Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

That’s the frustrating thing about these events- we all want to find the logical answers to insanely irrational actions

But I did have similar questions- like hasn’t isis been fairly low-key lately and then why NO at 3am of all times/places?

Perhaps they were expecting more security there than for NYE/Sugar Bowl.
A lot of these kinds of ISIS attacks were "lone wolf" attacks. The group didn't really plan the attack, just one guy sympathetic to them did it. They've encouraged these kinds of attacks in the past.