Dinkytown
Dinkytown is a commercial district within the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Centered at 14th Avenue Southeast and 4th Street Southeast, the district contains several city blocks occupied by various small businesses, restaurants, bars, and apartment buildings that house mostly University of Minnesota students.Photo: RxS, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al’s Breakfast and Varsity Theater.
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.
Weisman Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Weisman Art Museum is an art museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's Northrop Auditorium.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.98048° or 44° 58′ 50″ northLongitude
-93.23579° or 93° 14′ 9″ westOpen location code
86P8XQJ7+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 546540384OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterWikidata ID
Q1226555
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Dinkytown” goes by many names.
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