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Orleans Parish New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

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and

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in what is now called the Lake Catherine neighborhood. The two forts, part of tonstructed to serve as a defense for the navigational channels leading into New Orleans. Also built in the Lake Catherine neighborhood was the Rigolets Lighthouse. Other developments in the 1800s were the construction of the forerunner to Chef Menteur Highway in Village de L’Est and a sugar cane plantation and refinery in Venetian Isles. With this road completed by mid-century,

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was, at the time, the only access road that connected the eastern area to the rest of the city. Much of the area being marshland, completion of the highway required damming, draining and filling remnants of a distributary known as Bayou Metairie. There was little development other than in two areas. The first hugged the long, narrow ridge of higher ground along Gentilly Road/Chef Menteur Highway, which followed the natural

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of an old bayou. Various farms,

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, and small villages such as Michoud were sited along this ridge. The other older area of development consisted of a linear strip of "camps", clusters of houses raised high on wooden stilts, in the shallows along the edge of

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, the largest and longest-lasting of these being at Little Woods. In the early 20th century some residential development of the area began, at first as an extension of Gentilly. Construction of the

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began in 1918 and was completed in 1923, creating the principal geographical barrier that would separate eastern New Orleans from the rest of city. Eastern New Orleans' present southern boundary was realized in 1944 with the completion of a re-routing of the

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, involving the excavation of a new segment stretching east from the Industrial Canal to the

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, cut through the raw swampland south of the Gentilly Ridge and north of Bayou Bienvenue. From the 1930s to the 1960s, Lincoln Beach, on the shore of

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, was the city's

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for the

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community. When

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was bearing down on the city in 1965, eastern New Orleans was the only section for which an evacuation was called, as there was concern that this section of the city might suffer particularly extreme effects. However other than light flooding near the Morrison Canal, damage from Betsy was much more modest than had been feared. However, some of those who evacuated in advance of Betsy's arrival sought refuge in the

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, which flooded disastrously. Rapid growth east of the Industrial Canal commenced in the 1960s, during the administration of Mayor Vic Schiro (1961–1970). Many new subdivisions were developed in the 1960s and 1970s, to cater to those who preferred a more

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lifestyle but were open to remaining within the city limits of New Orleans. Eastern New Orleans grew in a comparatively well-planned and neatly zoned fashion. Some care was taken to avoid placing major thoroughfares along the rights-of-way of unsightly

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, as had frequently occurred in suburban

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. Instead, major roads (e.g., Mayo, Crowder, Bundy, Read, Bullard, etc.) were located equidistant from parallel canals and were outfitted with landscaped

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(neutral grounds in the local vernacular). Numerous subdivisions were developed with large lakes at their centers, providing both an assist to neighborhood drainage and a scenic backdrop for the backyards of homes. From the late 1960s onwards, buried utilities were required, lending to new development in eastern New Orleans a pleasingly uncluttered visual appearance quite distinct from the wire-hung stoplight signals, tangled webs of power lines, and forests of leaning utility poles common to suburban New Orleans. Though modern-day eastern New Orleans was never segregated, the area originally grew to prominence as a majority-white "suburb-within-the-city". By 1980, the area had also received significant commercial office and retail investment, epitomized by the regional mall The Plaza at Lake Forest, the largest in

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at the time of its completion in 1974. However, the 1980s witnessed a sea-change in demographics, as New Orleans' growing African American middle class began moving into eastern New Orleans in sizable numbers. More importantly, in the wake of the 1986 Oil Bust significant poverty was introduced into eastern New Orleans, as many of the sprawling

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complexes built in the 1960s and 1970s along

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to house upwardly mobile young singles began to accept large, poor, female-headed households as tenants. With increased poverty came increased crime rates, and both non-violent and violent crime became far more common than had been the case in the 1960s or 1970s. These changes were enough to induce a swift exodus of most of the white population, resulting in an eastern New Orleans that was overwhelmingly African-American by 2005. Much more development further east was envisioned during the

