The city has received a proposal for a 4 1/2 story apartment building at 751-759 Park Avenue (the lot at the end of Argyle between the Wine Sense/Baker Street/True Touch Salon building and the school.) Peter Siegrest is the city preservation planner assigned to the proposal. To be fair to both the neighborhood and the [...]
Exciting developments Park Ave neighbors. Today there is paper in the window of the old Spin Cafe and a fun little poster: Renee probably knows more than me about this, but this is the first tangible signs of progress I’ve seen at the property in since Feb 9th when we blogged about Spin closing. Very [...]
If you are interested in supporting local farms and benefiting from the yummy food grown right here in our own backyard, a CSA is a great way to do that. If you’d like to learn about all the great local food projects and determine which CSA might be a good fit for you, the Northeast [...]
The Park Avenue Revitalization Committee (PARC) meets Tuesday, March 15 at 6:30p.m. in the boardroom (ground floor) of Kirkhaven Nursing Home, 254 Alexander St. All Park Avenue neighborhood residents can attend. Bruce Trombley and Cindy Gellar are co-chairs of PARC. Secretary: Jimmy Catalano About PARC: This group was founded in 1994 and is made up [...]
We’ve been optimistically following the East Ave Wegmans proposed building plans, because we would love to see some improvements not only in that store but to that block. We had hopes that Wegmans would beautify that block a bit by bringing in a nicer looking storefront and better offerings in the store. I know a [...]
A lot of people have been asking for an update on what might be moving in at the old Spin Caffe location. There was a flurry of excitement when the “for rent” sign was taken down a week after it went up. The owner, Tom Trapanovski, is currently on vacation. And his voice mail is [...]
So, there’s a first time for everything. And tonight was my first Park Avenue Revitalization Committee (PARC) meeting. Whoo hoo! I’m pretty certain I was the only one there who was dropped off by her babysitter’s mother (Adam had a previous engagement, so was using our car.) What can I say? That’s how I roll. [...]
The Park Avenue Revitalization Committee (PARC) meets Tuesday, February 15 at 6:30p.m. in the boardroom (ground floor) of Kirkhaven Nursing Home, 254 Alexander St. All Park Avenue neighborhood residents can attend. Bruce Trombley and Cindy Gellar are co-chairs of PARC. Secretary: Jimmy Catalano About PARC: This group was founded in 1994 and is made up [...]
This morning on my walk to work I noticed the FOR RENT sign in the front window of Spin Caffe on Park Ave. I looks like Spin has closed down operations on Park Ave, though no official notice is posted. I know there are several other Spin Caffe locations in this Rochester-based mini-chain. I also [...]
Okay- Not really. Well, there was one. But that was over 60 years ago. Hello neighbors! Renee has required that I blog here to help spice up the new website. So today I wanted to talk about a little history of the Park Ave area. Did you know that there was a subway stop just [...]
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