This region of the city was a French colonial encampment originally managed by Le Page du Pratz on which cabins housed the enslaved.

According to geographer Richard Campanella, Ph.D., this area was used as a "warehouse, workshop, lumber mill and a farm in service of the principal colony across the river.

"[5] Developed as a town by Barthelemy Duverjé, Algiers expanded due mainly to the shipbuilding and repair industries of the dry docks and the extensive railroad yards.

Until the latter 1930s, rail yards housed large amounts of freight and rolling stock, which was brought back and forth across the Mississippi River by barge.

In the yard's active days, a steam-powered Southern Pacific train ferry brought railroad cars from there across the Mississippi River.

During the early 20th century, Algiers was segregated due to the Jim Crow Laws of the Southern United States.

Blacks occupied the area downriver from Algiers Point called McDonoghville (locals refer to it as "Over the Hump").

When Algiers became a part of Orleans Parrish in 1870, it became the largest populated black community on the West bank of the Mississippi River.

Many Jazz artists such as Kid Thomas Valentine, Red Allen, and Papa Celestin all grew up in McDonoghville section in Algiers during the 1910s.

[6] Some of the early black neighborhoods included Riverview, Tunisbourg McCLendonville, LeBeoufville, Hendeeville, Oakdale, and Whitney.

Newton Street became the heart of Algiers's black community as it was once filled with ballrooms, saloons, and Juke joints.

Popular hangout spots like Kohlman's Tavern, Ping Pong Club, and Whitney's Ballroom attracted hundreds of people every weekend.

The most famous, Greystone Voter's League, became the place for Rhythm & Blues shows and great singers such as Ray Charles, Son House, and B.

Many white families from the older parts of the city began moving into the newly built sections of Algiers.

[9] During the early 1970s, Whites had begun to move out of Behrman Heights after the Housing Authority of New Orleans opened the Christopher Park Homes for low-income black families.

The White flight resulted in a major decline as many businesses left Algiers for more sustainable neighborhoods in the neighboring Jefferson Parish.

Algiers was home to various jazz pioneers such as Red Allen, Peter Bocage, George Lewis, Papa Celestin, Kid Thomas Valentine and many others.

[20] In 2017, 4th district teamed with the NOPD's street-gang unit to quell gun battles spurred by conflicts between neighborhood groups.