Dinkytown

Dinkytown is an historic commercial hub in Minneapolis's Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, centered at 14th Avenue and 4th Street SE. Located immediately north of the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus, the district spans several city blocks packed with independent businesses, restaurants, and student apartments.

Photo: RxS, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arvonne Fraser Library and Al’s Breakfast.

Arvonne Fraser Library

Library

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Arvonne Fraser Library is a public library located on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota, located in the Dinkytown area of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Al’s Breakfast

Restaurant

Photo: Gobonobo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Al's Breakfast is reportedly the narrowest restaurant in the city of Minneapolis, at a width of ten feet. Al's Breakfast is crammed into a former alleyway between two much larger buildings and is located in the city's Dinkytown neighborhood near the University of Minnesota.

Varsity Theater

Nightclub

Photo: RxS, Public domain.

Varsity Theater is a nightclub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include University and Southeast Minneapolis.

University

Suburb

University is one of the eleven official communities of the U.S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is composed of seven smaller neighborhoods and is the only community with neighborhoods on both sides of the Mississippi River.

Southeast Minneapolis

Photo: Michael Hicks, CC BY 2.0.

Southeast Minneapolis is a district in Minneapolis. Although it isn't in the southeastern quadrant of Minneapolis, it is called "Southeast" because it is east of the Mississippi River and south of East Hennepin Avenue, which divides streets into Southeast and Northeast.

University

Neighborhood

Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.

University is a neighborhood within the greater University community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is almost completely occupied by the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota, hence the name.

Dinkytown

Type: Quarter
Description: commercial district in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Categories: neighborhood and locality
Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.98048° or 44° 58′ 50″ north

Longitude

-93.23579° or 93° 14′ 9″ west

Open location code

86P8XQJ7+5M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 546540384

OpenStreetMap feature

place=quarter

Wikidata ID

Q1226555

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Urdu—“Dinkytown” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Dinkytown”
French: “Dinkytown”
German: “Dinkytown”
Malayalam: “ഡിങ്കിടൗൺ”
Persian: “دینکی‌تون”
Urdu: “ڈنکی ٹاؤن”

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