Neighborhood Groups
Downtown Neighborhoods Improvement Association represents the property owners, renters, people who work, students, businesses and other stakeholders in the area from St. Bernard Avenue, to Ramparts, to Orleans, to Broad Streets. We work to improve the quality of life, economic opportunities, and urban condition of our area.
A historic community of Old Carrollton, our neighborhood was once one of New Orleans most coveted cultural treasures. In its heyday, its population consisted of pensioners, mostly retired from the old rail line and Port of New Orleans, earning us the name, Pensiontown. Devastated by mass abandonment and neglect since…
We are a non-profit agency seeking to revitalize the main street through Central City, at one point the thriving Dryades street, now the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Until the early 70’s, the area served as one of the premier areas of African American commerce in the Jim Crow South. Over…