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What really ails the Rochester school district
I’m a sophomore at the University of Rochester on a full-tuition scholarship. Once I get my bachelor’s degree, I plan to go to law school. Now, here’s the kicker: from preschool through high school, I was a student of the Rochester City School District. Yes, that district, the one synonymous with low graduation rates, budget woes, and abysmal test scores. For years, my schools grappled with low budgets. I had frustrated, burnt-out teachers. I watched peers who struggled to graduate, and some who didn’t. I tried to understand why my district was doing so terribly, while surrounding ones like Penfield performed so spectacularly. As much as I loved to complain about high school back then, those years were probably the most important of my life to date for they taught me something that most young people don’t learn until much later, if ever – that inequality is deeply rooted. While 90 percent of RCSD students are of color, about 84 percent of Penfield’s students are white. Our country’s legacy of discrimination in housing and employment means 2 CITY
that white communities and communities of color remain separated today, figuratively by class boundaries and literally by geographic boundaries. White families are much more likely to have accumulated wealth than families of color, and so they can afford to pay for and fight for the best schools they can get for their children. The discrepancies between the RCSD and other surrounding districts is due almost entirely to the inextricable link between race and class. How can nonwhite school districts like the RCSD possibly hope to compare with mostly white districts when their budgets are underfunded? A lot of people counter: “Forget about the money; what really matters is the parents.” They think parents in poor school districts either aren’t involved in their children’s lives or don’t care about their education, or both. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Rochester is one of the poorest cities in the country of its size. Lowincome residents who have no choice but to live in the city and send their children to city schools sometimes face a host of problems that the better off do not. A parent working three jobs may not have the time or energy to be fully involved in their child’s education. Living in poverty means always thinking about the short-term. How do I get to work tomorrow with a broken-down car? How do I pay the bills that are due this week? If involved parents are truly all that’s needed for
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a child’s success, why do so many involved parents pay to send their children to private school? Why do they live in insulated, expensive suburbs to be near suburban schools? The answer is because everybody wants the best for their children. It’s just easier for some parents to provide it than others. We need to realize that what landed the RCSD in this situation is a legacy of racism and the neverending cycle of poverty. If we refuse to understand that reality, we can’t even begin to make real change in the RCSD’s schools. LUCY FARNHAM, ROCHESTER
Too many people blame the woes of the Rochester City School District on its teachers’ union. Perhaps they don’t realize every public school district in New York State has a teachers’ union. Under this logic, all districts in the state – Brighton, Pittsford, Penfield – should be failing. They are not. Interesting. Throughout the country, urban school districts face severe challenges. Systemic racism has left our school districts more segregated by race and income than they were in the 1960’s. Rochester stands out because the issues our city faces stand out. Violence, hunger, housing insecurity, and poverty are too common for too many of our students. While I use none of these as an excuse, the multiple forms of trauma they create cannot be ignored. Certainly not all of our students face these situations. Yet enough of the ones who deal with these things, understandably, act out in ways that negatively affect
the learning environment of all. Elected officials and the public in general, for the most part, are unwilling or unable to commit the resources required to get to the root of these problems. Instead, they blame the schools and, more specifically, the teachers and their unions. Unions protect workers’ rights and ensure a living wage while providing due process to all. And, of course, they provide a scapegoat to those that are uninformed or promoting an agenda. JASON VALENTI, ROCHESTER
Valenti is a fifth-grade teacher in the RCSD.
Never say ‘never’
I support President Donald Trump. I am 100 percent confident that you will never print this because this does not align with City Newspaper’s beliefs. I am thankful that Trump was elected to office. I am among those who had found the United States becoming as foreign a place as Mars until he began to reconnect Americans and advance the moral and rightminded beliefs that have always been American. Thank You Mr. President for making the United States a country to be proud of again.
to get their music pressed on vinyl and why labels here continue to do it in the era of on-demand streaming? Perhaps the story could have included conversations with local record stores about whether or not consumers in Rochester buy records from local bands. The piece sets itself up to be a part of the current landscape, but only ever looks backward without even an attempt to look at where we are now or the future of Rochester music releases. All we were treated to was a nostalgia trip for a handful of people who still like the records their friends made a long time ago. Ultimately, it felt disrespectful to, and ignorant of, all of the great Rochester music that made it on to vinyl since then. I know that those of us who continue to invest in pressing and buying records by local bands think what’s happening now is just as important as what happened back in vinyl’s “glory days.” “The Vinyl Word” suggests Rochester music on vinyl is a dead concept. But my record collection begs to differ. JT FITZGERALD, ROCHESTER
JOHN BARBARO, ROCHESTER
Fitzgerald is a co-founder of Dadstache Records in Rochester.
‘The Vinyl Word’ missed the mark
Correcting ourselves
After reading CITY’s recent cover story, “The Vinyl Word” (October 9), I can only come to the conclusion that no band in Rochester has ever put out a vinyl record within the last two decades. If “new record releases are still relevant now,” why not talk to active Rochester musicians about why they still bother to try
In our October 9 “Behind the RCSD Budget Crisis” article, a chart showing overspending on substitute teachers contained errors. The correct statistics: In the 2018-19 fiscal year, the district budgeted $9,401,607 for substitute teachers; it spent $17,345,893, overspending its budget by $7,944,286.
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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK | BY DAVID ANDREATTA
When opportunity zones knock . . . About 150 leaders in local government, finance, and real estate, gathered on a recent afternoon over coffee and cookies at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center to learn how wealthy people can avoid paying taxes by investing in blighted city neighborhoods. The gathering, hosted by the administration of Mayor Lovely Warren, was dubbed the “Opportunity Zones Investment Summit” and sung the promises of a tax break written into President Donald Trump’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. The stated goal of the tax break is to entice investors to pump cash into communities that need it most – socalled “opportunity zones” – ideally leading to new housing, businesses, jobs, and an overall higher quality of life for the people who live there. Here’s how it works on paper: People who sell stocks or other investments for a profit can delay paying taxes on that profit if they sink the proceeds into projects in federally qualified opportunity zones. There are 514 of these zones in New York, including 18 in Rochester. Investing in these zones requires depositing money into a “qualified opportunity fund,” which is a vehicle for financing projects in opportunity zones. The potential savings are substantial. If investors hold their investment for five years, they’ll get a 10 percent discount on the taxes they owe today. After seven years, the discount rises to 15 percent. At 10 years, any profit they make on the investment is tax-free. The “oohs” and “aahs” from the audience were audible. Some had come from Buffalo and Syracuse to hear the presentation and the panels of experts – lawyers, accountants, and money managers – who hoped to fuel a wave of development here. Potential investors were invited the next day to attend a golf outing at Ridgemont Country Club in Greece and tour opportunity zone sites desperate for attention, like Xerox Square and the First Federal Building downtown. Rochester has yet to see any significant investment in its 18 zones, which encompass large swaths of the city, including downtown, the 19th Ward,
Do not lose focus on the equitable part of this program and who we are actually trying to service outside of ourselves sitting here today.” - BAYE MUHAMMAD, CEO OF THE ROCHESTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP., SPEAKING TO POTENTIAL INVESTORS IN ROCHESTER'S 18 "OPPORTUNITY ZONES."
Eastman Business Park, and the North Clinton Avenue neighborhood, among other locations. “We believe opportunity zones are just a tool in the toolbox that will take us to the next level, not just downtown,” Warren said in her opening remarks. “It is a way we believe we can revitalize every quarter of our city.” Investing in opportunity zones sounds like a win-win. Pumping cash into economicallydistressed neighborhoods could do a lot of good for the people living there, and help investors save or earn a lot of money. But there is some evidence thus far that the investments could end up doing little more for Rochester than enriching the people running the funds. A recent New York Times investigation found the opportunity zone program appears to be a windfall for the wealthy, with investments being poured into high-end apartment buildings, hotels, and office towers in cities around the country. In some cases, the Times reported, money is flowing to the lowest-risk, highest-return projects, and many of the projects whose investors will now enjoy a tax break were underway long before the continues on page 12 rochestercitynewspaper.com
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McFadden pleads to new charges
Former Rochester City Council member Adam McFadden pleaded guilty last week to new felony charges that he defrauded the nonprofit after-school program he ran, Quad A For Kids, of more than $131,000. The program serves roughly 500 children in a handful of city public schools and offers a variety of activities ranging from academic help in reading and math to sports and life skills, like money management. McFadden admitted in federal court to submitting dozens of bogus invoices for things like office supplies and computer services that were never purchased and pocketing the reimbursements over a period of six years. He had been the program’s executive director. Earlier this year, McFadden was removed from his position on City Council after pleading guilty to two unrelated fraud felonies linked to his time brokering work for Rochester Housing Charities, a subsidiary of the Rochester Housing Authority, a public agency that provides subsidized housing for the needy. As part of the plea agreement for his latest admission involving Quad
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A, McFadden faces up to 21 months in prison, plus fines, and full restitution to the program. McFadden is scheduled to be sentenced on both guilty pleas in February.
Kress leaving MCC
Monroe Community College President Anne Kress will be stepping down from her position to take a new job as president of Northern Virginia Community College, which she’ll start in early 2020. Kress was appointed as MCC’s president in 2009 and saw the school through the construction and opening of its new downtown campus. Under her leadership, the college has also worked to bolster its skilled trades and workforce development programs. She co-chairs the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council with Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Bob Duffy. In recent years, the school’s Faculty Senate and leaders of its faculty union have criticized Kress over management decisions, treatment of faculty, and contract negotiations. Kress has disputed the claims but she received a vote of no confidence from the faculty union last November.
TRANSPORTATION | BY BRETT DAHLBERG
Data shows decrease in Rochester emissions
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Rochester is one of two areas nationwide where carbon dioxide emissions from cars decreased over the last few decades. That’s according to A New York Times report that drew on data from Boston University and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The researchers looked at carbon dioxide emissions from traffic in 100 metro areas from 1990 through 2017. Of those metros, only Rochester and San Jose, California, showed decreases in both total carbon dioxide emissions and carbon dioxide emissions per person. Arian Horbovetz, who writes about urbanism and transit in upstate New York, said there’s not a clear reason why Rochester would be so different from other cities. He said it’s especially strange that Rochester is so different from other upstate metro areas in the report, like Syracuse and Buffalo. “To say it’s puzzling is putting it mildly,” Horbovetz said. Martin Schooping, a program manager in RIT’s Golisano Institute
for Sustainability, said no immediate comprehensive explanation came to mind for him, either. One possibility might be that people in the Rochester area are using newer cars and trucks that run cleaner than older models, and that visible charging stations are encouraging drivers to use electric vehicles, Schooping said. But he cautioned that he did not have data at hand for those points. Schooping also said that traffic tends to flow smoother in Rochester than in many other cities, which leads to better fuel efficiency. Whatever the explanation, Horbovetz and Schooping both said local governments should invest in figuring it out. “I think we need to find the root of it, because I think if we can tell that story here, there’s some data to be shared with other cities,” Horbovetz said. Brett Dahlberg is the health reporter at WXXI News.
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A proposed county law would make it illegal for a person to engage in conduct "that intends to annoy, alarm or threaten the personal safety of the police officer, peace officer or first responder.” But it doesn’t specify what sort of actions it would apply to.
GOVERNMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE
What does it mean to harass police? A proposed law would make harassing police and responders a crime, but it’s vague. New York’s various harassment laws are pretty specific. They spell out what forms of intimidation, communications, threats, or physical contact — for example, shoving or slapping someone — are illegal. But a proposed county law that would make it a misdemeanor to harass police officers, peace officers, and first responders contains no such detail. It says simply that a person faces up to a year in jail, up to a $5,000 fine, or both, if “he or she intentionally engages in conduct ... that intends to annoy, alarm or threaten the personal safety of the police officer, peace officer or first responder.” The language in the proposed law is very broad compared to state harassment laws that are already on the books, so much so that a defense attorney questions whether it would survive a court challenge. Mark Foti, a local criminal defense attorney, said state courts have repeatedly reviewed harassment laws to ensure that they pass “constitutional muster,” and they’ve struck down several of them for being overly broad. Many of the laws were revised after they were enacted, he said. Foti points to two cases in particular where harassment laws were invalidated by
higher courts because they were vague and overly broad regarding the behavior they were intended to prohibit. Both cases dealt with verbal or online harassment. Several state laws provide for felony charges when people assault officers or responders, or when people threaten them with weapons. The assault charges apply if the officer or responder was injured, the menacing charges apply if the officer felt a reasonable fear of injury or death. Monroe County Republican Legislators Karla Boyce and Kara Halstead introduced the bill last week. The proposed law is intended to cover “hands on situations,” Boyce said during a press conference. Does that include citizens who record police activity on video? A county Law Department representative who was at the press conference said no. Boyce and Halstead said the law is meant to curb “disrespect and incivility” toward police officers, peace officers, and first responders. “The disrespect that has been shown to our responders cannot be tolerated,” Boyce said. Boyce is chair of the Legislature’s Public Safety Committee.
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The lawmakers referenced “recent events,” including incidents downstate where police were doused with water, as the impetus for the proposed law. The only local example they mentioned was an incident on I-390 where two EMT’s responding to an apparent overdose were attacked by the two people they were checking on. One of the responders was bitten. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office charged both people with assault, which is more serious than harassment. The legislators’ press conference,
however, happened just days after Rochester Police Officer Denny Wright was stabbed in the head and seriously injured as he responded to a domestic disturbance. The man accused of stabbing Wright is facing attempted aggravated murder and aggravated assault of a police officer, both of which are felonies. The Legislature has scheduled a public hearing for the law during its November 12 meeting. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. and will be held in the Legislature’s chambers inside the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street.
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ELECTIONS | BY JEREMY MOULE
The money race Taxes: they’re what this year’s county executive race is fundamentally about. As Republican incumbent Cheryl Dinolfo and Adam Bello, her Democratic opponent, lay out how they’ll approach county government, they’re really talking about how they’ll spend money that comes from county, state, or federal taxes. They’re talking about how they’ll manage the county’s $1 billion budget, which pays for everything from the Seneca Park Zoo to road repairs, and from library funding to crucial social services and public assistance programs. Dinolfo is nearing the end of her first four-year term. She was elected to the job after serving as county clerk for more than 11 years. As the incumbent makes her case for another term, she’s running on her record, particularly in two areas: property taxes and jobs. Dinolfo plays up her 2019 budget, which included the first county property tax rate cut in a decade. And she says that her administration had a hand in retaining and creating 20,000 jobs in Monroe County, an eye-popping statistic that warrants the skepticism it receives. “We’ve got more to do,” Dinolfo says. “We’re going to build upon that, make sure that we’re doing everything we can to move forward as a community.” Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Bello as county clerk in 2016 to fill the vacancy left when Dinolfo took over as county executive; he was elected to the position later that year. He’s also been Irondequoit supervisor, an administrator in the district attorney’s office, an aide to then-Assembly member Joe Morelle, and executive director of the Monroe County Democratic Committee. Early in his term as clerk, Bello seemed to begin laying the groundwork for a county executive run. He launched a task force on zombie properties and tried to get the county to open a permanent downtown DMV office. Legislature Republicans thwarted Bello’s attempt, but by working with city, state, and federal officials, he helped bring a DMV office to East Main Street. Bello says that Monroe County faces some serious problems, and the Dinolfo administration’s approaches to them have been too narrow. The county should bring people and groups together to help find solutions to those challenges, he says. “I think this community is in need of some new ideas, new energy, and new leadership,” Bello says. 6 CITY
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The race is a competitive one, even in terms of fund-raising — an area where GOP candidates have traditionally clobbered Democrats. To date this year, campaign finance filings show both candidates have raised roughly $507,700; Dinolfo pulled in $40 more than Bello. But the executive race alone won’t determine which party controls county government, since the winner will have to work with the Legislature on budgets and laws. Republicans currently control the chamber and they’ve acted in concert with the Dinolfo administration. But all of the chamber’s 29 seats are up for election in November and the balance of power could shift. If one party wins the executive’s office and the other takes the Legislature, there will be clashes — political or practical — when agendas don’t align. But if Dinolfo wins and Republicans keep control of the Legislature, they’ll undoubtedly proceed with an overlapping agenda. The same would be true if Bello wins and the Dems seize control of the Legislature. The two county executive candidates have some contrasting ideas on how county government should operate, and how it’s currently operating.
About that tax rate cut... Dinolfo’s 2019 budget reduced the county property tax rate by 10 cents, from $8.99 per $1,000 assessed value to $8.89 per $1,000 assessed value. That was the first tax rate decrease in 10 years. But it wasn’t a tax cut, a fact that Bello is all too eager to point out. The county will collect more revenue from property taxes than it did last year, just as it has annually since 2003. Every year the assessed value of property in the county increases, and the tax levy follows suit. That growth in property tax revenue isn’t necessarily bad; letting the levy grow with the tax base is generally considered a good municipal budgeting practice. Dinolfo sticks to a message that she’s helped improve the county’s finances and that recent upgrades to its credit ratings provide independent validation of that. She says she’s focused on delivering services in the most cost-effective manner possible, though she doesn’t offer much detail about how she’s
Incumbent County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo, a Republican, is emphasizing her record on property taxes and jobs. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
doing that. During press conferences and interviews, she often mentions getting out her pencil. Dinolfo offers one specific: her administration eliminated the quasigovernmental local development corporations it was using to handle tasks ranging from IT refreshes to public safety communications upgrades. The LDC’s were controversial and, as a high profile criminal case illustrated, susceptible to corruption. Dissolving the LDC’s has saved the county money, though it’s tricky to pinpoint a figure let alone to verify Dinolfo’s claim that the savings total $30 million. The LDC’s operations were absorbed into county government and the associated expenses and debts have been
rolled into different areas of the budget. Dinolfo lays much of the county’s financial obligations on Albany, repeating the well-worn talking point that 85 percent of the county’s spending is required by the state and that, in turn, the mandates drive property taxes. But she often leaves unsaid that, in addition to Medicaid and social services funding, that figure includes spending for the Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, Monroe Community College, and public health programs. “We do remarkably well with the remaining 15 percent to ensure that we focus on priorities that are important to families in the County of Monroe, and to businesses as well,” Dinolfo says.
Bello counters that Dinolfo invokes the mandates, with which governments across the state have to contend, to excuse problems that persist in county government and to deflect criticism.
The tax rate isn’t everything... The Dinolfo administration has come under fire for a few issues, including high caseloads and problems with staff retention in its Child Protective Services division. To counter those problems, Dinolfo laid out an eight-point plan that added caseworker positions, raised caseworker pay, boosted recruitment efforts, and brought in aides to help with paperwork. Dinolfo says the efforts are paying off and caseloads have gone down dramatically. But in a recent statement sent to media, the Federation of Social Workers said that many vacancies still exist and that “caseload sizes are still substantially higher than what experts in the field consider to be manageable.” Bello argues that Dinolfo hasn’t effectively used the budget to address issues inside and outside of county government. He points to the problems with Child and Protective Services as one example and the county’s handling of child day care subsidies as another. For years, Democrats and advocates have pressed the county to better fund child day care subsidies. Dinolfo included a $2.1 million boost for the subsidies in her 2019 budget and reduced the fee parents have to pay, and now the program has unfilled slots. Bello says the openings do not indicate a lack of demand, but instead show that some people have difficulty securing the subsidies. The openings are also an indication that various county social services are not integrated well enough and that they are understaffed, he says. If someone comes in looking for housing assistance, they should also be connected with food benefits, day care assistance, workforce development programs, or other services, Bello says. The county spends half a billion dollars a year on social services and that money should be treated as an investment to help lift people out of poverty, he says. The county also needs to do a better job linking its social services with nonprofit agencies that have additional programs to help people, Bello says. “You should be using all of those programs to put together the puzzle pieces for our residents so that you give them the extra support they need, so they can be successful and grow out of those programs in five or 10 years,” Bello says. In an interview, Dinolfo talked about
County Clerk Adam Bello, a Democrat, seeking the county executive's seat. He's trying to make the case that the Dinolfo administration has taken too narrow of an approach to county problems, and that the county should bring people and groups together to help find solutions to those challenges. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
the county’s Paths to Empowerment program, which she says has helped 3,000 people with the transition from dependence on social services to self-sufficiency. Through the program, people receive job training and placement services, financial literacy training, workplace skills training, and drop-in childcare.
Jobs, jobs, jobs... Dinolfo highlights job training programs as an important part of the county’s approach to economic development. Her administration worked with Monroe Community College to develop a program, LadderzUp, that trains workers for middleskill jobs. Through the program, businesses can ask the county to train workers for
them if they commit to hiring those workers at the end of the training. Bello, too, believes that workforce training and development is important, though he says the area still has too many unfilled middle-skill jobs. His solution, again, is to team up with organizations outside of county government to ramp up job training efforts. Job training programs are generally noncontroversial. The public has had much stronger reactions to the tax incentives doled out by the county’s industrial development agency to businesses in exchange for promises to create or retain as few as one job. This approach isn’t unique to the Dinolfo administration; her predecessors have done it as well.
Bello says the incentives are important, but they should be used differently. The administration and the county’s industrial development authority should develop a set of priorities for economic development and focus incentives around them. For example, they could be used to encourage companies to locate along public transit routes, he says. County government should be working to build infrastructure that businesses need, from roads and bridges to better internet connections, Bello says. Incentives could be used for some of that, such as supporting projects that include a mix of high-end, market rate, and low-income housing, he says. Dinolfo, meanwhile, defends her administration’s use of tax incentives. They’re one of several tools the county uses — others include workforce development and location scouting — to attract and keep businesses here, she says. But the business leaders she talks to also tell her that New York’s taxes and regulations are “sticking points” for staying, she says. Tax incentives, Dinolfo says, are essential because “New York state makes it very difficult for businesses to stay prosperous and remain in New York state.” Dinolfo says these efforts have helped to create or retain 20,000 jobs in Monroe County, a figure of which Bello is wildly skeptical. In a press release questioning the number, Bello noted that Department of Labor Statistics show Monroe County gained only 5,000 jobs since Dinolfo took office. Bello argues that Dinolfo’s figure is skewed, since she includes jobs that she says were retained through county assistance and incentives. Even still, there’s been no outside verification of those figures; the state tracks performance of IDA’s across New York, but relies on the agencies to self-report. In his press release, Bello says that going by the annual reports on the county IDA’s website, the agency claims to have secured 112,000 jobs since 2007. “That’s nearly one-third of the total private sector jobs in the county — a claim that is outrageous on its face,” Bello says in the release.
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A former paperboy's story of sexual abuse BY DAVID ANDREATTA
On a recent overcast afternoon, a middle-aged man who hasn’t lived in Brighton in 25 years, walked into the Brighton Police Department to report a crime. His name was Rick Bates and his five o’clock shadow and rumpled appearance betrayed the fact that he hadn’t slept well in days. He had driven overnight from Washington, D.C., where he resides with his wife and their two young children, secondguessing himself the entire way. “I was driving up saying, ‘What am I doing? Do I really want to do this?’” Bates said outside the police station. “I have a good life.” In the same breath, he explained that his has also been a tortured life, marked by spells of suicidal thoughts and alcohol dependency, because of what he was about to reveal to police. Only a handful of people had ever heard what he drove 400 miles to share. But now, at 48 years old, he wanted it on the record and his therapist advised him that talking about it would help him let go of his anger. Inside the station, an investigator escorted Bates into a small conference room off the lobby, where he proceeded to describe in detail being repeatedly molested as a boy by the man who oversaw his newspaper route. He said he could still smell him.
