The catch all name for a diverse collection of metropolitan neighborhoods, this large and colorful region is dominated by a historic thoroughbred racetrack, the infamous "dueling oaks" of City Park, the pretty residential destrict of Esplanade Ridge, and several of New Orleans greatest neighborhood bars and restuarants. It is also home to the cirminal court complex on Tulane Avenue and what must be the world's largest concentration of cemeteries: fourteen are clustered in an ominous mass at the very tip of Canal Street, creating a sea of whitewashed tombs that stretches for blocks in every direction.

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Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum/Cabrini High School
Mother Cabrini lived in this building from 1905 until her death in 1917. Pope Pius XII, who delcared her patroness of immigrants, signed her Decree of Canonization in 1946.

Bayou St. John
Swamp.

City Park
It is one of America's oldest public parks and the fifth largest, twice the size of New York's Central Park.