Standing atop the levee in Holy Cross looking across the Mississippi at downtown New Orleans. You can see the Gretna Bridge to the left. Holy Cross is a part of the Lower Ninth Ward.
The Mississippi River is its South border and the Industrial Canal is the West border.
This Canal separates the Lower Ninth from the Upper Ninth and brought national attention to this area when it suffered multiple failures during hurricane Katrina.
This includes the catastrophic quarter mile failure on the Lower Ninth portion.