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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY, ICAO: KMSY, FAA LID: MSY), formerly known as Moisant Field, is located at 900 Airline Drive, Kenner, Louisiana and is the primary commercial airport for the New Orleans metropolitan area and of southeast Louisiana. Sitting at an average of 4.5 feet above sea level, MSY is the second lowest lying international airport in the world, to only Schiphol International Airport in The Netherlands.

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Louis Armstrong and his Heavenly All-Star Band: What you Loose on Earth Shall Be Lossed in Heaven, a 28-foot by 41-foot mural by Richard Cornelius Thomas adorns the south end of the Central (Parabola) Lobby at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The mural pays tribute to the "New Orleans musicians and their legendary colleagues who created jazz, shaped it, made it a living art form and are still a part of its evolving development." It depicts Armstrong gathering his ultimate 29-piece ensemble including Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Buddy Bolden, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, and Harry Connick Jr. among others.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY, ICAO: KMSY, FAA LID: MSY), formerly known as Moisant Field, is located at 900 Airline Drive, Kenner, Louisiana and is the primary commercial airport for the New Orleans metropolitan area and of southeast Louisiana. Sitting at an average of 4.5 feet above sea level, MSY is the second lowest lying international airport in the world, to only Schiphol International Airport in The Netherlands.

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The Canal Street Ferry, also known as the Algiers Ferry, connects the foot of Canal Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans with Algiers on the Westbank across the Mississippi River. The ferry has been in service since 1927, and is free for passengers. There is a $1.00 one-way fee for automobiles.

The Mississippi River Bridge Authority (MRBA) purchased the existing ferry operations at the Algiers / Canal St. ferry crossing in 1960. Following the renaming of the Greater New Orleans Bridges over the Mississippi River by Louisiana Legislative Act in 1989, the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) unit providing the operation, maintenance, and policing of the bridges and ferries, was designated the "Crescent City Connection Division" of the DOTD.

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The Central Business District, New Orleans' equivalent of a typical "downtown", is bounded on one edge by the Mississippi, on the downriver edge by the French Quarter, on the back by Claiborne Avenue, and on the upriver edge by Howard Avenue, the lower limit of the "Lower Garden District" of Uptown New Orleans. This neighborhood was first after the Louisiana Purchase and the city encountered an influx of settlers, earning it the name The American Quarter. In its early days, it was also known as Fauborg St. Mary. The portion of the CBD closer to the Mississippi is known as the Old Warehouse District, because it was heavily devoted to warehouses before shipping became containerized.

In the center of the district's skyline stands the World Trade Center New Orleans, a 33-story, 407 feet (124 m)-tall skyscraper. Designed in a Greek Cross-shaped plan with external sun-shade louvers by Edward Durrell Stone, it was the tallest building in New Orleans at the time of its construction in 1967.

Just upriver from the WTC is the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, one of the leading aquariums in the United States since opening in 1990. Run by the Audubon Institute, the aquarium features 10,000 animals representing 530 species.

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The Steamboat Natchez, the ninth steamer to bear the name Nathcez, was launched by the New Orleans Steamboat Company in 1975. One of only six true steam powered sternwheelers plying the Mississippi today, the Natchez resembles the old sternwheelers Virginia and Hudson in her profile and layout. Her powerful steam engines were built for U.S. Steel Corporation's sternwheeler Clairton in 1925. Her genuine copper and steel steam whistle is a treasured antique. Her copper bell, smelted from 250 silver dollars to produce a purer tone, once graced the S.S. J.D. AYRES. Her 32 note steam calliope was custom crafted and modeled after the music makers of the Gilded Age.

In the 19th century, steamboats traveled the length of the Mississippi, taking between three and five days to get between Louisville, Kentucky and New Orleans. The boatmen were notorious brawlers who went looking for women and liquor at the end of their trip and established New Orleans as the "City of Sin." In their heyday, from 1830 to 180, some 30 steamboats lined up at the levee. Their steamboat era ended by the close of the 19th century as railroads and highways replaced them.

Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)

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