ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Do artists need permission to use the Flower City logo, the official symbol of the City of Rochester, in their work?The symbol is on trash cans, concrete bollards, city signs ...

Lee Green, the city government’s first graphic designer, created the flower-like logo in 1975. The intent was to unify all city departments under one logo, but the mark since has become ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Rochester’s next professional soccer team, the Flower City Union, which is kicking off in 2022, introduced their logo on Wednesday.

To the Editor: I rarely write a letter to the editor, but I must correct our newspaper for its labeling of Rochester as the ''Flower City.'' Rochester is my hometown. Rochester is the ''Flour City.'' ...

For several decades in the late 19th century, though, Rochester was known best as the Flower City, a title earned by a profusion of local plant nurseries, Ellwanger and Barry chief among them.