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2 unusual facts about Desire Street


Desire Street

The Desire neighborhood in the upper 9th Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects although the housing development has been knocked down and replaced with smaller apartment buildings.

Jed Horne

He is also the author of two books: Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of an American City, which chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the slow Federal response to the disaster, and Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, which was nominated for the 2006 Edgar Award for non-fiction crime writing.



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