New Orleans jazz landmarks on Rampart Street scrawled with graffiti
Local jazz buffs and preservationists have spent years seeking ways to protect and redevelop a collection of vacant and unimpressive-looking buildings in the 400 block of South Rampart Street that played important roles in the early history of jazz in New Orleans. Now they have a new problem to contend with: giant graffiti that appeared on two of the buildings. Read More
Graffiti-fighting paste helps keep historic buildings clean
In the same Central Business District block where a young Louis Armstrong hung out and learned his musical trade a century ago, trumpeter Kenneth Terry and other Treme Brass Band members startled passers-by Thursday morning as they offered local standards and Terry's version of one of Armstrong's signature songs, "What a Wonderful World." Read More
Eradicating Graffiti for
NEW ORLEANS!
Eradicating Graffiti for
SUPER BOWL XLVII!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover
for the SUPER BOWL!
Eradicating Graffiti for
MARDI GRAS!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover for MARDI GRAS.
Eradicating Graffiti for
CITY PARK!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover for CITY PARK.
Eradicating Graffiti for
AUDUBON ZOO!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover
for the AUDUBON ZOO.
Eradicating Graffiti for the
GARDEN DISTRICT!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover
for the GARDEN DISTRICT.
Eradicating Graffiti for the
AQUARIUM OF THE AMERICAS!
Operation Clean Sweep is the Official Graffiti Remover for the
AQUARIUM OF THE AMERICAS.

Operation: Clean Sweep, Inc.’s Anti-Graffiti Task Force takes PRIDE in our community by preventing and removing graffiti. The focus of this program is to work with educators, law enforcement, residents and business owners to control and prevent the damaging effects of graffiti, through ERADICATION, ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION.
Graffiti is everyone’s problem and everyone’s responsibility. Graffiti on public and private property not only decreases property values, it destroys our neighborhoods and creates a negative image of our entire city.
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Operation Clean Sweep receives award from Superintendent Serpas, chief of the New Orleans Police Department for Outstanding Service!

OPERATION CLEAN SWEEP WAS INSTUMENTAL IN HAVING THE RAILROAD BRIDGE, OVER THE I-10 HYWAY, ENTERING NEW ORLEANS, PAINTED FOR SUPER BOWL.
OPERATION CLEAN SWEEP IS WRITTEN UP IN PRESERVATION RESOURCE MAGAZINE FOR ELIMINATING GRAFFITI ON THE OLDEST JAZZ BUILDING IN THE COUNTRY, AND PRESERVING THE BUILDING.