Talk:St. Charles Avenue

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I would consider the phrase "successfully pushed the drug industry backwards into Central City" biased. It seems to me to be a post-jim-crow method of segregation. This suggests that keeping drug and crime problems out of the wealthy districts is the priority of the NOPD, and to call pushing drug dealers back into the ghetto a "success" is debatable at best, in my mind. Admittedly it is a point debated on a relatively minor stub, and my point certainly isn't that drugs belong on St. Charles Avenue any more than they belong on the poorest streets of NOLA. I merely suggest that the word "successfully" has more weight to it than the author might have intended. Your thoughts? Malenkylizards 21:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree, that line jumped at me. It makes it sound like it's okay to have drugs in majority-black neighborhoods. That's the sort of thing the New York Times eats up whenever they report on the city.Baronplantagenet 05:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Are there really "hundreds" of "mansions" on St. Charles? I lived in the New Orleans area most of my life and I can only think of 4 or 5 houses that I would consider to be mansions on the whole street; but even if we call anything with 3 stories a mansion, are there more than 40? 50? 80? Are there really 200 or more? I don't think this is the case. Does anyone have the facts?

St. Charles is about 80 blocks long. If there were 200 mansions on St. Charles, that would be an average of 2.5 mansions per block; considering both sides of the street. I would say that the vast majority of St. Chaz has at least that many three-story houses. I've only spent about a year living there, but the math sounds about right to me, or at least close enough not to warrant removing it. Next time you're a passenger in a car driving all the way down, try counting them!  :) Malenkylizards 04:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)