For Rochester residents East End and Upper East End mean fun. At the Eastman School of Music you get almost daily doses of world-class live music, much of it free. The Little Theatre offers five screens of independent and foreign films. Walking from one end of the neighborhood to the other you'll pass dozens of restaurants, cafes and nightspots. Or you can watch the sun set over downtown on the deck while sipping a martini.

And then there are the East End Festivals. During the spring and summer the neighborhood streets are closed to traffic on three weekend nights, stages are set up, and the area rocks. The East End/Upper East End area is fast becoming a 24/7 living environment with the cache of new market-rate apartments and townhouses, blended with chic loft-style apartments.

Live there, work there, play there.... click the links in the box to your upper left to learn how. Want to know even more about the past, present, and future of the East End?...click here and read on.