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boom of the 1970s, including a huge planned community called, in successive iterations "New Orleans East", "Pontchartrain", "Orlandia", and, finally, "New Orleans East" once more. This "new-town-in-town" was to have resembled

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or the Woodlands north of Houston, but only a few small portions were built in several bursts of activity in the twenty years prior to the Oil Bust. Both the Village de L'Est and Oak Island neighborhoods were phases of "New Orleans East". The new town development would have occupied almost all of New Orleans lying east of the present-day route of I-510. Three identical interchanges along I-10 east of Paris Road were constructed in anticipation of the new town. The Michoud Boulevard exit uses one of these interchanges, but two of the three were never used. The prominent "New Orleans East" cast-concrete sign just west of the Michoud Boulevard exit was fabricated ''circa'' 1980 during the final attempt at developing this huge tract. Much of this land later became the

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, the largest urban wildlife refuge in the United States. Though the "New Orleans East" new town development was never realized, by the 1970s its name had been adopted by many New Orleanians to refer to all of eastern New Orleans of the Industrial Canal. A new international airport for New Orleans was also envisioned for the far eastern portion of area on several occasions. In the late 1960s, formal government-sponsored studies were undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of relocating

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to a new site, contemporaneous with similar efforts that were ultimately successful in Houston (

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) and Dallas (

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). This attempt got as far as recommending a specific runway configuration and site in eastern New Orleans; a man-made island was to be created south of

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and north of

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in a bay of

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. However, in the early 1970s it was decided that the current airport should be expanded instead. New Orleans Mayor

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, in office from 1986 to 1994, later reintroduced the idea of building a new international airport for the city, with consideration given to other sites in eastern New Orleans, as well as on the Northshore in suburban

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. Facing strong opposition from environmentalists, the ''

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'' and many residents of eastern New Orleans, Barthelemy's idea came to nothing. On August 29, 2005, the majority of eastern New Orleans flooded severely from

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and associated levee failures (see:

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). Recovery initially unfolded slowly. By early 2006, only a handful of businesses had reopened, mostly those sited along the historic Gentilly Ridge (i.e., the Chef Menteur Highway corridor). Utility service was fully restored to the area during the course of 2006. As of January 2007, still less than half of the pre-Katrina residential population had returned, and many were living in

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s as they gutted and repaired their flood-devastated homes. Some residents returned on weekends to repair their property, while others gave up and abandoned the area. By November 2006 only 40,000 residents had returned to eastern New Orleans, compared to the 95,000 that had inhabited the area before the levee failures. However, consistent with the ongoing recovery in New Orleans' population from its post-Katrina trough, eastern New Orleans' population likewise continued to increase. By 2010, more than half of eastern New Orleans' pre-Katrina population had returned. The returning population was more affluent: determined to permanently reduce the neighborhood's quantity of

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, eastern New Orleans homeowners lobbied against many rental developments proposed in the post-Katrina era. As a consequence considerably less multi-family rental housing is available now in eastern New Orleans than existed pre-Katrina. Essential neighborhood services became scarcer as well after 2005. Only one grocery store reopened, post-Katrina, and the national retailers who had flocked to eastern New Orleans in the 1960s and 1970s, and even into the 1980s and 1990s, were slow to return. Furthermore, neither Methodist nor Lakeland hospitals reopened after Katrina, leaving eastern New Orleans without a general hospital and bereft of ER care for many years. New Orleans East Hospital (NOEH), sited within the rehabilitated former Methodist Hospital, opened in 2014, making it the first hospital to operate in the area since Katrina. In the years following Hurricane Katrina, the pace of recovery in eastern New Orleans has accelerated, though the area still faces challenges. Many retail shops have opened, with a particular concentration emerging at the intersection of I-10 and Bullard Avenue. This commercial node, largely populated by family-owned businesses, is now enjoying the long-awaited return of national retailers, with Big Lots and Wal-Mart leading the way. Consistent with eastern New Orleans' eve-of-Katrina concentration of African-American entrepreneurship, black-owned franchises, such as the USA Neighborhood Market, have also appeared. To the west of Bullard, along the Read Boulevard corridor, a new CVS Pharmacy has opened across Lake Forest Boulevard from the recently completed Daughters of Charity Health Center and New Orleans East Hospital. Significant public investment has lately transpired in eastern New Orleans as well, including NOEH, the new regional public library, ongoing improvements to Joe Brown Memorial Park, and the construction of half-a-dozen new public school buildings. Efforts to secure high-quality private investment on the site of the former Plaza regional mall continue, and the city in late 2020 issued a Request For Proposals ("RFP") addressing the shuttered Six Flags/Jazzland amusement park, located prominently at the intersection of I-10 and I-510. The amusement park was closed as a precautionary measure in advance of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, but

