How much does it cost to get a car out of impound in Lower Ninth Ward?

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.

Vehicle density here runs lower than almost anywhere else in the city, but the three Industrial Canal bridge crossings, St. Claude Ave, Claiborne Ave, and Florida Ave, are chokepoints for any breakdown, and a real share of calls come from construction and utility vehicles tied to the neighborhood's continued rebuild rather than daily commuters. This was ground zero for the Katrina levee breaches: two separate failures sent a barge through the neighborhood and leveled homes in its path, and it was the last part of the city to get power and water back and the last to be pumped dry. The Lower Ninth Ward sits in Orleans Parish, so a tow here follows the City of New Orleans' fee schedule, $228.75 minimum for Light Duty. Release is at the Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound, 400 N. Claiborne Ave, open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week; call (504) 658-8100 to confirm a city tow before crossing one of those bridges. Population fell from 14,008 in 2000 to 2,842 by 2010, and an estimated 1,675 households as of 2020, still a fraction of pre-Katrina levels, near Jackson Barracks, the Louisiana National Guard's headquarters since 1834.