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La barque bleue
Claude Monet 1840-1926
Fine Art Photographic Library Ltd/Private Collection.
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This is a club I had at my house where my students come over and choose Newsweek articles to read and then we discuss them. It was a way to help improve their reading comprehension and teach them something about the world outside of Ghana (which, sadly, they feel like they know a lot about but have no context, really...it's all hearsay).
Photo by Rocco S. Cetera
Rising Currents
Boat Tour of the Five Sites
Held in conjunction with the exhibition
Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Water Front
July 29, 2010 7:56PM
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Located in Elk Plaza on Loyola Avenue.
New Orleans' Central Business District (CBD) is what most people would think of, or refer to, as "downtown." In New Orleans, however, directions work differently, so the town center is...the CBD. Currently, this is the only part of town that has a definable skyline with skyscrapers (or...tallish buildings). The Hancock Whitney Center, at 51 floors and 697 feet (about 200 meters) is the tallest building in the city. Along with the somewhat modern taller buildings, at street level, you'll find quite a few of the older historic buildings, which brings out a great juxtaposition of historic with modern.
Historically, this particular neighborhood of about 70 city blocks, give or take, arose after the French Quarter. Known as the American Quarter, this is where the majority of people who considered themselves "American" as opposed to European established themselves.
As far as New Orleans goes, after 1800, the importance of city government shifted from the French Quarter to this neighborhood, with the ascension of American dominance (acquisition of Louisiana from France, cemented by the War of 1812 and the defeat of the British, especially with the Battle of New Orleans in 1814). From 1815 until now, the city government has been run from this neighborhood. The main courts are here, City Hall (current one on Duncan Plaza and historic one on Lafayette Plaza) are both in the CBD.
Also in the CBD, you'll find a variety of interesting plazas, statues, boutique hotels, high-rises (some with rooftop bars), upscale restaurants (and some greasy spoons and budget eats), and...art.
There's not much street art in the CBD, though there is a fine Kobra mural of Louis Armstrong -- and a Banksy (located inside a hotel). But, art is important here. Part of the CBD is also known as the Warehouse District, and in that corner of the neighborhood, you'll find a handful of museums: the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum (a Civil War museum that has been on site here since 1891), the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, and the crown jewel of the museum district: the National World War II Museum. In addition to the museums, you have Julia Street, which is lined almost exclusively with upscale art galleries.
It's very easy to get around the CBD on foot, but you can also take the oldest continually operating streetcar in the world -- the St. Charles line -- which has been operating daily since 1835. It connects the far end of Uptown/Carrollton with Canal Street, just over 6 miles in total (close to 10 km). Passing through the neighboring Garden District, riding from end-to-end would take about an hour.
People simply do not come to New Orleans to visit the CBD, but for those who take the time to truly look at it, I'm certain that they're pleasantly surprised at what they find.