Slideshow: Pontchartrain Park on the rise, but still recovering
SLIDESHOW - As the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches, residents say today that Pontchartrain Park is still not close to where it was before the storm....
On August 29, 2005, Katrina overpowered the levees that were supposed to protect Pontchartrain Park, an historic African-American community founded at the height of racial segregation in New Orleans. Not one home in the area was left unscathed. As the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches, residents say today that Pontchartrain Park is still not close to where it was before the storm.
Photos by Shawn Escoffery of New Orleans
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