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Slain rapper Magnolia Shorty was laid to rest Thursday in a service and second line attended by thousands including musical luminaries Lil Wayne and Bryan “Birdman” Williams.
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 Original New Orleans Ladies, Men and Junior Buckjumpers annual second line will begin at noon today and roll through Gert Town, into Milan and finish in Central City. The parade is expected to disband at A.L. Davis Park at 4 p.m. The king is Kermit Ruffins, queen is Latoya Louis, Ms. LBJ 2010 is Ruby Love. Here’s a more detailed map of the section through Milan:
For turn-by-turn directions, see Red Cotton’s post at bestofneworleans.com.
It seems like such a simple request: Shed some light on the dark, dangerous streets that criminals use as speedways through the Milan neighborhood. Gathering for their third month, a group of Milan residents determined to retake control of their neighborhood said Thursday evening that nightfall on some unlit blocks brings a total blackout that provides cover for crime. Getting some streetlights turned on, however, has proven a more difficult task than they expected. The residents’ first hope was that the bright lights at the newly reopened Atkinson-Stern Tennis Center on South Saratoga could be left on all night. The courts take up most of a block, and the strong floodlights that allow tennis matches well after sunset also shine on the surrounding streets outside the center’s walls.
Two teens have been arrested in an armed robbery outside an Uptown charter high school that served as a prelude to a violent Halloween weekend around the city, police said Thursday. In separate incidents, a man was shot in the Garden District, a woman was robbed of her luxury car in the Milan area, police found a major stash of drug money in Freret, and thefts deemed “crimes of opportunity” saw a surge around Uptown, ranking NOPD officers reported at their weekly meetings Thursday morning. Sci High robbery | The robbery was reported at 4:40 p.m. Friday in the 5600 block of Loyola Avenue, just outside the New Orleans Charter Math and Science High School, police said. Two 17-year-old students, the victim and 17-year-old Ciontray Campbell, were standing on a corner when a third person walked up, said Sgt. Shaun Ferguson of the Second District persons-crimes division.
The Original Four S&P Club will parade Sunday from Armstrong Park to Uptown, crossing through the Milan neighborhood and ending on Tchoupitoulas. The latter portion of the parade is primarily on Louisiana Avenue. Stops along the route include the Ash Cultural Arts Center on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Silkey’s on Magnolia Street, The Other Place on Foucher Street, LeRoux on Louisiana Avenue, ending at the Rock Bottom Lounge on Tchoupitoulas. The second line is slated to begin at 1 p.m.
Tired of the fear of being caught by a stray bullet in their neighborhood, a group of Milan residents who have recently begun working together to reduce the number of shootings on their streets asked the New Orleans Police Department for more attention Tuesday night. The neighbors feel they’ve grown apart, driven indoors by crime – and more specifically by the gunfire they hear so frequently from their homes. The newly formed group has met twice and now comprises about two dozen people, and they expect to continue growing as word gets out, said member Jennifer Holden. At the group’s first meeting, “I was surprised how frightened and isolated people feel,” said Eva Sohl of the Freret Neighborhood Center, which has been helping the Milan residents get organized. At the NOPD Second District’s monthly community meeting Tuesday, the group presented Capt. Darryl Albert and his staff with a written list of concerns.
A man survived a burst of gunfire on Milan Street early Friday evening with only a bullet wound to the leg, police and witnesses said.
Freret Neighbors United members reaffirmed their support of a plan to make input from neighborhood groups a more formal part of city government in a wide-ranging meeting Tuesday that also included: plans for reducing blight, uniting the Milan area, founding a health clinic, enhancing street lighting, planting more trees and throwing a Halloween Party for neighborhood children. Though the city’s proposed Citizen Participation Plan has been nearing its final form, several new concerns have arisen that threaten its adoption, Treasurer Jane Dimitry told the group of nearly 40 Freret and Milan residents gathered in the cafeteria Tuesday evening at Samuel J. Green Charter School. In the works for years but given a heightened urgency after Hurricane Katrina, the plan is intended to give neighborhood groups more voice in the city’s decisions and is modeled after successful programs in Portland and Birmingham — with one major exception, Dimitry said. “Sometimes the neighborhood represents its people very well, but in other cases, people felt closer to their church, the AARP, or other organizations,” Dimitry said of post-Katrina New Orleans. “We wanted to find ways to get other organizations plugged into the model …
