Here's Your Hurricane Katrina 10-Year Anniversary Weekend Reading Round-Up
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There's been quite a bit of Katrina 10-year anniversary longreads on the web this week, and you're probably overwhelmed with keeping up with them (or you're ignoring them altogether. Which is fine.) We here at Curbed have decided to round up all the pieces — and one radio program — about housing issues, the arts, rebuilding efforts and other relevant topics for you to dive into this weekend.
Rent This Renovated Holy Cross Corner Store for $2,000/Month
This former corner store in Holy Cross that saw a remarkable renovation and was asking $285,000 is now available to rent for$2,000/month. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home features open kitchen and dining areas that surround a recessed living room. The renovation plays with different styles, mixing modern fixtures with rustic aspects like birch floors, pine plank accent walls, sliding barn doors and basin sinks in the bathrooms. Outside there's two driveways and plenty of room for seating.
Using the Lessons of Katrina to Rebuild Smarter After Disaster
Patricia Woskowiak will gladly tell you the worst thing that happened to her home after Hurricane Sandy hit Howard Beach, the waterfront neighborhood in Queens, New York, where she's lived for nearly four decades. It wasn't when the storm surge seeped into the home she shares with her husband, Joseph, damaging hardwood floors and creeping so far up the walls she had to start throwing things up the stairs. It wasn't when salt from the floodwaters that came three years ago seeped into the soil surrounding her 164th Avenue bungalow and bleached her trees, turning them golden-yellow from the salt.
No, the moments that really frustrated Woskowiak were the times that people offered her "help." It was when contractors came in "like the guys from the Chainsaw Massacre" and tore up the trim in her living room. When she had to have the sheetrock in her walls repaired for the third time. When it got so cold due to a broken heating system that she resorted to pouring herself a glass of wine, sitting in her car, and making phone calls at night from the front seat, where at least she could stay a little warmer. This was a home her father had fixed many times, a man so handy he could have "built a house that flew." She and her husband had received money from FEMA, but repeated experiences with bad contractors left them unable to finish repairs. But after she connected with Friends of Rockaway, a local affiliate of a New Orleans-based organization that applies the lessons of Hurricane Katrina recovery to post-disaster rebuilding efforts elsewhere, her home has benefited from the work of dozens of volunteers from around the country. She's even starting to discuss a ribbon-cutting ceremony later this month.
Top 10 Real Estate Controversies and News-Makers of the Post-Katrina Decade
Skyrocketing prices, gentrification, controversial developments, celebrity home-buyers, Robert Durst — New Orleans has seen it all in the decade following Hurricane Katrina. While there are probably too many stories to recall, we've rounded up 10 of our favorite real estate controversies and news-makers in the past decade. Was there a development that rankled your neighborhood, a movie star that moved to your 'hood, or any other of your favorite real estate stories we're missing? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
Uptown Cheating-est New Orleans Neighborhood
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In light of the recent hacker data dump from the online cheater serviceAshley Madison, the blog NOLA Defender reposted statistics sent to them last year by the service about its more than 36,000 users in New Orleans. Out of all those local marrieds looking for somethin' on the side, the service says Uptown has the highest percentage of users on the site, at 9.3 percent.
New Orleans Locals on a Decade of Post-Storm Change, Part 2
To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this week Curbed is looking at how the housing, architecture, and neighborhoods of New Orleans have changed since the storm. Here, the second of two Q&As (read part one right this way) with long-time residents of the city.
Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures permanently altered New Orleans, and now, nearly 10 years after the storm, residents are reflecting on the ways in which this city has changed—for worse and for better. The best way to find that out is the way New Orleanians have always gotten important information—ask your neighbors. We asked long-time residents of a representative sample of 15 neighborhoods—neighborhoods that were drastically affected by the storm, have changed rapidly in the past decade, and/or have a strong neighborhood identity—to reflect on how housing, architecture, development, quality of life, and neighborhood character have changed, or stayed the same, since the storm.
This is part two of a two-part series of Q&As with locals—read part one here. Conversations have been shortened and edited.
Price Cut: Frank Lloyd Wright-Esque Lakeshore West Home
We included this contemporary, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired manse in our roundup of dream houses, and now its price has been reduced to$1,350,000 (down from $1,495,000). With 4,017 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 1 half bathroom, the party-ready pad features artful glass windows, Brazilian cherry flooring, a wet bar, and a chic, well-manicured backyard area with gazebo. It's been on the market for almost two months now. Do you think this angular estate is going to sell anytime soon?
Turning a 'Falling Apart' NOLA Colonial Into an Artist's Home Base
To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this week Curbed is looking at how the housing, architecture, and neighborhoods of New Orleans have changed since the storm. Here, the third in a series of House Calls at renovated New Orleans properties.
For artist Matteo Neivert, purchasing his Lower Garden District fixer-upper was about more than finding a fun project with which to occupy his time; it was about building a home. After Hurricane Katrina rendered Neivert homeless, he came upon the dilapidated 1840-60s, two-story hip-roof colonial at 1922 Constance Street and felt that he and the old home shared a connection: "As my grandpa would say, it may have been a "pipe dream," but I had a vision of what it could be. I knew it could be grand. It was like my last stretch of hope, but I had some fury and energy inside that was burning to fix this poor house, because it had also been through a lot just like me!"
