Used to be if you were a traveler visiting an unfamiliar city, you booked a room at a local hotel and relied on the concierge for advice on the best restaurants, coffee shops, and must-see tourist attractions to visit while in town. Nowadays, as the short-term housing market has exploded with a multitude of options …

Set back off Manitou Road, alongside the Erie Canal in Spencerport, sits the fifty-five-acre Homesteads for Hope Community Farm. Homesteads for Hope is a nonprofit, inclusive community farm that was founded to serve people of all abilities in the Rochester region. Cofounded by the now twenty-nine-year-old CEO Jennyrae Brongo and her mother, Luann Brown, in …

Jim Wolff and Christina Jones have owned Historic Houseparts on South Avenue in Rochester since the mid-nineties. It has expanded from the original owners’ one-building business to a sprawling four-building conglomeration holding every renovator’s dream. Historic Houseparts is the place to go for unique and vintage pieces for your home, from towering wood doors to …