Pittsburgh couple hang their shingle on Delachaise Street, opening Yinzer’s Amazing Cheesesteaks

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After four-and-a-half years of pop-ups, Colleen Ryan and Michael Woodhull were ready to give their Yinzer’s Amazing Cheesesteaks a space of its own. They opened the casual restaurant just over a month ago on Delachaise Street between St. Charles Avenue and Prytania Street. Although they began looking for a place before the pandemic, their new space fell into their laps when a former boss of Woodhull’s called to ask if they might be interested in the restaurant space he had for rent at 1514 Delachaise St. They were. 

Vintage Garden Kitchens, known for healthy gourmet breakfasts and lunches, moved out of the space at the end of April.

crime

Woman, 72, charged with fatally burning man in nursing home

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A 72-year-old woman will be charged in the death of a man she set on fire during an argument Tuesday in a nursing home on Delachaise, police said. Joann Everett was arguing with the 42-year-old victim, whose name has not been released, inside a facility in the 1500 block of Delachaise Street on Tuesday evening when she set him on fire, according to an NOPD news release. The victim “was hospitalized for second- and third-degree burns to approximately 80 to 85 percent of his body,” and died Wednesday, Officer Garry Flot wrote in the release. Everett, who is also hospitalized, has been charged with aggravated arson and will be booked upon her release, police said. Everett and the victim were both residents at St.

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Traffic stop leads to former murder suspect’s arrest in Milan on gun charge

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A convicted drug dealer charged but never found guilty in separate murder and attempted-murder cases in the 1990s is now back in jail after a patrol officer found him with two guns this weekend during a traffic stop in the Milan neighborhood, police said. Shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, a member of the NOPD task force assigned to the Milan neighborhood stopped a vehicle at the corner of Delachaise and South Saratoga and smelled marijuana when he approached its window, said Lt. Mike Montalbano of the NOPD Second District investigative unit. When the officer asked the driver to step outside the car, the driver ran off, throwing away a gun as he ran, Montalbano said. The officer caught up to him, arrested him and then found a second gun inside the car, and the driver, identified as 35-year-old Cleveland M. Alfred, claimed ownership of both firearms, Montalbano said. Alfred is charged with illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a stolen firearm, flight from an officer, expired license plate, suspended driver’s license and no insurance, according to booking records at the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office.

crime

Man gunned down in Milan neighborhood

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A 27-year-old man was gunned down early Friday morning in the Milan neighborhood, only six blocks away from the site of a previous shooting death earlier this week. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was found shortly after 4 a.m. Friday lying in the road near the intersection of Delachaise and South Liberty streets, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to a NOPD news release. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. On Sunday evening, a 42-year-old man was killed and a 28-year-old was wounded in a shooting only a few blocks away in the 3700 block of Willow Street, both with multiple gunshot wounds as well. the NOPD said.

crime

NOPD: Suspect in Freret slaying may have been in second shootout afterward

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Investigators released the name of a suspect Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old on Freret Street, and said the same man may have been ambushed by others shortly after the shooting on Freret. William Baham, 25, is wanted on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Errol Meeks, who was gunned down late Monday in front of Friar Tucks bar on Freret. Moments before the shooting, Baham and Meeks spoke “as if they knew each other,” said Sgt. Shaun Ferguson of the NOPD Second District persons-crime division. Meeks was a resident of the Freret neighborhood, and police have two addresses for Baham, one on nearby General Taylor Street in the nearby Milan neighborhood and one on Parc Brittany in New Orleans East.

business

Late-night armed robbery reported on Freret Street; shooting in Carrollton

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An armed robbery in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day was reported on Freret Street near Jefferson Avenue and a man was grazed by a bullet in Carrollton over the weekend, police said Tuesday. The robbery victims were walking in the 5300 block of Freret around 1 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, when they were approached by two men with a silver handgun who demanded their belongings, according to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department. The victims gave the robbers what they wanted, and the robbers then left, and the victims called police the next day, the release states. Anyone with information on the robbery is urged to call Detective Jerry Baldwin at 658-6020.

city government

Delachaise neighbors brace for next fight over shuttered apartments

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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.

crime

Uptown police investigating string of armed robberies, afternoon shooting

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A string of armed robberies stretched across the city and a man survived a volley of bullets on Delachaise Street in the Milan area in a weekend that showed an unusual amount of gunplay in Uptown neighborhoods, police said Wednesday. The first two robberies came Friday evening, back-to-back within 20 minutes, said Sgt. Shaun Ferguson of the NOPD Second District persons-crimes division. In the 500 block of Broadway, a couple reported that a group of men approached them, showed a gun, and demanded their belongings, Ferguson said. Police found several of their credit cards in the same block that night, and found their keys nearby the next day.