food and drink

The Marsh hotel in Milan area invites neighbors to enjoy coffee, cocktails

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A new boutique hotel, The Marsh, in the Milan neighborhood promises to be a destination for locals and visitors alike. The Marsh is located in the space on Delachaise and Dryades Street that housed the Gladstone Hotel and Restaurant. In 2020, the building was purchased by local developer Matt Rosendahl and completely renovated. 

 Rosendahl went to work adding new windows and refurnishing the space as a combination hotel and lounge. Special touches such as repurposed wood salvaged after Hurricane Ida add a cozy feel that lets you know that you’re staying at a hotel that’s proudly New Orleans. Located a few blocks from St.

events

Neighborhood cleanup planned for Delachaise area

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The Delachaise Neighborhood Association, District B Councilwoman Lesli Harris’ office and the Department of Sanitation have organized a neighborhood cleanup day for Saturday, May 21. The association calls the event “a rare opportunity to clean up our neighborhood in one swoop.” Volunteers will meet at Samuels Square Park, 2100 Napoleon Ave., at 9 a.m.  From there, assignments will be provided and volunteers will break up into groups. The bags of trash will be brought back to Samuels Square Park, where city sanitation workers will pick them up. Garbage bags, gloves, T-shirts and refreshments will be provided. More volunteers are needed, even if it’s just for an hour.

sports and recreation

NORD promises to reopen Saratoga Playspot, outlines improvements to historic Atkinson-Stern Tennis Center

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Calling Uptown’s Atkinson-Stern Tennis Center one of the city’s jewels, Larry Barabino Jr., CEO of the city’s recreation commission, said NORD is moving forward with its renovation plans for the historic tennis venue. Barabino told the City Council’s Community Development Committee last week that the renovations that began in late 2020 are expected to continue until at least the end of this year. That information session will be discussed tonight (Aug. 17) at the Delachaise Neighborhood Association meeting. Opening in 1897 as a private club, Atkinson-Stern is one of the nation’s oldest tennis centers.

Krewe of House Floats

Yardi Gras Stories: Touro, Milan and Bouligny still love a parade (of house floats)

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It’s almost unimaginable to think of Uptown New Orleans without Mardi Gras parades in February. But with parades canceled due to COVID, residents have imagined a new tradition – creating wild and whimsical Yardi Gras house floats all over their neighborhoods. Yardi Gras, organized by the Krewe of House Floats, is a safe alternative to Mardi Gras parades in the coronavirus era. Instead of congregating in large groups to watch floats go by, people have decorated their own houses and turned the streets of New Orleans into a giant, stationary parade. 

In normal times, the residents of the Touro, Milan, Bouligny and Uptown areas enjoy their easy access to Carnival parades, as reflected in their subkrewe’s theme: “Celebrating Uptown Parades.” Notable house floats include a “catnival” filled with feline puns on the 2200 block of Marengo Street and “Chewy’s Guide to the COVID Galaxy” on the 4700 block of Camp Stre

et, where giant letters spell out the much-needed message “DON’T PANIC!” 

Residents are also working to help their neighbors in need and support the artists and musicians who make Mardi Gras possible.

schools

Ruling on parking paves the way for Cohen high school construction

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The Board of Zoning Adjustments on Monday approved a long-debated parking plan for a rebuilt Walter L. Cohen College Prep high school campus. The campus will have more parking spots than the School Board originally proposed, but the plan falls short of the amount lobbied for by the school’s neighbors in the Delachaise area. The high school operated by the New Orleans College Prep charter school network is set to redeveloped into a 103,000-square-foot three-story building with 35 classrooms that could accommodate about 600 students and 75 faculty and staff members. The school currently on the site will be demolished. Such a campus, according to the city’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, needs 145 off-street parking spaces.

crime

Driver ordered out of her car by gunmen at Willow and Amelia

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Two armed men stopped a woman driving on Willow Street in the Milan neighborhood on Tuesday evening and ordered her out of her car at gunpoint, and the vehicle was later found burned in Central City, police said. The woman and a friend were driving on Willow preparing to turn onto Amelia around 10:30 p.m. when a black Dodge pickup in front of them slowed to a stop, according to a police report. Two men with guns got out of the truck and ordered the victims to get out of the car, and the victims did so and took off running, the report states. The car was later found at the intersection of Erato and South Roman streets in Central City, and had been set on fire the report states. Anyone with information about the case should call NOPD Second District detectives at 658-6020.

crime

NOPD: Woman breaks into shed with toddler in tow

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Maybe she couldn’t get a babysitter? A 42-year-old woman is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile after she allegedly took a toddler with her while she attempted to break into a stranger’s shed, authorities said. A resident of the 4000 block of Magnolia in the Milan area arrived home Nov. 8 and was startled to see a small child sitting in his driveway, said Sgt. Warren Keller of the NOPD property-crimes division.

blight and demolition

Controversial demolition request for St. Charles Avenue mansion returns to city

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The controversial demolition of a St. Charles Avenue mansion leads the agenda for this afternoon’s meeting of the Neighborhood Conservation District Committee, which also includes properties in a number of other Uptown neighborhoods. The home at 5428 St. Charles Avenue was designed by Emile Weil, the noted architect of landmarks throughout the city, and the Goldring family’s desire to tear it down and replace it with a building of their own design has upset neighbors and preservationists in the past. The request was slated for a decision last month, but deferred until today (Monday, Oct.

blight and demolition

Blight fight comes to Freret and Milan this weekend

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On Saturday morning, two of the Uptown New Orleans neighborhoods that have been most energetic in seeking their own revitalization will receive a shot in the arm from the city and hopefully hundreds of volunteers on “Fight the Blight” day at Samuel Square park. Samuel Square sits on both sides of Napoleon Avenue near Loyola Avenue, placing it in both the Freret and Milan neighborhoods. Over the past year, the Freret commercial corridor has surged with new businesses opening, and Milan residents have entered a new level of partnership with police to quell crime on their streets. Improvements to the park will be the focal point of the “Fight the Blight” efforts, with volunteers picking up trash, installing new park benches and picnic tables, painting swing sets and repairing the basketball court. But city officials will extend their fight against blight in a five-block radius around the park, going deep into both the Freret and Milan neighborhoods to identify nuisance properties for targeted enforcement.