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New Orleans’ French Quarter Reopens

September 29, 2005

New Orleans’ French Quarter Reopens
September 29, 2005 – More areas of New Orleans will reopen today. The areas include the French Quarter, the Central Business district, and Uptown with its historic Garden District. Business owners will be allowed in on Thursday, and residents on Friday.

"The re-entry started Monday and is going very well – exceedingly well," Mayor Ray Nagin told legislators at a hearing Wednesday at the state capitol. "Everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing."

If all goes well, as of Oct. 5 only the Lower Ninth Ward, which was hit especially hard by the flooding, will be cordoned off, Nagin said.

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