Atlantic City, New Jersey Atlantic City, New Jersey City of Atlantic City Official logo of Atlantic City, New Jersey Map of Atlantic City in Atlantic County(click image to enlarge; also see: state map) Map of Atlantic City in Atlantic County United States Enumeration Bureau map of Atlantic City United States Enumeration Bureau map of Atlantic City Atlantic City is positioned in Atlantic County, New Jersey Atlantic City - Atlantic City Atlantic City is a resort town/city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beach.
In 2010, it had a populace of 39,558. Incorporated on May 1, 1854, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township, the town/city borders Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville, Ventnor City, West Atlantic City, and the Atlantic Ocean.
8.4.5 Atlantic City Special Improvement District Seascape with Distant Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1873, William Trost Richards.
Because of its locale in South Jersey, hugging the Atlantic Ocean between marshlands and islands, Atlantic City was viewed by developers as prime real estate and a potential resort town.
The town/city was incorporated in 1854, the same year in which the Camden and Atlantic Railroad train service began. Built on the edge of the bay, this served as the direct link of this remote parcel of territory with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
That same year, assembly of the Absecon Lighthouse, designed by George Meade of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, was allowed, with work initiated the next year. By 1874, almost 500,000 passengers a year were coming to Atlantic City by rail.
In Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, "Atlantic City's Godfather" Nelson Johnson describes the inspiration of Dr.
Jonathan Pitney (the "Father of Atlantic City") to precarious Atlantic City as a community resort, his accomplishments to convince the municipal authorities that a barns to the beach would be beneficial, his prosperous alliance with Samuel Richards (entrepreneur and member of the most influential family in southern New Jersey at the time) to achieve that goal, the actual building of the barns , and the experience of the first 600 riders, who "were chosen carefully by Samuel Richards and Jonathan Pitney": "After arriving in Atlantic City, a second train brought the visitors to the door of the resort's first enhance lodging, the United States Hotel.
By year's end, when it was fully constructed, the United States Hotel was not only the first hotel in Atlantic City but also the biggest in the nation.
The historic length of the boardwalk, before the destructive 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, was about 7 miles (11 km) and it extended from Atlantic City to Longport, through Ventnor and Margate. Soon, the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway was also constructed to transport tourists to Atlantic City.
The United States Hotel took up a full town/city block between Atlantic, Pacific, Delaware, and Maryland Avenues.
Atlantic City Boardwalk crowd in front of Blenheim hotel, 1911 (retouched) Prohibition was largely unenforced in Atlantic City, and, because alcohol that had been smuggled into the town/city with the acquiescence of small-town officials could be readily obtained at restaurants and other establishments, the resort's popularity interval further. The town/city then dubbed itself as "The World's Playground".
During this time, Atlantic City was under the mayoral reign of Edward L.
Bader, known for his contributions to the construction, athletics and aviation of Atlantic City. Even with the opposition of many others, he purchased territory that became the city's municipal airport and high school football stadium, both of which were later titled Bader Field in his honor. He led the initiative, in 1923, to construct the Atlantic City High School at Albany and Atlantic Avenues. Bader, in November 1923, initiated a enhance popular vote, amid the general election, at which time inhabitants allowed the assembly of a Convention Center.
Like many older east coast metros/cities after World War II, Atlantic City became plagued with poverty, crime, corruption, and general economic diminish in the mid-to-late 20th century.
But perhaps the biggest factor in the diminish in Atlantic City's popularity came from cheap, fast jet service to other premier resorts, such as Miami Beach and the Bahamas. The convention and the press coverage it generated, however, cast a harsh light on Atlantic City, which by then was in the midst of a long reconstructionof economic decline.
Of the many pre-casino resorts that bordered the boardwalk, only the Claridge, the Dennis, the Ritz-Carlton, and the Haddon Hall survive to this day as parts of Bally's Atlantic City, a condo complex, and Resorts Atlantic City.
The old Ambassador Hotel was purchased by Ramada in 1978 and was gutted to turn into the Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City, only reusing the steelwork of the initial building. Smaller hotels off the boardwalk, such as the Madison also survived.
The Borgata is Atlantic City's highest grossing casino.
In an accomplishment at revitalizing the city, New Jersey voters in 1976 passed a popular vote, approving casino gambling for Atlantic City; this came after a 1974 popular vote on legalized gambling floundered to pass.
Many citizens have suggested that it only served to exacerbate those problems, as attested to by the stark contrast between tourism intensive areas and the adjoining impoverished working-class neighborhoods. In addition, Atlantic City has been less prominent than Las Vegas as a gambling town/city in the United States. Donald Trump helped bring big name boxing bouts to the town/city to attract customers to his casinos.
