‘We’re in mourning, but thank you for coming:’ Attack fallout lingers as French Quarter workers welcome Super Bowl fans
Since the New Year’s violence, service workers across the French Quarter have navigated a strange dissonance, grappling with the emotional and financial fallout of an assault that hit so close to home while putting on a smile to do what they do so well: Show tourists a good time in a romanticized city that could live or die by their spending.
Super Bowl: What we saw walking through the French Quarter’s ‘enhanced security zone’
Super Bowl fans have arrived in New Orleans ahead of the big game on Sunday. And so have thousands of law enforcement officers. They’re a part of a new “enhanced security zone” that launched on Wednesday in the French Quarter. The area includes the first seven blocks of Bourbon Street off of Canal, along with Royal and Dauphine streets.
I went through French Quarter security ahead of the Super Bowl. Here's what it was like.
The music was pumping, the daiquiri machines were swirling and a few Chiefs and Eagles fans were hanging out on Bourbon, beads around their necks. But the reassuring sense of normalcy was interrupted by metal barriers,
To be fair, it was also the first time I'd seen Bourbon Street in the daylight. The streets of the French Quarter were still ...
Following a terror attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans’ French Quarter, city officials assure that security measures for ...
New Orleans terrorist attack victims and survivors have filed a civil lawsuit against city leaders for negligence after ...
Following the New Year's terror attack, options are on the table to dramatically change how you maneuver down Bourbon Street.
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