Eastern New Orleans

Eastern New Orleans is a large section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Developed extensively from the 1960s onwards, its numerous residential subdivisions offered suburban-style living within the city limits. Today, despite its location within the New Orleans city limits, Eastern New Orleans' character remains suburban, resembling typical American suburbia much more than the built environment found in the city's historic core. Starting in the mid-1980s, Eastern New Orleans increasingly suffered from disinvestment and urban decay. The flooding occurring in Hurricane Katrina's wake, which affected almost all of Eastern New Orleans, accelerated this trend, particularly with regard to retail establishments, as numerous national retailers present and operating in August 2005 opted not to reopen their stores. As a result, the Pre-Katrina trend of very few, if any, good restaurants remain. Approximately 65,000 to 75,000 residents presently inhabit Eastern New Orleans, representing a decline from the 95,000 people inhabiting the area as of the 2000 Census.

Eastern New Orleans is the portion of the city to the east of the Industrial Canal and north of the Intracoastal Waterway. It is often called "New Orleans East" as well, or simply "Da East". Eastern New Orleans is a portion of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

The urbanized area immediately east of the Industrial Canal largely dates to the 1960s and 1970s, and includes such neighborhoods as Lake Willow, Spring Lake, Kenilworth, Seabrook, Melia, Pines Village, Lake Forest East, Lake Forest West, Edgelake, Plum Orchard, Bonita Park, Donna Villa, Willowbrook, Cerise-Evangeline Oaks and Castle Manor.

Originally named Lake Forest, as development first centered along the easternmost segment of Lake Forest Boulevard, the Read Blvd East area began growing in the 1970s and continues to develop. It includes the more upper-middle class and affluent subdivisions of Eastern New Orleans, such as Lake Forest Estates, Eastover, McKendall Estates, Lake Carmel, Fairway Estates, Lake Bullard, Lake Barrington, and McKendall Place. Eastover is a gated community containing palatial homes and a Joe Lee-designed golf course. By the late 1990s, the neighborhoods of Read Blvd East were no longer majority white, but were particularly favored as the preferred place of residence for New Orleans' upwardly mobile African-American white-collar professional and entrepreneurial classes.

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