Gentilly, New Orleans
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Gentilly is a broad, lower‑middle‑income and racially diverse section of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Gentilly neighborhood is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain to the north, France Road to the east, Bayou
Gentilly "Sugar Hill" section, New Orleans
Benjamin Franklin High School
Norman Mayer Branch
New Orleans East
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New Orleans East is the eastern section of New Orleans, Louisiana, a large section of the 9th Ward of New Orleans, mostly undeveloped until the later 20th century. New Orleans East represents 65% of t
A Landsat view of New Orleans East. Note that dense development occurs exclusively in the western portion of eastern New Orleans; the remaining land is largely undeveloped swamp and marsh.
View from the tower of Shushan (now Lakefront) Airport, 1937, showing a few houses along Hayne Boulevard and mostly empty fields further south.
Billboard promoting the eastern New Orleans "New Town" development, 1972. Note the darker-toned 'Current Development' portion, encompassing present-day Village de L'Est and Oak Island, as well as Venetian Isles and a sliver of Irish Bayou. The light-toned portion is mostly today's Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge
Damaged houses in Eastern New Orleans after Katrina