The boxer Mike Tyson had most of his fights in Atlantic City in the 1980s, which helped Atlantic City achieve nationwide consideration as a gambling resort. Numerous highrise condominiums were assembled for use as permanent residences or second homes. By end of the decade it was one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the United States. With the redevelopment of Las Vegas and the opening of two casinos in Connecticut in the early 1990s, along with newly assembled casinos in the close-by Philadelphia metro region in the 2000s, Atlantic City's tourism began to diminish due to its failure to diversify away from gaming.
Determined to expand, in 1999 the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partnered with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to precarious a new roadway to a barren section of the town/city near the Marina.
Nicknamed "The Tunnel Project", Steve Wynn prepared the proposed 'Mirage Atlantic City' around the idea that he would connect the $330 million tunnel stretching 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the Atlantic City Expressway to his new resort.
The roadway was later officially titled the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, and funnels incoming traffic off of the expressway into the city's marina precinct and Brigantine, New Jersey. The new roadway prompted Boyd Gaming in partnership with MGM/Mirage to build Atlantic City's newest casino.
The Borgata opened in July 2003, and its success brought an influx of developers to Atlantic City with plans for building grand Las Vegas style mega casinos to revitalize the aging city. One of these developers was Pinnacle Entertainment, who purchased the Sands Atlantic City, only to close it permanently November 11, 2006.
The following year, the resort was completed in a dramatic, Las Vegas styled implosion, the first of its kind in Atlantic City.
The biggest disappointment was when MGM Resorts International announced that it would pull out of all evolution for Atlantic City, effectively ending their plans for the MGM Grand Atlantic City. View of Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall (top left) and ocean, 2011 In 2006, Morgan Stanley purchased 20 acres (8.1 ha) directly north of the Showboat Atlantic City Hotel and Casino for a new $2 billion plus casino resort. Revel Entertainment Group was titled as the project's developer for the Revel Casino.
In the wake of the closures and declining revenue from casinos, Governor Christie said in September 2014 that the state would consider a 2015 popular vote to end the 40-year-old monopoly that Atlantic City holds on casino gambling and allowing gambling in other municipalities.
"Superstorm Sandy" hit Atlantic City on October 29, 2012, causing flooding and power-outages but left minimal damage to any of the tourist areas including the Boardwalk and casino resorts, despite widespread belief that the city's boardwalk had been destroyed.
The origin of the misinformation was a widely circulated photograph of a damaged section of the Boardwalk that was slated for repairs, before to the storm, and incorrect news reports at the time of the disaster. The storm produced an all-time record low barometric pressure reading of 943 mb (27.85") for not only Atlantic City, but the state of New Jersey. The town/city is positioned on 8.1-mile (13.0 km) long Absecon Island, along with Ventnor City, Margate City and Longport to the southwest. Unincorporated communities, localities and place names positioned partially or completely inside the town/city include Chelsea, City Island, Great Island and Venice Park. During this time, the town/city gets a sea breeze off the ocean that often makes daytime temperatures much cooler than inland areas, making Atlantic City a prime place for beating the summer heat from June through September.
Near the coast, temperatures reach or exceed 90 F (32 C) on an average of only 6.8 days a year, but this reaches 21 days at close-by Atlantic City International Airport. Winters are cool, with January averaging 35.5 F (2 C).
Owing to its adjacency to the Atlantic Ocean and its locale in South Jersey, Atlantic City receives less snow than a good portion of the rest of New Jersey.
It is very common for precipitation to fall in Atlantic City while the northern and parts of the state are receiving snow.
Climate data for Atlantic City, New Jersey (downtown), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1874 present As of September 2014, the greater Atlantic City region has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation at 13.8%, out of workforce force of around 141,000. Comparing regulations in Atlantic City to an "antique car", Atlantic City regulatory reform is a key piece of Governor Chris Christie's plan, unveiled on July 22, to reinvigorate an trade mired in a four-year slump in revenue and hammered by fresh competition from casinos in the encircling states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and more recently, Maryland.
In January 2011, Chris Christie announced the creation of the Atlantic City Tourism District, a state-run precinct encompassing the boardwalk casinos, the marina casinos, the Atlantic City Outlets, and Bader Field. Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public - Mind poll surveyed New Jersey voters' attitudes on the takeover.
Gardner's Basin, which is home to the Atlantic City Aquarium, was initially left out of the tourism district, while a residentiary neighborhood in the Chelsea section was removed from the final boundaries, owing to complaints from the city.
Atlantic City is considered the "Gambling Capital of the East Coast", and presently has seven large casinos and a several smaller ones.
