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Bratton. The report is blunt. Bourbon Street is dangerously vulnerable, and unless big changes are made, the city remains exposed to future attacks. At the top of the list? Turning Bourbon Street ...
A security review commissioned in the wake of the deadly New Year's Day terror attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans recommends closing off a majority of the ...
A security review commissioned in the wake of the deadly New Year's Day terror attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans recommends closing off a majority of the ...
Most of New Orleans’ Bourbon Street should be closed off to vehicles, creating a permanent pedestrian plaza, a report recommends, three months after a truck plowed into a New Year’s Day crowd ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The discussion of making Bourbon Street pedestrian-only has been ongoing since the terror attack. It’s something several people who frequent ...
For months, a crew of consultants has been pondering how and when to close off Bourbon Street to cars and thus ward against deadly attacks like the one that roiled the famed party strip on Jan. 1.
But the SUV left a large gap. That allowed the driver of a pickup truck to turn onto Bourbon Street hours after midnight, video shows, in the first moments of a deadly Islamic State-inspired rampage.
It’s too trustworthy down here,” said Bryan Casey, 53, a native New Orleanian who has worked on Bourbon Street since the late 1990s and waits tables at Galatoire’s, an upscale restaurant ...
I’ve lived within a few blocks of Bourbon Street, in New Orleans ... We started with turtle soup at the classic Creole restaurant Galatoire’s and ended seven hours later on the curb a few ...
A 2017 report by the city of New Orleans identified Bourbon Street as a potential terrorism target, citing FBI warnings and announcing the installation of bollards to protect pedestrians from ...