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List Of Streets Of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, U.S.A., includes such notable streets as: * Allen Toussaint Boulevard * Almonaster Road, Almonaster Avenue * Audubon Place (New Orleans, Louisiana), Audubon Place (private access only) * Baronne Street * Basin Street * Bayou Road * Bienville Street * Bourbon Street * Broad Street, New Orleans, Broad Street * Burgundy Street * Calliope Street * Camp Street * Canal Boulevard (New Orleans), Canal Boulevard * Canal Street, New Orleans, Canal Street * Carondelet Street * Carrollton Avenue * Chartres Street * City Park Avenue * Claiborne Avenue * Conti Street * Dante Street * Dauphine Street * Decatur Street (New Orleans), Decatur Street * Desire Street * Dryades Street * Dumaine Street * Earhart Expressway, an extension of Earhart Boulevard * Elysian Fields Avenue * Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Esplanade Avenue * Exchange Place, New Orleans, Exchange Place (pedestrian only) * Felicity Street * Freret Street * Frenchmen Street * Gayoso Street * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region, the second-most populous in the Deep South, and the twelfth-most populous in the Southeastern United States. The city is coextensive with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish. New Orleans serves as a major port and a commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Louisiana and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 59th-most populous in the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for Music of New Orleans, its distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Street, New Orleans
Canal Street () is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans. Forming the upriver boundary of the city's oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter or ''Vieux Carré'', it served historically as the dividing line between the colonial-era (18th-century) city and the newer American Sector, today's Central Business District, New Orleans, Central Business District. Up until the early 1800s, it was primarily Louisiana Creole people, Creoles who lived in French Quarter, the Vieux Carré. After the Louisiana Purchase (1803), a large influx of other cultures began to find their way into the city via the Mississippi River. A number of Americans from Kentucky and the Midwest moved into the city and settled uptown. Along the division between these two cultures, a canal was planned. The canal was never built but the street which took its place received the name. Furthermore, the median of the street became known as the Central reservation, neutral ground, acknowledging the cultural divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elysian Fields Avenue
Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue intersects with Interstate 610, Interstate 10, and U.S. Highway 90, Gentilly Boulevard passing by Brother Martin High School. The part between North Claiborne Avenue ( Louisiana Highway 39) and Gentilly Boulevard (U.S. Route 90) is Louisiana Highway 3021 (LA 3021); the piece from N. Claiborne Avenue south to St. Claude Avenue carries Louisiana Highway 46 (which turns east on St. Claude Avenue). For more than half of its route, from the river to Gentilly Boulevard (U.S. Route 90), it is six lanes wide; the remainder north of Gentilly Boulevard is four lanes wide. Anchoring the lake end and river end (northern and southern termini) respectively are the University of New Orleans and the Esplanade Avenue Wharf. The location of Elysia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earhart Expressway
The Earhart Expressway, named for former New Orleans Commissioner of Public Utilities, Fred A. Earhart, is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 (LA 3139), spanning a total of . Although it is an odd-numbered highway and is bannered north/south, it travels in a more east-to-west direction. Route description From the south (east), LA 3139 begins at the intersection of Earhart Boulevard and Monroe Street in New Orleans. The expressway designation begins several blocks later as Earhart Boulevard transitions into a limited-access freeway after crossing Hamilton Street. Earhart Expressway proceeds westward and passes over Hoey's Canal and the Canadian National Railway (CN) as it crosses from Orleans Parish into Jefferson Parish. A partial interchange at Deckbar Avenue provides access to U.S. 90 ( Jefferson Highway). Continuing westward along the southern boundary of Metairie, the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dryades Street
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Desire Street