Despite its beautiful bones—its 14-foot ceilings, spacious interiors, and the opportunities that lay in its two stand-alone servants quarters—the house was a mess.
Obama's Coming to NOLA; A Treme Home Tour; Plus More!
· Obama will make New Orleans visit for Katrina anniversary [Gambit]
· New Orleans moves toward crafting short-term rental rules[NOLA.com]
· Water-line work continues closure of Calhoun Street [Uptown Messenger]
· 'Katrina X,' Arabi exhibit recalls 2005 with grace and grit [NOLA.com]
· Camille Whitworth revives a century-old house in Treme [NOLA.com]
· New Orleans moves toward crafting short-term rental rules[NOLA.com]
· Water-line work continues closure of Calhoun Street [Uptown Messenger]
· 'Katrina X,' Arabi exhibit recalls 2005 with grace and grit [NOLA.com]
· Camille Whitworth revives a century-old house in Treme [NOLA.com]
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St. Charles Avenue Queen Anne Victorian Asks $2.875M
Photo via Realtor.comWhile it's fun to look at the modern homes, micro-dwellings, or cute shotguns that pop up on the market, sometimes it's good to gawk at a good old fashioned St. Charles Avenue Victorian mansion. This grand dame on the market boasts 5,270 square feet of space, including a 1725 square-foot carriage house. Ceilings feature ornate cypress woodwork, most notably in a window-filled library. Another notable amenities include a pool and a "refrigerated wine closet." The asking price?$2,875,000.
The Renovated Joan Mitchell Center Campus Opens to the Public This Weekend
The new addition to the Joan Mitchell Center/Lauren LaBorde
The Joan Mitchell Center just underwent a big renovation of its Treme campus, including upgrades to its historic buildings by Jonathan Tateand a modern new 8,000-square-foot studio building by Lee Ledbetter. You can scope out the renovations for yourself on the center's two-acre campus at a grand opening celebration thisSaturday, Aug. 22 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Revamping and Living In a 'Love Project' of a House in New Orleans
To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this week Curbed is looking at how the housing, architecture, and neighborhoods of New Orleans have changed since the storm. Here, the second in a series of House Calls at renovated New Orleans properties.
How Amanda Helm found and purchased her St. Roch home is, as she puts it, a "classic New Orleans story."
"We run into this guy, Shelton, on the street, and he's like, I have this house on St. Roch, but it's under contract by word of mouth; you guys go take a look, and I'll show it to you if you think you're interested. So we drove past, and we're like, oh my gosh: this thing's amazing. But it's on this side of St. Claude, which was, four years ago, much different than it is today. We said we want to see the inside, but we didn't want to fall in love with the house."
Prices Reduced on 103 Sq. Ft. French Quarter Condos
Remember that super-tiny French Quarter apartment we told you about? The price has been lowered on this micro-vacation pad, as well as on another 103-square foot unit in the building — but they're still gonna cost you $1,641 per square foot. The two 103-square-foot units are now $169,000 (down from $179,000).
The units are in the Vignie Houses, a row of three homes on the corner of Royal Street and Orleans Avenue that were built in 1833.
Spray-Painted FEMA X Still Marks the Storm in New Orleans
Two sets of FEMA markings on this Lakeview house show separate instances when the house was searched. The markings dated September 8 denote no entry attempt was made during search and rescue, while on September 24 the house was searched inside with no hazards or issues found. (It is possible that the high markings show that the house was not entered due to flooding.) All photos by Michael Winters.
To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this week Curbed is looking at how the housing, architecture, and neighborhoods of New Orleans have changed since the storm. Here, writer Christopher Romaguera and photographer Michael Winters on the FEMA markings left on New Orleans houses.
"I see you still got it up?"
I was talking to my neighbor, local writer and woman-about-town Pamela Davis-Noland, when someone leaving her house asked her this question. She had a retort ready: "Baby, you know that's never coming down." She was talking about the FEMA markings placed on New Orleans houses weeks, and sometimes months, after the levees broke.
The FEMA markings form an X shape, with four blocks to be written in. The top block shows the date that the house was checked. The left block is signed by the task force that inspected the house. In the right quadrant are special instructions, anything from "Gas Off" to "F/W" (food and water left) to any pets or other issues the houses might have had. The bottom block records how many people were found in the house. Often, the solitary number counts those who have died. But sometimes, the block contains two numbers, one with an A ("alive"), another with a D ("dead").
City School Board Halts Property Auction; Plus More!
The theater at Israel Meyer Augustine Middle School/Stephen Kennedy, Flickr
· Orleans school board halts Thursday's property auction [NOLA.com]
· Brad Pitt's Make It Right's new tiny house design: Can less be more?[NOLA.com]
· Councilwoman Ramsey to withdraw controversial proposals to loosen rules for liquor, entertainment [The Advocate]
· New Orleans City Council to request short-term rental study [Gambit]
· Neighbors hail development of school garden on General Pershing lot where they tried to save historic home [Uptown Messenger]
· Brad Pitt's Make It Right's new tiny house design: Can less be more?[NOLA.com]
· Councilwoman Ramsey to withdraw controversial proposals to loosen rules for liquor, entertainment [The Advocate]
· New Orleans City Council to request short-term rental study [Gambit]
· Neighbors hail development of school garden on General Pershing lot where they tried to save historic home [Uptown Messenger]
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