Lafitte Projects
The Lafitte Projects were one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans and were located in the 6th Ward of New Orleans Treme neighborhood.
The Lafitte Projects were one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans and were located in the 6th Ward of New Orleans Treme neighborhood. It was one of downtown New Orleans' oldest housing developments and had many associated problems before being severely flooded and damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The project made national headlines after the gruesome murder of Thomas May who burned to death in the project in 1994.
By a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) decree, the projects were demolished and redeveloped as affordable, mixed-income housing. The redevelopment effort was charged with replacing every demolished unit. The large housing project was left mostly vacant following evacuations after the extensive flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Heated arguments have surrounded the demolition of the project, as some longtime residents wanted them renovated.
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Worth seeing in and around Lafitte Projects
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.
- 01Caesars Superdome
Caesars Superdome commonly known as the Superdome, is an indoor stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It has served as the home venue of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League since its opening in 1975. Plans to build the Superdome were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975.
1.7 km · domed stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Wikipedia - 02Smoothie King Center
Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Central Business District, adjacent to the Caesars Superdome.
1.9 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 03St. 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.
1.6 km · cathedral in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia - 04New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line.
2.8 km · art museum in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 05Congo 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.
1 km · square in New Orleans, Louisiana USA · Wikipedia - 06Jackson 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.
1.6 km · historic park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 07Hancock 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.
1.8 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 08Saint 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.
600 m · cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels · Wikipedia - 09The 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.
1.6 km · historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 10Louis 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.
1 km · park in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lafitte Projects
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 18 km · Pensacola (PNS), 283 km
- Pensacola → Lafitte Projects1067 km · quickest by air, 12h 43m · $450–650
- Houston → Lafitte Projects839 km · quickest by air, 10h 45m · $450–640
- Birmingham → Lafitte ProjectsTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lafitte Projects
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 Lafitte Projects. 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.
From Wikivoyage: New Orleans/French Quarter, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Lafitte Projects
Lafitte Projects is 1 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States1.2 km
- French Quarterneighborhood of and historic district in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.4 km
- Orleans Parishparish of Louisiana that forms a consolidated city–parish with New Orleans2.6 km
- Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans800 m
- Treméneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States400 m
- Faubourg Marignyneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States2.1 km