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The New Orleans metropolitan area gained 12.5% of move-ins since 2018. [24] As of 2020, Greater New Orleans had a racial makeup of 51% White Americans, 35% Blacks or African Americans, 3% Asians, 2% from two or more races, and 9% Hispanic or Latinos of any race. [24] The area's median age was 39 and the population made up 52% females and 48% males.
U.S. Route 90 passes through the center of town, and Interstate 10 runs along the southern edge, with access from exits 7 and 8. Sulphur, Louisiana , is 13 miles (21 km) to the east, and Orange, Texas , is the same distance to the west.
The company lost $14 million caused by damages done to the La Cienega store during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Fedco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1999, at which point it had been the longest-operating membership-based store in the country.
The Plaza Tower was the tallest building in New Orleans and Louisiana for four years until the Hancock Whitney Center (then called One Shell Square) surpassed it by over 160 feet (49 m). Along with the World Trade Center on the Mississippi riverfront, the Plaza Tower marked the beginning of modern high-rises in New Orleans.
The New Orleans city government strongly protested against closing the district; New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman said, "You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular." [19] [21] He then ordered the District be shut down by midnight of November 12, 1917. After that time, separate black and white underground houses of prostitution ...
View of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Due to its location on the Gulf Coast, Louisiana has regularly suffered the effects of tropical storms and damaging hurricanes. On August 29, 2005, New Orleans and many other low-lying parts of the state along the Gulf of Mexico were hit by the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina. [112]
Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1572330245. Jackson, Joy J. (1969). New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880–1896. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Leavitt, Mel (1982). A Short History of New ...
Grand Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area. It also contains a connection to the Long Island Rail Road through the Grand Central Madison station, a 16-acre (65,000 m 2 ) rail terminal underneath the Metro-North station ...