What Happened to New Orleans East?

In the 70s and 80s New Orleans East was the place to be. Middle class homes and neighborhoods, crowded public and private schools, Joe Brown Park and the center of it all was the Plaza Shopping Center.

[@jelloshots6950]

I was raised up in neworleans east and when I tell you it have changed a whole lot...and the crime has gotten ridiculous & is pretty much ignored ....I still live back here...and now its people from all over the city back here causing pure chaos .....this used to be one of the most precious place to live .........

[@jelloshots6950]

@James Boss all facts

[@latoyacross7061]

@Da Boot True

[@spurstilidie4637]

Yeah I remember as a kid when a person you knew would say they live in the East, it was like wow nice but now if you say you live there it's like wtf oh no. It's sad but the East has turned into the Wild Wild West & it's people from all the torn down projects from all over the city mixed up living in the East so of course it's conflict & crime central. It's crazy how the East went from highly valued to looked down upon now but it's not the people that's from there, it's the people that moved there all after Katrina.

[@jelloshots6950]

@@spurstilidie4637 right facts .....the east uesd to be everything......

[@17thN.O]

@@spurstilidie4637 I'm from Hollygrove and and before the hurricane when people told you they stayed in the East, you was like man they were in the good part of the city. But they tore the projects down and wanted to keep as much of the crime as they could away from the inner part of the city Canal Street, the Quarter, the CBD, parts of Uptown and Mid City because of the tourist. So they don't care if its out in the East at this point.

[@samcarmant7042]

“One thing that keeps me here, I don’t have a mortgage” 4:36.. truest words I ever heard 🤣

[@FaithandNova]

I would try to sell and relocate. I know someone who's going through this in the hood of Tampa.

[@samcarmant7042]

@@FaithandNova it sounds so easy, but these people have deep roots in their community.. moving to a new place when you’re older is not very easy

[@Haiti2011Harold]

I have too much to say regarding this. I grew up in the East in the 70's/80s. Now, it is a place that resembles hopelessness! It is a forgotten territory.

[@CalamityJane831]

Harold Foley such a tragedy

[@armeniajones3770]

Our. Babies grandchildren need to be able to play outside and feel safe

[@connieclark1123]

Section 8 is what happened to New Orleans. When the Desire Project was torn down in the late 70's early 80's Gaslight Square became the new projects and brought the project mentality with them. Theif caused the stores in the Plaza to move or either close. Restaurants moved as well. Then jobs moved/closed. That was over 25 years ago. Katrina made it even worst. More Section 8 people moved in cause property owner decided not to come back but put their homes on Section 8. During the rebuilding process their were not their of tools, building supplies, robberies, car break-ins and shootings. It is a well known fact in the business community why there is no real retail in New Orleans East.

[@cooljoescott]

100% correct

[@carltonjones7146]

Who are you????? You don't know what you're talking about. The Desire Projects were torn down in 2000s and Gaslight Square is in the East. Get your facts straight.

[@Mark-cj8wk]

Yes. Even in 1998 I remember visiting my then girl who worked at the plaza 4 cinema and feeling lonely in the mall. I still remember the arcade in the mall and wondering why I was the only one there at 7pm.

[@richardrobeson5784]

all along the new interstate the apartments were built, all the people had to drive thru and or walk thru the nice neighborhoods to get to those apartments, and yes, turned to crap real fast, that was my experience, very scary, worrisome environment, unsafe

[@brianb1269]

Yep, section 8 was the ruin of da east. Born and raised '69-'05. Saw the best years, the decline, and end result.

[@richardrobeson5784]

i remember it as little woods for the most part, was a wonderful area purchased my first home there in 1972, the interstate was not there at the time, sold that smaller home and built a 3k sq ft home in the area, one of the worst mistakes of my life soon the interstate, soon the crime, the area went downhill, finally once and for all i left the area and never looked back, that was in 82, thankfully i sometimes think of going to that first house and introducing myself as the first owner of the home, see if the pine tree is still growing, the one i planted there while it was the size of a toothpick, but to be honest, i am afraid of my safety so i stay far away sad isn't it

[@reginaldsmith7897]

New Orleans East that was the good days.✌🏿🔥✌🏿🔥✌🏿

[@philwertz1]

