The oldest part of Algiers is Algiers Point, across the river from the French Quarter.

For centuries, intensive settlement in Algiers extended little beyond Algiers Point.

In river pilotage, Algiers Point is simply one of the many points of land around which the river flows-albeit a significant one.

The point of land on the river's right descending bank is, and has historically been, called Algiers Point.

In the 20th century, the Coast Guard began regulating marine traffic approaching and rounding Algiers Point.

The neighborhood near the point described above came to be called Algiers Point beginning in the 1970s.

Story about Algiers Point, from Democracy Now!

At first she thought they belonged to the ferry that ran from the foot of Canal Street across the river to Algiers Point.

Properly it was called Algiers Point, the origin of its name long ago lost.

The group of friends walked to Algiers Point, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, and boarded buses to the Astrodome.