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Milan Neighborhood Snapshot

Census 2000 Data Tables: People & Household Characteristics, Housing & Housing Costs, Income & Poverty, Transportation, Employment, Educational Attainment, Immigration & Language, Disabilities, Neighborhood Characteristics

Milan is a neighborhood of low- to middle-class families, a high majority of who are renters (Claritas estimates 1999, Census 2000). It is considered to be one of the Garden District neighborhoods and is bounded by the avenues Napoleon, St. Charles, Louisiana and South Claiborne.

Early beginnings

In the early 1800s, wedged-shaped plantations stretched out from the Mississippi River encompassing what is today the Uptown area.

Agriculture turned to city planning when in 1833, Charles Zimpel laid out the town of Carrollton and Faubourg Bouligny on what was the Macarty and the Louis Bouligny plantations. The Faubourg Bouligny covered portions of the present-day Milan, Touro and East Riverside neighborhoods.

	© GNO Community Data Center
	A view down a Milan neighborhood street.

Solution to neighborhood flooding

The area developed as most neighborhoods did in this section of town. Flooding was a problem after heavy rains, especially near Claiborne Avenue and drainage system implementation was slow. However, in the early 1900s the population increased due to more effective drainage systems and streetcar lines.

Although much improved from the days of old, flooding problems have continued in this area into the 21st century. In 1996, Congress authorized a three-phase project to improve drainage in the area. Administered by the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and the U.S. Corps of Engineers', this $140 million project includes construction of new pumping stations and better drainage canals throughout the city.

The South Claiborne Manifold Canal is a 24-foot wide by 10 foot high canal built underground along the South Claiborne Avenue neutral ground and connecting to existing and planned canals at Napoleon and Louisiana Avenues. The $13.5 million project is to be completed in May 2002.

Service here, a service there

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	A serve at the Stern Tennis Center

Milan is a neighborhood, like many others in Uptown, mostly residential with commercial establishments along the fringes of the area, primarily on the main thoroughfares. But inside its boundaries are varied services for community residents, schools for young and old and parks run by New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD). In this neighborhood there is My House, a nonprofit organization that operates an after-school program for young people; Lawrence D. Crocker Elementary School; and Samuel Square and Saratoga Playgrounds, on which sits Stern Tennis Center.

NORD Stern Tennis Center

NORD's Edgar B. Stern Tennis Center is in Saratoga Park. The Center offers the opportunity to persons of all ages and backgrounds.

For more information...

Tommy Crane Uptown
www.tommycrane.com/framesets%20and%20mains/uptown%20verbage%20alt.htm

Encyclopedia Louisiana, Louisiana timeline: Year 1833
www.enlou.com/time/year1833.htm

Southeast Louisiana Drainage Program SELA Overview
www.swbno.org/field.htm

Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Claiborne Canal Project Uptown/Broadmoor Area Drainage Improvement Projects
www.swbno.org/selaclaibornep.html

Planning District 2 Central City/Garden District/Lower Garden District
SUMMARY OF EXISTING CONDITIONS
www.new-orleans.la.us/cnoweb/cpc/parksrecreationplan/park5.htm

Tennis is a 'love-love' proposition for Whitney Ross New Orleans September 13, 2001
clarionherald.org/20010913/art501.htm

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Last modified: October 4, 2002