Gary contains most of the business district of the two neighborhoods, such as the Minit Mart and Milk House areas.
The major tenants of New Duluth are the Minneapolis Electric Company's steel foundry and Stowe Elementary School.
Both neighborhoods are historically linked to the once vast U.S. Steel plant of the Duluth Works which was once located outside of Gary and in between Morgan Park.
Both neighborhoods experienced a major decline in business and population when the area's industries folded, although much of the ethnic heritage of the communities still thrives to this day.
(Directions following those of Duluth's general street grid system, not actual geographical coordinates)