My grandfolks lived on citrus off of read. I can't remember the address but it was just a couple houses down from the school. From the late 60s I think til 1990. Gramps died and grandma went back to Florida where she grew up. I passed by after Katrina and it was barely recognizable. I spent a lot of time there as a child. I remember the skating rink and the planetarium. Had good times there. Stayed with the grandfolks while Mom finished school. My grandma worked at Okonite and Grandpa at Greyhound as a mechanic. He died of lukemia like a lot of the other mechanics. Poor ventilation and being covered in oil and gas does that I guess. After he died she didn't feel safe after some break ins started around the neighborhood. She didn't have a lot of reasons to stay and was getting old so she took off. I miss being there. Had a lot of my first experiences growing up there.

[@jcarmashby66]

I miss the old New Orleans East and Lake Carmel my old home😪

[@ttv_periodpooh7650]

I am from the new East but I can admit from what my mom told me it sound like if was a nice place

[@kellerclark85]

lol lake carmel estates is still a nice neighborhood . just surrounded by section 8

[@Worker2Boss]

I lived in New Orleans east most of my life. I've never seen that footage of Lincoln breach but my mama always told me about it.

[@BadBoyMark1]

My mama used to take me there every weekend it was fire

[@Worker2Boss]

my daddy used to take me back there. All the rides was closed down and it was graffiti everywhere

[@BadBoyMark1]

@@Worker2Boss the beach had that long ass walk lol they didnt have no rides though

[@javontagraham8086]

There is nothing in this video addressing the divestment that the neighborhood saw from its social services. Also, why are the children committing these crimes? You failed to address the food insecurity, youth unemployment, and the lack of adequate public transit in the area! Honestly, do you even care?

[@MsRhondaRandy]

Thank you! I was wondering my damn self about what happened to the ENTIRE video....here's that "group" at work again!

[@believeroftheword4627]

Wow. Compared to 2021, 2019 was like Disneyland. At least the cops were visibly patrolling back then. I've seen three in the 7th district this week. THREE. It's Thursday. I know, because my children and I play count the cops, like the old punch-bug game back in the day but instead of counting Volkswagen beetles, we count the cops. Three is the most we've seen in the same week since pre-pandemic. But hey, the Mayor's gonna build us some bike trails so that'll help a lot. 😳

[@pourquoipas2673]

Bike trail? That's a freaking joke! The money should be used for much better endeavor. Some sort of improvement to make the streets safer. But it's all in the people's actions. Too many people just don't care about anyone else but themselves and their perverted pleasures. A very dangerous environment for all.

[@SRG4782]

It used to be the nicest place to live in New Orleans for middle class to upper middle class people in the 80s. I joined the Army in the late 80s and when I would come back to visit year after year, my mother told me how bad it was becoming, because people who used to live in the torn down projects were moving in. She said that the whole mentality of the area was changing because of it.

[@armeniajones3770]

It is real dark in that area

[@k-8543]

yeah and the crime is really scary

[@lemmyorleans]

Why is the audio mixed so weird?

[@MrJesusweeps]

jungle beat

[@harrygoodhorn2825]

In the late 60's and early 70's east new orleans was a very nice place to live. Many people invested in the area by building beautiful homes. Then the developers started building huge apartment complexes and filled them with low income people. Then the home owners in the beautiful homes got tired of the burglaries and robberies and moved out and more low income people moved in and the cycle of destruction began. I know because I was there to witness it. In the process one of the most beautiful malls in the south became a very dangerous place to go to and the big stores pulled out and the mall was no more. Simply put, all of the productive law abiding people moved out and the wild non productive people moved in.

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Absolutely! I was there to witness it too. We couldn't even leave the house at night it was so dangerous. Thank God we got out.

[@pourquoipas2673]

Very true and very well said.

[@richardrobeson5784]

a-fk'n-men

[@gokoronkwo]

Grew up in the East from 1984-1998 in Bunker Hill and later moved to Morrison and Mayo area. Not just the East but the entire state doesn’t do a good job of attracting private businesses. Hard for an area to thrive without that

[@videoagaga]

If I had a magic wand! It’s a shame what’s happened. But I see opportunity for growth if all the good people go back and reclaim!

