How this video opens with the crossing of the bridge is an awesome attention-grabber. The 9th Ward is a fascinating place to me (in general), but the high definition and clarity make this video mesmerizing to watch. I sat down thinking i'd watch the first few minutes, then catch the rest later, but I sat through the whole thing and completely forgot that a half hour had passed. Well done!
Thank you for your post. For your time. Unfamiliar with your site but was looking for an nonpolitical view of what had become of the lower ninth and finally found you. It is so sad. I hoped there would be much more ...anything positive to view. All the money spent to scatter neighborhoods to the wind. Not a penny to bring them home. I guess I am getting old. I'm beginning to feel saddened by the (lack) of love, positive action, and general apathy of mankind. Again thank you. God bless.
WoW! Nearly 13 years since Katrina, and the "city that care forgot" has almost forgotten itself. My cousins and aunt lived on Flood Street, approximately one block from the part of Caffin Avenue that you drove down. The area was never the best in New Orleans; but, now it looks as if a bulldozer struck it. My brother and I spent many a weekend there visiting our cousins and playing in the area. I hate what has become of it now. Thanks for making this update video, though, as it still brought back some pleasant memories.
hello wanda hope u guys made it trough it ok i was wanting to vist ne orelans im going to school metorogley at nc state thats what i wanna do but i wanna vist tht city to me new orelans came torugh it better then we thouht before i rember police were leaving the city and they were suppose stay and help prtect it it came far far cry out i think but coming form north carolina i know u guys see storms but we do all time i guess were use to it it does damge but there nothing u can do accept prepare andget out of storm surge areas here it pushes water backs words up rivers and that causes a mess for s because a low income area in nc flooded and it was bad but on good note i do hope vist new orelans french quarter and see the city it self and the levels becaus ei thought bout going school for enggergering are weather im unsure lol but i saw post and glad u guys made it and maby hope talk bout new orelans and good palces to vist i might go sense im red skins fan but ill love vist dome and wtch sants and skins play but hope to talk and have good one
Another Cecil B de 504 Road Trips cinematic extravaganza (26 mins). It's great to see Fats Domino's former house. As soon as I heard "lower ninth" , I thought of FD. Also like the house with the motor boat out the front. He's not taking any chances.lol
Sad to see some of the restored buildings boarded up. Also sad in a way that it has taken 16 years for this area to begin a turnaround but I blame the City Council for that since they had millions, millions of unspent money they sat on all these years and only began allocating it this year since they were going to lose it if they did not use it for restoration projects. They had enough money ages ago to actually make a real difference, but instead sat on it (until the news called them out and shined light on their bs). Glad you made it driving through these areas safely. Not sure I'd have the courage to drive through 7,8,9th and lower 9th due to all the weekly shootings, but then again, shootings seem to happen all over NOLA. I still love NOLA though and thanks for making these videos!
Drea East Coast that area is very quiet at 9:00 on a Saturday morning. Holy Cross area appears to be a very nice neighborhood (although the crime stats indicate that it’s far from perfect). The Lower9 is a little less maintained, and of course has the vast stretches of empty land. I would not drive this route after dark though.
I watched in disbelief at all the empty lots where there had been rows of tight packed shotgun houses. I heard millions of dollars had been awarded to the City Council to restore all that housing. This is appalling.
Caffin & Claiborne. All day aireeday. The MLK School at the corner of caffin & Claiborne withstood 14ft of water for 9 days after Katrina. I know the lower ninth Ward like the back of my hand. Those were my stomping grounds after the Storm. Coming from a man camp with 700 trailers on the archbishop hannan High School football field in chalmette, I worked at the Murphy oil refinery, as a journeyman electrician, in chalmette. We helped get the oil refinery back online, bringing life to the communities of chalmette, Arabi, and the lower ninth Ward. Then we turned around and did the same thing at the Exxon Mobil plant at the corner of saint Bernard highway & Paris road. I would grab a spaghetti and cornbread on my lunch break from my Mom and pop's store on the corner of saint Claude right past the railroad tracks by the U-Haul. Id drive to my little hideout in the lower ninth Ward, and listen to the word of God, as I watched the barges be pulled by a tugboat, real slow, along the Mississippi, heading out towards the gulf of Mexico. some of the peaceful days of my life I spent there, looking at light clouds so high up in the sky, on a nice warm sunny day, wondering what was going on across over on the westbank. My brother grew up in the third Ward uptown around Washington and galvez, but now lives in the lower ninth on flood Street. Sad to say, I could go on and on, but it's getting late. 2006/2007 seems like yesterday, then here's some pictures of 2018. The lower ninth Ward doesn't look too bad to me right now. I read about a shooting in the paper every now and then up here in Indiana, down there off burgundy or Johnson or urquart or somewhere in the lower 9th, and I just tell myself, I hope it gets better down there, because I slipped up out of there, at the end of 2007, because the murder was so bad. Alvar nigga4life
@@504RoadTrips hopefully the Lord will have returned and destroyed this wicked land by then. The fact that they would let my people live in areas such as that , is a crime against humanity. Those that have this system fixed up, to allow my people to live in that kind of poverty , will be ever so severely judged 1Day
Thank you for showing this perspective. Can’t get that from google maps or trulia. They clearly overbuilt the high school. Hopefully people got some of that money and relocated to others areas of the city or to another city. I would have preferred the city create a small neighbor of raised houses and apartments and relocated most people out of there. Since it incredibly prone to disasters that cut off people for a long period of time the area should be parkland, nature preserve, perhaps some businesses that have multiple locations. A concentrated neighborhood would have lent itself to the grocery store and school and library and small businesses necessary sprouting up in a speedy fashion. Now we have an overbuilt school not even the serving the families that were displaced, those kids are mostly grown by now. I think Brad Pitt meant well. He should have just built a block of low income houses better than code and then sold them, used the proceeds for the next block. Or just fund raised for habitat. I wouldn’t want to live facing the levy. Let alone be the experiment house on a new wood that failed.
