City of Rochester

I-490 / I-590 / NY-104

New York's third-largest city and the urban core of the metro. Rochester contains downtown (Main Street, the Kodak Tower, Midtown, the Strong National Museum of Play), the Genesee River and High Falls in the heart of the city, the historic East End entertainment district, the Park Avenue and Neighborhood of the Arts districts, the University of Rochester / Strong Memorial Hospital campus along the Genesee, Corn Hill (the oldest neighborhood in the city), Highland Park (home of the Lilac Festival), and the Charlotte / Lake Ontario waterfront. Rochester was built as a flour-milling boom town on the Erie Canal, became the birthplace of Kodak, and remains an imaging and optics center.