[@k-8543]

I now and have lived in New Orleans East for 8 years now I have great neighbors and it has a park and it's 20 minutes away from Slidell that is the only good in my part of town I really don't like the crime and now in 2022 I plan on trying to bring new businesses to New Orleans East so we can all do better in our community in New Orleans East

[@k-8543]

New Orleans East has been overlook and now in 2022 there are some businesses I really loved when I lived in Georgia and I plan on writing a few letters to them so they can maybe come to us and it can help improve New Orleans East

[@ctcmonk]

Do The lower 9 next please...

[@TheRealZJE313]

This is the problem u can't use yo 2nd Amendment rights to protect yo property cause u can get charged with kill or wounded the dam criminals.this this is y we need a new rep in Baton Rouge that we help the citizens of the New Orleans to fight back I am sick of hearing about this

[@Kay4sho_504]

Y’all know what happened

[@ImHandlingIt]

What happened?

[@fresatx]

It went ghetto AF... Thats what happened.

[@armeniajones3770]

I would like to see more done in New Orleans East

[@k-8543]

I hope so too

[@devintaylor8702]

I ONCE LIVED IN NEW ORLEANS EAST BACK IN THE EARLY 1990s I WE MOVED AWAY IN 2001AFTER MY GRANDMA DIED !

[@gator4536]

It’s easy to solve. Not many pale skin hard working clean upstanding citizens. Just remember every one on this show is voting against what hard working Americans are trying to achieve!

[@Imeraldgyrl]

Is New Orleans East the largest district by square miles or by the population?

[@Last_Green_Man]

I'll never forget coming in on I-10 the august after Katrina and NO East was completely abandoned. Abandoned cars, destroyed apartment blocks and homes, block after block after block of abandoned vehicles. This went on for miles. One, maybe two cop cars on a slow patrol, with lights on. Never seen anything like it and will likely never see anything like it again. The city also was still pretty dead at that point, but nothing like NO East.

[@palerider9952]

I grew up in East in the 90s and left during Katrina, coming back in 2016 felt hollow. How the hell is the place a literal ghost town with abandoned water-blighted buildings and smashed cars a whole decade later is beyond me.

[@armeniajones3770]

Take our neighborhood back making safe for our children to be able to play outside

[@armeniajones3770]

We need to stick up for one another encourage one another

[@k-8543]

yes we do as one big community

[@k-8543]

if New Orleans East was great back than then it could again if we try

[@armeniajones3770]

We need more done for the Young Generation as well something for the children to do

[@armeniajones3770]

Hoping someone will invest out here in the New Orleans East

[@k-8543]

I hope so too

[@armeniajones3770]

Getting contact with the owners but these buildings need to be torn down

[@armeniajones3770]

You have decent honesty citizens live out here in New Orleans East

[@armeniajones3770]

Spread the word

[@Wooden_Hammer]

It starts at home. Parents need to be held accountable. Parents need to be parents. I had a group of kids. Ages 6-10 throw rocks at my fathers home in the east for no apparent reason and broke windows.

[@armeniajones3770]

You also have a Shopping A mall cross the river Metairie Veterans.

[@Teenah_8]

That's really sad....damn shame.

[@k-8543]

I know right crime is just really bad in New Orleans East

[@kaitlynfortuna4156]

I dislike the editing of this video. It's too choppy and this is too important of a topic to be so choppy. It's a distraction from the actual point of this documentary .

[@jelloshots6950]

True....

[@armeniajones3770]

Good afternoon to the people of New Orleans East the resident

[@tas-life231]

I understand stand with the lady said about the kids are not from the east but she can't judge everyone who choose to move in the east with a large family even though they don't own the house so many home owners look at renters with large families crazy when they move in there neighborhood that's not right everyone is not like that

[@armeniajones7873]

They have to do better in New Orleans East we are residents we pay taxes

[@armeniajones3770]

As you drive down the wire some of the pools look like they are leaning

[@JC-ct7zx]

White flight , section-8 , Katrina

[@armeniajones3770]

I would just like to see more

[@barrysorento3572]

CBS is one of the reasons for tje decline of NOLA

[@armeniajones3770]

You have banded buildings in Gentilly Winn-Dixie Bandit building

[@armeniajones3770]

We have a lot of banded buildings and New Orleans East

[@armeniajones3770]

I am 58 years old right now

[@armeniajones3770]

Lights out

[@armeniajones3770]

We have to stand up

[@danielfaulkner1696]

Look at my boy Detective Nick Davis..wow it's been awhile

[@bgmarete]

Who's the reporter?

