11 recommended dog-park and dog-run sites

The city’s list of official dog runs

  • City Bark, in City Park The Fly, in Audubon Park
  • 1542 Constance St. (near Kingsley House)
  • Wisner Park, 4877 Laurel St.
  • 1151 Esplanade Ave. (former St. Aloysius school)
  • Reinventing the Crescent Park (along the river near Bywater)
  • Algiers Point batture
  • Lakefront, Lake Oaks Park
  • Rome Playspot, 1900 Robert E. Lee Blvd. in Gentilly
  • East Citrus Playspot, Morrison Road and Poitevent Avenue in eastern New Orleans
  • Marais and Sister streets, on Industrial Canal in Lower 9th Ward

Eight other sites included in the larger request from which the 11 sites were selected

  • Mickey Markey Park, 700 Piety St. Cabrini Park , 900 Barracks St., French Quarter
  • A.C.E. batture levee in Black Pearl
  • part of the Lafitte Greenway in Bayou St. John
  • 5200 Tchoupitoulas St.
  • 3249 Tchoupitoulas St.
  • 5822 Cartier Ave. in Gentilly
  • Mardi Gras World batture on West Bank

From a request form, submitted before a July public hearing on the city’s Capital Improvement Plan

Katy Reckdahl

Katy Reckdahl is The Lens’ managing editor. Reckdahl was a staff reporter for The Times-Picayune and the alt-weekly Gambit before spending a decade as a freelancer, writing frequently for the New Orleans Advocate | Times-Picayune, The New York Times and the Washington Post.

She’s received more than two-dozen first-place New Orleans Press Club awards, the James Aronson Award for social justice reporting, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and three TV-documentary Emmy Awards. In 2020, she was a producer for The Atlantic’s Peabody Award-winning podcast, Floodlines.