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opted not to re-open it, post-Katrina. On February 7, 2017, an EF3 wedge tornado damaged or destroyed several buildings in eastern New Orleans. There were 33 injuries, six of which were serious.

Crime and decline

Eastern New Orleans continued to experience high crime rates in the post-Hurricane Katrina period. Apartment complex residents struggled especially, with the I-10 Service Road corridor being particularly problematic. Neighborhoods like Little Woods and Plum Orchard experienced the biggest crime spike subsequent to 2005, with homicides being the main issue. In 2014, the Little Woods neighborhood in eastern New Orleans was ranked first among New Orleans' most dangerous neighborhoods. In 2019 alone, 38 people were killed in the NOPD Seventh District which includes all of eastern New Orleans.

Neighborhoods

Eastern New Orleans encompasses an enormous area, though most of this part of town remains undeveloped wetlands. Within the developed portion, numerous distinct neighborhoods may be found, including Pines Village, Plum Orchard, West Lake Forest, Read Boulevard West,

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, Read Boulevard East, Village de L’Est, Lake Catherine and Venetian Isles.

Pines Village

Pines Village, the area closest to Chef Menteur Highway and the Industrial Canal was one of the first neighborhoods to be developed in eastern New Orleans. The neighborhood's namesake, Sigmund Pines, purchased and developed it with residences in the 1950s. Developing the neighborhood included leveeing the marshy area and lowering the water table by pumping, raising the level of construction sites by use of hydraulic fill and finally, building a drainage system consisting of a series of lakes and canals.

Smaller neighborhoods

Today, eastern New Orleans also includes many smaller neighborhoods named after lakes, streets, and subdivisions such as Lake Willow, Spring Lake, Kenilworth, Seabrook, Melia, Edgelake, Bonita Park, Donna Villa, Willowbrook, Cerise-Evangeline Oaks and Castle Manor.

Read Boulevard East

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, but were particularly favored as the preferred place of residence for New Orleans' upwardly mobile

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white-collar professional and entrepreneurial classes.

Neighborhoods east of I-510

Little development exists east of I-510, although this vast tract still lies within the city limits of New Orleans. It includes the

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,

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,

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, historic

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on

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, and scattered areas of essentially rural character, like Venetian Isles, Irish Bayou and Lake Saint Catherine.

Village de L'Est

Village de L'Est, one of the few densely-developed neighborhoods east of I-510, is known for its

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community. The Vietnamese community is also known as Versailles, as the earliest migrants to the area, arriving in the years after 1975, settled first in the Versailles Arms apartment complex. The commercial hub for this community extends along Alcee Fortier Boulevard, within Village de L'Est. Sometimes known as "Little Vietnam", the area hosts a number of Vietnamese restaurants, including Dong Phuong Restaurant & Bakery.

Landmarks

Eastern New Orleans institutions and landmarks include the

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, Joe Brown Memorial Park, the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, Lincoln Beach, and

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's

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, located within the New Orleans Regional Business Park. Also present is the

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, one of the oldest nursing homes in the United States.

