Today’s Vieux Carré, also known as the French Quarter, is the 85-square-block original footprint of New Orleans. It is home to nearly 4,000 residents, many of whom work and shop in this walkable neighborhood. It is also the center of well-established and prominent citizen associations, some of the oldest and most significant buildings in the city, and the location of the oldest community theater and the oldest cathedral in the country. Hollywood celebrities and young entrepreneurs mix with older, long-term residents, keeping the neighborhood at once quaint and glamorously exciting.