Vendors, performers have seen a crackdown on Bourbon Street. Will it continue?

As the clock ticked toward 8 p.m. one recent Friday, the entertainers of Bourbon Street began to scatter.

Drummer kids hoisted stacks of buckets and sticks; brass players slung trumpets and trombones over their shoulders; and singers, dancers and stunt performers towed speakers, props and tip jars.

All weaved around tourists to make it off of the famous party strip as a nightly curfew approached. Though the 8 p.m. endpoint has been enshrined in city ordinance for decades, it’s only within the past year that a crew of New Orleans police officers and Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputies has worked daily to enforce it, telling performers, vendors and homeless residents to disperse often just as the festivities hit full swing.

Now, the future of that enforcement push and other French Quarter p