Infrastructure

The

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and former Michoud Power Station are located at the foot of the Paris Road Bridge in eastern New Orleans. Notably, eastern New Orleans is the only extensive suburban or suburban-style region of

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where, since the late 1960s, all installed utilities have been buried below ground. Like the downtown New Orleans/

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central core and the Garden City-inspired Lakefront neighborhoods of Lake Vista, Lakeshore, Lake Terrace and Lake Oaks, eastern New Orleans consequently possesses a uniquely uncluttered visual aspect, in contrast to the omnipresent wooden utility poles and spider's web of power lines found along most of the major thoroughfares of suburban

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and St. Tammany parishes. Greater resilience to power outages is another, not inconsiderable benefit to having buried power lines.

Geology

Because eastern New Orleans, and particularly Michoud, rests on the edge of a

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, the land and the

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protecting it are sinking. Recent geological studies project the rate of sinking to be around two inches per year.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public

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system, now composed exclusively of charter schools, provides administrative oversight to numerous public charter schools in eastern New Orleans. *

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.Vanacore, Andrew.
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''. July 15, 2011. Retrieved on March 17, 2013. * The

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opened on the grounds of the former Abramson High School in 2007. * In 2010, Sci Academy (New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy) moved to a group of modular buildings at the Abramson site from another group of modular buildings. As of 2010, most students come from East New Orleans and Gentilly.Chang, Cindy.
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Private

* St. Mary's Academy, founded by Venerable Mother

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and the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1867.

Public libraries

The

New Orleans Public Library The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is the public library service of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. History The system began in 1895 in the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. Abijah Fisk was a ...

operates eastern New Orleans New Orleans Branch. The current branch building, a striking contemporary structure with a price tag of $7.6 million, opened in 2012. The building was designed by Gould Evans Affiliates of

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, and built by Gibbs Construction. - See inset image showing the pictures of the libraries that lists the costs and square footage Gould Evans worked with New Orleans firm Lee Ledbetter & Associates to design this library and four others.Bruno, R. Stephanie.
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The Times-Picayune ''The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate'' is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of ''The Times-Picayune'' (itself a result of th ...

''. June 24, 2011. Retrieved on March 31, 2013. It is similar to, though somewhat smaller than the

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Regional Library, completed around the same time.

Notable people

* Shante Franklin, Curren$y, rapper from eastern New Orleans *

Ruby Bridges Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegreg ...

*

Poppy Z. Brite Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. He i ...

, grew up in eastern New Orleans *

Will Clark William Nuschler Clark Jr. (born March 13, 1964) is an American professional baseball first baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 through 2000. He played for the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, an ...

, Professional Baseball Player *

Jacoby Jones Jacoby Rashi'd Jones (born July 11, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver and return specialist. He played college football at Lane College, and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played ...

, His family house was destroyed by

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost ...

Borden, Sam.
For the Ravens’ Jones, a Trip Home and 2 Trips Into the End Zone
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''. February 4, 2013. Retrieved on March 17, 2013. "Jones grew up in Eastern New Orleans and attended Abramson High School, but his family’s house and his high school were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina." *

Aaron Neville Aaron Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941) is a retired American R&B and soul singer. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that reached number one on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. ...

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Irma Thomas Irma Thomas ( Lee; born February 18, 1941) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans". Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial succ ...

, Grammy Award Winner - "Soul Queen of New Orleans"

References

External links

NOLAEAST.com

Dokka, R. K., Modern-Day Tectonic Subsidence in Coastal Louisiana: Geology, v. 34, p.281-284.

NewOrleansEast.com

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
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{{Coord missing, New Orleans Neighborhoods in New Orleans

History

Crime and decline

Neighborhoods

Pines Village

Smaller neighborhoods

Read Boulevard East

Neighborhoods east of I-510

Village de L'Est

Landmarks

Infrastructure

Geology

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public

Private

Public libraries

Notable people

See also

References

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