In 2011, New Jersey's then 12 casinos working approximately 33,000 employees, had 28.5 million visitors, made $3.3 billion in gaming revenue, and paid $278 million in taxes. They are regulated by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. In the wake of the United States' economic downturn and the legalization of gambling in adjoining and close-by states (including Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania), four casino closures took place in 2014: the Atlantic Club on January 13; the Showboat on August 31; the Revel, which was Atlantic City's second-newest casino, on September 2; and Trump Plaza, which originally opened in 1984, and was the poorest performing casino in the city, on September 16. Caesars Entertainment executives have been reconsidering the future of their three remaining Atlantic City properties (Bally's, Caesars and Harrah's), in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by the company's casino operating unit in January 2015. a Bally's Atlantic City includes The Wild Wild West Casino, which opened on July 2, 1997 and has an American Old West theme.
Atlantic City Hilton (Original) Trump Castle Atlantic City Hilton ACH Casino Resort Brighton Casino Sands Atlantic City Trump Plaza May 14, 1984 September 16, 2014 On February 15, 2013, Trump Entertainment Resorts announced that it intended to sell Trump Plaza to the Meruelo Group for $20 million, the lowest price ever paid for an Atlantic City casino. Carl Icahn, senior lender for Trump Plaza's mortgage, declined to approve the sale for the proposed price. Revel April 2, 2012 September 2, 2014 Brookfield Asset Management's winning bid of $110 million on September 30, 2014 for Atlantic City's Revel Casino Hotel, and the company's intention to operate it as a casino, generated some excitement, but the business backed out of this deal on November 19, 2014. Showboat April 2, 1987 August 31, 2014 On December 13, 2014, Stockton University purchased the property for $18 million with the intent of turning it into an Atlantic City campus.
Slots and tables sold to Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City.
Hilton (Original) Casino license denied; current site of Golden Nugget Atlantic City Margaritaville Marina Casino Cancelled; current site of Golden Nugget Atlantic City The Atlantic City boardwalk outside the Trump Taj Mahal The Atlantic City Boardwalk opened on June 26, 1870, a temporary structure erected for the summer season that was the first boardwalk in the United States. The Boardwalk starts at Absecon Inlet in the north and runs along the beach south-west to the town/city limit 4 miles (6.4 km) away then continues 1 1 2 miles (2.4 km) into Ventnor City.
The oceanfront boardwalk in front of the Atlantic City casinos railwaythe storm with minimal damage. Young's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City's biggest amusement pier amid its time", was transformed into a shopping mall in the 1980s, known as "Shops on Ocean One".
Garden Pier, positioned opposite Revel Atlantic City, once homed a movie theater, and is now home to the Atlantic City Historical Museum. Atlantic City has many different shopping districts and malls, many of which are positioned inside or adjoining to the casino resorts.
In Atlantic City, shops include: Boardwalk Hall, formally known as the "Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall", is an arena in Atlantic City along the boardwalk.
Boardwalk Hall was Atlantic City's major meeting hall until the opening of the Atlantic City Convention Center in 1997.
The Atlantic City Convention Center includes 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m2) of showroom space, 5 exhibit halls, 45 meeting rooms with 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m2) of space, a garage with 1,400 parking spaces, and an adjoining Sheraton hotel.
Both the Boardwalk Hall and Convention Center are directed by the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority.
Atlantic City (sometimes referred to as "Monopoly City") has turn into well-known over the years for its portrayal in the U.S.
While the initial incarnation of the game did not feature Atlantic City, it was in Indianapolis that Ruth Hoskins learned the game, and took it back to Atlantic City. After she arrived, Hoskins made a new board with Atlantic City street names, and taught it to a group of friends, who ultimately passed in on to Charles Darrow, who made some modifications to the game and claimed it as his own invention. The "Short Line" is believed to refer to the Shore Fast Line, a streetcar line that served Atlantic City. The B&O Railroad did not serve Atlantic City.
A booklet encompassed with the reprinted 1935 version states that the four barns s that served Atlantic City in the mid-1930s were the Jersey Central, the Seashore Lines, the Reading Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The actual "Electric Company" and "Water Works" serving the town/city are the Atlantic City Electric Company and the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, in the order given.
Ever since Atlantic City's expansion as a resort town, various attractions and tourist traps have originated in the city.
The Absecon Lighthouse is a coastal lighthouse positioned in the South Inlet section of Atlantic City overlooking Absecon Inlet. It is the tallest lighthouse in the state of New Jersey and is the third tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States.
Construction began in 1854, with the light first lit on January 15, 1857. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1933 and although the light still shines every evening, it is no longer an active navigational aid. Gardner's Basin, which is home to the Atlantic City Aquarium as well as small shops and restaurants, is positioned a short distance north of Absecon Light.
Since 2003, Atlantic City has hosted Thunder over the Boardwalk, an annual airshow over the boardwalk.
While positioned 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Atlantic City in Margate City, Lucy the Elephant has turn into almost an icon for the Atlantic City area.
Atlantic City is the home of the Miss America competition, however it was moved to Las Vegas for seven years before returning.
The event that year was called the "Atlantic City Pageant", and the winner of the grand prize, Margaret Gorman, took home the 3-foot Golden Mermaid trophy.
