Halima Ainte, Cedar-Riverside.
Ainte said she depends on the community’s interconnectedness. “Everyone helps each other out, people check in on each other.”
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Bonnie Hagedorn, Dinkytown.
“I have encountered many students, and I feel you can make a good connection here.”
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Linzie Vee, Dinkytown.
“Dinky means a chill spot. Kinda low key, but yet a part of some group where you can kinda be loud in your apartment if no one else is.”
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Lo Ogunti, Columbia Heights.
“If you’re a biker, foodie, or like sight-seeing, there’s something for everyone. I’m a dad now, so there’s a lot for us to do in the neighborhood.”
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Cheryl Robertson, Prospect Park.
“What I like is that you’ve got diversity in every way. You got young people, students, there’s a really large Somali community, there’s old people, and there’s an established neighborhood. It’s super diverse, and I really like that.” Robertson is a resident at Pillars Assisted Living.
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Lisa Jabbar, Cedar-Riverside
Lisa Jabbar, Cedar-Riverside
“My kids, 30, 29, and 22 all went to the Montessori School.” She has lived in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood for more than 40 years.
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Peter Holbrook, Prospect Park.
“It’s more than just a place to park your car and sleep. It’s very much a neighborhood in the old-fashion sense, where you meet people walking in the street, you get to know their dogs, you do little favors with your neighbors.”
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Rachel Gross, Como.
“I think it’s far enough away from campus where it’s quiet and it has more character than Dinkytown. It’s not just high rise apartments, it’s actual houses. You get the opportunity to know your neighbors.”
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Anna Lohse, Cedar-Riverside
Anna Lohse, a worker at Hard Times Cafe in Cedar-Riverside said despite outside misconceptions, Cedar Riverside is her favorite place in Minneapolis. “It's a fiercely independent community that has rejected big-box businesses from moving in.”
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Patrick Blaney, Prospect Park.
“I think it means accessibility, I feel it’s very central and it has a lot of good services. I also like its proximity to the community garden, where we have a plot.”
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Aranza Lopez, Dinkytown.
“It’s safe here. You don’t feel so isolated, there’s a strong sense of community.”
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Erin Joda, Marcy Holmes.
“I feel like having the college town community is very comforting, but I also love being right by the city for the hustle and bustle of it all.”
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Vivian Big Eagle, Como.
“It’s just kind of a hidden gem of an area. I can walk most places and get most of what we need. And then of course there’s lots of families in the neighborhood so bringing my kids to the park to run around, my son’s got lots of different friends that we see here all the time.”
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Kelli LaVine, Dinkytown.
“It’s nice that we can walk to the library and we can walk to the park. And really, I would say the frat houses and sororities around nine times out of ten are just fantastic and they’ll play kids music for them when they’re outside.”
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Bob Milton, Como.
“It's just a nice friendly place. You know, look at this, it’s not corporate. It's all small businesses. It's residential and small businesses. I mean, it's almost like a little town.”
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Jennifer Weber, Cedar-Riverside.
“I attended college at Augsburg. I came and I never left.” Weber runs youth programs at Brian Coyle Community Center. She says she is driven by a love for the kids in the community.
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Derek Barlow, St. Paul.
“I think it’s the most diverse neighborhood in the Twin Cities. Not just race, but with businesses, students and non-students, food and residencies.”
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