Cooper Neighborhood News and Events
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Stretching south from I-94 along the Mississippi River, the Longfellow community includes these neighborhoods: Seward, Longfellow (of course), Cooper, Howe, and Hiawatha
Justin Elston is our neigh-borhood corres-pondent for Cooper - he lives in Cooper and he wants to hear from you. Tell him about the garage sale, or the big bang on Sunday night - ask him how to register and get your profile on TC Daily Planet! Email justin.elston@gmail.com Justin is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, pursuing a Masters in Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute. He is interested in creating a place for individuals to learn about the the public policy issues of the day, and add their voices to to the broader discussion of where we are, and what direction we should take as a society |
The Greater Longfellow Neighborhood may be best known for its bungalows.
It proudly declares itself a Traditional Bungalow Neighborhood on signs throughout the community, and has had its special homes featured in countless magazines and books. Built to be affordable, manageable and most of all beautiful, Longfellow provides the perfect setting for Craftsman cottages. But maybe it's the Mississippi River and its biking and walking trails on the east, or historic Minnehaha Falls to the, or the new Hiawatha Light Rail line on its western border that Longfellow is best known for. Or perhaps, it is the lush, new, Midtown Greenway bike path on its northern border.
It can be difficult to decide.
And you can't ignore Lake Street, which travels through Longfellow to the Mississippi, providing a vast array of shops and businesses. From sushi to Sliders, from motor scooters and car mechanics to veterinary care and cappuccino, you can find it here.
Longfellow remains an affordable, friendly, diverse and walkable neighborhood, with scenery second to none.
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THEATER | Jon Ferguson's "A Bun for a Door Handle": A weighty sort of whimsy
Explaining to people why I'll go to see anything Jon Ferguson does, I say that Ferguson creates spaces where things can happen that don't happen anywhere else. He and his collaborators so clearly trust and inspire one another that you walk out of the theater into a world that feels richer than you'd realized it was before you went in.MORE »
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Crime report for January
The chart shows an overall decrease of crime in the four Longfellow neighborhoods compared to 2011.Best progress shows in larceny which dropped 25 percent and robbery which dropped 89 percent. A disturbing increase in rapes makes up for the satisfaction of again having no murders anywhere in the Longfellow community in January.MORE »
LoLa wants you!
The League of Longfellow Artists (LoLa) invites you to its third annual art crawl, Saturday and Sunday, August 27 and 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days.MORE »
Seeds of transition in Phillips
On Saturday morning, with trimmings from a few household succulents in hand, I set out for St.MORE »
Minneapolis group campaigns for municipal ID cards
On Wednesday August 18, a group of organizers met at Family and Children's Service on Lake Street to discuss progress in their campaign to bring municipal identification cards to Minneapolis. The group, called I am Minneapolis/ Soy Minneapolis has been working to build allies and convince city officials of the benefits that municipal IDs would bring to citizens of Minneapolis, both immigrants and the general public.MORE »
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