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re: How did New Orleans East get so bad?
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:43 am to NOLATiger86
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:43 am to NOLATiger86
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Katrina killed the East
Katrina might have been the bullet to the head, but the east was dying way before Katrina.
The East needs to break away from Nola and incorporate as a separate city.
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Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:59 am to Byrdybyrd05
'A darkness fell upon the land'
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:03 am to Byrdybyrd05
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How did New Orleans East get so bad?
Let’s unpack that a bit...
Posted on 4/9/20 at 10:26 am to Byrdybyrd05
My grandparents built their house in 60s in da East. It was a great family neighborhood. I remember as a kid catching Krewe of Pontchartrain on Hayne blvd.
With the advent of Section 8, their neighborhood quickly went downhill. It started small; people going through their unlocked car at night. Then one day me and my dad were installing bars on the windows. It got to the point where my grandma was the only white person in the neighborhood (not that being in a black neighborhood is intrinsically bad, just that the whole dynamic of the neighborhood, for whatever reason, changed for the worse.)
Google Maps. When my grandma lived there, there wasn't a smoker on the lawn, and the house had gutters.
In the 90s we moved her to a condo in Kennah (brah)
With the advent of Section 8, their neighborhood quickly went downhill. It started small; people going through their unlocked car at night. Then one day me and my dad were installing bars on the windows. It got to the point where my grandma was the only white person in the neighborhood (not that being in a black neighborhood is intrinsically bad, just that the whole dynamic of the neighborhood, for whatever reason, changed for the worse.)
Google Maps. When my grandma lived there, there wasn't a smoker on the lawn, and the house had gutters.
In the 90s we moved her to a condo in Kennah (brah)
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 10:29 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 10:29 am to boxcarbarney
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smoker on the lawn
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:48 am to brewhan davey
I've heard people that retired from Michoud say the end of Apollo was the end of New Orleans East.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:59 am to O P Walker
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Walkers BBQ is the only reason to go to the east these days. May i suggest lunch though...
CastNet.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:16 pm to Byrdybyrd05
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I saw this video they made about New Orleans East on YouTube... You can go to the 40:15 mark and see how white the school was back in the old days lol.
1. Yeah, in 79-80 when I was on East Jeff's soccer team we played Abramson over at their campus. Their team was even whiter than ours-- we at least had 3-4 Hispanic guys and one Vietnamese guy.
2. Sweet mother of god, after watching about 5 minutes of various parts of that that video my thought is the best thing to do with New Orleans East is to drop an atomic bomb on it. Good god, it is bad over there.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:36 pm to FLTech
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How did the entire state get so bad?
Liberalization of the franchise. Richard Nixon actually helped drive the last nail into that coffin, if memory serves.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:40 pm to boxcarbarney
Hey, at least the lawn is cut, and most of the houses around there are as well..
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:45 pm to biglego
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Under the previous administration, HUD had a stated policy of placing Section 8 in areas without it. Our federal government was actively working to turn the country ghetto.
Thanks Obama!
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