 The play "A Streetcar Named Desire", by Tennessee Williams, refers to the former streetcar line to this street.Desire Street is part of the title of a 1949 book titled "Frenchmen Desire Good Children" on New Orleans street names by John Churchill Chase.The Desire neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects although the housing development has been razed and replaced with smaller apartment buildings.