Magazine Street, New Orleans

Yesterday I walked through Audubon Park by Tulane to Magazine Street, and across Magazine Street back over to the French Quarter where I'm staying... it was maybe 7 miles or so in 90 degree heat.

One thing I found interesting is that houses on "Exposition Boulevard" front onto a sidewalk that immediately abuts the park. Talk about having "eyes on the street."
The sidewalk separates the lot lines of the houses from the park.

Magazine Street is interesting too as it is very much mixed-use, residential, with goodly sections and numbers of commercial buildings, but also houses converted into commercial buildings.

That is similar to a bit of "The Avenue" in Hampden Village in Baltimore, and what could happen along parts of 12th Street NE in Brookland.

Most of the retail is antiques, design related stuff, not convenience or comparison goods, although there are some banks, a Whole Foods, and plenty of restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops, a Radio Shack, some gas stations and other miscellaneous.



It was hot, which made me a little less interested in photographing everything I saw. There were some nicely done cafes and coffee shops. Most of the retail shops closed by 6 pm. The Merchants Association has a pretty good website listing the retail on the corridor, which is about 4 miles long maybe.

Most of it is in good shape, but not all.


Window at the New Orleans Glassworks and Printmaking Studio in the Warehouse District.

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