The Jack of Kingfield

“It funny that you wanted us to wear masks to prevent deaths in a pandemic but you don’t want us to wear masks when we kill people in the streets”

I can’t believe I have lived here for a decade and did not know about this street til this year

A grassy pedestrian street with homes with front porches

A verdant pedestrianized street lined with homes

A pedestrian street with a playground in the middle of the block

More angles of this grassy pedestrian home lined street

It looks even better in summer, courtesy of google streetview.

Can you imagine how nice this would be in the summer? Kids can run from your home to the playground without needing to fear cars.

I would like to officially propose this for the 94 redesign: Milwaukee Ave 94.

Instead of all SFM, apartment buildings and businesses could be included on this pedestrianized street, similar to Barcelona’s La Rambla

Rows of homes on a pedestrian plaza

A playground in the middle of the pedestrianized block

More angles of rows of homes on a pedestrianized street. Lots of tree cover in the middle of the road

MILWAUKEE AVENUE HISTORIC DISTRICT 1970s: Rehabilitation of the Historic District By the 1960s, generations of heavy use had taken a toll on the houses. Fewer families remained. Many homes became rental properties for students and artists. As front porches were enclosed and deteriorated brick was covered with stucco, the area's architectural integrity further diminished. A 1970s urban renewal plan called for demolishing nearly 70 percent of the housing in the surrounding neighborhood, including every home along Milwaukee Avenue. A grassroots group, the Seward West Project Area Committee, fought to preserve Milwaukee Avenue and won its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. With public agency funding and their own sweat and labor, homeowners restored the houses. The narrow street became a pedestrian way. Today, Milwaukee Avenue serves as a Seward Neighborhood landmark and a unique example of Minnesota's social heritage.

Lovely home with classic Milwaukee ave design of brick and an ornate front porch

Lovely home with classic Milwaukee ave design of brick and an ornate front porch

Lovely home with classic Milwaukee ave design of brick and an ornate front porch

Sign: MILWAUKEE AVENUE HISTORIC DISTRICT 1970s: Rehabilitation of the Historic District By the 1960s, generations of heavy use had taken a toll on the houses. Fewer families remained. Many homes became rental properties for students and artists. As front porches were enclosed and deteriorated brick was covered with stucco, the area's architectural integrity further diminished. A 1970s urban renewal plan called for demolishing nearly 70 percent of the housing in the surrounding neighborhood, including every home along Milwaukee Avenue. A grassroots group, the Seward West Project Area Committee, fought to preserve Milwaukee Avenue and won its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. With public agency funding and their own sweat and labor, homeowners restored the houses. The narrow street became a pedestrian way. Today, Milwaukee Avenue serves as a Seward Neighborhood landmark and a unique example of Minnesota's social heritage.

“No motor vehicles” sign with the pedestrianized street in the background

Rows of homes on a pedestrianized street

Do you know about Milwaukee Ave in the Seward Neighborhood. It is 2 blocks of a completely pedestrianized street with a playground right in the middle. It is one of the coolest blocks in Minneapolis.

Yes “yay we got another one fired” followed by business as usual

Friends from outside Minnesota have asked me if there are celebrations in the street over Noem being fired. To anyone not in MN: no. people are still buying neighbors groceries and collecting for their rent and patrolling. If ice is abolished or trump dies, then mpls will celebrate

Good point!

Do they make the crop top version in mens?

I have spent many a night outside my bed, standing guard at local stores in -20 because Noem’s rough men were doing violence on trump’s behalf

A source in the Twins org told me that they are working on a response to the sick Saint’s St Paul resistance jacket.

The source said the clothing item would “blow the corduroy right off those East-of-the-Mississippi hicks’ backs”

They saw budlight, failed to realize that budlight’s issue was pissing everyone off by disavowing support for trans people + people not drinking bad light beer as much. They also failed to realize that their clientele is mostly liberal leaning women while BL’s was mostly conservative men.

Man, Target had an opportunity to come out strongly against ICE. They could have, I think, fairly easily recaptured a lot of goodwill they lost and would not have lost many customers.

I remember being impressed with their statement post George Floyd’s murder. Sad that they became cowards or worse.

Commissioner Abene, I am writing you once again to ask that you support open parkways around the uptown lakes this summer. I don't envision a near future where residents won't be scared of potentially being abducted by ICE. Please help keep our neighbors safe and allow the lakes to be enjoyed by ALL minneapolis residents opening the parkways to noncar traffic and putting more space between residents and the roving ICE vehicles in our neighborhoods.

Great minds…my follow up from a week ago

It has been a month and she has not replied

I have no idea why I started following you but now I know why I will continue to. Keep the chickens coming

Additionally, now that our city is under ICE occupation, open parkways has the additional benefit of keeping residents safe in our parks by not allowing ICE to drive their blacked out SUVs around the lakes where residents are trying to safely enjoy them. Putting additional space between ICE convoys and residents is vitally important to allowing ALL residents to enjoy the parks especially as the weather gets nice. Please do not enable ICE to terrorize people in our beloved parks by blocking Open Parkways.

Additionally, now that our city is under ICE occupation, open parkways has the additional benefit of keeping residents safe in our parks by not allowing ICE to drive their blacked out SUVs around the lakes where residents are trying to safely enjoy them. Putting additional space between ICE convoys and residents is vitally important to allowing ALL residents to enjoy the parks especially as the weather gets nice. Please do not enable ICE to terrorize people in our beloved parks by blocking Open Parkways.

What stage of hyper-fixation on local politics includes emailing your park board commissioner asking them to support Open Parkways around the lakes as an Anti-ICE measure?

Lmao “my aunt at 43rd and pilsbury suuuuucks”

Go off, Tell em about the boundaries of Kingfield. Let em know about south of 36 and north of 46 and west of 35W and easy of lyndale

Thank you for defending kingfield. Everyone in Kingfield (minus the salvation army store owner and 1 guy with a suspiciously upright US flag) hates ice and supports eviction pauses.

I worry that John Edwards will use this to garnish more handmaidens

I would die for rightside chicken. Left chicken does nothing for me

A car with a lot of quirky bumperstickers. Eg “bagels on board”

#bumperstickersofminneapolis

I censored the license plate so no one adds it to to their ICE database as a joke

We’ve been doing no MPD but have still been paying. We gotta try to stop paying for a month

Can we just try no MPD for a month? Use that money for mutual aid and rent relief and if it fails, then mid April we can have an MPD again. I sort of doubt most people would notice

The bar for every local and statewide office has to be: during the federal occupation of Minnesota did you do more to help the people than the average wine mom. If the answer is no, you should not run

3rd precinct on fire with the text: give us the Nobel peace prize

If you’re in your 30s and your friend group isn’t talking about:
-where to put their nobel peace prize
-who to buy groceries or pay rent for
-when your patrol shift starts
-license plate numbers

You need a new friend group. Your network is your net worth

Protest art in the kingfield, central, and powderhorn neighborhoods