love it.
Good Video. Kodak is still headquartered in Rochester. The city is also famous for Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglas.
Ok nice I wasn't sure if Kodak still called Rochester their headquarters. One day I wanna make a video more on the history and growth of Rochester and mention those figures.
Thank you. I'm from Pittsburgh, PA and Rochester reminds me of my city. You also have a beautiful city that offers so many attractions in addition there's so much history!
I love Pittsburgh so much! It’s my hope to make a wonderful video on it some day
@@TheDCShow0 Don't leave out the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR station. GM bankrupted the whole national private rail system by getting the government to put Postal Mail and packages on their trucks. Last mail Oct 1967. Unfunded Amtrak was the result. Rochester is part of two lines NY maintains for passenger rail. The Empire Corridor and the Hudson Valley. These cities were built by trains, not cars.
Rochester is not on the levels of cities like Pittsburgh Cleveland Nashville St.louis
Having lived, worked, loved, and married in Rochester, the city will always be an essential definition of who I am.
Growing up in Irondequoit, a northeast suburb, and now living in a northwest suburb between Spencerport and Brockport, I've always thought of myself as a lifelong Rochestarian.
This video is a thoughtful look at Rochester Architecture by an individual who visited this formerly great gateway city. The city and downtown area specifically are the locations for many memories from my youth. Downtown Rochester was a safe, familiar escape from the suburbs.
That's a very nice perspective, thanks for sharing that.
Great video providing a pretty in depth review of this great city!
I'm from buffalo and have only been to Rochester in short trips, think I'm going to take a good visit there now. Thanks for the info!
Excellent decision!
I have kind of just rediscovered your channel! It is absolutely amazingly well done.
Great job! thanks for sharing
No problem!
Ave D playground and #8 school. Grow up there in the 50,60 and 70s. Makes me cry to see it today.
I lived on Dorbeth Rd in NE Rochester and was a student at #8 school too. Area is too dangerous to visit today. I played in Little League at Avenue D playground.
I lived on Avenue D and went to PS08 in 1964-1965.
My father was from Rochester. We frequently went back in my childhood years for family reunions. I went to the War Memorial for a concert in 1989. That is my only memory of downtown, during the reunions we never visited because my father always said it was dangerous. Hopefully that is not true anymore!
Very good job!!! Loved it. So sad to see Rochester decay as many other cities in New York. 😔
Yeah its a real tragedy, we can only hope there is a comeback in the works.
I live there it ain’t that badddd........ (nahhh it’s a shit hole)
@@EdwardJamesKenway... leave my home town alone..I missed home..Im getting tired of ATL
Not just NY. Most were destroyed by the super highway system. City taxes were used to develop the suburbs! All for a car culture.
@@TheDCShow0 It will not happen while it is totally car dependent. Highways destroy cities and pull the life out to the suburbs city taxes built. Car dependent areas.
Nicely done. Went to RIT 1976-78. Lived near Main and Culver Road the second year. Haven’t been back since 1981. I didn’t know about Midtown Plaza being gone. Used to visit the Latent Image bookstore there. Also shopped at the downtown Sibley’s. I’d like to visit again.
Very interesting! My mother went to U of R in the early 80s and also went to Midtown Plaza before it was demolished. It's insane how a mundane trip to Midtown Plaza or Sibley's Department store is now not possible anymore.
Thanks! I learned a bunch about my adopted city.
My city. Grew up in Chili with a dad who was an engineer at Kodak Elmgrove for his whole working life....that is til Kodak died. He got out just before it went downhill. It used to be a dependable place to work for a lifetime. Ha!
The revolving restaurant was the Changing Scene. I'm glad the building is still there. The shape of that building signifies and is the symbol that represents the Rochester skyline . imo
I would have loved to eat in that restaurant, and to have seen what Rochester was like when Kodak and Xerox were at their peak
@@TheDCShow0 yeah I've never actually been in it, but it was popular at one time. I remember hearing ladies purses would go around the revolving part and they thought they'd lost them. Hold on to your purse! Lol
Beautiful place in NY.
