Important Places
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the_big_oocCamarilla Elysium: The Saenger Theatre
Anarch Hangout: The Superdome
Sabbat Area: 9th Ward
An Undead Tour of New Orleans
DOWNTOWN
The French Quarter
Home to some of the city's most influential and powerful kindred before the
Central Business District (pop. 2,060)
"The modern Central Business District is a dynamic, mixed-use neighborhood, home to professional offices housed within tall skyscrapers, specialty and neighborhood retail, numerous restaurants and clubs, and thousands of residents inhabiting restored historic commercial and industrial buildings.
The portion of the CBD closer to the Mississippi River and upriver from Poydras Street is known as the Warehouse District, because it was heavily devoted to warehousing and manufacturing before shipping became containerized. The 1984 World's Fair drew attention to the then semi-derelict district, resulting in steady investment and redevelopment from the mid-1980s onwards. Many of the old 19th century warehouses have been converted into hotels, restaurants, condominiums, and art galleries."
Treme (pop. 2,247)
"Tremé (pronounced /trəˈmeɪ/ trə-may; historically sometimes called by its more formal French names of Faubourg Tremé[1] or Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Rampart Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south and North Broad Street to the west. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and early in the city's history was the main neighborhood of free people of color. It remains an important center of the city's African-American and Créole culture, especially the modern brass band tradition."
Some kindred make an easy life here while others simply do not fit in. Treme draws the bohemian crowd and kindred with a love of the local music scene. Toreadors especially enjoy the artistic culture here.
Faubourg Marigny (pop. 2,128)
"The neighborhood declined badly in the mid 20th century, and the area around Washington Square was nicknamed "Little Angola" (after the prison of that name) for the dangerous criminals there. It came back strongly in the late 20th century. Profiteering around the 1984 World's Fair drove many long-term residents from the French Quarter into Marigny. Frenchmen Street developed one of the city's premier collections of live music venues and restaurants, and is a popular destination with music lovers from other parts of the city and knowledgeable out-of-town visitors in the early 21st century.
Marigny is one of the centers for homegrown New Orleans Mardi Gras (see Faubourg Marigny Mardi Gras costumes). The neighborhood is also home to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Riverfront facility."
Bywater (pop. 2,181)
"Development and speculation surrounding the 1984 World's Fair prompted many long-term French Quarter residents to move down river, at first into Marigny, but by the late 1990s the bohemian artistic type of communities such as were found in the French Quarter mid-century had spread down to Bywater, and many long-neglected 19th century houses began to be refurbished.
During Mardi Gras the Society of Saint Anne marching krewe starts their procession on Mardi Gras morning in Bywater and gathers marchers as it travels through the French Quarter and ends at Canal Street. This walking parade of local residents, artists, and performers is preceded by the Bywater Bone Boys Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded 2005), an early-rising skeleton krewe made up of writers, tattoo artists, painters, set designers, musicians, and numerous other pre-7 a.m. revelers."
Anarch Hangout: The Superdome
Sabbat Area: 9th Ward
An Undead Tour of New Orleans
DOWNTOWN
The French Quarter
Home to some of the city's most influential and powerful kindred before the
Central Business District (pop. 2,060)
"The modern Central Business District is a dynamic, mixed-use neighborhood, home to professional offices housed within tall skyscrapers, specialty and neighborhood retail, numerous restaurants and clubs, and thousands of residents inhabiting restored historic commercial and industrial buildings.
The portion of the CBD closer to the Mississippi River and upriver from Poydras Street is known as the Warehouse District, because it was heavily devoted to warehousing and manufacturing before shipping became containerized. The 1984 World's Fair drew attention to the then semi-derelict district, resulting in steady investment and redevelopment from the mid-1980s onwards. Many of the old 19th century warehouses have been converted into hotels, restaurants, condominiums, and art galleries."
Treme (pop. 2,247)
"Tremé (pronounced /trəˈmeɪ/ trə-may; historically sometimes called by its more formal French names of Faubourg Tremé[1] or Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Rampart Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south and North Broad Street to the west. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and early in the city's history was the main neighborhood of free people of color. It remains an important center of the city's African-American and Créole culture, especially the modern brass band tradition."
Some kindred make an easy life here while others simply do not fit in. Treme draws the bohemian crowd and kindred with a love of the local music scene. Toreadors especially enjoy the artistic culture here.
Faubourg Marigny (pop. 2,128)
"The neighborhood declined badly in the mid 20th century, and the area around Washington Square was nicknamed "Little Angola" (after the prison of that name) for the dangerous criminals there. It came back strongly in the late 20th century. Profiteering around the 1984 World's Fair drove many long-term residents from the French Quarter into Marigny. Frenchmen Street developed one of the city's premier collections of live music venues and restaurants, and is a popular destination with music lovers from other parts of the city and knowledgeable out-of-town visitors in the early 21st century.
Marigny is one of the centers for homegrown New Orleans Mardi Gras (see Faubourg Marigny Mardi Gras costumes). The neighborhood is also home to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Riverfront facility."
Bywater (pop. 2,181)
"Development and speculation surrounding the 1984 World's Fair prompted many long-term French Quarter residents to move down river, at first into Marigny, but by the late 1990s the bohemian artistic type of communities such as were found in the French Quarter mid-century had spread down to Bywater, and many long-neglected 19th century houses began to be refurbished.
During Mardi Gras the Society of Saint Anne marching krewe starts their procession on Mardi Gras morning in Bywater and gathers marchers as it travels through the French Quarter and ends at Canal Street. This walking parade of local residents, artists, and performers is preceded by the Bywater Bone Boys Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded 2005), an early-rising skeleton krewe made up of writers, tattoo artists, painters, set designers, musicians, and numerous other pre-7 a.m. revelers."
