Life on the Greenway (Part 1).

The Lafitte Greenway used to be the Carondolet Canal. The present doesn't repeat the past in New Orleans, it rhymes. New Orleans has a syncopated rhythm. Dance like nobody is watching. Make some good memories. Dance like a crab-eating macaque.

Construction on the Carondolet Canal started in 1794. It ran along the route that the Lafitte Greenway runs along now, though the greenway goes farther. The canal ran from the end of Bayou St. John to the turning basin on Basin Street. The canal was 1.6 miles long. The greenway is 2.6 miles long. It stops at the brickyard behind Winn Dixie, in the industrial part of Little Metairie.