I agree that they overbuilt the school. I'd like to see the enrollment numbers. It's in the most desolate part of the area, but I guess it serves the entire Lower Ninth Ward. Even so, the population is still about 1/4 of the pre-Katrina population. And I'm not sure how many of them are school aged. I guess they expected everyone to come back, which was a poor expectation, considering that most of the people who lived there had nothing to their name except for the house that they lived in (which had been passed down through the generations). Those people were left with absolutely nothing. The people who have money that came in, bought property, and rebuilt likely send their kids to private school, with Orleans Parish Public Schools being some of the worst in the country. Aside from the small area that Brad Pitt built, the restorations have been true to the historic architecture of the neighborhood.
How this video opens with the crossing of the bridge is an awesome attention-grabber. The 9th Ward is a fascinating place to me (in general), but the high definition and clarity make this video mesmerizing to watch. I sat down thinking i'd watch the first few minutes, then catch the rest later, but I sat through the whole thing and completely forgot that a half hour had passed. Well done!
Thank you for your post. For your time. Unfamiliar with your site but was looking for an nonpolitical view of what had become of the lower ninth and finally found you.
It is so sad. I hoped there would be much more ...anything positive to view.
All the money spent to scatter neighborhoods to the wind. Not a penny to bring them home. I guess I am getting old. I'm beginning to feel saddened by the (lack) of love, positive action, and general apathy of mankind.
Again thank you. God bless.
My street. I was raised at 631 Reynes Street. I walked to the levee everyday
WoW! Nearly 13 years since Katrina, and the "city that care forgot" has almost forgotten itself. My cousins and aunt lived on Flood Street, approximately one block from the part of Caffin Avenue that you drove down. The area was never the best in New Orleans; but, now it looks as if a bulldozer struck it. My brother and I spent many a weekend there visiting our cousins and playing in the area. I hate what has become of it now. Thanks for making this update video, though, as it still brought back some pleasant memories.
It's not as bad as it seem, its worst if U r from Here n remember how it was. .
Thank you! I am doing an community assessment assignment for the neighborhood of Holy Cross. This was immensely helpful!
Thanks for watching! Glad to have been some help to you!
Sadly, Holy Cross is a rotting dump that will never recover.
As a child, I lived on Andry and Tonti. Also lived on Egania. My Grandmother lived on Lizardi, and my Cousins lived on Choctaw.
Nothing but empty lots (and a school) on Andry and Tonti now. How long ago was that?
That was back in 1968.
hello wanda hope u guys made it trough it ok i was wanting to vist ne orelans im going to school metorogley at nc state thats what i wanna do but i wanna vist tht city to me new orelans came torugh it better then we thouht before i rember police were leaving the city and they were suppose stay and help prtect it it came far far cry out i think but coming form north carolina i know u guys see storms but we do all time i guess were use to it it does damge but there nothing u can do accept prepare andget out of storm surge areas here it pushes water backs words up rivers and that causes a mess for s because a low income area in nc flooded and it was bad but on good note i do hope vist new orelans french quarter and see the city it self and the levels becaus ei thought bout going school for enggergering are weather im unsure lol but i saw post and glad u guys made it and maby hope talk bout new orelans and good palces to vist i might go sense im red skins fan but ill love vist dome and wtch sants and skins play but hope to talk and have good one
I got relatives who grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward/CTC Cross the Canal
Sad wreckage. Old structures that were obviously neglected and allowed to rot long before Katrina. The 7th, 8th and 9th Wards will never recover.
thanks for posting, I will actually be filming in New Orleans in a few weeks, this was helpful
Great video, it took me to places that I have never been in the lower 9
I was raised on flood st
Another Cecil B de 504 Road Trips cinematic extravaganza (26 mins). It's great to see Fats Domino's former house. As soon as I heard "lower ninth" , I thought of FD. Also like the house with the motor boat out the front. He's not taking any chances.lol
Sad to see some of the restored buildings boarded up. Also sad in a way that it has taken 16 years for this area to begin a turnaround but I blame the City Council for that since they had millions, millions of unspent money they sat on all these years and only began allocating it this year since they were going to lose it if they did not use it for restoration projects. They had enough money ages ago to actually make a real difference, but instead sat on it (until the news called them out and shined light on their bs).