[@armeniajones3770]

Acceptable

[@armeniajones3770]

We have a lot of abandoned buildings

[@k-8543]

yeah we do we can reuse these space to put new businesses on

[@armeniajones3770]

So I say let's take back over our neighborhood

[@armeniajones3770]

Even on Bullard

[@armeniajones3770]

What they forgot about us

[@k-8543]

yeah and we been overlook we need more police in New Orleans East

[@armeniajones3770]

You sit at the bus stop then running the red light racing down Morrison and read

[@armeniajones3770]

Y'all putting retail stores out here we need a shopping mall

[@pourquoipas2673]

There was a shopping mall but all the thievery, from the customers to the employees, was the cause of its demise. We used to go ice skating there quite often. Only place in N.O. for this kind of fun activity. Walmart had a wrought-iron fence around its parking lots. Never saw that anywhere else. Cinema also closed. The amusement park was never profitable. Absolutely the wrong area to establish such entertainment. Parking lot vandalism. The area has become most pitiful. It's not the location in itself, it's mostly the younger generation who has no moral compass. It's all a matter of mentality. No responsible parenting and that's what you get in return.

[@armeniajones3770]

We need better lights out here

[@armeniajones3770]

We need new lights on the poles

[@armeniajones7873]

Half abandoned building behind them willowbrook's apartment

[@latoyacross7061]

I used to live there!

[@MsRhondaRandy]

Abandoned buildings are about to take over, yet they are still downtown building those damn condo's!

[@armeniajones3770]

And we have to pray

[@armeniajones3770]

Our neighbors you can't give up we have to fight

[@tommyk4687]

Section 8

[@armeniajones3770]

6 hour lights on the service road

[@armeniajones3770]

Abandoned buildings on Congress Street in New Orleans East

[@armeniajones3770]

He also have banded buildings current Street in New Orleans East not too far from the school

[@pourquoipas2673]

The word is "abandonned" buildings not banded buildings. If you're 58 you should have learned to speak and write correctly by now. You may be part of the problem!

[@armeniajones3770]

They are cutting the grass but they're not cleaning out the drain

[@armeniajones3770]

We have to speak up

[@armeniajones3770]

What happened to our theater I will Marshall

[@armeniajones3770]

To drive around your neighborhood

[@armeniajones3770]

Will someone please hear this message

[@armeniajones3770]

As you ride down Morrison Street Rusty pipes

[@armeniajones3770]

These 18 wheelers

[@armeniajones3770]

Danny restaurant and hotel on Bullard

[@armeniajones3770]

It's like they forgot about us

[@armeniajones3770]

They are throwing trash in these big empty lots on read and Morrison

[@armeniajones3770]

We have 18 wheelers driving down the streets messed in the streets up

[@armeniajones3770]

Way before Katrina

[@armeniajones3770]

We have to have protection to

[@armeniajones3770]

In areas where they shouldn't be

[@armeniajones3770]

Pay for the security

[@armeniajones3770]

I am a registered voter I would like my voice heard

[@armeniajones3770]

You driving down the service road Crowder roll the lights are out

[@armeniajones3770]

We need signs up no truck route

[@armeniajones3770]

Enough is enough

[@armeniajones3770]

We have a lot of empty lots

[@armeniajones3770]

So where is our leaders

[@armeniajones3770]

Target in the neighborhood

[@armeniajones3770]

You go uptown the white folks children can play outside

[@armeniajones3770]

No way uptown Gentilly these 18-wheelers cannot drive their trucks up there

[@gejuanstokes8411]

Gentilly is downtown..

[@armeniajones7873]

I'll make excuses then I want invest out here

[@armeniajones3770]

Unacceptable

[@armeniajones3770]

They have more police officers uptown

[@armeniajones3770]

New Orleans East they racing down the street they running red lights

[@kxngearner698]

The intervier is Bad AF

[@armeniajones3770]

Come on now African-American black people

[@armeniajones3770]

Ways I was shopping malls where's Iowa movie theater ways our hotels restaurants

[@pourquoipas2673]

Can you write English correctly and make yourself understood? Most of your message are incomprehensible. Unbelievable.

[@bwheel2962]

As if y’all don’t know