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	Central City / American Quarter Central City is an area in the Uptown section of New Orleans. "Central City" is located at the lower end of Uptown, just above the New Orleans Central Business District, on the "back" (away from the river) side of St. Charles Avenue . This old predominently African American neighborhood has been important in the city's brass band and Mardi Gras Indian traditions. The area closest to Saint Charles Avenue developed first, in the first half of the 19th Century, booming with the opening of the New Orleans & Carrollton Railway, which became the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line. The opening of the New Basin Canal at the neighborhood's lower end contributed to the area's development as a center of commerce and a working class residential area, attracting many Irish, Italian, and German immigrants. Dryades Street in this area was a neighborhood commercial district by the 1830s. After the American Civil War many African Americans from rural areas settled in this part of the city. By the 1870s, the urbanized area extended back to Gert Town.

Central City / American Quarter

Central City is an area in the Uptown section of New Orleans.

"Central City" is located at the lower end of Uptown, just above the New Orleans Central Business District, on the "back" (away from the river) side of St. Charles Avenue .

This old predominently African American neighborhood has been important in the city's brass band and Mardi Gras Indian traditions.

The area closest to Saint Charles Avenue developed first, in the first half of the 19th Century, booming with the opening of the New Orleans & Carrollton Railway, which became the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line. The opening of the New Basin Canal at the neighborhood's lower end contributed to the area's development as a center of commerce and a working class residential area, attracting many Irish, Italian, and German immigrants. Dryades Street in this area was a neighborhood commercial district by the 1830s. After the American Civil War many African Americans from rural areas settled in this part of the city. By the 1870s, the urbanized area extended back to Gert Town.