About 125,000 visitors retreat in New Orleans this week due to Super Bowl between Kansas City Chief and Philadelphia Eagles. And the street is really clear.
The city where you can eat cajun cuisine, see the second lines, or move to dance through noisy cowardice centuries that attract parties throughout the year. But this week will attract the attention of the world, as celebrities host concerts that lead to the big game. Two weeks after the start of the Marddy season.
“We go beyond what we have seen in the past when we have previously hosted,” Mayor Latoy Kanril said at a press conference on Monday for the eleventh time in the city hosting the big game.
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New Orleans started the new year with a terrorist attack that shook the United States. After one month, 125,000 people fly at Super Bowl. “Regardless of what is happening to this city … they have always dusted themselves,” says one of the workers in the French district.
“They wanted to make sure that the soul and the spirit of New Orleans were not strict,” Mayor Kanril added.
To prepare for Sunday, police, fire and emergency services work 100 %, the mayor’s office He said in a statement. Federal and state law enforcement will also be on hand. The city rented former New York Police Commissioner William Praton as a special security consultant and issued the public safety application application.
Parts of some streets of the city center have been closed, and there is a reinforced security area around the famous French neighborhood, with Bourbon Street prohibited traffic from 5 pm to 5 am
Near Caesars SuperDome, where the game will be played, security checkpoints, which are reinforced by the tangible barriers and fences, are created. The reason for being cautious is evident in the minds of all those who live here.
On New Year’s Day, New Orleans was the site of A. Terrorist attack. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an old warrior in the US Army, killed 14 people and injured more than 30 years when a small truck was shocked into a crowd of people. The city faced accusations of security phones, but it said it is ready for the weekend.
Alie Bosamanti, director of the Roosevelt Institute, says that New Orleans, hosting Super Bowl is important for two reasons.
“In a city over 300 years old, there is a lot of infrastructure that must be updated in order to absorb a huge event like Super Bowl. Says Dr. Bosammante, a professor of economics and finance at New Orleans University:“ The city has mainly said that they have focused about 10 years of investments. The infrastructure is about six months.
“This is really, certainly for the local economy, it is a huge blessing, given the recent tragedy associated with the French quarter. Dr. Pustamanti says:” In many ways, this is a story about the infrastructure that was backward for a long time. “
“We will be here every day”
In the French district, in the days before the big game, the concerts are wearing shirts, luxury dresses, fashion, and sports equipment for the team who hope to win everything. Some women have multiple threads of beads around their necks. Parts of Luis Armstrong Airport are similar to the tournament game, with pictures of the Romanian Romanian slogans and the Roman numbers in Super Bowl 59, Lix, everywhere. The gear for sale in stores along the canal and bourbon streets, and the sellers place their goods on the vehicles. Artists clap and get the crowd’s participation from spectators.
In the lamp of light late in the evening, the singer with the name of the corn bread sits over a black box at the Royal and Bienville streets. He wears Blonsz with a large black leather jacket and a black bysoline hat has turned back. Black electric guitar stands on his lap, and the microphone position is located near his face, whose salt and bibli beard is fun when he turns.
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“Things are going wonderfully here now, and now that the snow has ended and everything.” In January, a rare snowstorm built the city with 8 inches of frozen chips. The downtown area contains something similar to the police army in the pilots, on foot, and in the intersections of the popular streets. Industrial truck, supported by SUVs, prevents Borbon in the channel, so no one can enter or go out.
In the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, along Frenchman Street, the scene differs slightly, as it appeared mostly from local residents inside and outside the jazz clubs. They listen to Afro, Raghi, Al -Haib Hope, and anything else that fits their imagination. They accept, dance, and embrace.
Cornbread Croons in his microphone, his voice is enlarged by a black speaker with a yellow chalk reading: “Please advice, please thank you.” At his foot, a hat with dollar bills and $ 5. At night at night at about 11 pm this week, the bulk of 125,000 football fans will walk these streets with money to spend.
“We will be here every day,” says Cornbread about himself and other artists in the streets. “It will be good because there will be money.”
Samir Shabib shares this feeling, making his way in the crowded streets, heading to Esplanade Street in Marigny. Mr. Shabib usually leads for 10 hours a day in a small yellow bus. This week, it increases to 16 hours.
“This will be good money, but there will also be more traffic, on the streets, at the airport, everywhere,” he says.
“Some people fear driving to certain places in the city, but I will go anywhere,” says Mr. Shabib, who says he was stolen at the threat of places in the cabin in the French neighborhood before. It is preferable to drive at night.
“Some people love the day, because they do not like to deal with people drunk. The taxi driver says:” There is more respect. “I love screaming, nights of work.”
There is a need to bounce to the city of Al Hilal
The city includes 44,000 hotel rooms available for rent on any specific night, most of which are booked in Super Bowl. Dr. Postem says that the initial projections of hotel revenue are $ 15 million for this week. In addition, restaurants will be full.
Dr. Bousaiahnz says that economic improvements are necessary for years, even decades in some cases. By watching the world, the city leaders have provided money for beauty and a sense of safety.
According to the census, 4,100 New Orleans residents work in the French district.
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Chris Whitefield is one of these 4100. He is a manager at the Hilton Hotel in the city center.
“As far as the crowds go, we are crowded all the time, regardless of what happened,” says Mr. Witfield. “We only had Taylor Swift.”
He explains that New Orleianians are accustomed to bad things, but they continue to move forward.
“We will continue to push forward day after day,” he says, adding that he believes that he is unfortunately, some people numb the violence and tragedy.
Dedra Simpson is not a drug tragedy. After getting out of work from her job in the French neighborhood recently, she stopped in the memorial of the 14 victims, loaded with pictures, flowers and messages for those who lost.
“I think this was an invitation to wake up,” says Ms. Simpson, who indicates that the city leaders are issuing a permanent memorial to the dead. It recognizes the city to target the city center’s areas of renovations, which it says is required.
It hopes to spread love to other areas where potholes and problems are located, and where there are boiling water consultations.
“Regardless of what is happening to this city – with all its history, not only modern history – they have always been dusty,” says Ms. Simpson about the flexibility of New Orleans. “Yellow fever epidemics, riots in the race, police stroke, Katrina and storms after that – they will find a way.”