I’m from Rochester I moved to the west coast for employment. I’ve been wondering about changes that might of been happening. Thanks for your post. I found it very interesting and kind of shocking.
I'm glad you liked it! I too am moving to the west coast for employment. I'm sure that its going to be shocking for me when I come back to the east coast.
Grew up here. Good job with the overview of downtown buildings. Sad to see what the city looks like now.
Thanks I appreciate it
Nice work
Thanks for the visit
I Love Rochester l live there for many years.
Jello was founded and based in LeRoy.
It all started in 1897 in LeRoy, New York. A man named Pearle Bixby Wait, a carpenter and cough syrup manufacturer, trademarked a gelatin dessert and named it 'Jell-O. ' He and his wife, Mary, added new flavoring to the granulated gelatin and sugar - such as strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon.
Good Video man !! Very informative as i have recently moved to Rochester !!
We have the same last name! Congrats on your move to the flower city.
How do you like it so far? I am thinking about moving soon
@@seevladimir DONT ITS A SHITHOLE. Ive lived here for 13 years. Its not worth going to. Im only still here because of family and friends and thats it
@@Xsoduss thanks for the heads up! What do you think of the surrounding villages like webster, fair port etc?
The Metropolitan is a fantastic building. I worked for a company with a location in there for about a year until early this year, and early on with them last year I actually got to head out to their office there and train with folks. I was put up in a company apartment on the 19th floor, and man are those views gorgeous, especially in the evening near sunset.
that's awesome, I've never lived high up in. building before I can only imagine what the view must have been like from the metropolitan!
@@TheDCShow0 you can see to Monroe CC and see the Kodak park clear as day from the side i was on.
@@Tarukai788 ohh wow that's a very nice view, I like views that remind you that human activity is going on in big ways.
The landscape there is good they did a great job building the city. The landscape in ATLANTA it's terrible..
thank youuu for this! Im heading down there for university.
Of course! I hope you kill it out there
Paychex! No one mentions Paychex when listing Rochester originated companies. Nice video!!
Thanks for this. I am planning to go next month and would like to hear your description of being accosted. What exactly happened?
There was one particularly bad incident where I was filming the side of a building and a person who seemed unwell mentally started screaming at me not to film her. I'm not really sure how common something like this is, but I wouldn't let it dissuade you.
I appreciate you
Thank you that means a great deal
Hey guys I am coming to Rochester for a business trip, any places you guys recommend for going out on a drink? any recommendations about the area where i should look for a room?
I was born in Rochester, so many changes.
I haven't seen Rochester this clean, did it take much photo shopping. I may have missed it but did you mention how vibrant the shopping was, everyone went downtown, now just about zero shopping
LOL no photoshop, just raw footage. I probably could have expounded on that more. It's certainly a shame how much that has declined over the years.
I worked at that really ugly pink building you can see in a lot of the business district shots. We called it the Pink Palace haha. And Rochester was originally the Flour City because we had flour mills but then the city rebranded to the Flower City because we have beautiful parks, including one that hosts the Lilac Festival every year. So either is correct, but the Flower City is more common today :)
there is a slab of the Berlin Wall inside the Bausch and Lomb building atrium FYI
That's really interesting, I did not know that. Thanks!
7:48 for the correction it's on S. Clinton Ave not S. Plymouth
Good to know thanks!
I definitely saw my crib in this video I'm not going to say what one but it was definitely on Chestnut
I went too college at RIT and would go downtown to get on Friday or Saturday night Garbage plate at the original place downtown off Main Street!
Not the best city, but there’s definitely some awesome buildings
Yeah it’s definitely not the best city but then again very few are.
Being from Rochester it's always funny when people from other states assume Rochester is close to nyc lol
I’ve never heard of people assuming that, but I get why it’s funny lol. It’s funny because Rochester is nowhere near NYC (the city that needs to stop effectively controlling our state’s politics). Like, it’s closer to Albany than it is to NYC.
