Rochester's Changing Landscape

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published August 25, 2015 and can be found here.

     The following is a guest post submitted by       Nick Russo      .
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I've always been a fan of Rochester Subway content which looks at our city from a different angle. I thought I might contribute something in turn, that looks at our city from an aerial angle.

I noticed this week that Google Earth had updated its imagery to include snapshots from as early as a month ago. It is now possible to follow a lot of tangible changes that have been going on in the city for a while. I put together a handful of     before-and-afters

that I thought were interesting (to me anyway). Take a look at the album and see if you can spot the differences...

Filling the Inner Loop

Kodak Implosion

Carnegie Footprint

Citygate and Interstate 390

Collegetown and
   Golisano Children's Hospital

Dredging at the Port of Rochester

RIT Gene Polisseni Center

Mid Town Plaza - Street View

   Did you know you can also view historical images using Google Street View? Here's a     timelapse of Main Street

at Midtown Plaza from the ground. Some pretty dramatic changes are happening around us every day if we just take a minute to notice.    * * *