Bywater
Bywater is what the Quarter wishes it still was, minus the hand grenades. Pastel shotguns, brass bands at Bacchanal, oysters at Elizabeth's, and a bike lane that mostly behaves. The crowd skews art-school transplants, line-cook lifers, and the partner who got dragged here for a weekend and quietly started apartment-hunting. Dating mechanics are kinder than uptown: short walks between Vaughan's, The Joint, and the wine bar of the month, and nobody minds if you arrive in shorts. Caveats remain. Lyfts ghost you after midnight, the levee is darker than it looks, and rents have noticed everything you just noticed.
Bywater by the numbers
Bywater runs male-heavy, about 53% men to 47% women.
Median individual income in Bywater is about $28,700.
Louisiana registers voters by party, and Orleans Parish is about 62% Democratic to 9% Republican, with a 29% no-party bloc - a deep-blue parish in a state that has reached partisan parity.
The median renter in Bywater pays about $1,270 a month.
About 7,500 Bywater residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Bacchanal Fine Wine & Spirits
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Spicy Mango
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Adolfo's Restaurant | Italian
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Cane and Table
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The Elysian Bar
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Bar Redux
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Vaughan's Lounge
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B J's Lounge
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Pulcinella!
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Capulet
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Saint-Germain
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Anna's
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House of Dance & Feathers
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Big Couch New Orleans
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Bywater Games