Desire Street is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. In his 1949 book ''Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans'', John Churchill Chase claims the street is named for Désirée Gautier Montrieul, the daughter of Robert Gautier de Montrieul, who owned the plantation on the land where the street now lies. She married François de La Barre, for whom Labarre Road in Metairie, Louisiana is named. Her sister, Elmire de Montrieul, also had a street named after her, which was itself anglicized as Elmire Street; however, it was renamed to Gallier Street . Jed Horne, author of the 2005 book ''Desire Street: a true story of death and deliverance in New Orleans'', suggests the name is a misspelled homage to Désirée Clary, a fiancée of Napoleon. The play ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', by Tennessee Williams, refers to the former streetcar line to this street. The Desire neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward is named after the street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decatur Street (New Orleans)
Decatur Street is a street in the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States that runs parallel to the Mississippi River. Decatur was formerly known as "Levee Street" or ''Rue de la Levée'', as it was originally the location of the levee. In 1870, when the river had altered its course, it was renamed "Decatur Street" in honor of the naval hero Stephen Decatur Jr. Decatur begins at Canal Street, New Orleans, Canal Street (the corresponding street up-river of Canal Street is Magazine Street, Magazine), runs across the French Quarter , and terminates at St. Ferdinand Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. The most famous sights on Decatur Street are Jackson Square (New Orleans), Jackson Square and nearby ''Café du Monde''. For about a century, ''upper Decatur Street'' (the portion closer to Canal Street) had many businesses catering to sailors visiting the port of New Orleans. In the late 20th century, it was redeveloped and became more upscale, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dauphine Street
Dauphine is the female form of the particular French feudal (comital or princely) title of '' Dauphin'' (also Anglicized as ''Dolphin''), applied to the wife of a Dauphin (usually in the sense of heir to the French royal throne). * Dauphine of France * Dauphin de Viennois * Dauphine of Auvergne Dauphine may also refer to: Places * Dauphiné, a province in southeastern France * Dauphine Street, a street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States ** Dauphine Orleans Hotel, a hotel on Dauphine Street * Dauphine River, a river in the L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada * Paris Dauphine University, a university near Porte Dauphine in Paris Other uses * Berliet Dauphine 11CV, a model of automobile 1934-1939 * Pommes dauphine, a recipe for fried potato * Renault Dauphine, a model of automobile 1956-1967 * Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Street
Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ) and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante chose to write in the vernacular, specifically, his own Tuscan dialect, at a time when much literature was still written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers, and many of his fellow Italian poets wrote in French or Provençal. His ' (''On Eloquence in the Vernacular'') was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as '' The New Life'' (1295) and ''Divine Comedy'' helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conti Street
Conti is an Italian surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 63.5% of all known bearers of the surname ''Conti'' were residents of Italy (frequency 1:756), 11.8% of the United States (1:24,071), 9.2% of Brazil (1:17,439), 6.3% of Argentina (1:5,300), 2.5% of France (1:21,201) and 1.3% of the Philippines (1:58,961). In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:756) in the following regions: # Tuscany (1:360) # Umbria (1:363) # Marche (1:370) # Lazio (1:412) # Emilia-Romagna (1:478) # Lombardy (1:531) # Sicily (1:624) # Liguria (1:628) In Argentina, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:5,300) in the following provinces: # Santa Fe Province (1:3,222) # Córdoba Province (1:3,292) # Buenos Aires (1:4,110) # Mendoza Province (1:4,201) # Buenos Aires Province (1:4,408) # La Pampa Province (1:4,731) People * The historical Conti di Segni, family ** Andrea dei Conti (1240–1302), Italian Roman Catholic priest ** Giovann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claiborne Avenue
Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. It runs the length of the city, about , beginning at the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues under different names in both directions. It is called ''South Claiborne Avenue'' upriver from Canal Street, New Orleans, Canal Street and ''North Claiborne Avenue'' from Canal to St. Bernard Parish. New Orleans' longest street was named in honor of William C. C. Claiborne, the first United States governor of Louisiana, serving during both the Territory of Orleans, territorial period and as the first governor under U.S. state, statehood. New Orleans was the capital city in those days of the early 19th century. Route description Claiborne Avenue can be divided into three general sections as it winds through the city, following the curves of the Mississippi River. The Crescent For the first few miles in the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Park Avenue
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