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“He was a short guy, maybe late 40s, early 50s, sort of balding. He had a thick Rochester accent,” Bates said. “He walked with a limp, like a shuffle, and he smelled like English Leather.” Bates recounted a series of forced sexual acts he said he endured in 1983, when he was 11 and 12 years old, and a paperboy for the Democrat and Chronicle. Now, he is suing the newspaper and its parent company, Gannett Co., under a new state law allowing individuals who allege they were sexually abused as children to seek civil damages. A lawyer for Bates said the lawsuit would be filed Tuesday. The complaint, which was provided to CITY in advance of being filed in state Supreme Court, identifies the alleged perpetrator as Jack Lazeroff, a former employee of the Democrat and Chronicle’s circulation department. Lazeroff died in 2003 at the age of 74. The claim is thought to be the first filed under the state’s Child Victims Act on behalf of a former paperboy, an all but extinct breed that harkens to a bygone era, when newspaper companies relied on children, most of them boys, to deliver their product door-to-door. “For decades, I was so used to not being able to do anything,” Bates said. “The guy was dead. I couldn’t wring his neck. I couldn’t sue. There was a statute of limitations.”
‘He made me something different’
The Child Victims Act, which passed the State Legislature early this year, gave victims of child sexual abuse until they turn 55 to file civil lawsuits for damages. The law is not retroactive, but comes with a so-called “look-back window” that began in August and lasts for a year, allowing people of any age to file a civil suit, regardless of when the alleged abuse took place. Since then, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in courts across the state, most of them naming religious and fraternal organizations, such as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester and the Boy Scouts of America, as defendants. The lawsuit against Gannett was months in the making. Bates wrote me in September 2018 when I was a columnist for the Democrat and Chronicle, and described in a gut-wrenching email how the abuse he allegedly endured haunted him still. “He robbed me of the chance to be me. He made me something different. I hate that he had that power over me. And I hate that he still has that power over me. I truly hate myself for that,” Bates wrote. The email went on: “I am 47 now and some shell of the man I could have been. You see, every time I get to the point of success
and happiness in my life – for decades now – memories of Jack Lazeroff, and his work, come flooding back. And I destruct.” Bates had copied an editor on the email, and a human resources officer at Gannett’s corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia, telephoned Bates in response. Another Gannett executive, the chief operating officer of local markets, Michael Kane, followed up a few weeks later with a letter to Bates that commended him for his courage and expressed horror at his story. The letter went on, though, to say that while there was no reason to doubt Bates’s sincerity, the company could not independently verify his claims or locate any complaints of a similar nature against Lazeroff, “despite diligent inquiry.” “We were able to contact several people who worked at the paper during the time when the incidents you describe allegedly occurred, including circulation department managers,” the letter read. “However, none of these individuals recalls any complaints or allegations of the kind that you describe, either against Mr. Lazeroff, or any other person.” The letter closed by saying the company was “deeply sympathetic” but that there was nothing more it could do. But two former employees of the continues on page 10
Rick Bates, of Washington, D.C., claims in a lawsuit filed under the Child Victims Act that he was sexually abused as a paperboy for the Democrat and Chronicle in 1983. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE
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Democrat and Chronicle circulation department described in separate interviews incidents that suggested Lazeroff may have acted inappropriately, to some extent, with paperboys. And court records show Lazeroff was charged in 1988 with sexual abuse in the second degree, a misdemeanor defined as having sexual contact with a person who is either less than 14 years old or incapable of consent. He eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. As of press time, neither Gannett nor the Democrat and Chronicle responded to email messages from CITY seeking comment on Lazeroff and the lawsuit.
Paperboys were vulnerable
Paperboys are a foreign concept nowadays. But until the early 1990s, home delivery of daily newspapers was handled mostly by young people, particularly boys under the age of 16, who woke up in the pre-dawn hours and walked or biked their routes before school. Their vulnerability, and more stringent labor practices, contributed to the decline of their ranks. Indeed, a man who supervised paperboys for the Des Moines Register was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1985 on charges that he molested two of his carriers. A few years ago, the weekly newspaper Cleveland Scene published an account by a paperboy who claimed he was sexually abused by a customer on his route. “This (case) is qualitatively different than a lot of the stuff we see, which is big institutions like the Catholic church,” said James Marsh, a lawyer who is representing Bates and dozens of other clients filing lawsuits under the Child Victims Act. “But it hit me that, of course, paperboys were equally as vulnerable as a lot of these other populations that we’ve been hearing about.” Bates recalled earning between $15 and $20 a week for his route, which covered the Townhomes of Eastbrooke, a complex of low-slung condominiums off French Road in Brighton, where Bates lived with his mother and older brother. Lazeroff was a district manager, which meant he oversaw carriers in a specific geographic area. Former circulation employees who worked with Lazeroff, including his supervisor, recalled that Lazeroff was responsible for carriers in Brighton as well as Irondequoit and Charlotte. The job was a mid-life career change for Lazeroff, a married father of three sons who lived with his family in Penfield. Prior to 10 CITY OCTOBER 16 - 22, 2019
Rick Bates outside his former home on Eastbrooke Lane, Brighton, where he says much of the abuse he allegedly suffered took place. PHOTO BY DAVID ANDREATTA
entering the newspaper business, according to public records and people who knew him, he worked in banking most of his young adult life. Newspaper archives show he had worked his way up to assistant vice president at First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rochester by the time he was 38 years old, and had stayed in that position at least into his 40s in the early 1970s. District managers interacted with carriers frequently. It was not unusual, for instance, for a district manager to meet paperboys before or after school or on weekends to collect money the boys had received from customers, or to help with deliveries in a pinch. Bates recalled Lazeroff visiting his home after school about once a week, usually when his mother was working and his older brother was playing after-school sports. Bates’s parents were divorced and his father wasn’t a presence in his life. These appointments were ostensibly for Lazeroff to review accounts and collect money. In time, though, they assumed a more sinister function, Bates said. “He would have these printouts on green and white paper with the addresses of
my customers and how much they owed,” Bates said, trembling. “We would sit on the couch in the living room and he would put it on my lap, then reach around and start fondling me. “I didn’t do anything. I didn’t know what to do.” Bates said he was abused on an almost weekly basis over several months – in his basement laundry room, in Lazeroff’s car, in a utility shed on Eastbrooke Lane where the newspapers Bates was to deliver were dropped off in the wee hours of each morning. “He called it ‘our arrangement,’ and he paid me an extra $5 a week,” Bates said, recalling that Lazeroff offered to tip him more if Bates could recruit other boys “like me.” “I knew what that meant,” he said.
‘He was molesting paperboys’
Mark Adamski was in his 20s when he took on a paper route in Irondequoit overseen by Lazeroff in the mid-1980s.
He recalled Lazeroff pulling up to his home early one morning to collect money with a young paperboy in the passenger seat. The seat was reclined and the boy laying in it seemed distraught. “He didn’t look right, he looked afraid,” Adamski said. “I said, ‘Are you okay?’ He just turned away and looked like he was either crying or ready to cry. Jack got out of that car in a hell of a hurry. He was like, ‘Give me the money,’ and – boom – he was gone.” Adamski added that some time later, after he had given up his paper route, he had breakfast with a circulation executive with whom he remained friendly. “He said, ‘Oh by the way, Lazeroff got fired. He was molesting the paperboys,” Adamski, who is now an accountant, recalled. “But then he told me they’re going to put in his file that he was stealing funds from the newspaper. I wish I had done more.” Patricia Buttaro delivered bundled stacks of newspapers to carriers’ homes on Lazeroff’s routes in the mid-1980s. She recalled an incident in which a paperboy’s father confronted her in a rage outside his duplex on Lake Avenue in Charlotte.
“As I dropped them off, this father, he came flying out the door out in a bathrobe loaded for bear,” Buttaro said. “He said, ‘Where is that bleepin’, bleepin’, bleepin’ Jack Lazeroff?’” She recalled the man telling her that he didn’t want Lazeroff near his son anymore. “He said, ‘Don’t ever leave those papers here again or I will kill him,’” Buttaro said. Buttaro said the man never explained specifically why he wanted Lazeroff kept away. She said she reported the incident to her supervisor, and that, soon afterward, Lazeroff was fired. Her supervisor, Tony Mammano, was a circulation manager – a step above district managers in the circulation department chain. He recalled Lazeroff having been transferred into his territory from Brighton, and letting him go in the mid- to late-1980s. “I had to get rid of him,” Mammano said. “He was there for a short period of time, then we made him go away.” Mammano remembered Buttaro “saying something” about her confrontation with an angry father in Charlotte, but said he never
confronted Lazeroff about it before firing him. “I just didn’t like his mannerisms,” Mammano said. “Did you ever meet someone who you got a bad feeling for? That’s him.” It was around that period of time that Lazeroff was charged with sexual abuse. He was arrested on August 11, 1988, and arraigned in Penfield Town Court. Like many courts, Penfield destroys its case files after 25 years, but there remains a perfunctory record of the proceeding. The record shows Lazeroff pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct violation on April 26, 1989.
‘Do you still like little boys?’
Reached at home in Fairport, one of Lazeroff’s sons declined to comment when told that his father was being accused of sexually abusing a paperboy, other than to say the allegation was not in keeping with his father’s character.
Bates, on the other hand, said it was the only side of Lazeroff he knew. “My house faced the street and I remember standing in the door of my mom’s bedroom watching through the window as he’d walk by,” Bates said. “I would get this intense heat, this heat in the pit of my stomach that I haven’t had since because I knew what was coming.” Years later, when Bates was in his late 20s, he said he called Lazeroff at home. “He answered and I asked him, ‘Do you still like little boys?’” Bates recalled. “I didn’t realize his wife was on the extension. He didn’t say anything, but she began screaming, ‘Why are you asking him that? Why are you asking him that?’ I hung up. I wasn’t ready for that.” Bates said he never told his mother, who has since died, of his alleged abuse. He said he told no one until he was an adult, when he revealed his secret to the woman who would become his wife. Years later, Bates said, he confided in his father-in-law, who was a lawyer. Bates provided a letter he said he sent to his fatherin-law in 2002 that asked for his help in
holding Lazeroff accountable. Bates said his father-in-law, who has since died, told him nothing could be done. Bates today makes a good living as a consultant for nonprofit organizations. His wife is a corporate lawyer. They have a side business flipping houses around Washington. They own a vacation home in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He drives a Lincoln Navigator. He said he doesn’t need whatever money a judge might order Gannett to pay. His lawsuit, he said, is about vindication and encouraging others whom he suspects were victimized by Lazeroff to speak up and let go of their anger and shame. “I’ve been so angry with myself for not fighting back,” he said. “When he had me in the basement, there were tools there. Why didn’t I just grab a hammer or a screwdriver or something and just kill him?” “I’m trying to figure that out,” he said, “and let that little kid at the time be okay with not having done anything.” David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochester-citynews.com.
