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Robberies were reported at eight different addresses around Uptown New Orleans neighborhoods over the weekend — four in the Riverbend area, two in the Hurstville neighborhoods near Audubon Park, and one each in the Freret and Touro neighborhoods.
An aspiring chef was stabbed just off Prytania and a bank manager was robbed in his car while driving through Fontainebleau in a wave of seemingly unconnected muggings around Uptown New Orleans over the last week, police said Wednesday.
The Delachaise Neighborhood Association applauded the city planning commission’s decision last month to effectively keep closed an apartment complex they view as a magnet for crime, but are concerned that the city council might overturn the decision next month. The building at 1900 Amelia – blamed by neighbors in late 2008 for contributing to crime in the block that led to the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old girl – is now closed, and the property’s current zoning (for duplex-style individual houses) must be changed to allow the apartments to reopen. When Delachaise association members learned the owners (listed as “First Emanuel Homes of New Orleans”) were requesting that change before the city planning commission Oct. 12, they quickly mustered 180 signatures in opposition and showed up at the meeting, said Delachaise board member Gwynne Fallo. “The new planning commission cared about two things, and two things only: What’s the zoning, and what do the neighbors say,” Fallo told the association at their meeting Tuesday night at the Columns hotel, praising the commissioners for listening to residents.
