Bywater, New Orleans
Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.
Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue to the north, the Industrial Canal to the east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way to the west. Bywater is part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. It includes part or all of Bywater Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Worth seeing in and around Bywater, New Orleans
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St. Louis Cathedral
The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, also called St. Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and basilica in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2.3 km · cathedral in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia - 02Congo Square
Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The square is famous for its influence on the history of African American music, especially jazz.
2.7 km · square in New Orleans, Louisiana USA · Wikipedia - 03Jackson Square
Jackson Square, formerly the Place d'Armes or Plaza de Armas, is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.
2.3 km · historic park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 04Hancock Whitney Center
Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, and is taller than Louisiana's tallest peak, Driskill Mountain.
3.3 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 05Saint Louis Cemetery
Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
3.4 km · cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels · Wikipedia - 06The Cabildo
The Cabildo, originally called "Casa Capitular", is a historical building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally the seat of Spanish colonial city hall, the building now forms part of the Louisiana State Museum.
2.4 km · historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 07Louis Armstrong Park
Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. In the 1960s a controversial urban renewal project leveled a substantial portion of the Tremé neighborhood adjacent to Congo Square.
2.6 km · park in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. · Wikipedia - 08National World War II Museum
The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2003.
3.7 km · military history museum and non-profit organization in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 09French Market
The French Market is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States.
2 km · Market in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 10New Orleans Jazz Museum
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a music museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of jazz music. Originally a separate museum, the collection is now affiliated with the Louisiana State Museum.
1.7 km · music museum in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bywater, New Orleans
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 22 km · Pensacola (PNS), 280 km
- Pensacola → Bywater, New Orleans276 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $26–35
- Houston → Bywater, New Orleans514 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · $200–300
- Birmingham → Bywater, New Orleans7293 km · quickest by air, 16h 37m · £950–1,460
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bywater, New Orleans. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe ferry at the foot of Canal Street (free for pedestrians, $1 for cars) will take you across the Mississippi to the Algiers neighborhood, and give you a scenic budget mini-cruise of the River in the process.
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Next door to Bywater, New Orleans
Bywater, New Orleans is 3 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States4 km
- Orleans Parishparish of Louisiana that forms a consolidated city–parish with New Orleans1.1 km
- French Quarterneighborhood of and historic district in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States2.5 km
- Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans3.3 km
- Treméneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States3.3 km
- Algierscommunity within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States2.8 km