Since 2010, Boardwalk Empire, an American tv series from cable network HBO set in Atlantic City amid the Prohibition era, has cast a new light on the city.
Starring Steve Buscemi, the show was adapted from a chapter about historical criminal kingpin Enoch "Nucky" Johnson (who is retitled "Enoch Thompson" in the show) in Nelson Johnson's book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City.
The series was filmed in New York City at various locations that captured Atlantic City's reconstructionarchitecture and on a set assembled to resemble the Atlantic City boardwalk in the 1920s. Around the same time of the September 2010 premiere of the show, the Press of Atlantic City created Boss of the Boardwalk, a 45-minute documentary which premiered on August 21, 2010 on NBC TV-40 and aired six additional times in the following weeks. After the premiere of Boardwalk Empire, interest in Roaring Twenties-era Atlantic City has grown.
Nucky's Way is the second street car tour to capitalize off of Boardwalk Empire, after The Great American Trolley business started a weekly tour of Atlantic City with a Roaring Twenties infamous in early June 2011. The facade of storefronts, which consists of vinyl tacked onto three large sections of plywood, was the brainchild of longtime region radio host Pinky Kravitz, who was also a columnist for The Press of Atlantic City and host of WMGM Presents Pinky on NBC40. Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies Ice Hockey ECHL Boardwalk Hall 2001 2005 Atlantic City Card - Sharks Indoor football NIFL Boardwalk Hall 2004 Atlantic City Seagulls Basketball USBL Atlantic City High School 1996 2001 On November 16, 2006, Hal Handel, CEO of Greenwood Racing, announced that the Atlantic City Race Course in Hamilton Township would increase live racing dates from four days per year, to up to 20 days per year.
Atlantic City is one of five municipalities in the state and the only one outside of Cape May County that offer no-charge enhance access to oceanfront beaches monitored by lifeguards, joining Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Upper Township's Strathmere section. Atlantic City is governed inside the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the Mayor-Council fitness of municipal government (Plan D), implemented by direct petition effective as of July 1, 1982. The City Council is the governing body of Atlantic City.
The City Council exercises the legislative power of the municipality for the purpose of holding Council meetings to introduce ordinances and resolutions to regulate City government.
In addition, Council members review budgets submitted by the Mayor; furnish for an annual audit of the City's accounts and financial transactions; organize standing committees and hold enhance hearings to address meaningful issues which impact Atlantic City. Former Mayor Bob Levy created the Atlantic City Ethics Board in 2007, but the Board was dissolved two years later by vote of the Atlantic City Council.
Atlantic City is positioned in the 2nd Congressional precinct and is part of New Jersey's 2nd state legislative district.
Brown (R, Ventnor City) and Vince Mazzeo (D, Northfield). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Formica, Freeholder District 2, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part), Linwood, Longport, Margate, Northfield, Somers Point and Ventnor (R, 2015), Vice Chairman James A.
Bertino, Freeholder District 5, including Buena Borough, Buena Vista Township, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Estell Manor, Folsom, Hamilton Township (part), Hammonton, Mullica Township and Weymouth (R, 2015), Colin G.
Coursey, Freeholder District 1, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part) and Pleasantville (R, 2016), Richard Dase, Freeholder District 4, including Absecon, Brigantine, Galloway Township and Port Republic (D, 2016), Alexander C.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission is a New Jersey state governmental agency that was established in 1977 as the state's gaming control board, responsible for administering the Casino Control Act and its regulations to assure enhance trust and confidence in the credibility and integrity of the casino trade and casino operations in Atlantic City.
The CRDA was established in 1984 and is responsible for directing the spending of casino reinvestment funds in enhance and private projects to benefit Atlantic City and other areas of the state.
From 1985 through April 2008, CRDA spent US$1.5 billion on projects in Atlantic City and US$300 million throughout New Jersey. The ACCVA managed the Boardwalk Hall and Atlantic City Convention Center, as well as the Boardwalk Welcome Center inside Boardwalk Hall and a welcome center on the Atlantic City Expressway.
The Atlantic City Special Improvement District (SID) was a nonprofit organization created in 1992, funded by a special assessment tax on businesses inside the enhancement district.
City Atlantic City The Atlantic City Fire Department (ACFD) provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city.
The town/city is protected by the Atlantic City Police Department, which handles 150,000 calls per year.
The Atlantic City School District serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades.
School Complex (701; Pre - K-8), New York Avenue School (711; Pre - K-8) Pennsylvania Avenue School (668; Pre - K-8 - opened for the 2012-13 school year, with most students shifting from New Jersey Avenue School.), Richmond Avenue School (596; K-8), Sovereign Avenue School (723; Pre - K-8), Texas Avenue School (568; K-8), Uptown School Complex (610; K-8) and Atlantic City High School (2,005; 9-12). Students from Brigantine, Longport, Margate City and Ventnor City attend Atlantic City High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective school districts. City enhance school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts, positioned in Somers Point. Nearby college campuses include those of Atlantic Cape Community College and Stockton University, the latter of which offers classes and resources in the town/city such as the Carnegie Library Center.
