Desire Street is a famous street in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to John Horne, the name is a misspelled homage to a lover of Napoleon named "Desiree". The famous play A Streetcar Named Desire refers to the transportation line to this street. It is also the title of a book by Jed Horne, and part of the title of a book by John Churchill Chase. The Desire neighborhood in the upper 9th Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects.
References
- John Churchill Chase (1997). Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children And Other Streets Of New Orleans, 3rd edition. Touchstone. ISBN 0-684-84570-9
- Jed Horne (2005). Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans.. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-13825-7
