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Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition. Touchstone. {}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9; Elaine Lacoste (1997). Street Names & Picayune Histories of New Orleans. Ho'olauna Hawaii, Ltd. ISBN 0-9656409-0-6
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
DeGaulle Manor was a low-income public housing complex in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. [2] The apartment complex was known for crime and was one of the oldest and most troubled apartment complexes in the city before being shut down in 2012.
Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: City Park Avenue, Toulouse Street, North Carrollton, Orleans Avenue, Bayou St. John and St. Louis Street to the north, North Broad Street to the east, and the Pontchartrain Expressway to the west.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans, and because of Gert Town's low elevation, the neighborhood was greatly affected. [29] Since then, there has been a decline in the neighborhood population to about 3,614 people. [30] Between the years 2012 and 2016, approximately 54% of the neighborhood population was living in poverty. [31]
The city planning commission for New Orleans divided the city into 13 planning districts and 73 [1] distinct neighborhoods in 1980. Although initially in the study 68 neighborhoods were designated, and later increased by the City Planning Commission to 76 in October 2001 based in census data, [2] most planners, neighborhood associations, researchers, and journalists have since widely adopted ...
Algiers (/ æ l ˈ dʒ ɪər z /) is a historic neighborhood of New Orleans and is the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Algiers is known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. [1] It was once home to many jazz musicians [2] [3] [4]
The 1st Ward or First Ward is one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans, divisions of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is geographically one of the smaller wards of the city. Roughly triangular in shape, the boundaries are Thalia Street (below which is the city's 2nd Ward), Felicity Street (above which is the 10th Ward), and the Mississippi River.