The 4th Ward or Forth Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. Nickname: The Big Easy Motto: Official website: http://www. ... The city of New Orleans, Louisiana is divided into 17 Wards. ...

Boundaries

The 4th Ward stretches through the city from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain. From the River to Metarie Ridge the upper boundrary is Canal Street, New Orleans, across which is the 3rd Ward, and the lower boundary is St. Louis Street, across which is the 5th Ward. This portion was the original 4th Ward as defined in 1852. In 1880 additional ground (still mostly undeveloped swamp at the time) was added to the Ward from City Park Avenue on Metarie Ridge back to the lake. The upper boundary was the New Basin Canal, now Pontchartrain Boulevard, across which is the 17th Ward. The lower boundary is the Orleans Canal, across which is more of the 5th Ward. This article is about the river in the United States. ... Map showing Lake Pontchartrain Lake Pontchartrain (local pronunciation ) is a brackish-water lake in southeastern Louisiana. ... Canal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The 3rd Ward or Third Ward is one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans, a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The 17th Ward is one of the seventeen Wards of New Orleans, a section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

Neighborhoods and Landmarks

Going roughly from the River to the Lake, the Ward has a portion of the riverfront Woldenberg Park, and the old Bienville Street Wharf, formerly a commercial wharf and now a dock for pleasure cruses of tourist steamboats. The Aquarium of the Americas is near the foot of Canal Street. The next blocks back include such notable businesses as the New Orleans House of Blues and the Canal Place skyscraper shopping mall/hotel/theater complex. Across Decatur Street, the Ward includes a 4 by 6 block section of the old French Quarter, including the old U.S. Customs House and some of the most popular businesses on Royal Street and Bourbon Street, some of the blocks most frequented by out of town visitors to the city. Across Rampart, near where one of the city's main railroad stations was in the 19th and early 20th century, is the Sanger Theater, a splendid 1920s Movie & Vaudeville Palace which touring Broadway shows and other national acts appear at in the 21st century. In the late 19th and early 20th century Storyville, the famous red light district; in the 1940s most of it was torn down to build the Iberville Housing project. Continuing back, Mercy Hospital is near the headwaters of Bayou St. John. The Ward includes a narrow strip of Mid City New Orleans, including some of the neighborhood's best known restaurants. Beyond City Park Avenue (formerly Bayou Metarie Road) the Ward widens out from I-10 to City Park, including Delgado Community College and Greenwood Cemetery, and the Navarre neighborhood, including the studios of PBS television station WYES-12. Further back is the prosperous Lakeview neighborhood with the commerical strip of Harrison Avenue, and across Robert E. Lee Boulevard the Lakeshore neighborhood, and at the northern end is Lakeshore Park along the lakefront. It has been suggested that paddle steamers be merged into this article or section. ... Aquarium of the Americas is a renowned aquarium in New Orleans. ... The House of Blues is a chain of restaurants founded in 1992 by Dan Aykroyd and his friend (and Hard Rock Cafe founder) Isaac Tigrett. ... French Quarter: upper Chartres street looking down towards Jackson Square and the spires of St. ... Storyville was the legalized prostitution district of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1897 through 1917. ... A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution is a common part of everyday life. ... Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ... Bayou St. ... Interstate 10, or I-10, is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast interstate highway in the United States. ... City Park is a large public park in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Delgado Community College is a private community college found throughout the New Orleans, Louisiana metro area, with campuses on both the East and West Bank of New Orleans as well as on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana and on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in Covington, Louisiana and... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... WYES-TV is the local PBS member station in New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation. ...

Hurricane Katrina hit most of the Ward hard (see: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans). Lakeview is only some dozen blocks from the notorious breach in the 17th Street Canal. Narrow strips of land at the two ends of the Ward, in the French Quarter by the Riverfront and on some of the higher ground of the Lakeshore were above the flood waters. Some of the narrow strip of Metarie Ridge took on only minimal water; most of the rest of the ward flooded significantly, often severely. Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. ... This article needs to be updated. ... Woman walks dog along the levee beside the floodwall on the Metarie side of the Canal, 11 November, 2005. ...