How much does it cost to get a car out of impound in Gentilly?

Lakeview, Gentilly, New Orleans East, and the Lower Ninth Ward all sit inside Orleans Parish, so a tow here follows the same City of New Orleans fee schedule as the rest of the city: a $228.75 minimum for a Light Duty tow, $19 a day storage capped at $500 total. The Almonaster Avenue lot, 10200 Almonaster Ave, handles payment only, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, while actual vehicle release still happens at the Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound.

Three university campuses packed into one neighborhood, University of New Orleans, Southern University at New Orleans, and Dillard, mean a steady stream of student lockouts, expired-tag citations, and campus-lot tows here. Layer that on a flood-scarred street grid where the London Ave Canal breach is still the local reference point for how bad a flood can get, and Gentilly stays busy. A Gentilly tow, whether a campus-adjacent lockout gone bad or a routine private-lot pull, follows the City of New Orleans' fee schedule, $228.75 minimum for Light Duty. Gentilly Blvd (US-90), Franklin Ave, Elysian Fields Ave, and Paris Rd (I-510) carry most traffic through, past the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and the FBI's local field office. The London Ave Canal floodwall breach during Katrina devastated the area, and by a 2007 estimate it had recovered less than half its pre-storm population and business base. Release is at the Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound, open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily; call (504) 658-8100 to confirm a city tow. Gentilly is described locally as broad, racially diverse, and lower-middle-income.