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If you're looking
for urban living, historic homes, tree-lined streets, city parks, and street
shopping instead of malls, you'll want to consider Northeast Portland.
Originally one of Portland's streetcar suburbs,
Northeast Portland underwent a great building boom from 1890-1913. During
that time, Northeast Broadway, one of the district's main thoroughfares,
evolved naturally into a busy strip of restaurants and shops needed to support
Portland's growing eastside population.
Although modern automobile travel and convenient MAX light
rail service render many of the Northeast neighborhoods a quick 7-10 -minute
jaunt to Portland's downtown core, Northeast Portland seems charmingly detached
from the bustle of the city center.
The seeds of gentrification were planted during World
War II, when African Americans from the South flowed into Portland to
take jobs in the shipyards. Portland officials and community members,
from real estate agents to bankers, pushed the black community into a
small area called Lower Albina, near the present-day Rose Quarter,
through redlining and other now-illegal practices. White Portlanders
fled, and the city began a long pattern of disinvestment. Street and
sidewalk repairs were neglected, and the city did little to develop
businesses or enforce housing codes, said Gibson, the PSU planner, who
wrote a study in 2007 called
"Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940-2000."
Take a photo tour of
NE Fremont Street.
Download a map of Northeast
Portland. Shopping guide/map of Northeast Portland by clicking
here.
Farmers Markets
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Hollywood Farmers Market Northeast
Hancock Street between 44th and 45th avenues. 8 am-1 pm Saturdays,
May -November. More information at
hollywoodfarmersmarket.org.
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King Neighborhood Farmers Market
Northeast 7th Avenue and Wygant Street. 10 am-2 pm Sunday, May-October. More information at
portlandfarmersmarket.org.
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Lloyd Farmers Market Oregon Square at
Northeast Holladay Street between 7th and 9th avenues. 10 am-2 pm
Tuesdays, June-September. More information at
lloydfarmersmkt.net.
Portland Monthly Magazine Neighborhood Guide
 The
Portland Monthly
magazine features neighborhoods in their April issue every year. It has
a ton of information about neighborhoods and communities to include their
pick of the "best" for the year.
To help those in the housing market, the magazine combines
data from Portland neighborhoods and suburban communities online.
Include in the document are housing prices, school ratings, demographics,
crime statistics, parks, commuting information, and services. Click
here to access the guide.
Walking in Northeast Portland
Walk
Score ranks 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities to help
you find a walkable place to live. The top 7 neighborhoods in Portland
are Walkers' Paradises. 45% of Portland residents have a Walk Score of 70
or above. 83% have a Walk Score of at least 50—and 17% live in Car-Dependent
neighborhoods. We have created a Walk Score for each of the neighborhood
profiles below. Please note that we use an address in the center of each
neighborhood to determine the Walk Score. Scores will vary in a neighborhood
depending upon the address.
Below you will find five walking tours in the Northeast
neighborhoods:
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Alameda
Ridge & Stairs Begin at NE 50th & Sandy for this 3.75 miles,
8,000 steps walk with some great views.
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Hollywood to Rose City Golf Course Begin at NE 45th & Hancock
for this 3.2 miles, 6400 steps walk.
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Irvington Homes & Trees Begin at NE 15th & Broadway for this
2.6 miles, 5,000 steps walk and discover some of northeast's Heritage
trees.
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Three
Parks Walk Begin at Knott Street Park, NE 112th & Russell
for this 2.25 miles, 4,500 steps walk through Knott Street, John Luby
and Merrifield Parks.
Transit Score provides a 0-100 rating indicating how well an address is
served by public transportation. Ratings range from "Rider's
Paradises" to areas with limited or no nearby public transportation.
In 2009, the non-profit
Transportation for
America named the Portland-Vancouver area as the ninth-safest metro
area for pedestrians.
Search for Homes in Northeast Portland
 To
search for homes in Northeast Portland, go to
Search Northeast Portland. You can use over 100 search parameters
and then select a specific area off a community map by drawing a box around
that area. Alternatively, you can just specify the criteria and obtain all
the current listings in Northeast Portland.
Detailed Profiles of Northeast
Neighborhoods
Here are six neighborhoods
in Northeast Portland that have details profiles. The profiles include
housing costs, crime stats, history, etc.
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