Auto Glass Repair in Read Blvd West, New Orleans

Read Blvd West sits inside New Orleans East. Here is what the city's own records say about broken glass in this neighborhood — and who is licensed to deal with it.

Between January 2024 and September 16, 2026 the New Orleans Police Department logged 40 vehicles broken into and 100 collisions inside Read Blvd West. That is 140 glass-breaking events in 990 days.

Read Blvd West is a break-in neighborhood: 29% of those events were someone going into a parked car, against 14% for the city as a whole. That changes what the glass job usually is here. A break-in is a tempered glass job — a door or rear window that has turned to pellets, not a windshield with a crack in it.

Year by year in Read Blvd West

Between the two full years on the table, break-ins went down by 8 and collisions went up by 1. The 2026 row is a partial year — it stops on September 16, 2026 — so it is on the table to be read, not to be compared against the two above it.

Who works here

The city's licence register puts 3 motor-trade businesses inside Read Blvd West, though none of them holds a glass licence. These are licences, not reviews — the register says who is allowed to trade, not who is good.

None of them is licensed under Automotive Glass Replacement Shops — there are only 3 of those in the entire city. Here is what that actually means.

If it happened to you last night

The order matters more than people expect.

Photograph it before you touch anything — the window, the interior, and whatever was moved. If you are going to make an insurance claim, that is the evidence, and it stops existing the moment you start cleaning. Then get the NOPD item number. Every one of the 40 break-ins counted on this page is a call with a number attached; insurers ask for it, and it is far harder to obtain a week later than on the day.

Do not vacuum the door yourself. Tempered pellets fall down inside the door skin and sit on the regulator. A shop vacuums the cavity as part of the job. A household vacuum through the window opening does not reach it, and the rattle it leaves behind is permanent.

Do not leave it on the same street overnight. A car that has already been opened, still sitting in the same spot with a bag over the window, is the easiest thing on the block.

Where Read Blvd West sits against the rest of the city

Out of the 61 New Orleans neighborhoods with enough recorded activity to measure, Read Blvd West ranks #60 by total glass-breaking events. The city logged 6,798 break-ins and 42,135 collisions over the same 990 days, which works out at 6.9 and 42.6 a day respectively.

The comparison is on the front page, with every neighborhood in one table.

Counts are calls to the New Orleans Police Department, January 2024 through September 16, 2026, placed inside the city's published boundary for Read Blvd West (Neighborhood Statistical Areas, dataset exvn-jeh2). Businesses come from Active Occupational Licenses (iqay-p646) and are listed because they hold a licence, which is not a recommendation. How we use city data.