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26 September 2005 Patrick Burke

New Orleans Museum of Art Guardian

New Orleans City Park

Officers of the New York Police Department were hired by the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park to guard the museum against looting. They arrived on September 3 and got to the Museum by boat from I-610.
For many weeks, under the excellent supervision of Museum Deputy Director Jacqueline Sullivan, they assisted wherever they could, riding in airboats through the floodwaters. They are credited with saving a valuable cacti collection in a greenhouse in City Park's Botanical Garden.
I was looking for the missing swans and feeding the poor starving ducks and this NYPD officer graciously posed for a photo. Even with my law enforcement credentials I was held at bay until he was completely satisfied that I was a photographer on a mission. He was known as "Checkpoint Charlie" and was one of the kindest people I have ever met, sort of like a guardian angel sent from nowhere in a crisis.


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Patrick 05-Feb-2011 22:26
photographer's note: Coleen and I were searching through the debris of the park for her swans and other animal survivors when we spotted this NYPD police volunteer guarding the New Orleans Museum of Art. Coleen posed, I photographed. I think what I appreciated was the comraderie of one police officer to another. This was a hot day with starving critters all around us (we brought feed) and everyone recognized the scope of misery around us and made the best of the moment.
Ann Burchill 05-Apr-2006 16:20
really enjoyed your album, we have friends who live there also, ann
carol j. phipps04-Apr-2006 03:43
Bless you, Dear One, Noble lady.
snootydog05-Oct-2005 01:20
Another noble deed. I am glad there are people like you who take care of nature's forgotten creatures. I hope our NYPD guys are taking good care of things down there. I had heard a lot of our local men had gone down.