Famous streets of New Orleans
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New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
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A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...
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- Audubon PlaceAudubon PlaceAudubon Place is a privately gated street along St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana that sits next to Tulane University. As of 2009, Audubon Place homes typically cost around $5 million...
(private access only) - Basin StreetBasin StreetBasin Street or Rue Basin in French, is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It parallels Rampart Street one block lakeside, or inland, from the boundary of the French Quarter, running from Canal Street down 5 blocks past Saint Louis Cemetery...
- Bienville Street
- Bourbon StreetBourbon StreetBourbon Street is a famous and historic street that spans the length of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. When founded in 1718, the city was originally centered around the French Quarter...
- Bullard AvenueBullard AvenueBullard Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans East, United States. It begins southeast at Chef Menteur Highway and travels northwest, terminating at Hayne Boulevard which runs along Lake Pontchartrain. Along the way it intersects most notably Lake Forest Boulevard, Interstate 10, and...
- Caffin Avenue
- Canal StreetCanal Street, New OrleansCanal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans. Forming the upriver boundary of the city's oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter , it acted as the dividing line between the older French/Spanish Colonial-era city and the newer American Sector, today's Central Business District.The...
- Carrollton AvenueCarrollton AvenueCarrollton Avenue is a major thoroughfare stretching across the Uptown/Carrollton and Mid-City districts of New Orleans. South Carrollton Avenue runs from St. Charles Avenue in the Riverbend in a northeast lakebound direction through Carrollton and into Mid-City...
- Chef Menteur Highway
- Claiborne AvenueClaiborne AvenueClaiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. It runs the length of the city, about , beginning at the Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues in each of these locations under different names. It is called South Claiborne Avenue...
- Crowder Boulevard
- Decatur Street
- Desire StreetDesire StreetDesire Street is a famous street in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States. According to Jed Horne, the name is a misspelled homage to a lover of Napoleon named "Desiree". The famous play A Streetcar Named Desire refers to the former transportation line to this street. It is also the title of...
- Earhart Boulevard
- Elysian Fields AvenueElysian Fields AvenueElysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue intersects with Interstate 610, Interstate 10, and U.S....
- Esplanade Avenue
- Exchange PlaceExchange Place, New OrleansExchange Place is a pedestrian mall in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana....
(pedestrian only) - Exposition Boulevard (pedestrian only)
- Frenchmen StreetFrenchmen StreetFrenchmen Street is a street in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the home to the city's most popular live music venues, including Snug Harbor and The Maison, in addition to restaurants, bars, and other businesses.-Location:...
- Fulton Street (pedestrian only, in part)
- General Degaulle Drive
- General Meyer Avenue
- Gentilly Boulevard
- Hayne Boulevard
- Magazine StreetMagazine StreetMagazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street, St. Charles Avenue, and Claiborne Avenue, it reflects the curving course of the Mississippi River...
- Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
- McAlister PlaceMcAlister Place, New OrleansMcAlister Place is a pedestrian mall that runs through a section of Tulane University's Uptown New Orleans campus. Construction of the mall began on May 18, 2009, and was completed in January 2010. The mall replaced McAlister Drive, which was an asphalt-paved private road with one-way vehicular...
(pedestrian only) - Metairie Road
- Michoud Boulevard
- Orleans Avenue
- Paris Avenue
- Pirates' Alley
- Poydras Street
- Ponchartrain Boulevard
- Rampart StreetRampart StreetRampart Street is a historic avenue located in New Orleans, Louisiana.The upper end of the street is in the New Orleans Central Business District...
- Read Boulevard
- Robert E. Lee Boulevard
- Royal StreetRoyal Street, New OrleansRoyal Street is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is one of the oldest streets in the city, dating from the French Colonial era, and is most well known for the antique shops, art galleries, and stately hotels that line its sides as it runs through New Orleans' French Quarter and tourist...
- St. Bernard Avenue
- St. Charles AvenueSt. Charles AvenueSt. Charles Avenue is a thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. and the home of the St. Charles Streetcar Line. It is also famous for the hundreds of mansions that adorn the tree-lined boulevard for much of the Uptown section of the route. The southern live oak trees, particularly found in...
- Tchoupitoulas StreetTchoupitoulas StreetTchoupitoulas Street is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is the through street closest to the Mississippi River running through Uptown New Orleans...
- West End Boulevard