Basin Street

From 1897 through World War I, the back side of Basin Street was the front of the Storyville red light district, with a line of high end saloons and mansions devoted to music.

[1] After Storyville's closure, Basin Street was temporarily renamed North Saratoga.

The equivalent street paralleling Rampart one block back on the other side of Louis Armstrong Park in the Treme neighborhood is Saint Claude.

There is a series of monuments on the neutral ground of Basin Street, including statues of Simón Bolívar, Benito Juárez, and Francisco Morazán, and a metal sign commemorating Storyville.

There have been many recordings of this jazz standard including:[2] Basin Street is also mentioned in the song “Christmas in New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong.