Violet is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,555 at the 2000 census.
Population: 4,973
Latitude: 29° 53' 44.74" N
Longitude: -89° 53' 52.22" W
The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue to the north, 1st Street to the east, Magazin…
Pan Am Flight 759, operated by a Boeing 727-235, N4737 Clipper Defiance, was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas. On July 9, 1982, the plane that made this route was forced…
The Danziger Bridge shootings were police shootings that took place on September 4, 2005, at the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana. Six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the city's police department killed two peopl…
Hollygrove is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, located in the city's 17th Ward.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, also called St. Louis Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis, Roi-de-France), (Spanish: Catedral de San Luis), is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and among the oldes…
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is the portion of the Intracoastal Waterway located along the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Gretna is the second-largest city and parish seat of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Gretna is on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east and across the river from uptown New Orleans. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenn…
Algiers is a community within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
The Port of New Orleans is a port located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the sixth-largest port in the United States based on volume of cargo handled, second-largest in the state after the Port of South Louisiana, and 13th-largest in the U.S. base…
Kenner (historically French: Cannes-Brûlées) is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. State of Louisiana. It is the largest city in Jefferson Parish, United States, Louisiana's second-most populous parish, and a suburb of New Orleans.
The Central Business District (CBD) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Charity Hospital was one of two teaching hospitals which were part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO). The other being University Hospital. Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, then Governor Kathleen Blanco said …
Chalmette is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, in southeast Louisiana, United States. The 2010 census reported that Chalmette had 16,751 people and is 76% white. The 2011 population is listed as 17,119; ho…
WWL-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 36), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Gannett Company, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WUPL-TV (channe…
Isidore Newman School is a private, nondenominational, co-educational college preparatory school located on an 11-acre (45,000 m2) campus in the Uptown section of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Faubourg Marigny (sometimes called The Marigny) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
The B.W. Cooper Apartments is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans and one of the housing projects of New Orleans, more commonly known by its former name, the Calliope Projects. This area of New Orleans gained nationwide fame/infamy for its ext…
Irish Channel (French: Irlandais Manche) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.