Riding Across the City, Riding Across the Country
Wolfie Browender • November 11, 2021 A day’s ride through St. Paul offers lessons on the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of cycling.
Category: Neighborhoods
Wolfie Browender • November 11, 2021 
Walking All the Streets of Eastern McKinley
Max Hailperin • October 25, 2021 Don’t just scroll through this post looking at the photos. At a minimum, even if you don’t read the text, click the links. The most striking sights of this walk—several remarkable murals clustered on a single building—are only represented through links to external sources. I didn’t take any decent photos of them and am not […]
What Role Can Public Space Play in the Case for Reparations?: A Study of Rondo Commemorative Plaza
Macalester Student Perspectives • October 24, 2021 History of Rondo + Highway Built in 2018, Rondo Commemorative Plaza is a physical reminder of the destruction of the Rondo Neighborhood by the construction of Interstate 94 and the resilience of the community who lives there. Located in the historic Rondo Neighborhood on the corner of Fisk Street and Concordia Avenue (formerly known as […]
Walking All the Streets of Western McKinley
Max Hailperin • October 15, 2021 Visiting Minneapolis neighborhoods alphabetically generally prevents geographic continuity, but every once in a while the next neighborhood turns out to be adjacent. That happened moving from Marshall Terrace to McKinley, though the border down the middle of the Mississippi is traversable only on the Lowry Avenue bridge. I didn’t start with the adjacent part of McKinley; instead, […]
Replacing the Car: Groceries
Christy Marsden • October 6, 2021 My mother would do the shopping once a week, filling her cart and car with groceries. We would dutifully unload and put away all the food we may or may not eat over the next week, as this was just how things were done. As an adult, I kept the same practices. Of course I […]
Walking All the Streets of Marshall Terrace
Max Hailperin • October 4, 2021 Marshall Terrace is a substantially industrial neighborhood in Northeast Minneapolis, but from an era when living where one worked was considered normal. Its northern and southern borders are St. Anthony Parkway and Lowry Avenue NE; more consequentially, the neighborhood spans from BNSF’s Northtown (rail) Yard to the Mississippi River. My route started and ended at […]
The Mosquito Hunter
Wolfie Browender • September 24, 2021 Seeing St. Paul by bike is an enriching view.
Walking All the Streets of Upstream Marcy-Holmes
Max Hailperin • September 9, 2021 My final walk in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood brought it together: Marcy and Holmes, electricity and water, flower and bee, art and industry. Less grandly, I walked around in circles looking at stuff. My first walk had covered the downstream section between 10th and 15th Avenues SE, my second the middle section between 5th and 10th Avenues SE, so now […]
Play Streets Promote Equity, Community for All Ages
Amy Gage • August 3, 2021 Lisa Nelson is looking forward to celebrating National Night Out (NNO) this evening with her husband and two children, 3 and 6 years old. Her block on Herschel Street in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood is an ideal place to barricade off traffic while kids run and play, giving parents a reprieve and a rare chance […]
Icons of the North End and Folks Who’ve Hung Out There
Wolfie Browender • July 16, 2021 Seeing a neighborhood via bike, with a camera, conveys a true sense of place.