About the Neighborhood

The South Wedge has quickly evolved in the past decade to become a wildly popular bustling urban village just Southeast of Downtown Rochester. The South Wedge's main commercial corridor is South Avenue. Life on South Avenue is gloriously sweet, from Premier Pastry at its Northern end, past Cheesy Eddie's, Eco Bella Bakery, to Hedonist Chocolate. And that was just dessert! The South Wedge offers many excellent dining options, too numerous to mention here (but check out the directory below). Its packed with fantastic coffee houses, and even multiple coffee roasting companies. Alexander & Gregory Streets are secondary commercial corridors that cut perpendicularly through the wedge shaped neighborhood; some of the nightlife, neighborhood parks, and popular dance and yoga studios spill out onto these cross streets. Genesee Gateway Park, north of the Ford Street Bridge, along Mount Hope Avenue marks the Western edge of the South Wedge. Mount Hope Avenue, along with its Eastern counterpart, South Clinton Avenue, are emerging commercial corridors that seem to be improving year after year. This neighborhood is a very popular area for many of Rochester's college and university students when they move off-campus, because of its central proximity between Downtown Rochester and the University of Rochester, Monroe Community College, and RIT.

Resources

• School District: City of Rochester
• Median Income: $34,688
• Parks & Attractions:
  • Genesee Gateway Park
  • Marie Daley Park
  • Star Alley
• Neighborhood Organizations:
  • Business Association of the South Wedge (BASWA)
  • Neighborworks
  • Southeast Area Coalition
  • South Wedge Planning Committee (SWPC)
• Average Walk Score®: 90/100 (Very Walkable)

• Monroe
• Rochester City Neighborhoods
• Monroe County Suburbs