Glad you made it driving through these areas safely. Not sure I'd have the courage to drive through 7,8,9th and lower 9th due to all the weekly shootings, but then again, shootings seem to happen all over NOLA. I still love NOLA though and thanks for making these videos!
Drea East Coast that area is very quiet at 9:00 on a Saturday morning.
Holy Cross area appears to be a very nice neighborhood (although the crime stats indicate that it’s far from perfect). The Lower9 is a little less maintained, and of course has the vast stretches of empty land.
I would not drive this route after dark though.
I watched in disbelief at all the empty lots where there had been rows of tight packed shotgun houses. I heard millions of dollars had been awarded to the City Council to restore all that housing. This is appalling.
Caffin & Claiborne. All day aireeday. The MLK School at the corner of caffin & Claiborne withstood 14ft of water for 9 days after Katrina. I know the lower ninth Ward like the back of my hand. Those were my stomping grounds after the Storm. Coming from a man camp with 700 trailers on the archbishop hannan High School football field in chalmette, I worked at the Murphy oil refinery, as a journeyman electrician, in chalmette. We helped get the oil refinery back online, bringing life to the communities of chalmette, Arabi, and the lower ninth Ward. Then we turned around and did the same thing at the Exxon Mobil plant at the corner of saint Bernard highway & Paris road. I would grab a spaghetti and cornbread on my lunch break from my Mom and pop's store on the corner of saint Claude right past the railroad tracks by the U-Haul. Id drive to my little hideout in the lower ninth Ward, and listen to the word of God, as I watched the barges be pulled by a tugboat, real slow, along the Mississippi, heading out towards the gulf of Mexico. some of the peaceful days of my life I spent there, looking at light clouds so high up in the sky, on a nice warm sunny day, wondering what was going on across over on the westbank. My brother grew up in the third Ward uptown around Washington and galvez, but now lives in the lower ninth on flood Street. Sad to say, I could go on and on, but it's getting late. 2006/2007 seems like yesterday, then here's some pictures of 2018. The lower ninth Ward doesn't look too bad to me right now. I read about a shooting in the paper every now and then up here in Indiana, down there off burgundy or Johnson or urquart or somewhere in the lower 9th, and I just tell myself, I hope it gets better down there, because I slipped up out of there, at the end of 2007, because the murder was so bad. Alvar nigga4life
Thank you for sharing your experiences! And thanks for watching! It'll be interesting to see what things look like down there in another 10 years.
@@504RoadTrips hopefully the Lord will have returned and destroyed this wicked land by then. The fact that they would let my people live in areas such as that , is a crime against humanity. Those that have this system fixed up, to allow my people to live in that kind of poverty , will be ever so severely judged 1Day
another great video.Thanks!
Thank you for showing this perspective. Can’t get that from google maps or trulia. They clearly overbuilt the high school. Hopefully people got some of that money and relocated to others areas of the city or to another city. I would have preferred the city create a small neighbor of raised houses and apartments and relocated most people out of there. Since it incredibly prone to disasters that cut off people for a long period of time the area should be parkland, nature preserve, perhaps some businesses that have multiple locations. A concentrated neighborhood would have lent itself to the grocery store and school and library and small businesses necessary sprouting up in a speedy fashion. Now we have an overbuilt school not even the serving the families that were displaced, those kids are mostly grown by now. I think Brad Pitt meant well. He should have just built a block of low income houses better than code and then sold them, used the proceeds for the next block. Or just fund raised for habitat. I wouldn’t want to live facing the levy. Let alone be the experiment house on a new wood that failed.
I agree that they overbuilt the school. I'd like to see the enrollment numbers. It's in the most desolate part of the area, but I guess it serves the entire Lower Ninth Ward. Even so, the population is still about 1/4 of the pre-Katrina population. And I'm not sure how many of them are school aged. I guess they expected everyone to come back, which was a poor expectation, considering that most of the people who lived there had nothing to their name except for the house that they lived in (which had been passed down through the generations). Those people were left with absolutely nothing.
The people who have money that came in, bought property, and rebuilt likely send their kids to private school, with Orleans Parish Public Schools being some of the worst in the country.
Aside from the small area that Brad Pitt built, the restorations have been true to the historic architecture of the neighborhood.
new orleans is stronger and more prosperous than ever before; work is not done though
Jeez - the new Villa St. Maurice looks just like the old one.
Yeah, I thought they had restored the old building until you told me they started from scratch.
So much for feeling safe
How are you driving so fast on them messed up streets the hell with new Orleans to f up there
Antonio Gonzales wide angle lens makes creates the illusion of higher speed. This entire video (off of the main streets) was filmed at 10-20 mph.
No cops no where wow
Shiit they prolly be scared of the ninth
Can not see my self wanting to go back where the gulf coast of Mexico was