The Press of Atlantic City WACP Channel 4 Atlantic City (Independent) As of May 2010, the town/city had a total of 103.67 miles (166.84 km) of roadways, of which 88.26 miles (142.04 km) were maintained by the municipality, 1.29 miles (2.08 km) by Atlantic County and 5.32 miles (8.56 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 8.80 miles (14.16 km) by the South Jersey Transportation Authority. The three roadways into Atlantic City are the Black Horse Pike/Harding Highway (US 322/40 via the Albany Avenue drawbridge), White Horse Pike (US 30), and the Atlantic City Expressway.
Atlantic City is roughly 132 miles (212 km) south of New York City by road (via the Garden State Parkway) and 55 miles (89 km) southeast of Philadelphia. Atlantic City is connected to other metros/cities in a several ways.
NJ Transit's Atlantic City Rail Terminal at the Atlantic City Convention Center provides service from 30th Street Station in Philadelphia through a several smaller South Jersey communities via the Atlantic City Line. On June 20, 2006, the board of NJ Transit allowed a three-year trial of express train service between New York Penn Station and the Atlantic City Rail Terminal.
The approximate travel time was 2 1 2 hours, with a stop at Newark's Penn Station, and was part of the casinos' multimillion-dollar investments in Atlantic City.
Most of the funding for the transit line was provided by Harrah's Entertainment (owners of both Harrah's Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City) and the Borgata. The Atlantic City Bus Terminal is the home to local, intrastate and interstate bus companies including NJ Transit, Academy and Greyhound bus lines.
The Greyhound Lucky Streak Express offers service to Atlantic City from New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Within the city, enhance transit is provided by NJ Transit along 13 routes, including service between the town/city and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 319 route, and service to and from Atlantic City on routes 501 (to Brigantine Beach), 502 (to Atlantic Cape Community College), 504 (to Ventnor Plaza), 505 (to Longport), 507 (to Ocean City), 508 (to the Hamilton Mall), 509 (to Ocean City), 551 (to Philadelphia), 552 (to Cape May), 553 (to Upper Deerfield Township), 554 (to the Lindenwold PATCO station) and 559 (to Lakewood Township). Commercial airlines serve Atlantic City via Atlantic City International Airport, positioned 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the town/city in Egg Harbor Township.
Atlantic City International Airport is a focus town/city for Spirit Airlines.
Founded in 1898, it includes two hospitals; the Atlantic City Campus and the Mainland Campus in Pomona, New Jersey.
Electrical power in Atlantic City as well as the encircling area is primarily served by Atlantic City Electric, which was incorporated in 1924 and provides power from the Beesley's Point Generating Station in Upper Township, as well as other locations. The Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm, opened in 2005, is the first onshore coastal wind farm in the United States. In October 2010, North American Offshore Wind Conference was held in the town/city and encompassed tours of the facility and potential sites for further development. In February 2011, the state passed legislation permitting the assembly of windmills for electricity along pre-existing piers, such as the Steel Pier. The first phase of the Atlantic Wind Connection, a prepared electrical transmission backbone along the Jersey Shore was prepared to be working in 2013.
In addition to the city's exposure in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Atlantic City has been featured in a several other aspects of pop culture.
The game Omerta City of Gangsters, takes place in Atlantic City amid the Prohibition era.
Further information: Category:Films shot in Atlantic City, New Jersey A majority of the 1972 film The King of Marvin Gardens takes place in a snow-covered Atlantic City before to casino gambling. The protagonists in the 1988 film Beaches are shown having their first meeting under the Atlantic City boardwalk as children, in 1958.
The 1990 film The Godfather Part III includes a scene in which a helicopter attacks a meeting of Mafia bosses including protagonist Michael Corleone taking place in a penthouse at an Atlantic City hotel.
The 1998 film, Snake Eyes, was set at a boxing match inside Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
The 1980 TV series Big Shamus, Little Shamus is set at a fictional Atlantic City casino, starring Brian Dennehy as a home detective. The short-lived 1988 game show Yahtzee was taped in Atlantic City, first originating from Trump Castle before moving to the Showboat. The 2006 episode "Atlantic City" of the TV series How I Met Your Mother is set in Atlantic City. The 2009 series Life After People showed the metros/cities casinos, hotels, and boardwalk collapsing with no citizens to maintain the city.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 2 Reunion was recorded on a set at Borgata. The Season 1 episode, "Casinos and C-Cups" was also filmed in the city.
In season 7, episode 22 of How I Met Your Mother, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) takes Marshall (Jason Segal) to Atlantic City for a retreat that is interrupted by the birth of Marshall's child.
