By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer
Some corners in this city tell quintessentially New Orleans stories, and among them is the intersection of South Broad Street and Washington Avenue. There on the trafficky Broadmoor bend, King’s Meat Market and Grocery sells gumbo-ready mixes of seasoned poultry parts named for whichever store employee or customer first divined the recipe’s proportion of legs to necks to pickled tips.
Walk outside, and to the left, boarded storefronts sit forelornly, still marked with rust-colored floodlines from Hurricane Katrina. Immediately beyond that, on the corner of Eve Street, is the hulking Sewerage & Water Board pumping station that failed to prevent the water from rising.
But if all goes as planned, this Broadmoor juncture soon will be postcard material for another quintessentially New Orleans story – one of post-Katrina reinvention.
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