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by Brian Godinez, for The University Daily Kansar
New Orleans cleans up streets
NEW ORLEANS — Child tap dancers, street mimes, panhandlers and con men have become fixtures in New Orleans' rollicking French Quarter.
But now they are getting the bum's rush.
New Orleans is cracking down on street performers and minor crime in its most famous neighborhood,pleasing many of the roughly 4,000 people who live there.
Residents say the French Quarter's reputation as a playground of sin has gotten out of hand, overshadowing its fine restaurants and 19th-century architecture.
"Upscale and downscale coexist here, and that's fine. That's the basic character of New Orleans," said Louis Sabuc, a gallery owner and French Quarter resident. "But sleaze and dirt and litter and hustling is not part of New Orleans. We're very permissive in a lot of ways, but per-
missiveness does not extend to outright abuse by people who want to rip you off."
Others wonder if the city is trying to sanitize the historic area into a Louisiana version of Disney World.
"Why would you come to New Orleans expecting a quiet, clean place?" said Arthur Walker, who reads tourists' palms on Jackson Square, in the center of the French Quarter. "New Orleans is New Orleans. It ain't Orlando."
The cleanup began over the summer, as police began arresting homeless people for obstructing sidewalks, drunkenness, public urination and other offenses.
Children who tap dance for tips were cited for curfew violations.
"We had a host of citizen complaints. It's not something we just arbitrarily decided to go in and do," police spokesman Paul
Accardo said.
A recent poll found that 70 percent of New Orleans residents strongly support" the effort, and 18 percent "somewhat support' it.
Those polled also showed some concern about the cleanup. Twenty-one percent strongly agreed and 24 percent somewhat agreed that "restricting the activities of street people and vendors may cause the French Quarter to lose some of its character."
"It's not just about cleaning up the sidewalks and the parks. It's about cleansing the neighborhood of people who don't fit in: poor whites and working-class blacks," said Mike Howells, a Jackson Square palm reader who helped organize opposition to the cleanup. "If they don't work at a business here, many of the neighborhood real estate companies feel they shouldn't be here at all."
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