Northeast is a defined community in the U.S. city of Minneapolis that is composed of 13 smaller neighborhoods whose street addresses end in "NE".

In the wider community, this business district, which is the oldest settlement in the city, is often identified as the heart of Northeast, in part because it lies across the Mississippi River from Downtown Minneapolis.

Northeast is sometimes referred to as "Nordeast", reflecting the history of northern and eastern European immigrants and their language influence.

Blending a heritage of old architecture, classic housing, bustling commercial streets, and industrial work centers, along with new residential high-rises, suburban cul-de-sacs, big-box retail, and a popular art scene, Northeast offers diverse amenities as part bedroom neighborhood and job center for the city of Minneapolis.

The prominent features of Northeast include ornate Eastern European influenced churches and massive grain silos and mills.

Mostly built around the late 19th to early 20th century, these structures shadow the landscape of modest Victorians and four story apartments.

The land west of the Mississippi was opened for settlement in 1852, and when people started settling it, St. Anthony found it had a competitor across the river.

The next few decades carried massive condo development which echoed the rising architecture in downtown Minneapolis.

Soon after, a historic preservation district was enacted on the site of the Pillsbury A Mill, stretching east to nearby Marcy Holmes.

Northeast Minneapolis has been a traditionally working class area populated by immigrants of Lebanese, Polish, Finnish, German, Slovak, Russian, and Ukrainian descent who were drawn into the area first by employment opportunities that the grain mills and sawmills along the river offered, and later by rail and factory jobs across the city.

The Eastern European immigrants, particularly the Poles with whom Northeast is most often associated, had a profound influence on the cultural life of Minneapolis.

The Polish presence in "Nordeast" remains strong, including the names of local businesses that still bear the mark of the area's Eastern European population such as Kramarczuk's Deli, Siwek Lumber, Sentyrz Market and Surdyk's Liquors.

For many years, the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota library and headquarters were located in Northeast Minneapolis on Central Avenue, but have moved to a location in the old Saint Anthony riverfront that has an "SE" address within the Nicollet Island/East Bank neighborhood of the University community.

After some years of absence, the famous Twin Cities Polish Festival returned to the area the weekend of August 15–16, 2009.

[12] In recent years, the demographics of Northeast have changed, the population becoming younger and more diverse, while retaining a stable base of old "Nordeast" families, often in their third or fourth generation.

African Americans have migrated from the north side to Northeast's more stable neighborhoods and affordable housing opportunities.

[13] A large number of Tibetan immigrants live in Northeast and the nearby suburb Columbia Heights, originally refugees from political upheaval in their homeland.

Major industrial facilities in Northeast include Canadian Pacific Railway's Shoreham Yards, Burlington Northern's rail yards, fluid handling systems manufacturer Graco's world headquarters, Xcel Energy's Riverside power plant, and a Honeywell Aerospace plant.

Other buildings along Stinson Boulevard and East Hennepin Avenue, and in the Riverfront area, have been converted from industrial to office space.

Starting in the late 1990s, restaurants and shops catering to an audience outside the long-established local population have re-energized many business districts in Northeast Minneapolis.

The Johnson Street Quarry, an abandoned brownfield site bounded by Johnson Street on the west, 18th Avenue on the north, New Brighton Boulevard on the east, and I-35W on the south, was remediated in 1996 and the Quarry Shopping Center opened a year later with big-box stores such as Rainbow Foods (in 2014 converted to Cub Foods), Target and Home Depot.

Other ethnic Catholic churches include St. Maron (Lebanese), St. John's Byzantine Rite (Rusyn), St. Constantine's (Ukrainian), and St. Boniface (German).

In October 2010, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis announced a Strategic Plan which would merge Holy Cross, St. Hedwig and St. Clement into St. Anthony of Padua.

Formal appeals exhausted, some continued to call upon Archbishop Nienstedt to remove Holy Cross and St. Hedwig's from the merger.

[24] The Polish-American media, notably the Polish American Journal and Kurier Polski of Minnesota, covered the opposition to the Holy Cross merger extensively.

Minnesota media also reported on an August 6, 2011, public rally against the merger of parishes in front of the St. Paul Cathedral.

[15] The Sacred Heart of Jesus Polish National Catholic Church was destroyed by a fire on April 19, 2021, which was investigated as a possible arson.