General Areas
The local community defines several general areas based on the directional suffixes added to streets in the city. These city areas do not necessarily correlate with official community or neighborhood definitions.
Downtown Minneapolis refers to the street grid area aligned on a diagonal with the Mississippi River bend, as opposed to the true north grid orientation. South of this grid begins South Minneapolis. Southwest Minneapolis is not as clearly defined within South Minneapolis. The core is considered the official community of Southwest is bounded on the north by the line of 36th St W, extending west from where it ends at Lake Calhoun, and on the east by I-35W.
The part of Minneapolis on the east bank of the Mississippi River is divided into Northeast and Southeast street suffixes by East Hennepin Avenue. These suffixes approximately align with the communities of Northeast and University respectively. The Old St. Anthony business district along Main Street Southeast tends to orientate toward Northeast. The University of Minnesota-oriented University community and the traditionally working-class Northeast community have quite distinct identities.
Read more about this topic: Minneapolis Neighborhoods
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