User:Madisonbranch21/Magazine Street

Magazine Street is a renown street in New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the Garden District. Magazine Street travels through Central Business district to Uptown. It is known for its busy interaction and has a variety of small businesses, restaurants, and residential space that tourists and New Orleans residence can see or experience.

History
Magazine Street was created on April 24, 1788, by a man named Carlos Trudeau, who had to split his plantation land due to the Good Friday Fire. This destroyed most of the land around the plantation. The original plan for Magazine Street was to hold storage for industrial and commercial goods. Calle de Almazen was the first the name for Magazine street on the map in the late 1700's. Almazen means warehouse in Spanish so Magazine Street was first called this because Trudeau wanted to create warehouses to attain more wealth. It attained the name Magazine street by 1878 which has been its name till this day. It was called Magazine Street after a gunpowder magazine. A warehouse was supposed to be created that would hold ammunition and weaponry.

Description
Magazine Street is a total of 5.3 miles. The street is designed to be a long walk about where people can walk from many stores to select neighborhoods. It is composed of four neighborhoods: Touro, Chanel, East Riverside, and Garden District. It also has many small owned businesses like markets, clothing stores, and local restaurants. It contains renovated houses and warehouses also. Magazine street attracts many tourists for its broad selection of shopping stores. It has furniture shops, clothing stores, pottery shops, book stores, etc. It offers unique options made for anyone interested in touring Magazine street. There is also transportation to and from Magazine street that departs from Canal Street.

Demographics
Magazine Street also resides many New Orleanians as well. The total population that live on Magazine street is 10,000. This is from the four neighborhoods inserted above. Touro, Chanel, East Riverside, and Garden District each have their own select demographics. They each have similar traits that make up the population, gender ratio, and race ratio. The demographics of Magazine street at least 55% are women and 47% are men that live here. There is a 77% population of white residents and 18% population of African American residents. Most people from the ages of 30 to 60 reside here as well. People that live on Magazine street have a salary or wage income that allows them to stay in these neighborhoods. Their salary incomes are usually from 100,000 to 150,000 dollars. The houses are very costly and require high maintenance. Only 27% of the population fully owns these houses. Magazine Street has predominantly sustainable inner neighborhoods that also direct to other streets like St. Charles St and Napoleon Ave.

 Attractions  Magazine Street is more known for the type of attractions and sites they have. They mostly have small antique shops, clothing stores, restaurants, pottery stores, furniture, etc. In particular, they are stores like Funky Monkey, Buffalo Exchange, and Billy Reid that are located on the street. They are seen as the few of high-quality clothing stores on Magazine Street. Magazine Street also exhibits a wide variety of food like Mexican, Thai, Asian, soul food, french cuisine, and many more. For instance, there are 4 to 5 star rated restaurants like, Lilette, Cavan, and Max Well. These attractions on Magazine Street brings in many from around the country to indulge in the daily activities of New Orleans.