Judy Blume's 1981 novel, Tiger Eyes, is partially set in Atlantic City; the family temporarily relocate to New Mexico after a tragic event.
A Marvel Comics one-shot comic book starring Wolverine, entitled "Under The Boardwalk" takes place in Atlantic City in the form of one of the titular character's flashbacks. The video for the Bruce Springsteen 1982 song "Atlantic City" begins with the demolition of the Blenheim Hotel, one of the old hotels in Atlantic City, then shows many of the early casinos in the town/city such as Caesars, Playboy, and an under-construction Harrah's. See also: Category:People from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
People who were born in, inhabitants of, or otherwise closely associated with Atlantic City include: Abramoff was born in Atlantic City and lived there until age 10. Alisa Cooper (born 1952), commissioner of New Jersey Casino Control Commission since 2012, served since 2006 on Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Farley (1901 1977), member of New Jersey Legislature for 34 years, stature of Republican political machine that controlled the Atlantic City and Atlantic County governments. Gardner (1845 1921), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional precinct from 1885 to 1893, mayor of Atlantic City 1868 75. Jim Whelan (born 1948), member of State Senate who represents 2nd Legislative District, and was Mayor of Atlantic City from 1990 to 2001. Atlantic City boardwalk Atlantic Ocean shore in Atlantic City, New Jersey Steel Pier Atlantic City Aerial Photography The corresponding range at Atlantic City Int'l is 11 F ( 24 C) on February 12, 1979 to 106 F (41 C) on June 28, 1969. The official climatology station for Atlantic City was at the Weather Bureau Office downtown from January 1874 to 15 June 1958 and Atlantic City Int'l (ACY) in Egg Harbor Township since 16 June 1958. ACY's locale in the Pine Barrens and distance away from the coast and urban heat island of downtown Atlantic City largely account for its noteably colder temperatures at evening as compared to downtown; for example, from 1959 to 2013, there were 50 days with a low of 0 F ( 18 C) or lower, while in the same period, the corresponding number of days at downtown was 2.
"'Do AC,' the tourism campaign adopted in 2012 by the resort town, is managed by the Atlantic City Alliance, a marketing group whose impending dissolution is encompassed in state plans....
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"Today Atlantic City has enough class to bring Cher, the queen of camp, back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most prominent destination in America." "Atlantic City is gambling on a brighter future", The Morning Call, September 2, 2001.
A toll no-charge extension of the Atlantic City Expressway, which links Atlantic City and Philadelphia, it joins the south end of the expressway to casinos in Atlantic City's marina precinct as well as to neighboring Brigantine." "Atlantic City to be transformed by 2012; Luxury mega-casinos to change the face of New Jersey's gambling capital", MSNBC, November 20, 2007.
"MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) announced today the company's Board of Directors has allowed the evolution of a primary resort casino universal at Renaissance Pointe in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
"Revel Entertainment said Thursday that it has secured the final $1 billion-plus it needs to finish its half-built casino on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, a universal that is widely considered the best chance for the nation's second-largest gambling market to recover from four years of plunging revenue ...
"Thousands out of work in Atlantic City as big casinos shut doors", Atlantic City News.Net, September 1, 2014.
Considers Ending Atlantic City's Gambling Monopoly", Bloomberg Business, September 8, 2014.
"Voters may be asked as soon as November 2015 to overturn an almost 40-year-old law that gave Atlantic City a monopoly on gambling in New Jersey....
With as many as five of Atlantic City's 12 casinos method this year, some lawmakers say allowing gambling in other suburbs is crucial to reclaim revenue that has gone to New York and Philadelphia." "Most finally believe that Sandy didn't destroy Atlantic City boardwalk, poll says", The Star-Ledger, May 28, 2013.
"Historic Sandy landfalls 8 pm Monday evening near Atlantic City with lowest barometric pressure of any storm on record in New Jersey; Chicago being blasted by powerhouse circulation on storms' west side", WGN-9 Chicago Weather Center, October 30, 2012.
"Construct an approximate $63 million beach and dune fitness along the 8.1-mile (13.0 km) oceanfront of Absecon Island that includes, the metros/cities of Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate and Longport." "Station Name: NJ ATLANTIC CITY INTL AP".
"WMO Climate Normals for ATLANTIC CITY, NJ 1961 1990".
Enumeration 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for Atlantic City city, New Jersey, United States Enumeration Bureau.
DP-1: Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 Enumeration 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Atlantic City city, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States Enumeration Bureau.
DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006 2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Atlantic City city, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Experts question need to reform Atlantic City's 'model' casino regulatory system", The Press of Atlantic City, July 22, 2010.
Christie's office releases conceptual 'maps' of Atlantic City tourism, entertainment districts", The Press of Atlantic City, July 22, 2010.
