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Fight for Survival Revives New Orleans Neighborhood

By Nicole Wallace

Not long after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding that devastated New Orleans, a city planning commission recommended that the neighborhood of Broadmoor not be rebuilt but instead turned into parks and other open space to serve as a drainage area.

That proposal galvanized the Broadmoor Improvement Association, founded in 1930,...

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