The Minnesota National Guard deployed around Cedar Riverside neighborhood while a racist tries to hold a white nationalist march to the neighborhood from downtown Minneapolis on January 17, 2026.

Second to last night at Palmer's Bar in Minneapolis. The bar will close for good tomorrow... i've heard it'll all end with a lock-in until theres nothing left to drink.

Whiskey Junction bar on Cedar Ave without the longtime Jack Daniels mural. The bar closed in 2017 and was bought months later by The Joint Bar next door.

A Metro Transit police mobile surveillance camera unit found near the Light Rail station in Cedar-Riverside Minneapolis.

A flyer for Open Streets Cedar-Riverside at a bus stop in South Minneapolis on August 20, 2023.

Metro Transit Cedar–Riverside station in South Minneapolis in August 2023.

Discarded needles and trash line the tracks at the Cedar-Riverside LRT station.

Train moves through the Cedar Riverside train station in South Minneapolis on February 19, 2023.

Cedar-Riverside train station in South Minneapolis.

A family walks down a trail near Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis.

The towers at Cedar Riverside Plaza in South Minneapolis.

35W near downtown Minneapolis with Riverside Plaza towers.

Cedar-Riverside LRT trains station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hard Times Cafe on Riverside Drive in Minneapolis during COVID-19 closures.

A large Jack Daniels mural on the Whiskey Junction building on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis. The bar has been closed since at least 2020

Riverside Plaza stands tall beyond the METRO Blue Line overpass in the Cedar–Riverside district of Minneapolis. The colorful panels of the 1970s residential towers contrast with the new mid-rise apartments and light rail infrastructure built decades later. This view captures the merging of eras—modern rail transit, Brutalist architecture, and the continuing evolution of one of Minneapolis’s most historically diverse neighborhoods.

The METRO Blue Line curves toward downtown Minneapolis near the Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, passing below the colorful concrete towers of Riverside Plaza at sunset. The complex, designed by architect Ralph Rapson and completed in 1973, is one of the city’s most distinctive examples of Brutalist modernism. This area, once part of the immigrant gateway to Minneapolis, now blends historic structures like the Mixed Blood Theatre with the transit corridor connecting neighborhoods across the city.

Riverside Plaza and Cedar High Apartments stand illuminated against the twilight sky in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Completed in the 1970s and designed by architect Ralph Rapson, the complex is one of the city’s most distinctive examples of modernist architecture. Its colorful paneling and Brutalist concrete forms house one of the most diverse communities in the region, symbolizing both urban renewal and the evolution of affordable housing in the Twin Cities.