"State defines boundaries for Atlantic City Tourism District; Langford casts lone 'no' vote", The Press of Atlantic City, April 19, 2011.
"Atlantic City Tourism District Bill Signed", Hotel Experts Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 2, 2011.
"Breakdown of areas of the Atlantic City Tourism District", The Press of Atlantic City, April 19, 2011.
"$2.4 billion flop: Atlantic City's Revel closes after 2 years", The Seattle Times, September 1, 2014.
"Trump Plaza, worst performing casino in Atlantic City, goes out of business", Toronto Star, September 16, 2014.
"Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Sold for $20 Million", The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2013.
"Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino sold to California business for only $20 million", The Press of Atlantic City, February 15, 2013.
"Carl Icahn won't approve sale of Trump Plaza for $20 - M", The Press of Atlantic City, April 23, 2013.
"Sands casino in Atlantic City imploded", USA Today, October 19, 2007.
Trump plans to demolish his World's Fair casino in Atlantic City around the end of the year and may build a 4,000-room, $750 million gambling complex in its place, officials of his evolution company said yesterday." "On June 26, 1870, the first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opened along the New Jersey beach." Atlantic City FAQs: Where and when was the first boardwalk constructed?, Atlantic City Free Public Library.
"The first boardwalk assembled in the United States was in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1870." Two small-town businessmen, weary of sand being tracked into their establishments, convinced the town/city council of Atlantic City to problematic a boardwalk in 1870." "Putting the Atlantic City Boardwalk myth to bed", The Record (Bergen County), October 30, 2012, backed up by the Internet Archive as of November 3, 2012.
"The Atlantic City Boardwalk that was washed out by Hurricane Sandy is an region limited to the Boardwalk fronting the Absecon Inlet only.
That small section of the Boardwalk is positioned in South Inlet, a prominent residentiary section of Atlantic City.
"Atlantic City takes stock of storm damage", The Washington Post, October 30, 2012.
Down the Shore: Summer in Atlantic City, Independence Seaport Museum.
"The first Atlantic City boardwalk was assembled in 1870, and twelve years later, in 1882, Ocean Pier, the world's first oceanside amusement pier was constructed." Atlantic City Experience: 100 Years of the Garden Pier, Atlantic City Free Public Library.
"Atlantic City Experience: 100 Years of the Garden Pier", Atlantic City Experience.
"Garden Pier stood apart from the other piers in Atlantic City.
"The Heinz Pier in Atlantic City a 'variety' of fun", Northjersey.com, March 7, 2013.
GETS A FAMILY AMUSEMENT CENTER ", The Press of Atlantic City, June 3, 1990.
"In the summer of 1929, Ruth Hoskins, a Quaker schoolteacher from Indianapolis, moved to Atlantic City, where she introduced the game to her new friends - and made a version using Atlantic City street names.
The Old Steel Pier and the Old Atlantic City, Steel - Pier.com.
"Atlantic City's famous Rolling Chairs jubilate 125th anniversary today", NJ.com, June 11, 2012.
"Rolling chairs have been an Atlantic City staple since June 11, 1887, introduced at a convention in 1876 and soon after began to be rented out to tourists by small-town businessman William Hayday." "Panel weighs in on future of A.C.'s South Inlet", The Press of Atlantic City, January 14, 2015.
"Atlantic City airshow soars over city's beaches", The Press of Atlantic City, August 17, 2016.
"It was the 14th annual 'Thunder Over the Boardwalk' Atlantic City Airshow, with airboss David Schultz estimating 450,000 citizens lined the Boardwalk, beaches and oceanfront buildings from Brigantine to Ocean City." 2016 Miss'd America Pageant, Greater Atlantic City GLBT Alliance.
"Miss'd America pageant finds new home in Atlantic City's Borgata", The Press of Atlantic City, May 22, 2015.
The pageant has been held in recent years at Boardwalk Hall, Harrah's Resort and House of Blues at Showboat Casino Hotel since first returning to Atlantic City in 2010.
"HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' uses New York as a stand-in for Atlantic City, Chicago and Los Angeles", New York Daily News, September 8, 2010.
"Press documentary 'Boss of the Boardwalk' chronicles the life and times of Nucky Johnson", The Press of Atlantic City, August 20, 2010.
Resorts Atlantic City to adopt 1920s infamous in nod to 'Boardwalk Empire' The Star-Ledger, October 7, 2010.
Tours of Nucky Johnson's one-time home are now being offered as Boardwalk Empire mania continues to sweep the city.", Atlantic City Weekly, November 10, 2010.
The Press of Atlantic City, June 30, 2011.
"'Boardwalk Empire' facade unveiled on Atlantic City Boardwalk to hundreds of spectators", The Press of Atlantic City, August 1, 2011.
