Comments on: Central City http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:22:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jerry http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/comment-page-1/#comment-138547 jerry Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:17:02 +0000 http://kevinomara.com/2009/01/17/central-city/#comment-138547 i suck at making html links apparently: http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=22593 i suck at making html links apparently: http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=22593

]]> By: jerry http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/comment-page-1/#comment-138546 jerry Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:16:34 +0000 http://kevinomara.com/2009/01/17/central-city/#comment-138546 it's a start: <a href="http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=22593" title="NORA seeks developers interested in Oretha Castle Haley Corridor" rel="nofollow"> it’s a start:

]]> By: Kevin O'Mara http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/comment-page-1/#comment-138438 Kevin O'Mara Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:11:40 +0000 http://kevinomara.com/2009/01/17/central-city/#comment-138438 theorbtwo: I dunno, I have to take issue with that statement. Home is home, and pretty much everyone else that wanted to come back wants to fix their neighborhood and live there again. There's fierce neighborhood pride here. I'm sure most of them didn't think of it as living in a hellhole - they just thought of it as home. theorbtwo: I dunno, I have to take issue with that statement. Home is home, and pretty much everyone else that wanted to come back wants to fix their neighborhood and live there again. There’s fierce neighborhood pride here. I’m sure most of them didn’t think of it as living in a hellhole – they just thought of it as home.

]]> By: theorbtwo http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/comment-page-1/#comment-138437 theorbtwo Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:05:39 +0000 http://kevinomara.com/2009/01/17/central-city/#comment-138437 It seems to me obvious why it seems so deserted -- because it is. You lived in Central City, the worst, most depressing, most dangerous part of New Orleans. You were evacuated, and moved somewhere else for a while. Can you afford to move back? Would you want to go back *there*, or do you count it as a small blessing that, while you may have lost everything, at least you are out of that hellhole? It seems to me obvious why it seems so deserted — because it is. You lived in Central City, the worst, most depressing, most dangerous part of New Orleans. You were evacuated, and moved somewhere else for a while. Can you afford to move back? Would you want to go back *there*, or do you count it as a small blessing that, while you may have lost everything, at least you are out of that hellhole?

]]> By: Hayley http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/01/17/central-city/comment-page-1/#comment-138435 Hayley Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:26:59 +0000 http://kevinomara.com/2009/01/17/central-city/#comment-138435 Yeah, Central City is a hot mess. Along with the Treme and Hollygrove neighborhoods, most murders happen in Central City. It's amazing because as you said, it feels like no one lives there. I mean, we live in the Lower Ninth Ward (which was so bad before the storm). Yet we have very few murders over here, and I don't feel like it's rotting away as bad as Central City. I feel like there's more hope for this area than Central City. That being said, I am really glad to see those projects gone. I can't believe people protested so much to keep them. They were crime ridden and I cannot imagine raising a child in them. They looked like something out of a third world slum. I will have to give you these Neighborhood Story Project books I've been reading. There is one written by the Nine Times Pleasure Club, and they were all raised in Desire. It fascinates me for some reason. Yeah, Central City is a hot mess. Along with the Treme and Hollygrove neighborhoods, most murders happen in Central City. It’s amazing because as you said, it feels like no one lives there. I mean, we live in the Lower Ninth Ward (which was so bad before the storm). Yet we have very few murders over here, and I don’t feel like it’s rotting away as bad as Central City. I feel like there’s more hope for this area than Central City.

That being said, I am really glad to see those projects gone. I can’t believe people protested so much to keep them. They were crime ridden and I cannot imagine raising a child in them. They looked like something out of a third world slum.

I will have to give you these Neighborhood Story Project books I’ve been reading. There is one written by the Nine Times Pleasure Club, and they were all raised in Desire. It fascinates me for some reason.

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