Farteberry spend most of the day monday in a tree and the night on the roof until he was rescued early Tuesday. Staff photo by Arthur Lauck, The Advocate. Todd Morrell left and Lt. Cris Mandry right, help a man in the lower ninth ward out of his attic into a waiting boat after New Orleans is hit by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Monday August 29, Claiborne Ave.
September 9, Chief Eddie Compass surveys the damage including a small school bus partially under a barge as Hurricane Rita adds to the destruction in the lower ninth ward after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Saturday Sept. Elaine Picot, a resident of the Lower 9th Ward for the past 10 years, stares in disbelief of the massive damage to her neighborhood. On board buses, residents were given an hour-long tour of their neighborhood and possibly their home Thursday, October 27, Keeping some distance from each other because of the coronavirus, Robert Green Sr.
The two men were hanging out in the Lower 9th Ward on Wednesday, Aug. He slept on a metal cot, surrounded by bare wall studs, dangling wires, spiderwebs and shattered glass, in a gutted brick apartment building on North Derbigny Street.
He awoke one recent morning and backed his wheelchair through a swarm of bees into a courtyard dotted with graffiti and trash. Doctors amputated his left leg two years ago, said Montgomery, Another set of scars runs down his right knee. Nicholls, the neighborhood high school later renamed for Frederick Douglass.
Montgomery has taken plenty of licks since: repeated drug convictions, years in prison, runs through homeless shelters, a lost leg. Grim hideouts like this one are plentiful across a Lower 9th Ward that 15 years ago became a world symbol for poverty, neglect and utter devastation, and since has shown few signs of a rebound.
But there is a citywide demand for low-income housing, which is where developers working with NORA, and others, have turned much of their focus in the Lower 9th Ward. It was hardly so rural or weed-infested when Guice, 73, bought into the neighborhood four decades ago, raising her three children in a house that would sit under 18 feet of water in Katrina. Guice had barely made it to Texas when she resolved to come back. In , she and her next-door neighbor, Josephine Butler, became the first Lower 9th Ward residents to move home into new houses, both built by ACORN on their deserted street.
Soon, another neighbor joined them. One more came home. The block of Delery Street had a quorum. But then no one else did come back, Guice said. Another neighbor was planning a return, but died first. One by one, the three neighbors who had joined her back home passed.
Butler died in Bernard Parish. Five years later portions were still fenced off as uninhabitable, and the rest was rough at best. A point of controversy has been the unwillingness of the federal government to reopen the housing projects that once provided homes for a good number of the area residents, who now largely remain displaced outside of New Orleans.
The unspoken reasoning is that the government would have liked to shut them down, hurricane or no hurricane, as they were very high crime sections of the city. But locals are understandably angry that the projects, which were not terribly hurt by the hurricane, remain closed in a devastated area and a city with such desperate need for housing. The sections of these neighborhoods closer to St.
Claude Avenue have a budding bohemian community with its accompanying edgy, avant garde arts district, and a few far-flung foodie finds for the most adventurous New Orleans explorer. Some hope that in a few years it may experience an urban revival similar to the Bywater, especially if the planned restoration of the Desire streetcar line gets built.
However such problems as architectural blight and violent crime still punish residents. While it's possible to get here via Bus 88 along St Claude, it's far better to have a car around here, if only because this section of the city is unpredictable when it comes to walking safety. You can park on the side of most streets as the locals do.
Crime varies from neighborhood to neighborhood and is difficult for travelers to know what areas are safest. Few options; as of early the branch Public Library on St. Bernard Avenue was still vacant and gutted with no planned date for reopening announced.
While the city has less crime than it did before Katrina, it is still much higher than most cities in America. Then, the Industrial Canal was dredged through the neighborhood at the start of the s. The 9th Ward neighborhood was thrust into the spotlight once again during Hurricane Katrina. Much of the 9th Ward on both sides of the Industrial Canal experienced catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina in , a majority of which was caused by storm surges through multiple severe levee breaks along both the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet MRGO and the Industrial Canal.
During several days of the hurricane aftermath, live television news coverage from reporters and anchors who had little familiarity with New Orleans frequently included misinformation, such as references to the Lower 9th Ward simply as "the 9th Ward" and misidentification of helicopter shots of the Industrial Canal breach as the 17th Street Canal breach which was actually at a nearly opposite end of the city.
Today, much of the Ninth Ward has recovered or is well on its way to recovery. Reconstruction efforts have been buoyed in part by organizations such as Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" project, which focuses on developing and rebuilding homes in the Lower Ninth Ward.
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