Preservation group throwing punches with new list of endangered New Orleans sites
Advocate staff phot by John McCusker --Sylvia Robinson enjoys her lunch along the edge of the Mississippi River at the Fly at Audubon Park as a ship passes Monday, January 11, 2016. The public space along the river made the list of the New Orleans nine most endangered landmarks.
The annual list of endangered historic sites in New Orleans put out by the Louisiana Landmarks Society is often a pretty low-temperature document. This year’s list is different, charging headlong into some of the thornier debates to have come up in New Orleans recently.