William GREINER: July 2006

WATERMARKS and what remains

Palm Mural, Tulane Avenue, New Orleans 7/2006

4033 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans 7/2006

Drapery in Store Front, New Orleans 7/2006

Potted Plant, Latin Restaurant, New Orleans 7/2006

Flooded Latin Bar, New Orleans 7/2006

Less than one block from the famed New Orleans Rock n Bowl was a Latin Community of shops which I often stopped to photograph. The 4000 Block of Tulane Avenue remains abandoned, almost one year after Katrina flooded the area. I wonder where did these people go? What are they doing? And will they ever return?

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Patient Deaths in New Orleans Bring Arrests

Hands in Prayer, New Orleans , 1992

from the book THE REPOSED

Patient Deaths in New Orleans Bring Arrests

BATON ROUGE, La., July 18 — A doctor and two nurses were arrested Tuesday after the Louisiana attorney general accused them of using lethal injections to kill four elderly patients in a New Orleans hospital last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

excerpt from The New York Times 7/19/2006

Photograph by William Greiner

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Brad Pitt hopes to build "green" in New Orleans

Suspended Green Truck, Metairie LA 3/2005

Brad Pitt hopes to build "green" in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Actor
Brad Pitt' and high-profile architects on Friday urged New Orleans to think green, selecting a series of environmentally friendly housing projects they hope to build in the hurricane-hit city.

Reuters wire story 7/15/2006

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SURE I LIKE THE SHORE

Water Gun, Gulfshores AL 7/2006

Fish on Ferry, Ft. Morgan AL 7/2006

Eating by Pool, Gulfshores AL 7/2006

Man riding Ferry, Ft. Morgan , AL 7/2006

Sand Tracks, Gulfshores AL 7/2006

All images made week of July 9, 2006 , in or around Gulfshores, Alabama.
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BUYERS' & SELLERS' MARKET

Gutted Storefront , Airline Dr. , Metairie LA 6/2006

BUYERS' & SELLERS' MARKET

Undamaged homes are fetching record prices, but even houses that did flood are selling better than some expected.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
By Greg Thomas

The average sales price of undamaged homes in Orleans Parish has soared higher than storm surge in the eight months since Katrina, while flooded homes are discounted to about half the average prices of a year ago.
Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes appear to be more stable markets, with post-storm prices having jumped about 11.5 percent over prestorm values. For St. Tammany, that's a slight quickening of the market above the 9.2 percent increase noted in 2004 prices, while in Jefferson, the rate of increase has been level for the past two years.
The run-up in Orleans Parish prices for undamaged homes is the most startling number in a metrowide report on real estate sales prepared by Wade Ragas, the founder of Real Properties Associates and a retired finance professor who has studied the local market for 25 years.

excerpt from The Times-Picayune Sunday July 9, 2006

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Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans

Flooded Motel, Tulane Avenue New Orleans 6/2006

Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, July 8 — In a market spurred by speculators and bargain hunters, an extraordinarily large number of houses in the flood-ravaged metropolitan area here are being sold, according to real estate analysts, who say volume and sales prices exceed levels before Hurricane Katrina.

excerpt The New York Times on Sunday 7/9/06

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