Rick Bates driving around his old neighborhood in his Lincoln Navigator. He says of his lawsuit that he wants vindication and to help other victims speak out. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE
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opportunity zones existed. One potentially troubling aspect of the law is that it doesn’t require the funds to publicly disclose how their capital is deployed, making it difficult for the federal government, or anyone, to quantify how the investments benefit the poor versus the wealthy. All the law requires for a “benefit” to be provided is for the investment to create a “substantial improvement,” meaning an increase in the value of the property over a 30-month period. An argument could be made that any increase in the value of a property in a low-income neighborhood is a good thing. But how that precisely elevates the station of residents in those neighborhoods is another question. Some officials in other cities, including New York City, are considering local legislation to require more transparency for investors to receive complementary local tax breaks. A recent report by the fiscal policy think tank Citizens Budget Commission recommended the state explore passing a bill that would reserve state tax benefits for residential projects that meet a minimum affordability threshold for residents. Rochester officials should closely monitor developments on those fronts and apply pressure where they can to ensure investors do as much to benefit the poor as themselves. Baye Muhammad, the CEO of the Rochester Economic Development Corp., the city’s nonprofit economic development arm, cautioned the audience that opportunity zone projects should improve services to vulnerable populations, such as transportation, education, and retail. “Do not lose focus on the equitable part of this program and who we are actually trying to service outside of ourselves sitting here today,” Muhammad said. Let’s hope for the sake of the city’s neediest residents, and the health of the entire region, investors heed his words. David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochestercitynews.com.
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URBAN ACTION This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.)
Forums feature local candidates
Two candidates’ forums for key local races are scheduled for October 16. The Children’s Agenda will host a forum for county executive and County Legislature candidates at the new Schottland Family YMCA, 2200 Jefferson Road in Pittsford, from 7 to 9 p.m. Candidates will be asked to discuss child care, child abuse and neglect, programs for pre-school children, and other services for children and youth. The forum will be co-hosted by the United Way, the Monroe County Medical Society, the local chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Action for a
Better Community, Catholic Family Center, TCA Interfaith Collaborative, ROC Acts, Parents Helping Parents, the Early Childhood Development Initiative Advocacy Committee, and the Greater Rochester After School Alliance Advocacy Committee. Five community groups will hold a forum for South District City Council candidates at Monroe High School, 164 Alexander Street, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sponsoring the event: the League of Women Voters, NBN Sector 6, the South Wedge Planning Committee, the Swillburg Neighborhood Association, and the Upper Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association.
Church to hold peacemaking camp
Greece Baptist Church will host a Western New York Peace Mini-Camp on
October 18 and 19 – a local version of the Global Baptist Peace Conference. The Greece event is open to anyone interested in peacemaking efforts. The program will include keynote addresses by Angela Sims, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School’s new president, and Ray Schellenger, a Mexico-US border peace activist and a consultant on immigrants and refugees. There’ll also be workshops on race, immigration, support for families impacted by violence, and respite care for families with loved ones living with dementia. The cost is $55 – “or what you can afford” – the sponsors say. Information: Marilyn Thrall, 585-6160; MarilynTatgbc@gmail. com. Registration deadline: October 16.
Dining & Nightlife
VOLO's brick, wood-burning Acunto Napoli oven is capbable of flash-baking a pizza in 60 seconds. Above: The Pizza Diavola; inset: The Williamsburg Bacon. PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH
Wood-fired on the fly VOLO Osteria & Enoteca 90 SOUTH CLINTON AVENUE MONDAY-WEDNESDAY,11:30 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M.; THURSDAY, 11:30 A.M. TO 7 P.M.; FRIDAY, 11:30 A.M. TO 2 P.M. AND 4 P.M. TO 10 P.M.; SATURDAY 5 P.M. TO 10 P.M. 598-6601; VOLOROC.COM [ REVIEW ] BY MARY RICE
Lunch break options for downtown employees continue to expand this fall with the opening of VOLO Osteria & Enoteca at the corner of Clinton Avenue and Broad Street. VOLO joins Original Grain and The Acorn Exchange as downtown’s most recent additions to the lunchtime scene. The new eatery is headed up by a familiar face: chef Giuseppe Paciullo, executive chef and owner at Fiamma Centro on Elton Street in the Neighborhood of the Arts. A native of Salerno, Italy, Paciullo is bringing a more casual, streamlined version of his popular restaurant to downtown Rochester.
Located adjacent to Xerox Square, VOLO is housed within a striking three-story glass pavilion, built as a pedestrian hub for the Rochester Skyway system. The building was formerly home to Café Sol and SKYWAY nightclub before both closed earlier this year. Inside, the space is cavernous; stairs lead from the main dining floor to a second-floor balcony and to the third-floor private lounge. The glass walls let in plenty of daylight, and permit a 360-degree view of Tower 280, The Metropolitan, and the Xerox and Legacy towers. Patrons of the former Café Sol/ SKYWAY will recognize the massive mirror ball, which still hangs from the lofty ceiling. But the indisputable star of VOLO is the wood-burning Acunto Napoli oven, a dome-shaped brick behemoth which takes up a corner of the restaurant behind the bar. Capable of temperatures as high as 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, the oven bakes a pizza in just 50 to 60 seconds, Paciullo says. In fact, everything on the menu is designed to be prepared and served quickly in order to accommodate people on their lunch break, according to Paciullo. The restaurant’s name is actually the Italian word for “flight.”
“We give you food on the fly,” Paciullo says. Just don’t call it “fast-casual.” The chef prefers the term “fresh casual,” as all food is cooked to order. While the focal point of VOLO’s menu is its Neapolitan pizzas, the new restaurant also offers salads and wood-fired entrees, plus wine, beer, cocktails, and espresso-based drinks. Paciullo plans to expand the menu as the restaurant evolves. I visited VOLO on a recent afternoon not long after its opening. Taking a seat at a chic-looking gray booth near the window, I ordered the Pizza Diavola and Cauliflower Volo. As promised, the pizza was ready in a flash, its crust dramatically bubbled and blistered from its short stint in the inferno. Topped with mozzarella, basil, and strips of spicy Calabrian sopressata, the 9-inch pie was indulgent and yet light and airy. (Unlike with many personal pizzas of my past, I did not feel the need to lie down and slip into a food coma immediately after finishing it.)
The cauliflower was roasted whole in the same oven as the pizza. This method yielded crunchy-tender stems and gently charred, crispy florets. An aioli of garlic and olive oil rounded out the simple but satisfying preparation. Items on Volo’s menu range between $6 and $16, with wine and cocktails starting at $7. The restaurant serves lunch Monday through Friday, and dinner on Friday and Saturday. Though reservations aren’t required for the restaurant, VOLO’s thirdfloor lounge is bookable for private events and parties through an online contact form or by calling the restaurant directly. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13
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Music
[ JAZZ ] Philippe Lemm Trio Friday, April 3, 2020. Bop Shop Records. 1460 Monroe Ave. $10 students, $15 at door. 8 p.m. 271-3354. bopshop.com; philippelemm.com. [ FOLK ROCK ] Gordon Lightfoot Thursday, June 4, 2020. Kodak Center. 200 W Ridge Rd. $35-$62. 8 p.m. 254-0181. ticketmaster.com facebook.com/GordonLightfootOfficial.
Nabaté Isles with Eastman Jazz Lab Band WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 26 GIBBS STREET 7:30 P.M. | FREE | ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU
[ JAZZ ] On his debut album, “Electronic Excursions,” Grammy winning trumpet player Nabaté Isles plays tunes ranging from smooth jazz to hard bop, with a detour to funk. Since graduating from the Eastman School of Music, Isles has played with Christian McBride, Jill Scott, Dianne Reeves, and many others. When he joins the Eastman Jazz Lab Band, they’ll be performing works by artists who influenced Isles, including Mulgrew Miller’s “Grew’s Tune” and Roy Hargrove’s “Roy Allen.” — BY RON NETSKY
Screaming Females FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9:30 P.M. | $15 WILL CALL, $17 DAY OF SHOW | AGES 18 AND OVER BUGJAR.COM; SCREAMINGFEMALES.COM [ ROCK ] Beneath her shaggy ‘do and proto-Amish duds,
Screaming Females frontwoman Marissa Paternoster positively guts her guitar in a pure rock ‘n’ roll spectacle. It isn’t so much a scream as a desperate, vibrato-drenched, and snotty howl from her pipes. The New Brunswick trio has seven albums in its short history, including its most recent, 2018’s “All at Once.” On stage, the band is frenetic. DUSK, Mallwalkers, and Anamon also play.
— BY FRANK DE BLASE
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Thomas Heberer’s X Marks the Spot SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15 STUDENTS, $20 AT DOOR BOPSHOP.COM; THOMASHEBERER.COM [ JAZZ ] Fast-rising trumpeter Thomas Heberer has worked with a “who’s who” of jazz luminaries, including Steve Lacy, Dave Douglas and Oliver Lake. His wide-ranging activities include a long-time stint with the ICP Orchestra and composing music for Pina Bausch’s dance company. In his own quartet, X Marks the Spot, Heberer takes a more avant-garde approach, with excellent collaborators Michael Bates on bass; guitarist Terrence McManus, and Jeff Davis on drums.
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Full Body
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
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After four years together and a recent personnel change, local quartet Full Body is about to release its third studio album. Recorded mostly at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia, “Always There” delivers a sludgy mix of hardcore, grunge, slowcore, and shoegaze. Lead singer Dylan Vaisey’s vocals cut through the blistering mix with clarity on “Small Voice (Still).” “Looked at The Picture” and “Bad Screen” offer upbeat, danceable grooves, while slower, more reflective tunes such as “Hard Drive” and the title track dive into dreamy, modal chord structures that finally explode into heavy breakdowns. Full Body’s new album “Always There” is full of epic head-bangers with crashing drums and heart-wrenching melodies. Full Body will perform its record release show with special guests Peaer and Rut on Monday, October 21, at Small World Books, 425 North Street. $5-10 suggested donation. 232-6970. facebook.com/smallworldbooks. — BY KATIE HALLIGAN
Courtney Yasmineh. B-Side,
Songwriters in the Round: Maria Gillard, Bernice Lewis, Scott Regan. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m. BLUES
Reverend Kingfish: House Party of the Damned. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m. CLASSICAL
Live from Hochstein: RPO. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org. 12:10-12:50 p.m.
— BY RON NETSKY
Dream Float
‘Keyboard and Key Moves’ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE 7:30 P.M. | FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION MAG.ROCHESTER.EDU [ BAROQUE AND DANCE ] The Memorial Art Gallery’s season-opening concert in its Third Thursday series features an uncommon combination of keyboard music and dance called “Keyboard and Key Moves: Baroque Explorations in Synesthesia.” While the performance showcases the beautiful Italian Baroque Organ, played here by Stephen Kennedy, an accompanying dance component by Catherine Turocy and Alexis Silver imagines aristocratic life in a French court. Harpsichordist Lisa Crawford will also play. On Friday, October 18, Turocy and Crawford will present a 3 p.m. lecture and musical demonstration entitled “Secrets of Performance.” — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
‘Dream Float EP Vol. 1’ Self-released dreamfloat.bandcamp.com
Rochester piano trio Dream Float performs with little to no written material, allowing compositions to flow from improvisations focused around a theme. Drummer Chris Palace and keyboardist Thomas Mariano originally formed the group in 2018, adding bassist Jordan Rabinowitz later that year. In September, the instrumental band released its self-titled debut EP. Starting off with the eight-minute trance “Pursuit,” each player demonstrates virtuosic musicianship before pulling you back to reality and into a whirlwind climax. “Floating” features a funky groove with off-kilter melodies, tripped-up rhythms, and breathy sax, while “Car Song” has fuzzed-out walking bass lines and warbled organ timbres. Dream Float is like Steely Dan with no words and more improv, blending piano rock and jazz-lounge music with fervent complexity.
DJ/ELECTRONIC
Dillinja: Bass to the Grave. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 7 p.m. $15 & up. JAZZ
Big Band Dance: Music Makers, Al Bruno Trio. Robach Community Center, 180 Beach Ave. ontariobeachentertainment. org. 6 p.m. $2 donation.
