re: Lee Circle NOT being named after Leah Chase

Pretty fricking stupid to rename Orleans Ave for no good reason at all

Im satisfied

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Pretty fricking stupid to rename Orleans Ave for no good reason at all

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I think they mean the cross street, not Orleans itself

Article with 38 proposed name changes

Should name it Fleur De Lis Circle

From article listing current street names and proposed change:

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Palmer Avenue
The Uptown street pays homage to Presbyterian pastor Benjamin Palmer, who is said to have helped Louisiana leaders to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.


Edith Stern Avenue
Stern, who died in 1980, was a philanthropist focused on civil rights and education. She founded the Stern Family Fund to improve Black education, advocated for Black voting rights, founded the Newcomb School for Preschoolers and helped raise money for Metairie Park Country Day School.

On Feb. 10, 2021, The council turned down requests from several residents on the street to instead leave the name of the street the same but rededicate it for drummer Earl Palmer.

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This would annoy me if I lived on that street. The residents were simply trying to avoid the hassle of having to change their contact information for everything in their lives, while at the same time removing the homage to the street's original namesake as the council intended.