[5] The neighborhood includes Delgado Community College and the local Public Broadcasting Service television station WYES-12 studios.

Museum Cultural District, designated by then Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu on November 1, 2008.

At the start of the 19th century what would become Navarre was mostly undeveloped swamp land a good distance from the developed parts of the young city along the Mississippi River.

The area in the back section of Navarre was the site of the United Fruit Company radio facilities, until it was redeveloped residentially in the 1940s.

During World War II, the U.S. Navy LCVP's, or Higgins boats, were manufactured in the Navarre section of New Orleans.