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GRAS 2015 – NEW ORLEANS is BESEIGED by YOUNG BLACK THUGS
GRAS 2015 – NEW ORLEANS is BESEIGED by YOUNG BLACK THUGS
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and (French) Quartered: A spate of violent crime in the Vieux Carre has some
blaming Mayor Mitch Landrieu
and (French) Quartered: A spate of violent crime in the Vieux Carre has some
blaming Mayor Mitch Landrieu
John
Hoff has owned and managed Fahy’s Irish Pub on the corner of Toulouse and
Burgundy Streets for 20 years. Tourists staying in the hotel across the street
often come into the bar for a cocktail before they explore the Quarter, and
Hoff says they sometimes ask him if the neighborhood is safe. His answer, he
says, has always been the same for two decades.
Hoff has owned and managed Fahy’s Irish Pub on the corner of Toulouse and
Burgundy Streets for 20 years. Tourists staying in the hotel across the street
often come into the bar for a cocktail before they explore the Quarter, and
Hoff says they sometimes ask him if the neighborhood is safe. His answer, he
says, has always been the same for two decades.
Until about six weeks ago.
“I generally would tell them, ‘Yes, it’s safe, just be careful,’” Hoff said.
“‘Be aware of your surroundings’ and stuff. Lately I can’t honestly say that.
When tourists walk in and say, ‘Are we safe in this neighborhood?,’ I can’t
honestly say yes.”
Fahy’s is less than a block from where Lisa Bochicchio, a
French Quarter bartender, was attacked during the day Jan. 3 while she walked
down Toulouse Street. The day before Hoff told Gambit he was leery of crime in
the neighborhood, two armed men had held up Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant on a
busy corner of Esplanade Avenue during normal business hours, when it was
filled with people.
Hoff moved to the French Quarter in the early 1990s “when it was really bad,”
he said. He lives in the Faubourg Marigny, and he never walks home from work,
opting for a cab any time after dark.
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE - 2015
ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE - 2015
