Eastern New Orleans - Citizendia

Eastern New Orleans is a large section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana

Landsat view of Eastern New Orleans. The Landsat program is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of imagery of Earth from space

This is the portion of the city to the east of the Industrial Canal and north of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. The Industrial Canal is a 55 mile (9 km Waterway in New Orleans Louisiana, United States. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (also known as MRGO MR-GO or "Mr It is often called "New Orleans East" as well, although that term is sometimes confined to a smaller section of this area. New Orleans East is a portion of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city

The main urban buildup is the section immediately east of the Industrial Canal, which includes such neighborhoods as Lake Willow, Spring Lake, Lake Kenilworth, Seabrook, Melia, Pines Village, Lake Forest East, Lake Forest West, Edgelake, Little Woods, Plum Orchard, Bonita Park, Donna Villa, Lake Carmel, Willowbrook, and Camelot.

The Read Blvd East area which includes Lake Forest Estates, Eastover Estates, McKendall Estates, Fairway Estates, Lake Bullard, and McKendall Place are all upper middle class neighborhoods. Eastover has palatial homes and gated communities; the area also include entrepreneurs, blue and white collar professionals.

The far eastern portion has little urban development, although still within the city limits of New Orleans. It includes the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Chef Menteur Pass, Fort Macomb, and scattered areas of essentially rural character despite being within the city limits, like Venetian Isles, Irish Bayou and Lake Saint Catherine, and historic Fort Pike on the Rigolets. The Chef Menteur Pass is a narrow natural waterway which along with the Rigolets, connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in New Orleans Louisiana Fort Macomb is a 19th century Fortress in Louisiana, on the western shore of Chef Menteur Pass. Venetian Isles (Îles Vénetiennes is a neighborhood of New Orleans Louisiana. Lake St Catherine (Lac Sainte-Catherine is a brackish-water Lake between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in Louisiana. Fort Pike is a decommissioned 19th century Fort which formerly guarded the Rigolets pass in Louisiana. The Rigolets is a 129 kilometer (8 mi long Strait in Louisiana.

Village de L'Est is known for its Vietnamese community. The Vietnamese people (người Việt or vi ''người Kinh'' are an Ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. The Vietnamese community is also known as Versailles.

Landmarks include Lakefront Airport, Joe W. Lakefront Airport is a public Airport located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Brown Park, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and Six Flags New Orleans amusement park. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF is an 832- Acre (34-km² site owned by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) and located Six Flags New Orleans is an Amusement park in New Orleans Louisiana, closed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group

"Fountain of the Winds", 1930s sculpture by Enrique Alferez in front of Lakefront Airport

History

Until the late 19th century, this area was outside of the city limits of New Orleans, although within Orleans Parish. Enrique Alferez (1901 - 1999 was Mexican born Louisiana Artist, best known as a Sculptor in the Art deco style New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana There was little development other than two areas. The first was along the long narrow strip of higher ground along Gentilly Road, along the natural levee of an old bayou. Dike (constructionEmbankmentA levee, levée, dike (or dyke) embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial A bayou (pronounced oʊ or uː is a small slow-moving Stream or creek or a lake or pool ( bayou lake) that lies in an abandoned channel of a stream Various farms, plantations, and small villages such as Michoud were along this strip. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco Michoud is an area in Eastern New Orleans, part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans Louisiana, located at latitude 30 The other area was the "camps", clusters of houses raised high on wooden stilts, in the shallows along the edge of Lake Pontchartrain, the largest and longest lasting of these being at Little Woods. Lake Pontchartrain (ˈpɒntʃətreɪn in English Lac Pontchartrain IPA in French) is a brackish Lake

In the early 20th century some residential development of the area began, at first as an extension of Gentilly. Gentilly is a broad predominantly middle-class and racially diverse section of New Orleans Louisiana. The Industrial Canal was built starting in the late 1910s and completed in the early 1920s, creating the barrier that would separate the East from the rest of New Orleans.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, Lincoln Beach amusement park was the city's amusement park for the African American community in the era of the Jim Crow laws. Lincoln Beach was an Amusement park in New Orleans Louisiana, functioning from 1939 through 1965. Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted primarily but not exclusively in the Southern and border states of the United States between 1876 and 1965

The great growth of the East did not occur until after World War II. New post-war subdivisions were created for those who preferred a more suburban lifestyle. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. Many developments in the 1960s at first were aimed at taking advantage of white flight, but as the majority of Caucasians who abandoned New Orleans with the end of racial segregation instead went west to Jefferson Parish, many of the new developments in the East instead found their prime market to be rising Middle Class African Americans leaving older and poorer sections of the city. White flight is a term for the demographic trend in which working and Middle-class White people move away from Suburbs Jefferson Parish is a parish in Louisiana, United States that includes most of the Suburbs of New Orleans.

When Hurricane Betsy was bearing down on the city in 1965, Eastern New Orleans was the only section for which an evacuation was called, as it was feared that this new section of the city might suffer extreme effects. Hurricane Betsy was a powerful Hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and However other than light flooding near the Morrison Canal, damage from Betsy was much more modest than feared. Tragically, some of those who evacuated from the East went to the Lower 9th Ward, which flooded disastrously. Lower Ninth Ward is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.

Much more development further east was planned during the oil boom of the late 1970s, including a huge planned development called "New Orleans East". Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit Only a portion was built before the oil bust. Many New Orleanians started calling the whole area by the name of the planned development.

Damaged houses in Eastern New Orleans after Katrina

In 2005, the majority of Eastern New Orleans flooded severely from Hurricane Katrina and associated levee failures (see: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans). Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were shattering and long-lasting Recovery has been slow. As of early 2006, only a handful of businesses had reopened, specifically Chef Menteur area businesses,and utilities and services have returned in much of the area. Things improved gradually over the following year. As of January 2007, less than half of the residents have returned; many of these are living in FEMA trailers, as they gut and repair their flood-devastated homes. The term FEMA trailer,or FEMA travel trailer,is the name commonly given by the United States Government They provide intermediate term shelter intended to function Some residents return on weekends to repair their property while others have given up and abandoned the area. As of November 2006 an estimated 40,000 people have returned to New Orleans East compared to 96,000 before the levee failures but as more residents return to New Orleans and surrounding areas the population is expected to rise.

Geography

Because Eastern New Orleans, and particularly Michoud, rests on the edge of a fault line, the land and the levees protecting it are sinking. In Geology a fault, or fault line, is a planar rock fracture which shows evidence of relative movement Dike (constructionEmbankmentA levee, levée, dike (or dyke) embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial Recent geological studies project the rate of sinking to be around two inches per year.

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