Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Bruno points out our “area is rich in house variety and quality”:

THE NEIGHBORHOOD: The Claiborne/University area, which the neighborhood association has defined as stretching from Freret Street on the south to Earhart Boulevard on the north and from Jefferson Avenue on the east to Broadway Street on the west. It encompasses parts of several historic districts but has a character all its own. My Street Walk visits the area between Fontainebleau Street and Claiborne Avenue, Nashville Avenue and Calhoun Street.

THE BLOCK: The 3300 to 3700 blocks of State Street Drive, on the downtown side.

THE HOUSES: A colorful mix of early 20th-century houses that includes Arts and Crafts bungalows, several duplexes and a scattering of Mediterranean revival houses. One house has elements of the Tudor revival style.

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CUNA has received one of 19 grants awarded by the Greater New Orleans Foundation to help bring to life some of the neighborhood recovery projects envisioned in the Unified New Orleans Plan for rebuilding the city after Hurricane Katrina.  We received $18,500 to conduct a traffic study for South Claiborne Avenue between Nashville and Broadway Avenues.  Our goals are to improve pedestrian and driver safety, slow traffic flow, and improve access to University Village, the business district on Calhoun Street, which was a focus of our post-Katrina planning efforts.  CUNA and the traffic study consultants will be hosting a meeting with residents to gather our concerns, so we will keep you posted!

One June 2, approximately 40 volunteers from the Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church youth choir in Knoxville, Tennessee canvassed the entire CUNA neighborhood to note blighted, unrepaired, and/or unoccupied properties.  The results of this survey will be provided to city inspectors to accelerate the application of the city’s new housing code.  As lagniappe, the group beautified the traffic island at the intersection of State St. and Willow.