Desire Area, New Orleans
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Desire Area is a
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of the city of
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. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Gentilly Boulevard to the north; the
Industrial Canal The Industrial Canal is a waterway in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The waterway's proper name, as used by the U.S. Army United States Army Corps of Engineers, Corps of Engineers and on NOAA nautical charts, is Inner Harbor Navigation ...
to the east; Florida Boulevard, Alvar Street, Higgins Boulevard, Piety Street, Pleasure Street, Oliver White Avenue, and Desire Street to the south; and People's Avenue to the west. It is part of the Upper 9th Ward.


Geography

Desire Area is located at and has an elevation of . According to the
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, the district has a total area of . of which is land and (6.01%) of which is water.


Adjacent neighborhoods

* Gentilly Woods (north) * Viavant/ Venetian Isles (east) * Bywater (south) *
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(south) * New Desire Projects: Abundance Square (south) * Florida Area (south) * Gentilly Terrace (west)


Boundaries

The City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of Desire Area as these streets: Gentilly Boulevard, the Industrial Canal, Florida Boulevard, Alvar Street, Higgins Boulevard, Piety Street, Pleasure Street, Oliver White Avenue, Desire Street, and People's Avenue.


Demographics

Note: The below demographic data is for the Desire Development and Area as these census tracts were combined for the 2010 Census. As of the
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of 2000, there were 4,451 people, 1,587 households, and 1,125 families residing in the neighborhood. The
population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...
was 2,204 /mi2 (842 /km2). As of the
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of 2010, there were 2,005 people, 678 households, and 502 families residing in the neighborhood. The racial makeup of the area was 2.40% White, 95.70% African American, and 0.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.40% of the population.


Education

New Orleans Public Schools and the Recovery School District form the school system. George Washington Carver High School is the area public high school.Maxwell, Lesli A.
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See also

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Neighborhoods in New Orleans The city planning commission for New Orleans divided the city into 13 planning districts and 73 distinct neighborhoods in 1980. Although initially in the study 68 neighborhoods were designated, and later increased by the City Planning Commission ...
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A Streetcar named Desire ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of pe ...
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References

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