Ikr. I get that a lot in ATLANTA
No mention was made of the New Train station. Which has one direct train I use all the time to Chicago and west. THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED. Amtrak today. Part of the loss of the city and the mess it became was the loss of the Rapid Transit Subway. Other cities are spending billions for the new life and investment passenger rail brings. Yet Rochester sticks with a all bus system. Which is maintained for only the poor to ride. Rochester, NY needs to visit Rochester,. Minnesota! See what they did with there clean, safe warm in the winter, cool in the summer Subway! You can blame the decline of Rochester and other major cities on the dependence of the car and fuel for it. Which drew the life of the city to suburbs built with city taxes.
This is a well produced video. the best part is the meth spoon at then end> oooooo Rochester.......... Also , go to the Lilac festival in spring.
Thank you! Someday I'm gonna make an improved version of this video and I'm going to be at all the festivals!
Heard about the garbage plate
When I was in Buffalo NY living
Yes the garbage plate is legendary throughout Western NY
5:28 That circular "thing" was a revolving restaurant. Really big deal for muckey mucks to have their business lunches at. I worked in that building when I was 19 yo.
Grew up in Rochester, lived in many parts. Left in 1993. I regret that I had ro leave.
I live in Rochester and it is great I live in penfield
Yea Rochester is the best no question
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"I was accosted by three different people ... you should go visit"
I grew up in the Rochester area, other than going the War Memorial (oops, I mean Blue Cross Arena), Geva Theater, The Museum of Play, and Dinosaur Barbecue I have never felt the need to walk around downtown...
I personally believe you're missing out on a lot. I recommend visiting because I really like walking around, and it's too bad you never felt the need and potentially missed out on great fun.
If you were accosted by only 3 people, you must have caught it on a good day. I was born and raised here. Lived and worked in the downtown area for years. There's some nice architecture but the city itself is a dump. It gets really sketchy after dark
@Radio Hurricane innapropriate and rude.
@@TheDCShow0 besides Patriots use their right to walk anywhere they want! Let’s return back to , don’t play that shit here!
Is there some kind of ferry or other transportation from Rochester to Canada?
Alas no, though I’m pretty sure that there was at one point
There was a ferry, but it bombed quickly
Don't know why anyone would give this a thumbs down! Thanks for all the pics and history!
Thanks! I think the production value could have been better; my newer videos are better in that respect.
My father father worked in Sears and Robock, shoes Sales man back in the 1930s
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Nice job on the video. Sad to say many impressions of this city were from this summer when the 2 elderly business owners got wood planked by a bunch of thugs and of course with its ongoing police issues. I worked for Xerox during my senior year in security to pay off college bills and it was a nice area where it was. I then did my college internship in Rochester for the Amerks in 1979 and lived right oustide the city renting a room in a big old house. Back then there were alot of great nearby neighborhoods with big old homes. Then the city seemed to be ok and it was both large enough yet small like all NYS upstate cities. It did have its good and bad areas and the black areas were pretty rough back then but downtown near War Memorial was pretty good. At least for my time there I never saw problems. Again like NYS upstate cities its a short ride to the safety and seclusion of rural like suburbs that are very nice and reasonably priced from what I still see. I honestly have not been back there since graduation 79. Hey I went to Brockport and does anyone here remember Sal`s Birdland in Rochester area-a great place for chicken.
Sal's Birdland is still alive and well.
@@cdcaleo Wow- Thanks
@@54GARYBOY The exact same menu, still owned by the same family. You can order their sauces online.
Great food.
@@cdcaleo I checked out the site. When things break up here would be worth a trip there. I never even thought to check-just imagined its gone.
@@54GARYBOY I no longer live in Rochester as well, but I visit a couple times a year and try to support these great, old school family owned establishments. Eating there will bring back some memories.
Avenue D is nice this time of year.
Lol
Fireworks every night!
That made me laugh! Thank You!!!
Damn
Forgot to mention the Times Square Building :P
I know, it's such a cool building too. Next time.
