Neighborhoods in New Orleans - Other Divisions and Designations

Other Divisions and Designations

There have been a number of traditional and historic divisions of New Orleans, some of which are still used in common local conversation, but which do not correspond with City Planning Commission designations.

The 19th-century division of the city along the axis of Canal Street into "Downtown" and "Uptown" is a prime example. Various areas of the modern city which were separate towns or cities in the 19th century, such as Algiers and Carrollton continue to be spoken of as neighborhoods. The large area of the city to the east of the Industrial Canal and north of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, little developed until the last third of the 20th century, is often designated as Eastern New Orleans (or sometimes "New Orleans East", although that term sometimes is confined to a smaller subset of that area).