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Music
Meredith Monk (center) and members of her Vocal Ensemble (left to right) — Katie Geissinger, Ellen Fisher, Allison Sniffin, and Jo Stewart — take part in the University of Rochester residency “Dancing Voice/Singing Body,” October 20 through 23. PHOTO BY JULIETA CERVANTES
Songs without words Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble PART OF ‘DANCING VOICE/SINGING BODY’ RESIDENCY MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 SPURRIER HALL AT UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, RIVER CAMPUS, 500 WILSON BOULEVARD 7:30 P.M. | FREE EMAIL ASE.EVENTS@ROCHESTER.EDU TO BE PUT ON WAIT LIST SAS.ROCHESTER.EDU/PERFORMINGARTS; MEREDITHMONK.ORG [ FEATURE ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Meredith Monk is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. The avant-garde composer, vocalist, director, and choreographer has carved out a niche all her own, even as she has made impactful forays into the mediums of opera, site-specific performances, music theater, and film over the course of a career spanning more than 50 years. 16 CITY OCTOBER 16 - 22, 2019
A winner of a MacArthur Fellowship (commonly known as a “Genius” Grant), a two-time Guggenheim Fellowship winner, and the recipient of a 2015 National Medal of Arts, Monk will bring her Vocal Ensemble to Rochester for a residency entitled “Dancing Voice/Singing Body” from Sunday, October 20 through Wednesday, October 23 at the University of Rochester’s School of Arts and Sciences and Eastman School of Music. The residency will include a concert version of Monk’s latest music theater work “Cellular Songs” on Monday, October 21 at University of Rochester’s Spurrier Hall, as well as a Wednesday, October 23 talk at Eastman School of Music’s Hatch Recital Hall (433 East Main Street), between Monk and Eastman ethnomusicology professor Anaar Desai-Stephens, at 12:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. As the title of Monk’s residency suggests, the link between music and movement is inseparable for her. Born into a musical family that included four generations of singers, Monk was trained from an early age in Dalcroze eurhythmics, as a way to combat coordination problems.
“The other children were learning music through their bodies,” Monk says, “but I already was very musical, so I was learning my body through music.” “I think that training was so much about the non-separation of music and movement,” she says. “And then I think, for me, also coming from both the music and dance background, that I always was very interested in the voice as a kinetic instrument. I was very inspired by that as a young artist working with my voice. Sometimes the movement mirrors the voice, sometimes it’s in counterpoint. Sometimes it’s in contrast. It has many different variations of how I do work with gesture in relation to singing.” Monk’s works are vocal-centric, but she rarely incorporates words. Instead, each composition uses a different set of phonemes, or units of sound, to create nonverbal communication that can be ephemeral and otherworldly or guttural and earthy. “I think of each piece as a sound world, and I’m really trying to find the vocabulary of that sound world,” Monk says. In her early 20’s, Monk had an epiphany that she could treat the voice as an instrument.
The resulting music draws the listener’s ears to the singers’ breathing and the physical apparatuses producing the sound, in a way that is more abstract than narrative. “I trust that nonverbal communication has a kind of depth and universality that words don’t necessarily have,” Monk says. “And I think that ultimately I’m looking for a very direct experience. Not using a lot of text has allowed us to travel all over the world. We’ve gone to 52 countries in my lifetime, and I think the way that people respond is very direct. “And I think there are feelings for which we don’t have words, that are not labels. In my work, I try for the ineffable and the numinous. Words are quite pointy. And I think I’m trying for something that is a little bit more open for people to experience it in their own way.” In the composition “Cellular Songs,” as in many of her works, Monk utilizes a vocal technique called hocketing, in which two or more singers deliver a single melody by alternating one note at a time. This device creates a highly rhythmic, interlocking texture. When asked why hocketing is so prevalent in her work, Monk says, ““I love that sense of interdependence.” Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2018, “Cellular Songs” was inspired by the interconnectivity of cells in the human body. “It’s the smallest unit of life, and within each cell is this extraordinarily complex, intelligent mechanism of interdependence,” Monk says. “And then when you think about the billions of cells in our bodies, that’s another system of interdependence.” The theme of interdependence continues with a new work-in-progress for eight singers in a site-specific presentation, in which the spatial relationship between the performers and the audience will change during the performance. Referred to by Monk under the working title of “Indra’s Net,” the composition will use the Buddhist metaphor for interdependence as a starting point. According to the myth, Indra is a legendary king who casts a net over the entire universe; at each intersection of the net is a jewel with infinite facets, reflecting all the other jewels in the universe. Monk envisions the forthcoming work as a kind of third installment in a trilogy that includes “On Behalf of Nature,” from 2016, and “Cellular Songs.” She has been mulling over the tentatively titled “Indra’s Net” for a decade. “I’ve finished being terrified,” she says of the piece, “and now I’m starting to get interested, which is always a good sign.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17
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POP/ROCK
Blacktop Daddies. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.
The Demos, Mmeadows. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7/$10.
[ THU., OCTOBER 17 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Big Blue House. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m. Head to the Roots. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. 6:30 p.m.
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CLASSICAL | ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Former Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra music director Christopher Seaman makes his annual guest conducting visit Wes Urbaniak & The Mountain this week. The program includes a 20th-century classic in Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Weber,” Folk. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. 7 p.m. and a 19th-century classic in Tchaikovsky’s grandiose Fourth Symphony. They’re both orchestral spectaculars, but they couldn’t be more contrasting. Violinist Simone Porter (pictured) BLUES made her RPO debut a couple of years ago in Samuel Barber’s Harpdog Brown & The Uptown sweetly sentimental concerto; for her return she’ll perform Max Blues Band. Abilene, 153 Bruch’s even sweeter and more sentimental Violin Concerto Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. No. 1 in G Minor. Not exactly an adventurous program, but as 8 p.m. $10/$15. well-worn classics go, these three hang together very nicely. AMERICANA
CLASSICAL
RPO: Tchaikovsky 4. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. $30 & up. CONTEMPORARY
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performs Thursday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, October 19, at 8 p.m. at Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall. $30-$90. 454-2100. rpo.org; simoneporterviolin.com. — BY DAVID RAYMOND
CLASSICAL
Musica Nova. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.
VOCALS
Sarah Edie. Fanatics, 7281 W
Isabella Barbagallo. The Daily
Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m.
HALLOWEEN THEME
Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. Oct. 17, 7 p.m.
[ THU., OCTOBER 17 ]
[ FRI., OCTOBER 18 ]
Haunt the Belle. Colonial Belle, 400 Packetts Landing. Fairport. 6:30 p.m. Concert cruise: Something Else. $28. POP/ROCK
Blonde Over Blue. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. Oct. 17, 9 p.m.
Futurebirds, The Mighty High & Dry. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. Oct. 17, 8 p.m. $20/$25. TRADITIONAL
Eastman at Washington Square: Made in America. First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. esm.rochester.edu/lunchtime. Oct. 17, 12:15-12:45 p.m.
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Cynthea Kelley & Matt Landon.
BLUES
Bill Schmitt & The Bluesmasters. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5.
Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.
Blue Envy. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $5.
Katy Wright. Marge’s Lakeside
Cursed Idols, Alex Patrick, Will Veeder. Rosen Krown, 875
Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6:30 p.m.
Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m.
Kissin’ Whiskey. Abilene, AMERICANA
Jackson Cavalier. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5:30-7 p.m. John Rybak & Friends. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 417-5404. 7:30 p.m. Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys. Golden Link Folk Singing Society, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. 857-9265. 7:30 p.m. $10-$22.
153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 5:30 p.m.
The Old Souls Band. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 5:30 p.m. CLASSICAL
Nazareth College Symphonic Band. Nazareth College Glazer Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2700. 7:30 p.m. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21
COUNTRY
Uptown Groove. Dinosaur BBQ,
DJ/ELECTRONIC
Zac Brown Tribute Band.
99 Court St. 325-7090. Oct. 18, 10 p.m.
Army of Bass. Firehouse
Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. 9 p.m.
Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. 10 p.m.
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JAZZ
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Chuck Abell & Lake Effect.
David Roth. Unity Church of
Andy Calabrese & Chet Catallo. Via Girasole Wine
Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. 7 p.m.
Greater Rochester, 55 Prince St. 473-0145. 7:30 p.m. $18/$20.
Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,
Evan Meulemans. Brindle Haus
Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers.
Brewing Co., 377 S Union St. Spencerport. 488-2034. 7 p.m.
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Thomas Heberer’s X Marks the Spot. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $15/$20.
John Rybak & Friends. Wood Kettle Brewing, 1192 Manitou Rd. HIlton. 366-4183. 7 p.m.
HALLOWEEN THEME
POP/ROCK
The Living Room Session.
The Chinchillas. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. Oct. 18, 8 p.m.
B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m.
Headbanger’s Halloween. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $6.
Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s 4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Third Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.
BLUES
POP/ROCK
Blues Festival. Medina Railroad
Acrobat. Anthology, 336 East
Museum, 530 West Ave. 7986106. 12-5 p.m. Ages 21 & over. $45/$68.
Ave. 484-1964. Oct. 19, 9 p.m. U2 tribute. $20.
DJ Murdock: Ultimte 80’s. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. Third Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Jerry Falzone & Liar’s Moon. Immanuel Baptist Church, 815 Park Ave. 473-7664. Oct. 18, 7 p.m. $5/$10.
John Waite & His Band. Anthology, 336 East Ave. 4841964. Oct. 18, 8 p.m. $28 & up. Jumbo Shrimp. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. Oct. 18, 9 p.m.
Mr Monkey. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. Oct. 18, 9 p.m. $5.
Paxtor, The Sugargliders, Chaz & the Dazzlers. UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. 434-2223. Oct. 18, 8 p.m.
Screaming Females, Dusk, Mallwalkers, Anamon. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. Oct. 18, 8 p.m. $15/$17.
Switchfoot. Roberts Wesleyan College Voller Athletic Center, 2301 Westside Dr. 594-6008. Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. $32. 22 CITY OCTOBER 16 - 22, 2019
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Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,
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Johnny Rawls. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $20.
Ross Bracco. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 5-7 p.m. CLASSICAL
Repertory Singers, Women’s Chorus, Eastman Chorale Event Details. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 3 p.m.
RPO: Tchaikovsky 4. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. $30 & up. COUNTRY
Our Own Worst Enemy, Courtney Yasmineh. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. $5.
Pete Frank Band, The Morgan Twins. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 8 p.m. $5.
Riding Shotgun. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. 9 p.m. $5.
[ SAT., OCTOBER 19 ]
Aphasia, Dreamwave, Perspectives, White Tides, Transcendance. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. $10.
CAT 9. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. Third Saturday of every month, 8 p.m. David Torok. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. Oct. 19, 7 p.m. John James, Mary Monroe. Rosen Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. Oct. 19, 9 p.m.
Lake Street Dive, Meadows. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. thesmith. org. Oct. 19, 8 p.m. $29.50-$49.50. Little River Band. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. kodakcenter.com. Oct. 19, 8 p.m. $38 & up.
Otter Space Wranglers. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. Oct. 19, 10 p.m.
The Taint. Dinosaur BBQ, 99
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ROCKABILLY
Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6:30 p.m. $16.
Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 12:10 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.
Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. Oct. 19, 8 p.m. $5.
POP/ROCK
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
SKA
The Astounds, Ben Baker, Cigs Inside, Nerds in Denial.
Rockhouse Riot. Three Heads
Some Ska Band. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. Oct. 19, 8 p.m. $5. VOCALS
Mary Fahl. The Riviera, 4 Center St., Geneseo. 481-0036. Oct. 19, 7 p.m. $30.
Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7.
Shackwater. Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247. Canandaigua. lincolnhillfarms. com. 2-5 p.m.
TLC Trio of WNY: Songs of Carole King. Lovin’ Cup, 300
House, 58 East Main St. Webster. Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. $17.
[ SUN., OCTOBER 20 ]
JAZZ
Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7:30 p.m. $5.
Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 5 p.m. $20/$25.
HALLOWEEN THEME
[ MON., OCTOBER 21 ]
[ TUE., OCTOBER 22 ]
ZYDECO
Pine Leaf Boys. Harmony
Composers’ Concerts. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.
