Pigeon Town is (loosely) bordered by Cambronne St. (East), Claiborne Ave. (north), Oak St. (South) and the Orleans-Jefferson parish line on the west.
In 2014 Danielle Dreilinger of The Times-Picayune wrote that Pigeon/Pension Town had a lack of retail, "cared-for but worn" housing stock, and "sleepy" streets.
[1] She stated that year that the P-Town area "hasn't seemed to benefit from the more prosperous Carrollton Avenue corridor and booming Oak Street restaurant scene just a few blocks away.
"[1] Pigeon Town is part of the larger Carrollton neighborhood which was annexed to the City of New Orleans in 1874.
[2] In 2015 OPSB sold the building to the charter school Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans.