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Walking All the Streets of Northeastern Hawthorne

By on August 10, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Interstate 94 divided the Hawthorne Neighborhood in North Minneapolis into two quite different areas: a primarily industrial strip along the river and a primarily residential area west of the freeway extending as far as Emerson Avenue. Logically, it might make sense to walk the industrial area on one day and the residential on two others. […]

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A Minneapolis 2040 Conversation Guide for National Night Out

By on August 6, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Neighborhoods

What is National Night Out? National Night Out  is an annual block party on the first Tuesday of August. This year, National Night Out is August 7th.  It’s an opportunity to meet your neighbors, share a meal, and discuss neighborhood issues. Use this event to let your neighbors know that you support the 2040 Comprehensive […]

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Walking All the Streets of Eastern Harrison

By on August 3, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Unlike the largely residential western half of Harrison, the eastern half of the neighborhood includes a substantial proportion of warehousing and light industry. But really it has a bit of everything, making for an interesting walk. Looking at the route map, you can see that the longest of the red forward-and-back spurs protrudes well beyond the […]

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Walking All the Streets of Western Harrison

By on July 27, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The Harrison neighborhood in Minneapolis’s Near North community is shown with light blue tint in the route map. My route for the first day started at the intersection of Glenwood and Morgan Avenues (point A) and ended three blocks north of there at Olson Memorial Highway and Morgan Avenue (point B). How could I end […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southern Hale

By on July 20, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Previously I walked the portion of the Hale neighborhood north of 52nd Street, so I focused on the south this day, starting and ending at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 53rd Street. The light blue tint in the route map shows the full neighborhood. If you look closely, you’ll see I briefly left Hale at […]

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Walking All the Streets of Northern Hale

By on July 13, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Visiting neighborhoods in alphabetical order generally means jumping around, often to quite different areas. But the Hale neighborhood is due east of Fulton (where I last walked), so I experienced some definite continuity. Not that the two neighborhoods are contiguous: Lynnhurst, Tangletown, and Page intervene. But the mere fact of being equally far south implies the neighborhoods […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southwestern Fulton

By on July 6, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The fourth and final fraction of my fall Fulton fieldwork consisted of the quadrant to the south of 50th Street West and to the west of Xerxes Avenue South, as shown in the following route map. As usual, the red lines show forward-and-back spurs off of the main loop and the light blue tint shows the full […]

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On the Street Where You Live: Residential Streets as Outdoor Living Rooms

By on June 29, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Uncategorized

“On the Street Where You Live” is a song by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Jay Alan Lerner, from the 1956 Broadway musical “My Fair Lady.” Considered in another context, we recognize almost all of us live in places facing a street functioning in a practical role providing a means of travel to connect ourselves […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southeastern Fulton

By on June 29, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

One look at the route map below makes clear that the southeast quadrant of the Fulton neighborhood is heavily influenced by Minnehaha Creek, unlike the northwest and northeast portions I walked previously. Not that this accounts for all I saw. For example, this quadrant also turns out to be the land of the former gas stations. As usual, the […]

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Ramsey County Highway 49 is Killing Rice Street

By on June 28, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Parking, Streets

For more than a year, Ramsey County has been conducting a study to determine the best plan for the future of Rice Street–or, as Ramsey County highway engineers like to call it, Ramsey County Highway 49. We’ve had meetings, meetings, and still more meetings. At every turn the divides in the neighborhood seem to get […]

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