When most people think about New Orleans, they typically think about the French Quarter, Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras. As important as this is to the character and culture of New Orleans, they often neglect the true beauty of the rest of city. One only has to hop on a Streetcar heading uptown in order…
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By Nora Goddard Fraught with problems both real and perceived, public housing is in many ways the last vestige of the WPA era, and may not exist for long. Louisiana legislature passed the Housing Authority Act in 1936, creating HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans). The Federal Housing Act of 1937 provided for subsidies to…
Tucked away between two parking lots behind the Canal Place mall, not far from Harrah’s Casino, is a white obelisk scrawled with the ghost outlines of some old graffiti and featuring a placard stating, “In honor of those Americans on both sides of the conflict who died in the Battle of Liberty Place. A…