AMERICANA
Watkins & the Rapiers. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.
The Televisionaries, Velvet Bethany, King 20/20, Hardwood. Swan Dive, 289 Alexander St. 413-3306. 7 p.m.
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Brody George. The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 5-7 p.m.
CLASSICAL
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. Kodak Hall at
CLASSICAL
Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.
All-Beethoven Salon Concert Series. Rochester Academy of
CONTEMPORARY
Medicine, 1441 East Ave. raom.org. 2 p.m. $30/$35.
Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 2 76-8900. 1 & 3 p.m. W/museum admission: $6-$15.
If Music be the Food. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. 271-2240. ifmusicbethefood.com. 7:30 p.m. Non-perishable food donation. SUNY Geneseo Wind Ensemble, Geneseo Wind Quintet, ECSM Educators Wind Ensemble.
CLASSICAL
Meredith Monk: Cellular Songs. Spurrier Hall Dance Studio, UR, River Campus. 7:30 p.m. JAZZ
The Beck-Blumenau Upstate Dixie Six. Radisson Hotel, 175 Jefferson Rd. flowercityjazz.org. 6:30 p.m. $12. POP/ROCK
Wadsworth Auditorium, 1 College Circle. Geneseo. 585-245-5824. 3 p.m. Pre-concert talk 2:20pm.
World Books, 425 North St. 7 p.m. $5-$10 suggested.
JAZZ
[ TUE., OCTOBER 22 ] AMERICANA
Glazer Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2700. 3 p.m.
Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 8 p.m.
St. 397-7595. Third Sunday of every month, 6 p.m.
The Well, Fox 45, Great Red. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. Oct. 22, 9:30 p.m. $8/$10.
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Theater
The cast of “The Addams Family,” which is staged by Webster Theatre Guild through October 19. PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMPER IMAGES
All in the family “The Addams Family” REVIEWED FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 CONTINUES THROUGH OCTOBER 19 WEBSTER THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL, 800 FIVE MILE LINE ROAD TICKETS START AT $15 | 678-1158; WEBSTERTHEATREGUILD.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY
Halfway through the second act of Webster Theatre Guild’s Friday night staging of “The Addams Family,” fire alarms began to scream through the auditorium and halls of Webster Thomas High School. The action onstage ceased, and the house lights flipped on as more than 200 attendees reluctantly made their way into the chilly, clear October air. There was no danger of a fire; the disruption was simply caused by an overexerted fog machine that was creating spooky Transylvania effects. 24 CITY OCTOBER 16 - 22, 2019
The 20-minute fire alarm interruption happened around 9:30 p.m., just late enough for families to be tempted to stay inside their warm cars and head toward home. Many families were also standing outside, with children awake far past their normal bedtimes and excitedly pointing at the fire truck that roared into the parking lot. The “second intermission,” as one parent told their fidgeting child, was unexpected. “The Addams Family” is a relatively new musical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (“The Wild Party,” “Big Fish”) and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (“Jersey Boys”). The show opened on Broadway in 2010 and featured Nathan Lane in the role of family patriarch (and narrator) Gomez. It’s a kitschy, corny ride that immediately breaks the fourth wall, and the entire two-hour show is based on the premise of daughter Wednesday falling in love with a boy at school and inviting him and his parents to dinner. The show normally features a small to mid-sized cast, perhaps 15 people at most.
In Webster Theatre Guild’s version, directed by George Barberi, the ensemble alone consists of nearly 30 Addams “ancestors” — on top of about 10 lead roles — who all perform intricate choreography by MandiLynn Griffith-Gurell during select songs. It’s an ambitious amount of people to cast, but makes sense in the context of community theater. More cast members means more loved ones to fill seats and laugh at each scene (which Friday’s audience did with great enthusiasm). The technical time spent on “The Addams Family” shines through every scene, from the innovative, multi-faceted set design (constructed by many of the cast members) to the elaborate costume design (of more than 30 completely white outfits, along with a flawless Addams Family aesthetic) by Peggy Zorn. Leading the cast as Gomez is Steve Marsocci, a frequent local performer who has a flair for characterization and a pleasant singing voice (fortunately, since Gomez leads a fair amount of the musical numbers).
Opposite him is Kate Bond as Morticia, who started the night a tad robotic but quickly warmed into the role of the frosty, sensual Addams matriarch. The leading couple has a natural chemistry that makes their eventual conflict as well as the loving scenes between them even more believable. As love-struck daughter Wednesday, high school junior Tessa DeGrace is at once earnest and deadpan, owning the stage with her impressive vocals during songs like “Crazier Than You.” Other especially notable performances come from Aaron Grippo (Fester) throughout the show; Robin Morris-Gaylord (Alice) for an exhausting, hilarious end to act one; Ann Rhody (Grandma) for the frequent comic relief; and John Caboot (Lurch) as the sleeper scene-stealer. The one hiccup during the night (other than the accidental fire alarm) came from the pit orchestra, which at times seemed like it couldn’t hear the vocalists (and vice versa), resulting in a few flat pitches and botched harmonies. And while Webster Thomas High School seems like a nice, recently upgraded venue, it’s simply not built for full-scale musicals with large sets and more than 40 people on stage, the way Geva or The Auditorium Theater are. It constantly felt as though the cast would spill off the stage into the pit. After the West Webster fire crew finished its walkthrough on Friday night, the alarms were turned off and the crowd trickled back inside to watch the rest of the second act. At the end of the performance — which concluded around 10:30 p.m., about 30 minutes later than it normally would have — there was a standing ovation, and the mostly full auditorium was, surprisingly, still mostly full. It wasn’t that the show itself was too mindblowing or suspenseful or expensive to abandon during the fire alarm, but that the folks in the audience were deeply engaged with the people on stage — their mothers, brothers, grandparents, friends, neighbors, teachers, students —performing dream roles and small roles alike. Cellophane-wrapped bouquets from Wegmans had to be handed out, selfies had to be taken, hugs and congratulations had to be given. This is the beauty: the family of community theatre.
Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] ArtSpace36, 36 Main St. Canandaigua. Monica Haller: Veterans Book Project. Thursdays-Saturdays. Reception Oct 17, 4:306:30pm. Through Nov 16. flcc. edu/artspace36. Davis Gallery at Houghton House, 1 King’s Lane. Geneva. The Worth of Water. MondaysSaturdays. Reception Oct 25, 5-7pm. Through Dec 7. hws. edu/davisgallery. Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Kyle Lascelle: Schoenhal’s Symposium. MondaysSaturdays. Reception Oct 25, 5-7pm. 594-6442. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Anderson & Low: Voyages and Discoveries,. Tuesdays-Sundays. Preview Oct 18, 6pm; Artist talk Oct 19, 2pm. $5-$15. eastman.org. Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Letters & Lives: Typographic Work of Bigelow & Holmes. TuesdaysSundays, 5-7 p.m. Reception Oct 18, 5-7pm. 389-5073. Nazareth College Colacino Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Brian Ferrell: The Unknown Landscape. Wednesdays-Sundays. Reception Oct 18, 5-7pm. Through Nov 22. 389-5073. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport. Fred Burton/Steve Gerberich: A Shared Curiosity. MondaysFridays, Sundays. Reception Oct 22, 4-6pm. 395-2805. Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W Miller St. Newark. Fiber Arts Show | Sarah Woolf: Photography. Fridays, Saturdays. Reception Nov 9, 4-6pm. Through Nov 23. wayne-arts.com. Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Michael Kalnitz: The Old & the Ancient. Mondays-Fridays. Reception Nov 3, 2-4pm. Through Dec 2. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Mary Pat O’Brien: Motivational Muses. Through Oct. 27. 546-8400. Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts & Activism. Through Oct. 25. 428-8350. Arts Center of Yates County, 127 Main St. Penn Yan. Naples Trio. Mondays-Saturdays. Through Nov 9. (315) 536-8226. AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. Dance on Camera, Camera on Dance. Mondays-Fridays. Through Oct 29. sageart.center/asis-gallery. Casa Italiana at Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave. Angela Possemato: Images of Southern Italy. Mondays-Fridays. Through Dec 15. 389-2525.
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The newest interactive exhibit at Rochester Museum & Science Center focuses on the impact that pop culture has had on real technological advances and everyday tools, while it celebrates humanity’s innovation and imagination. The 8,000-square-foot “SciFiTech” exhibit is divided into four zones that explore “How We Play” through an “Oculus Rift” virtual reality experience, 3D-projected games, musical instruments, and holograms; “How We Connect” through a look at the history and future of communications technology, from rotary phones and VCRs to self-aware computers; “How We Move” featuring replicas of iconic pop-culture modes of transportation including a jetpack, hoverboard, a Delorean time machine, as well as the world’s first 3D-printed car, Mars rovers, and sketches of the Hyperloop and flying cars; and “How We Live & Work,” which explores robots and cities of the future. A gallery of visionaries digs deep into the true predictions of Nikola Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, Elon Musk, and Steve Jobs. And RMSC partnered with Optic Sky to create an augmented reality experience accessibly on any smartphone at rmsc.org/arrival. “SciFiTech continues through May 5, 2020, at Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue. Admission is $18, $17 for seniors and college students, $16 for ages 3 to 18, free to kids under age 3 and RMSC members. 271-4320; rmsc.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Central Library, Local History & Genealogy Division, 115 South Ave. Everyday People: The Dinkle Family & Rochester’s African American Past. Mondays-Fridays. Through Dec 30. 428-8370. Chocolate & Vines, 757 University Ave. Gale Karpel & Evelyne Albanese: Photography & Paintings. Through Dec. 30. 340-6362. Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. Metal & Enamel Arts. Mondays-Fridays. Through Nov 24. 398-0220. Dansville ArtWorks Gallery, 178 Main St. Dansville. 2nd Annual Juried Show. ThursdaysSaturdays. Through Oct 26. 335-4746.; Bernard Dick: People & Places. ThursdaysSaturdays. 335-4746. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Eric Kunsman: Thou Art.. Will Give... Mondays-Saturdays. Through Oct 26. 244-1730.
Frontispace @ Art & Music Library, 755 Library Rd. Jeff Leavitt: The Gears are in Motion. Through Oct. 26. 273-2267. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Rd 41. Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation. TuesdaysSundays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $3$8. ganondagan.org. GCC Medina Campus, 11470 Maple Ridge Rd. From Here to There: A Pilgrimage of Vision. Mondays-Fridays. Elizabeth King Durang, Constance Mauro, g.a. Sheller. Through Oct 30. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Lena Herzog: Last Whispers. Through Jan 1; Tanya Marcuse: Woven. Through Jan 5; Peter Bo Rappmund: Tectonics. Through Jul 6; Penelope Umbrico: Everyone’s Photos Any License. TuesdaysSundays. eastman.org. continues on page 26 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 25
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This year’s iteration of ImageOut, Rochester’s LGBT Film Festival, is well underway, with screenings and events continuing through Sunday, October 20. On Wednesday, October 23, the literary side of LGBT creative expression will be celebrated with the release of ImageOutWrite Volume 8, which features 25 moving, heartbreaking, humorous, and poignant personal stories from Rochester writers, as well as authors based in Australia, Japan, and England. Copies of the publication will be available for purchase, and local writers and members of the ImageOutWrite team will read selections from the 2019 literary journal. Wednesday, October 23, 7 to 9 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue. Free. 473-2590; wab.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Autumn Moods. TuesdaysSaturdays. Through Dec 7. oxfordgallery.com. Rare Books & Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, UR River Campus. Victoria: A Ruling Image | Arthur Sullivan & the Royal Family: An Exhibition. Mondays-Saturdays. Lecture Oct 16, 5:30pm. Through Dec 20. 275-4461. RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Bldg 7A. After The Charrette. MondaysSaturdays. Through Oct 26. 475-2646. RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. Meta Project: Ten Years of Innovation. Thursdays-Sundays. Through Oct 20. cityartspace.rit.edu. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Christina Brinkman: The White Road | State of the City | ImageOut: Avatar Poetics (Wed, Fri, Sun) & Remembrance of Things Fast (Thu, Sat). Through Nov 17. $2. Wednesdays-Sundays; Heather Swenson: Observation Towers. Through Nov 3. 461-2222. Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Nigel Maister: Tight. Word. Lit.. WednesdaysFridays. Through Oct 31. genesee.edu/gallery. Studio 402, 250 N Goodman St. Figurative Free Form. Through Oct. 27. 269-9823.
UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. Kaitlyn Crosby: Elementary. Through Oct. 25. 434-2223. Various, Rochester. Current Seen. Through Nov. 17. Rochester Biennial; works in various media at venues & public spaces throughout the city. currentseen.org. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Crystal Z Campbell: Post Masters | E Bobrow: Moonrise. Through Nov. 3. vsw.org. Whitman Works Co, 1826 Penfield Rd. Penfield. How the West Was One: The Romance of Western Vistas by Beverly Rafferty. Wednesdays-Saturdays. Through Oct 26. 747-9999. William Harris Gallery, 3rd Floor Gannett Hall, RIT. MFA Alumni Exhibition. Mondays-Fridays. Reception Oct 17, 4:30-7pm. Through Oct 25. 475- 2716. Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Barb Etzel Memorial Art Collection. Through Oct. 25. 785-1369.
Call for Artists [ WED., OCTOBER 16 ] 2020-2021 Exhibit Season. Through Dec. 31. Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd genesee.edu/gallery. 29th Annual Members Exhibition. Through Nov. 10. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. 461-2222.
Holiday Art Bazaar. Through Nov. 1. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market theyardsrochester.com/craftsale. Life is a Journey. Through Nov. 4. Bridge Art Gallery, URMC, 300 Crittenden Blvd 275-3571. The Magic of Light 2020. Through Nov. 3. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. $40. 271-2540. Small Show 2019. Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave Due Oct 26 461-4447.
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Okay, it’s October and some of us are cramming in monster movie marathons, but maybe this is the year for something a little different. The Dryden Theatre has reopened after renova[ FRI., OCTOBER 18 ] tions to the Eastman Museum property kept it closed for the Celebr8 Years: 24-hour Collaboration. 6 p.m. The Yards, summer, and its fall programming is off to a strong start with 50-52 Public Market Live music ImageOut screenings and last Sunday’s screening of “Gand9:30pm ($18/$20). Breakfast hi,” 150 years after his birth. There’s loads more to pique 7:30am ($10) attheyards.com. every interest, but I’m here to tell you about “Stephen King’s [ TUE., OCTOBER 22 ] Dollar Babies,” a two-program screening of films inspired by Valerie O’Hara: Pike the macabre monarch’s short stories. For decades King has Stained-Glass Studios at 110 Years Old. 7:30 p.m. allowed student filmmakers to adapt his short stories into their Chapel Oaks, St. Ann’s Community, 1550 Portland Ave own projects for a mere $1 licensing fee. What a guy, and what irondequoitartclub.org. a fun, accessible challenge for students. Over two nights, The Dryden will present 13 of these films, including “Willa” (picComedy tured) and “The Road Virus Heads North.” And at each event two of the featured filmmakers will participate in a Q&A. [ THU., OCTOBER 17 ]
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Dance Events [ SAT., OCTOBER 19 ] Rattlesnake Burlesque: Witchful Thinking. 8:30 p.m. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b . Fairport $8-$25. Rochester Lindy Hop Reunion & Swing Anniversary Dance. 8 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Live music from the Gordon Webster Band $20/$25. 276-8900. [ TUE., OCTOBER 22 ] Arc of Monroe: A Moving Experience. 12:45 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. w/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700.
takes place Thursday, October 31, 7:30 p.m. Dryden Theatre, 900 East Avenue. $10 general admission, $7 for members, and $5 for students with ID. 327-4800; eastman.org/dryden-theatre. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Theater The Book of Mormon. Tue., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $29 & up. rbtl.org. Detroit ‘67. Fri., Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 19, 8 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 2 p.m. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $28.50-$36.50. 454-1260. Fences. Fri., Oct. 18, 7 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 19, 7 p.m. MCC Brighton Campus, 1000 E Henrietta Rd Imani Theatre Ensemble $15. Festival of New Theatre. Wed., Oct. 16, 7 p.m., Fri., Oct. 18, 7 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 7 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd gevatheatre.org. Medea. Thu., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 5 p.m. The Avyarium, 274 N Goodman St, # 242 WallByrd Theatre Co $5. avyarium.com.
The Niceties. Tue., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25 & up. gevatheatre.org. The Rocky Horror Show. Thu., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 2 p.m. Stuart Steiner Theatre, GCC, 1 College Rd . Batavia $3-$8. 345-6814. Stupid F***ing Bird. Thu., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St Brockport $9/$17. 395-2787.
Activism [ WED., OCTOBER 16 ] Monroe County Candidate Forum. 6:30 p.m. Schottland Family YMCA, 2300 W Jefferson Rd. Pittsford. [ THU., OCTOBER 17 ] Bruce Popper: Worker Rights in the 21st Century. 5:30 p.m. Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver Rd. continues on page 28 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 27
Community Forum: Safe Staffing & Quality Care in Nursing Homes. 10 a.m.-noon. King’s Bend Park, 170 W Jefferson Rd Pittsford 313-1193.
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The annual Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Main Street Armory this week, featuring three dozen book dealers from six states. Celebrating 47 years, the event is a collaboration between the 10-member Rochester Area Booksellers Association and RIT Press. The vendors will offer rare, collectible, first edition and scholarly titles, but also other printed materials suchs as artwork, maps, photos, manuscripts, and more. It’s my go-to for weird, forgotten 1970s sci-fi paperbacks, but you’re gonna have to span some time in the stacks to find out who my dealers are. Saturday, October 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. Admission is $5; free to children under age 12 and students with ID. 265-9295; rochesterbooksellers.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. “Us” (2019). Fri., Oct. 18, 7 p.m. $5-$7 suggested. 563-2145. Douglass Auditorium, 36 King St. “Whose Streets? Our Streets!” Sat., Oct. 19, 2 p.m. Screening & discussion. Registration required. $2 suggested. 420-8439. Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. “Love Me or Leave Me” (1955). Wed., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.; “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). Sun., Oct. 20, 2 p.m.; Silent Documentaries. Tue., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli. $5-$10. eastman. org.; Rochester Labor Film Series. Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. rochesterlabor.org. Dryden Theatre (900 East Ave) & Little Theatre (240 East Ave), Rochester. ImageOut Rochester LGBT Film Festival. Through Oct. 20. 271-2640. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” (1987). Sat., Oct. 19, 9:30 p.m.; “Neil Young: Mountaintop” (2019). Tue., Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m.; “Miles Davis: Birth of Cool” (2019). Tue., Oct. 22, 7 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Home Movie Day. Sat., Oct. 19, 12-4 p.m. vsw.org.
Recreation [ WED., OCTOBER 16 ] Fall Foliage Train Rides. 11 a.m. & 3 p.m. Medina Railroad Museum, 530 West Ave. $18$36. 798-6106. [ SAT., OCTOBER 19 ] Happy Owl-ween Night Hike. 6-8 p.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah $5/$10. (315) 365-3580. [ SUN., OCTOBER 20 ] Trolley Rides. 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m Fall foliage rides through Oct 27 NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $6-$8. 533-1113.
Halloween Castle of Horrors. Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m.-midnight and Thursdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. $20. 232-3221. Fright Village. Thursdays, 7-9 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11:30 p.m. and Sundays, 7-9:30 p.m Fright Village, 1520 W Henrietta Rd. Avon $25/$36. frightvillage.com. Ghost Walk. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m Kennelley Park, 1 Fairport Village Landing Registration required 223-9091. Halloween Trolley Express. Sat., Oct. 19. NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd Departures every hour 11:30-3:30 $10/$12. 533-1113. Mansion Mysteries: The Night the Cereus Bloomed. Fri., Oct. 18, 7 p.m., Sat., Oct. 19, 7 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 2 p.m. Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion, 151 Charlotte St . Canandaigua $25/$30. sonnenberg.org.
Paranormal Investigation & Haunted Rochester. Wed., Oct. 16, 6 p.m. Nox, 302 N Goodman St $22. RMSC After Dark: Monster Bash. Fri., Oct. 18, 7 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. $13-$35. rmsc.org. Scare-a-Con. Fri., Oct. 18, 5-10 p.m., Sat., Oct. 19, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Rochester Riverside Hotel, 120 East Main St $25 & up. scareacon.com/. Spirits of the Past. Thu., Oct. 17, Fri., Oct. 18, Sat., Oct. 19 and Sun., Oct. 20. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford Reservations are required $23/$25. gcv.org. ZooBoo. Sat., Oct. 19, 10 a.m.2 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St For kids $6.50/$8.50. 295-7388.
Special Events [ SAT., OCTOBER 19 ] 19th Ward House Tour. Oct. 19. School #16, 321 Post Ave Talk 11am, Tour 1-4pm $12/$15. 328-6571. PupTober Fest. 12-5 p.m. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. $5 donation. 247-0079.
Culture Lectures [ THU., OCTOBER 17 ] The Langenheim Brothers at Niagara Falls: Photographic Fusions & the Mass Marketing of Photography. 12:30 p.m. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Room 1155, RIT 475-2057.
Puerto Rico & U.S. Empire: Making the Most of SecondClass Citizenship. 12:40-1:50 p.m. FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr Anne S. Macpherson, SUNY Brockport. Room 2775 785-1307. [ SAT., OCTOBER 19 ] Rochester’s Rich History: Claude Bragdon & His Rochester Legacies. 1 p.m. Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave Richard Chait, presenter 428-8370. [ SUN., OCTOBER 20 ] Sunday Forum: Reflections on a Trip to the Palestinian Territories. 9:50 a.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. 325-4000.
Literary Events [ THU., OCTOBER 17 ] Just Poets Presents. Third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m. Nox, 302 N Goodman St . Terry Blackhawk: Reading & Book Signing. 7 p.m. Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. $5. [ SUN., OCTOBER 20 ] Rochester Poets: Deb Koen. 2 p.m. Legacy at Cranberry Landing, 300 Cranberry Landing Dr. 260-9005. Stuck in Time: SlaughterhouseFive. 3 p.m. Calvary St. Andrews, 68 Ashland St. 546-3903. [ TUE., OCTOBER 22 ] Books Sandwiched In. 12:1212:52 p.m “Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law,” by Preet Bharara. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. ffrpl.org.
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Hear them roar The High Falls Women’s Film Festival THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 HIGHFALLSFILMFESTIVAL.COM [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
The High Falls Women’s Film Festival returns for another year of spotlighting movies made by or about women. This year the festival will present eight narrative
features, six documentary features, and four shorts programs, beginning on Thursday, October 31, and continuing through Sunday, November 3. Over the course of four days, attendees will also be able to enjoy talkbacks, coffee chats, award presentations, parties, and more. All film screenings will take place at The Little Theatre. Ticket information and a full schedule of films and events can be found at highfallsfilmfestival.com. Read on for a few of the highlights from this year’s festival.
