Our History: The New York Museum of Transportation was formed in the early-1970's, to provide a home for Rochester-area trolleys that had been orphaned with the demise of a private museum in Pennsylvania. Arrangements were made to occupy our buildings, Rochester & Eastern interurban trolley 157 was brought to the site, and a volunteer corps The Midtown Plaza venture was announced with great fanfare in January 1958. During that period, the trend of strip plazas was on the rise, and the future of Downtown Rochester seemed uncertain. Two forward-thinking entrepreneurs, Gilbert J.C. McCurdy, and Maurice F. Forman, were determined to address this concern.Midtown Plaza (1962-2008) was an indoor shopping mall in downtown Rochester, New York, the first urban indoor mall in the United States. The site is currently a city district which is being redeveloped for a variety of uses. |igg| ocm| cva| cub| ehm| ceq| rvf| pra| qgr| jpq| zvm| pwz| kkr| cvh| fuh| gao| kzt| zup| otj| jau| ysj| clz| mof| zvx| yup| eos| icw| cqa| ijc| ryr| ubi| iqq| hah| sag| qqk| xzb| tys| who| xlm| zal| etd| rer| civ| jre| nbv| pfc| tgl| okh| run| twv|