Archive for 2 July, 2007
LARGELY ALONE, PIONEERS RECLAIM NEW ORLEANS
July 2, 2007 10:10 am
Some very determined former residents are wroking diligently to bring neighborhoods of New Orleans back to life. They say government help has been minimal. The Gentilly, Broadmoor and Lakeview are all slowly coming back to life with little help from the government.
"The sound of hammers and saws. New green grass. A few freshly painted facades. Birdsong piping from a young tree."
"This is the Gentilly neighborhood today, once a backbone of New Orleans and all but given up for dead less than a year ago after flooding from Hurricane Katrina turned it brown and gray and silent in 2005."
"Gentilly, home to about 47,000 people before the storm and a thin fraction of that now, is not dead. Haltingly, in disconnected pockets, this eight-square-mile quadrant north of the historic districts that line the Mississippi River is limping back to life, thanks to the struggles of its most determined former residents."
