True North
Only two major streets run north-south in New Orleans: Napoleon Avenue (bottom center of this image) and Elysian Fields (upper right). The yellow areas represent the portions of the grid of minor streets that are oriented to the cardinal points. Elsewhere in the city, the streets cannot orient you to true north at all. Yet no one thinks of Napoleon doing so, either; Elysian Fields perhaps. The single publicly recognized indicator of north in the city is the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle (here, below and slightly left of the French Quarter), who gazes–defiantly or pensively, depending on your point of view–ever northward.