Desire Street

For the drama film, see Desire Street (film).

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Desire street tiles, Bywater neighborhood.

Desire Street is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. According to Jed Horne, the name is a misspelled homage to Désirée Clary a fiancé of Napoleon. The play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, refers to the former streetcar line to this street.

Desire Street is also the title of Horne's 2005 book, and part of the title of a 1949 book on New Orleans street names by John Churchill Chase. The Desire neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects although the housing development has been razed and replaced with smaller apartment buildings. Since Hurricane Katrina, most of the apartments are abandoned and in disrepair.

See also

• Desire Area, New Orleans
• List of streets of New Orleans
• Streetcars in New Orleans