Broadmoor Basics
The neighborhood is located in this U.S City
What is New Orleans?
This genre of music was born in New Orleans.
What is Jazz?
This river runs through New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
This hurricane caused major damage to New Orleans in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This large lake borders New Orleans to the north.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
Broadmoor is known for this major flooding event in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This famous New Orleans celebration happens every year before Lent?
What is Mardi Gras?
This park is one of the largest urban parks in the country.
What is City Park?
After Katrina, many residents worked together to do this to their neighborhood.
What is rebuild / recover / restore Broadmoor?
This parish spans both sides of the Mississippi river and includes the cities of Gretna and Metairie.
This organization helps lead community efforts in Broadmoor.
What is the Broadmoor Improvement Association (BIA)
This dish is a mix of rice, meat, and spices and is a Louisiana staple.
What is jambalaya?
This stadium is home to the New Orleans Saints.
What is the Superdome?
This system failed during Katrina, causing flooding across the city.
What is the levee system?
This historic battlefield just outside New Orleans is where Andrew Jackson fought in 1815.
What is Chalmette Battlefield?
This center in Broadmoor hosts, arts, wellness, and community programs.
What is the Broadmoor Arts and Wellness Center?
This street in the French quarter is known for nightlife and music.
What is Bourbon Street?
This historic streetcar line runs along St. Charles Avenue
What is the St. Charles Streetcar Line ?
Broadmoor residents famously fought to prevent their neighborhood from being labeled as this after Katrina.
What is a “green dot "?
This nearby city is known for it's NASA facility, the Stennis Space Center.
What is Bay. St. Louis ?
Broadmoor is located roughly between these two major streets.
What are Napoleon Avenue and South Claiborne Avenue ?
This second line tradition celebrates with music, dancing, and these groups leading the parade.
What are Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs?
This neighborhood is known as the oldest African American neighborhood in the U.S.
What is Tremé?
This type of planning focuses on rebuilding communities with input from residents.
What is community-based planning?
This costal issue threatens Louisiana's land due to erosion and rising seas.
What is costal land loss (or costal erosion)?