Java's great and all, but Boulder is where it's at!
Ok good to know I’ll make sure to note that in the future
Would love to see a light rail or trolley line built in downtown going out to the Amtrak station and airport.
Same, though it's often difficult to decide where something like that would be most effective.
Me Too 4F
I think that would be a great idea there's a metropolitan area with slightly over 1million so they have enough ppl to support it 😉
Amtrak is basically downtown
All the way out to airport tho would be quite the feat
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I never heard of Rochester New York but based on this video it's like a Akron Ohio Like Akron is to Cleveland
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Is Rochester NY near the Strong Memorial Hospital NY 14642 unsafe to live, to work? Thank you.
My understanding is that the neighborhood near mount hope cemetery and strong memorial is pretty safe. I know that the nearby south wedge neighborhood is one of the best in Rochester, perhaps where I would choose to live if I lived in Rochester.
Cant forget wegmans was created in rochester too!!
Genessee River isn't
The Erie canal huh ?????
No the Genesee River is not the Erie Canal.
Accosted? That's why you carry in Rochester. Great Video Though!
Hmmm,
thanks!
Monroe County, you up !
MXR, A.R.T., Alexis...
Subway....1928 until 1956
thanks for the the video, great but unfortunately dying city.
The Eastman School of music is where my mom graduated
Nice, my mom also went to Rochester, though not the Eastman school of music.
Sheen
Christ the king Catholic parish hooray 😅
You don’t see waterfalls in downtown
Richmond, VA: hold my Pabst Blue Ribbon
This is true but I think Rochesters is way taller, and plus the James is a wider river that sorta cuts the city in half. That said the rapids in Richmond are very very cool
And spokane Washington
ROBERT FORSTER
Why are these companies moving away? Can anything be done to attract others?
Its hard to find a man who can drink Genesee 12 horse Ale!!
GOTHOM CITY
How can i move ?
The first thing you're going to want to do is find a job in the Rochester area. Once you've accomplished that, you need to either purchase a home or sign a lease in the city of Rochester. I know that the Sibley tower building that I mentioned in the video has vacancies, but I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg. Once you've acquired a job and housing, simply ship all your belongings to your new place of residence and you should be able to consider yourself a resident of Rochester. Don't forget to update your address with the Monroe county board of elections so you'll be able to fulfill your civic duty as a resident of the flower (flour?) city!
A few things on here who are wrong I guarantee that building he did not make a note 1865 I have a picture of that building before that time👺👎🏽💯
Hate it in Rochester now! It used to great back in the 2000’s and early 2010’s, but ever since alot of historic buildings were gutted and renovated, and businesses closed and left, this city is a joke now.
Gannett media-tv and newspaper people
Taylor instrument co.
Poloroid camera
Aoleian piano co.
Kodak employed 90% of the working people in monroe county. And 60%in the 3 adjoining counties!! And not chicken feed either!! There were more technically educated people in a 50 mile radius of rochester than any other place on earth!! UofR, Cornell U. Rpi, Alfred U.
Dude, America looks so fucking broing. We have streets lines with pubs, live music, cocktails bars, food places, music venues and clubs in every City in the UK. America seems liek it has absolutely fucking nothing except business buildings.
We have nice schools that could help you learn to spell correctly
Rochester USED to be….
Rochester doesnt look lime that. Itbis dirty amd broken down
You forgot to mention dat da reason da rail line and da subway became unsustainable was because it was run by da state. If it was privatized we would still have dem.
What makes you say that?
Dat's just wrong my friend. Da subway was run by da Rochester Transit CORPORATION, as in private sector. They could not make.money off it so closed it down.
THIS is why Buffalo is 100% BETTER than CRAPCHESTER will EVER BE!!!!
I've never heard that nickname for Rochester before
@@TheDCShow0 lol me either, but I have heard Rottenchester.
move to Rochester NY in 2016 and after 7 years I'm really to move back to Boston Massachusetts there's nothing here to do just drug's and prostitute