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Freret, New Orleans
New Orleans neighborhood in Louisiana, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Freret neighborhood contains a thriving commercial corridor. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, LaSalle Street to the south and Jefferson Avenue to the west.[1] The name of the neighborhood stems from Freret Street, which was named for William Freret, a mid-19th-century New Orleans mayor.
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Freret | |
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![]() Freret Commercial Corridor, Overlooking Freret Festival | |
Coordinates: 29°56′15″N 90°06′25″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Louisiana |
City | New Orleans |
Planning District | District 3, Uptown/Carrollton |
Area | |
• Total | 0.19 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
• Land | 0.19 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
Elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 2,446 |
• Density | 13,000/sq mi (5,000/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 504 |
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