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Items tagged “2009” (16 total)

A busy strip mall parking lot under a blue sky with scattered clouds, featuring stores like Walgreens, Franco's Athletic Club, Subway, and Goodwill, with numerous parked cars and flowering shrubs in the foreground.

This is an important commercial district on Robert E. Lee near West End Blvd. It was one…

A small white single-story house, numbered 6056, stands overgrown with tall grass, weeds, and shrubs; its windows and doorway appear dark and empty, with some graffiti marks near the entrance.

This house is a gutted house on Wickfield Drive near Robert E. Lee. I did not originally…

A grassy levee slopes down to a canal lined with an industrial pumping station and flood gate structure, with buildings and a cell tower visible under a partly cloudy sky.

The 17th Street Canal and the New London Ave. Canal are drainage canals, which normally…

A brick, multi-story school building with a central bell tower topped by a cross, still surrounded by construction scaffolding, with a landscaped lawn and brick entrance wall in front.

Of course, homeowners and businesses are not the only property-owners struggling to…

Empty lot with a bare concrete slab foundation overgrown with weeds, flanked by surrounding houses and trees under a hazy sky.

When I was taking these photographs, I spoke to a Martin O'Connell, a professor of Earth…

A gutted house with a green-columned porch stands beside an empty concrete lot, with a white house further back nearly swallowed by overgrown trees and brush.

There are some sections of Gentilly that may revert to forest because they are so…

A renovated beige house stands beside a collapsing, gutted white house marked "5322" and "GAS OFF" in orange paint, with a dark sedan parked on the street.

These houses are on Warrington Drive near Filmore. The house on the left has been rebuilt…

A row of houses on Wildair Drive under a clear sky, including a small yellow cottage, white single-story homes, and two houses elevated on concrete pilings, with a wide grassy lawn in front.

These houses are on Wildair Drive. Again, we have a rebuilt house on the left, a gutted…

A residential street with a single-story yellow house, some boarded-up windows, and an overgrown empty lot, while a white pickup truck is parked nearby and elevated houses stand in the background.

These houses are on Wingate Drive near Robert E. Lee, where some of the most haphazard…

A quiet residential street with small houses in various states of repair, a dumpster, and a large blue "ONE New Orleans" sign reading "Our Recovery in Progress" with project details for Robert E. Lee Blvd. improvements.

This is a close-up of the previous shot. In fact, homeowners are receiving loans,…

A residential street in Gentilly with houses in various stages of repair, a truck and pickup parked along the road, utility poles with wires overhead, and an orange "Detour Ahead" sign near the Warrington Dr. street sign.

This is Robert E. Lee in the Gentilly neighborhood. This photograph was taken on the other…

A quiet, empty street lined with large brick houses and trees under a partly cloudy sky, with a bike lane marking visible on the pavement in the Lake Vista subdivision.

This is the Lake Vista subdivision in Lakeview, along Robert E. Lee near Spanish Fort and…

A tree-lined residential street with houses behind white picket fences, parked cars along the curb, and a "SCHOOL" marking painted on the pavement.

These houses are near the corner of Harrison Avenue and Canal Blvd. Every house in this…

A tree-lined street intersection in Lakeview with a "Lil' Easy 19" transit sign, parked cars, houses, and a commercial building under a partly cloudy sky.

This is a photograph of Robert E. Lee in the Lakeview neighborhood, on the northern side…

A large Gothic-style brick church tower with a streetcar on tracks along a tree-lined St. Charles Avenue, with parked cars and traffic cones nearby at dusk.

As a native New Orleanian, people from outside the city often ask me how much New Orleans…

Four Years After

Four Years After