Post-storm New Orleans: The good and the sad a decade later

The Morning Call, in City Park, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina but 10 years later show no signs of rust.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Shaya, a modern Israeli restaurant in the Garden District neighborhood, is one of the trendiest in New Orleans.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Circle Food Store, beneath Interstate Highway 10, became a symbol of the flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, but is now back in business.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

The markers indicating that a house had been checked after Hurricane Katrina endure around New Orleans — sometimes in artistic form, as is the case in the mural on Piety Street, in the Bywater neighborhood.   (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Euclid Records, in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood.   (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Crescent Park became an instant urban gem upon opening in 2014.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Frady’s One Stop Food Store in the Bywater neighborhood.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

A jam session outside Frady’s One Stop Food Store in the Bywater neighborhood.   (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

The markers indicating that a house has been checked after Hurricane Katrina still endure in New Orleans.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

A marker indicating that a house has been checked after Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Ronald Lewis outside his backyard museum in the Lower Ninth Ward.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Mardi Gras memorabilia outside of Ronald Lewis’ backyard museum in the Lower Ninth Ward, The House of Dance & Feathers.   (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

The former home of Holy Cross School in the Lower Ninth Ward has been empty since Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

A New Orleans house with a hole in the roof, supposedly from a family forcing its way out with an ax during Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

A shuttered house in the Lower Ninth Ward, which still bears the scars of Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Steps to the new Crescent Park in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Steps lead to what once was a house in the Lower Ninth Ward.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Many foundations remain in the Lower Ninth Ward with no indication of what sat upon them before Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

A man mows his lawn in one of the newly constructed houses in the Lower Ninth Ward.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)

Art outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center commemorating Hurricane Katrina.  (Josh Noel / Tribune Newspapers)