Tremendous Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any options of [Lower 9] neighborhood that could possibly be utilized by media to substantiate Katrina narrative’
1. Fats Domino’s residence, 1208 Fat Domino Ave.
2. Website of Lionel Milton household residence, 1429 Flood St
3. Bayou Bienvenue overlook, 2637 Fat Domino
4. MLK-Lawless Excessive Faculty, 5300 Regulation St.
5. Arthur Johnson’s grandma’s lot,1922 Forstall
6. Robert Inexperienced’s residence, on Tennessee St
7. The oak tree that stopped Inexperienced’s floating home, 1617 Tennessee St
8. The Powell household block
9. Website of the Decrease Ninth Ward Well being Clinic, 5228 St. Claude Ave.
10. Block on Dauphine the place 27 individuals together with Alice Craft-Kerney
stayed throughout Katrina
11. The Decrease ninth Ward Heart for Sustainable Engagement
and Growth, 5227 Chartres St.
(Map by Jeff Tolbert)
by NICK CHRASTIL
Final summer season, in July, a bunch of influential New Orleanians gathered, with hopes of making ready town for a nationwide highlight forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX.
Michael Hecht, the CEO Of Better New Orleans Inc., who was tapped by Governor Jeff Landry to guide Tremendous Bowl preparation efforts, knowledgeable the group that the GNO Inc. “inside Tremendous Bowl workforce” had taken a drive across the Decrease ninth Ward, testing beautification and infrastructure wants within the neighborhood.
The go to was made to “anticipate any options of the neighborhood which could possibly be utilized by media to substantiate Katrina narrative,” Hecht had reported, in line with a slide presentation from the assembly.
The group, which dubbed itself the “Tremendous Gras Subcommittee,” included Orleans metropolis officers and representatives from the French Market Company, Downtown Growth District, and the Audubon Institute.
The assembly had a broad focus, starting from potholes to road flooding to dingy-looking surfaces.
by MIZANI BALL
The night time earlier than Katrina made landfall, artist Lionel Milton, who grew up within the Decrease 9, skilled an omen that satisfied him to evacuate.
by MARTA JEWSON
“Alice saved my life,” neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped launch a useful post-Katrina clinic. Nevertheless it closed after an inexplicably brief time.
by DELANEY DRYFOOS
A brand new mission alongside Florida Avenue cuts off entry to the Bayou Bienvenue overlook, a key post-Katrina achievement, says environmentalist Arthur Johnson.
by LA’SHANCE PERRY
With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks exhibiting Cedrionne Powell’s altering peak, the household home tracked her development whereas she tracked its years of repairs.
by KATY RECKDAHL
Yearly on the day Katrina hit, Robert Inexperienced’s household, in Roof Riders shirts, gathers the place his mother’s home stood and stroll the trail that it floated, to the oak tree the place it stopped.
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