French Quarter sans tourists: 'An old neighborhood again'

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French Quarter sans tourists: 'An old neighborhood again'
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In New Orleans' French Quarter, residents are sad about the closures of restaurants and bars — and the resulting economic pain. But they're also enjoying a respite from lines of backed-up traffic clogging narrow streets and the noise of all-night partyers.

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020, a bar is boarded-up at a Bourbon Street intersection in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Bars have been closed in New Orleans since early March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some residents of the historic French Quarter, while acknowledging the economic pain and suffering, say the lack of tourists has been a relief.

The absence of tourists — and the impending reopening of many of the attractions that draw them — have also led French Quarter inhabitants to reflect on the neighborhood’s sometimes precarious balance between the interests of businesses and residents. Some feel that prior to the pandemic, that balance had tilted too far in favor of commerce, putting the quarter’s unique character at risk.The French Quarter is the 300-year-old historic heart of New Orleans.

But she doesn’t appreciate the belligerent drunks who keep her up at night and leave behind garbage — sometimes human waste. Gone — for now — are the “screaming bachelorettes drunkenly singing as they pass by,” he said, and the all-hours “ghost tours:” guides taking advantage of the after-dark atmospherics to lead enthralled visitors through narrow streets as they recount legends of hauntings.

It provides a bittersweet scenario for Chapman, who said he’s made it a point to get out and walk the streets in the evening: Bourbon Street and the parallel Decatur Street, near the French Market and the Mississippi River. Both are lined with bars and restaurants.

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