Gustav
Maybe or maybe not…. But the anxiety levels are palpable…
The City of New Orleans
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years’ lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. ~Arthur Young, Travels in France, 1792 This quote should be broken up a bit here. This house was a “bleak rock” after […]
School Master Plan
What is the fate of Morris Jeff? And what is the fate of Wheatley? and on and on down the list.. “The Times Picayune”:http://www.nola.com/frontpage/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1219123468131300.xml&coll=1 writes of a building boom but if there is any boom it will be the “demolition boom.”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/08/rsd-analysis-map-layer-one.html For a recap on “last night’s meeting”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/2008/08/fahrenholtz-sure-does-read-fast-except.html as an aside after the meeting I […]
Today's Headline
“Today’s TP”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/city_mistakenly_demolishes_cou.html If the demolition of the DeJean house was an isolated act then perhaps the level of anger and frustration would be much less, but months ago a homeowner left this “comment on my blog”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/homeowner-letter/. You would think the City would educate itself to process and procedure by now. Several paragraphs from the TP […]
Come hear the real stories..
“link to Insitute”:http://www.theneworleansinstitute.org/ “Out “of”:http://www.neworleans.com/neighborhood-associations/190-neighborhood-associations/1270-bunny-friend-neighborhood-association “all”:http://www.broadmoorimprovement.com/ the “stories”:http://www.helpholycross.org/ in the “recovery”:http://www.npn.music31.com/ there are none as “powerful”:http://www.staylocal.org/ as the “stories of”:http://levees.org/ “Citizens”:http://www.9thwardnena.org/home/ who “came back”:http://www.lakewoodbeacon.org/ and “demanded”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/nationalspecial/13activist.html more, “join”:http://www.ideavillage.org/ “us”:http://puentesno.org/ at UNO to “hear”:http://www.city-works.org/ our “stories”:http://www.gnocdc.org/ and “tell yours”:http://www.ccstb.org/.
NCDC {formerly the HCDRC}
I have started to photograph the houses on the NCDC agenda. One of them is a NOAH house 4516.00 paid to S&A Contracting Here is the “next agenda”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-august-18/ I will be adding photos over the next few days. So check back later.
Ray Nagin Speaks
“audio of the Mayor at Council”:http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com/audio/wwl_raynagin_noah_citycouncil_080807_48k.mp3 h/t “Schroeder”:http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com/
NOAH
How is it that Matt McBride had the data to “support this article”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/city_paid_to_gut_houses_set_fo.html and the Office of Recovery Managment is still grappling with this issue. We have brought this to the attention of the Neighborhood Conservation District as each NOAH house has been apprised for demolition, there was no response to my question of how […]