Party-On Rochester. BYOT! (Bring Your Own Train)
If you and the kiddies find yourselves moping around the house this winter watching the lint in your bellybuttons pile up, don’t blame the good people at the New York Museum of Transportation! That’s...
View ArticleChristine No Like Rochester Subway! ARR!
Let me just preface this. Those of you who follow RochesterSubway.com know we are not trying to bring back the Subway—although if Mayor Duffy announced its re-opening tomorrow we’d promptly crown him...
View ArticleRochester Subway Super Bowl Ad Featuring 50 Cent
It’s been widely reported that RochesterSubway.com is spending millions on a new Super Bowl TV spot this year featuring rapper and hip hop megastar 50 Cent. We’re not going to rain on the parade—maybe...
View ArticleCity of Rochester Squashes Subway Tunnel Excursion
A few months ago two of my readers (I’ll call them Tim and Jeff) contacted me to find out if RochesterSubway.com gave tours of the abandoned subway tunnel. I explained that while I wasn’t in the...
View ArticleRochesterSubway.com Quoted In Today’s Democrat & Chronicle
Today’s Easter Sunday edition of the Democrat and Chronicle featured fairly extensive coverage of the Broad Street Improvement Project and future plans for the subway tunnel. Three articles and a short...
View ArticleChris Luckhardt… Pro-Photographer. Canadian. Rochester Subway Explorer.
Back in January I stumbled upon a Flickr photo collection full of urban exploration photos from all around the Great Lakes and several “rust belt” cities… with several shots from Rochester and the...
View ArticleToday, June 30, in Rochester History: Final Day of Subway Service.
On this day, June 30, 1956 in Rochester history… Service on the Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway (the “subway”) ended. According to several accounts, the public came out in force to bid...
View ArticleSummer Subway FREEBIES! Free Rochester Wallpapers
I’ve never shared this with anyone before… but I have a disorder. I’m an excessive wallpaper changer. I’m in therapy (and doing a little self-medicating) but still, I have a hard time keeping one...
View ArticleRandom Subway Memories from Curlew Street
Jim Hall, age 62, of Farmington NY, recently stumbled upon RochesterSubway.com and was immediately taken for a ride down memory lane. So much so that he decided to share with us a few of his fondest...
View ArticleRochester Subway Tour and Facebook Contest. A Win-Win.
I’m raising the stakes on Sunday’s Subway/Aqueduct Tour. Bring your camera with you on the tour, upload your best photo to the RocSubway Facebook page, and campaign for the most votes. You could WIN a...
View ArticleVote for Your Favorite Rochester Subway Photo…
Word of our Rochester Subway Facebook photo contest has gotten out. At least 20 photos have been uploaded to our Facebook wall since Sunday night and the votes/Likes are piling up. The photo with the...
View ArticleRiver Romance and the Subway. Saturday 10/9
Two weeks ago the World Canals Conference took Rochester by storm and offered the public a glimpse inside the Broad Street Aqueduct Bridge and abandoned subway tunnel. Thousands attended and many...
View ArticleCrafty Rochester Subway Gifts
Did you know when Santa Claus is in a pinch to get toys delivered to all the good little boys and girls on time he jumps on the Rochester Subway? No, of course not—that’s stupid. The Subway closed over...
View Article55th Anniversary of Rochester’s Darkest Day
As we look back on 55 years without our subway, the U.S. Highway System celebrates its 55th birthday. Coincidence? Some old photos of Rochester’s lost subway after the jump… On September 12, 1923,...
View Article1930′s Postcard Decoded
I’ve had this postcard in my collection for a few years now and it’s one of my favorites for a couple reasons. It’s late 1920′s (or early 30′s) and depicts the brand new (at the time) Broad Street and...
View ArticleThat Night in the Subway Tunnel: “We felt we were being followed”
Last Halloween I posted a ghastly warning about the abandoned Rochester subway tunnel. That warning was sent to us by a reader who claimed he knew people who once lived and died in the tunnel, and that...
View ArticleSubway Santa’s Sweet Sack of Stuff
Subway Santa is a little late to the party this year. The lack of snow this holiday season has wreaked havoc on his internal clock. We’ve got just two weeks left for Christmas shoppers—even less for...
View ArticleA Drive-Thru Rochester
A few weeks ago I was driving home from my downtown office and happened to have my camera with me. Not sure why but I thought it be interesting to see what I’d capture if I left it on my dashboard for...
View ArticleRochester’s Adventure in Optimism
Sean Kirst began his career as a writer for City Newspaper (he’s now a columnist at Syracuse’s Post Standard ). He says he fell in love with the haunting feel of Rochester’s subway tunnels and was...
View ArticleSaving Car 60: The Last Passenger Car From Rochester’s Subway
Hopefully you caught yesterday’s story, “Rochester’s Adventure in Optimism” about the defunct Rochester subway. If you missed it give it a read. Originally published in the City Newspaper in 1983, the...
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