Directed by Bridgette Auger and Itab Azzam, “We Are Not Princesses” seeks to find a personal angle on the Syrian refugee crisis. The touching documentary tells the stories of several Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut who find a renewed sense of freedom and purpose through their participation in a theater production of the Greek tragedy, “Antigone.” In that story, Anitgone learns that her two brothers have killed each other in battle. The new king refuses to bury the conflict’s instigator, Polynices, or even allow him to be mourned. Antigone chooses to break
the king’s law and properly bury her brother, leading the king to sentence her to death for her actions. Though he soon has a change of heart, it’s too late and Antigone has tragically taken her own life. As the theater production goes on, the women find striking parallels to their own lives in the story of Antigone. Combining intimate conversations and segments of animation (which beautifully illustrate interviews with the women too afraid to be seen on camera), the film offers an eye-opening and ultimately inspiring look into refugee experience, as the women connect with one another and discover an unexpected new outlet to express themselves. (Thursday, October 31, 4:30 p.m.) Opening night selection “Mother’s Little Helpers” is a warm, witty, and wise take on the dysfunctional family dramedy. Four adult siblings reunite, coming together to support their estranged mother after she’s diagnosed with a terminal illness and learns she has only weeks left to live. Director Kestrin Pantera also stars in this heartfelt story about love, loss, and the deep bonds of family. (Thursday, October 31, 6:30 p.m.) “The Eagle and the Condor” is an ancient prophecy shared by many Indigenous people that says when the “Eagle” of North America and the “Condor” of South America unite, the spirit of peace will awaken on Earth. The stirring documentary “The Condor & The Eagle” follows four environmental leaders as they embark on a trans-continental journey to unite Indigenous people in support of the environmental justice movement. A discussion with Mindy Magyar (Mi’kmaq), assistant professor of Industrial Design at RIT and board member of Friends of Ganondagan, will follow. (Saturday, November 2, 3:15 p.m.) An extended version of this preview is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.
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JustGrowPlay, LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on September 6, 2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 142 Highledge Drive, Penfield, New York 14526. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Alanna Roemer-Koke, LCSW, PLLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on September 5, 2019. Its principal place of business is located at 481 Penbrook Dr., Ste 6, Penfield, NY 14526 in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to The PLLC, 481 Penbrook Dr., Ste 6, Penfield, NY 14526. The purpose of the PLLC is to practice the profession of Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Bp Agency LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/17/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 37 James Moore Circle Hilton, NY 14468 General Purpose
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[ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ma’ama Tee’s Cookin & Catering LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)08/23/19. Office Location: Monroe County. Street Address of principal business location: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 30 Flint Lock Circle, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY shall mail copy of process: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 30 Flint Lock Circle, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Right Lift, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)9/03/19. Office Location: Monroe County. Street Address of principal business location: c/o The Limited Liability Company, C/O RDG Partners, Attn: John Rizzo, 69 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York 14534. SSNY shall mail copy of process: c/o The Limited Liability Company, C/O RDG Partners, Attn: John Rizzo, 69 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ]
[ NOTICE ] AMGIS, LLC. Filed 8/28/19. Office: Orleans Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O Roger Hugerford, 711 Park Ave Ste 201, Medina, NY 14103. Purpose: General. [ NOTICE ] AMTM PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/9/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 9 Wickerberry Ln., Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ]
(Notice of Formation of R&K Peters, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/9/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 3332 Latta Rd., Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful purpose.
ANISAM LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/17/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 202 East Ridge Rd., Rochester, NY 14621, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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405 Alexander St LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/26/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 565 Blossom Rd, Rochester, NY 14610. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
Birch Lodge Canandaigua, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/18/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 5607 Palmyra Road, P.O. Box 305, Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] CM&M NEWCO, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/4/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 595 Trabold Road, Gates, NY 14624. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
CNE Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/11/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 2509 Browncroft Blvd. Ste 210, Rochester NY 14625. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Condado Bar & Grill LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/17/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 124 Foreman Dr., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] CVT Transport, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/13/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 48 Woodlyn Way, Penfield, NY 14526. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] DJB Builds, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/18/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 280 E. Broad St., Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] EDGEMERE FAMILY PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/17/2019. Office in
Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3298 Edgemere Dr., Rochester, NY 14612, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Everything Cbd LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/23/19. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 258 Almay Rd Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Flower City Services LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/10/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Flower City Surveying Services LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/26/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 1900 Empire Blvd #146 Webster, NY 14580 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Grand K, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/4/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Gerald Guisto, 33 4th Ave., Fairport, NY 14450. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] GYV Real Estate LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/12/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] IRENE R. GARRICK MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/4/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 2000 Winton Rd. South, Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14618, which is also the principal
business location. Purpose: To practice profession of Licensed Mental Health Counseling. [ NOTICE ] JMBL Development LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/2/2018. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 403 French Rd., Rochester, NY 14618. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Just Rite, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/4/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Gerald Guisto, 33 4th Ave., Fairport, NY 14450. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] LEGAL NOTICE OF FORMATION of Moss & Moon Wellness LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of state of N.Y. SSNY on 9/19/19. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 9 Diem Street, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: All lawful activities.
NY (SSNY) on 8/28/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 459 Westside Dr, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Landmarks LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/5/2019; Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 92433, Rochester, New York 14692. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 1170 Park Avenue, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, P.O. Box 142, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ]
Marcellus DSO, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/26/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Ross W. Pedersen, 21 Brunson Way, Penfield, NY 14526. General Purpose.
Notice of formation of 32 PEARL DM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 35 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Mariani Tools, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/27/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 512 Fishell Rd Rush, NY 14543 General Purpose
Notice of Formation of 4551 Chestnut LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/30/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Christa Construction, 600 East Ave, Ste 201, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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[ NOTICE ] Mr. CleanAll LLC. a commercial/residential janitorial service company incorporated on 11/29/2018 Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 617 Morning Glory drive Rochester, NY 14580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of TEAM SPRE, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 50 ROCKINGHAM DM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 35 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Angela Stewart, Ph.D., Psychology, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/30/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Angela Stewart, 308 San Gabriel Dr., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bristol Hills CAVU LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/25/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to A M Seymour 1900 University Ave Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Brockport Leasing LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 18 Ashwood Knoll, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CAMS West North, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/5/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 271 Paul Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Castletown Commonwealth, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 07/05/19 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 2604 Elmwood Ave, Suite 291 Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEPHAS HOMES, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) September 18, 2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2117 Buffalo Rd, #135 Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CLINTON AVENUE APARTMENTS II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: All lawful acts and activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CLINTON AVENUE APARTMENTS II MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: All lawful acts and activities.
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Notice of Formation of G4 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/20/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 3850 Buffalo Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Notice of formation of L & M Home Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 745 East Avenue, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful act.
Notice of Formation of Mancini Public Relations LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State 9/3/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 716 Helendale Rd, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of MANNY3 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/18/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 225 Tech Park Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Genesee Valley Psychology, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 21 Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: practice the profession of Psychology. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of Curran Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/3/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 59 Kemphurst Rd Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of formation of Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Lab, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 9/27/19. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 32 Nightfrost Ln, Henrietta, NY 14467. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law.
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Notice of formation of EK REALTY PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: David A Emmi, 32 Chesham Way, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful act.
Notice of Formation of JB Business Enterprises, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 189 Garden Parkway, Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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Notice of Formation of Flight Level Aviation LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Connor Brokaw, 1400 East Avenue, Apt 305, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of Jennifer Granger, LMT, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/07/19 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 12 Gary Hill Drive, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Bridle Road Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 7, 2019. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Concord River Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 7, 2019. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: River Pines Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 7, 2019. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Locked & Loaded Express, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06-20-19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 61 Presque St, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MoonSpirit LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on July 22 2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 15 Ridge Castle Dr. Rochester, NY 14622 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Nano Race LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/24/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 34 Browns Race, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Patrick O’Shaughnessy Consulting LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/28/2019.. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 51 Waterworks Ln, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PLAYTIME PARK LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/26/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to 119 SPARROW DR. WEST HENRIETTA NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sour Note Productions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/3/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 164 Blue Aspen Way, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Spirit Life Coaching And Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/16/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 401 McNaughton Street – Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRS1 of New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/17/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 116 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SSD.Ludhiana, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/28/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 68 White Oak Bend, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Art Administrators LLC. Arts. of org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/22/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 121 Merryhill Drive Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: Any lawful activity
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thomas-Clifford Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/27/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 63 Thomas St, P.O. Box 31767, Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of XACT MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/20/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 3861 Buffalo Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC 2111 Hudson Ave Irondequoit NY 14617 to satisfy a lien for rental on November 12th at approx. 12:30 PM at [www.storagetreasures. com] [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Capitol Orchards LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 08/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 113 Dominican Dr., San Rafael, CA 94901, also the address to be maintained in CA. Arts of Org. filed with the CA Secy. Of State, 1500 11 th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Plaza Street Fund 77, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Kansas (KS) on 9/9/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207. KS address of LLC: 2400 W 75th St, Ste 220, Prairie
Village, KS 66208. Arts. of Org. filed with KS Secy of State, 120 SW 10th Ave, Topeka, KS 66612. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Orbital Farms, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/26/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 200 Henrietta St., Rochester, NY 14620. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] PARK GROVE PETTIGREW LLC: Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization for PARK GROVE PETTIGREW LLC (“LLC”) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 09/10/19. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, at c/o Park Grove Realty, LLC, 46 Prince St., Ste 2003, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Renee Reads LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 6/17/2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to Renee Reads LLC, P.O Box 535, Henrietta, NY 14467. The purpose of the Company is Wellness Consulting, Events Planning and Property Investing. [ NOTICE ] ROC Consulting Services, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/27/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 2604 Elmwood Ave., #113, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Simply Blessed Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/30/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served
Legal Ads & shall mail process to 35 Bright Oaks Dr., Rochester, NY 14624. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] THE WEIGHT PORTFOLIO, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/16/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 300 Laburnam Crescent, Rochester, NY 14620, which is also the principal business location and registered agent, Victor DelPozzo, upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] UPTON PARK OPERATOR LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/09/19 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 322 Madison Ave Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] UPTON PARK REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/09/19 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 322 Madison Ave Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF BOAT AUCTION ] 1978 32” Carver NY3096PW CDR320820478 John Steiner: 1983 28’ Bayliner NY4714FL BL2A18CD0883 David Moore; 1987 27’ Sea Ray NY3239JV SERT5963F787 Tony Lippa; 1978 26” Pearson NY2981PW PEA46651M78H Judy & Alec Farrell; 1964 36’ CC Roamer NY0965DF RXQ361714 Bob Carr, AUCTION Friday 10-25-19 at 1:00 pm at Voyager Boat Sales Stutson St Ext.
Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/25/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 205 Saint Paul Street, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Harvest Farm Market, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/4/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 745 Titus Avenue, Annex Building, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Elm 40, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 9, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 23 Stanford Rd. W. Rochester, New York, 14620, Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: IT Insights of Rochester LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 30, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30A Grove Street, Pittsford, NY 14534, Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ]
2740 Monroe, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/23/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2851 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity.
NAME: Marie Properties 417, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 30, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 139 Richard St. Rochester, NY 14607, Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities.
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CDGANW LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY
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Fun Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/26/2018. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O DESIGN FOR CONTRACTING AND TRADING LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: IRISH CARDINAL PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O IRISH CARDINAL PROPERTIES LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: JOSE JOES OF GREECE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O JOSE JOES OF GREECE LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ Notice of Formation ] New Property Owner, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/30/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to Attn: Shawn Griffin, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity.
of process to 2680 W. Ridge Road, Suite B100C, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Dasher Unlimited, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 9/6/19. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 91 Wintergreen Way, Rochester NY 14618. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Real Home Properties LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 09/27/2019 with an effective date of formation of 09/27/2019. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to P.O. Box 173, East Rochester, NY 14445. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ PUBLIC NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIFT BRIDGE YARNS, LLC. The Articles of Organization have been filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on September 19, 2019. The office of the limited liability company is to be located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent for service of process. Any such process may be mailed to Lift Bridge Yarns, LLC, 6 Killeen Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. The LLC is formed for any lawful business purpose.
[ Notice of Formation ] The Residences of Hornell II LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/11/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy
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