"New Jersey has five no-charge guarded ocean beaches Atlantic City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and the Strathmere section of Upper Township." "The Faulkner Act: New Jersey's Optional Municipal Charter Law", New Jersey State League of Municipalities, July 2007.
Elected Officials, Atlantic City.
City Council, City of Atlantic City.
2015 Municipal User Friendly Budget, City of Atlantic City.
Municipal Governments in Atlantic County, Atlantic County, New Jersey, updated June 2, 2016.
General Election November 3, 2015 Official Results, Atlantic County, New Jersey Clerk.
General Election November 5, 2013 Official Results, Atlantic County, New Jersey Clerk.
"Atlantic City mayor was at Carrier Clinic", The Star-Ledger, October 9, 2007.
"The mayor of Atlantic City whose mysterious absence sparked political chaos and nationwide intrigue was at a rehabilitation facility in Somerset County, his attorney said today.
Robert Levy spent the start of his 13-day disappearance from enhance life at the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, his attorney told the Press of Atlantic City for a report on its Web site." "Marsh is sworn in as Atlantic City mayor", The Star-Ledger, October 11, 2007.
"Atlantic City City Council President William 'Speedy' Marsh was sworn in as the resort's mayor Wednesday afternoon by City Clerk Rosemary Adams, as stated to a report in the Press of Atlantic City.
2013 Atlantic County District Map, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Board of Chosen Freeholders, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
County Executive, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
John Carman, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Richard Dase, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Will Pauls, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
2014 Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Atlantic County Surrogate's Court, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Constitutional Officers, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
Voter Registration Summary - Atlantic, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 23, 2011.
Presidential November 6, 2012 General Election Results - Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 15, 2013.
Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast November 6, 2012 General Election Results - Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 15, 2013.
2008 Presidential General Election Results: Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 23, 2008.
2004 Presidential Election: Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 13, 2004.
2013 Governor: Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, January 29, 2014.
Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast November 5, 2013 General Election Results : Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, January 29, 2014.
2009 Governor: Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 31, 2009.
"30 Years of Casino Gaming", The Press of Atlantic City, May 25, 2008.
"Casinos, executives take over accomplishments to market Atlantic City", The Press of Atlantic City, April 26, 201.
"The Atlantic City Alliance, a nonprofit entity funded and directed by small-town casinos and their executives, will assume most of the city's marketing duties and media services previously handled by the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, which will focus on burgeoning convention business." "Atlantic City Special Improvement District votes to dissolve, transfer assets to CRDA", The Press of Atlantic City, April 18, 2011.
Atlantic City Firefighters ACFD History.
Acting Chief Vincent Granese, Atlantic City.
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Home Page, Atlantic City Police Department.
District knowledge for Atlantic City School District, National Center for Education Statistics.
School Data for the Atlantic City School District, National Center for Education Statistics.
Venice Park School, Atlantic City School District.
Brighton Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
Chelsea Heights School, Atlantic City School District.
School Complex, Atlantic City School District.
New York Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
Pennsylvania Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
"Community Updates: Pennsylvania Avenue School and More" Archived August 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine., Atlantic City Weekly, October 8, 2012.
"The new Pennsylvania Avenue School (PAS) is a long-awaited addition to the Atlantic City School System....
Richmond Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
Sovereign Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
Texas Avenue School, Atlantic City School District.
Uptown School Complex, Atlantic City School District.
Atlantic City High School, Atlantic City School District.
New Jersey School Directory for the Atlantic City Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education.
Atlantic City Public School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education.
"Our Pre-K through 8th undertaking schools serve Atlantic City, while our high school serves the students of Atlantic City, Ventnor, Brigantine, Margate and Longport." "Students, teachers bid farewell to method Oceanside Charter School", The Press of Atlantic City, June 18, 2013.
"Photos were taken down off bulletin boards and tears streamed down cheeks Tuesday at the very last, last day of school at Oceanside Charter School in Atlantic City.
Atlantic County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010.
Links and Information for those Visiting Atlantic City, City of Atlantic City.
Atlantic City station, NJ Transit.
Atlantic City Rail Line, NJ Transit.
"NJ Transit board approves New York Atlantic City Express Rail Service", NJ Transit press release, June 19, 2006.
Atlantic City Bus Terminal, NJ Transit.
Jitney Route Map, Atlantic City Jitney Association.
Atlanti - Care Regional Medical Center: Atlantic City Campus, Atlanti - Care Regional Medical Center City Division.
"Atlanti - Care Regional Medical Center's Atlantic City Campus was Atlantic City's first hospital, established in 1898." "Atlantic City cooling plant slashes electricity costs with innovative technology", The Press of Atlantic City, July 6, 2014.
About Us, Atlantic City Electric.
"Atlantic City wind turbines turn into a tourist attraction", The Press of Atlantic City, June 12, 2011.
Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm, Atlantic City Utilities Authority.
Soars in wind energy projects; four offshore farms in the works could generate 1,100 megawatts", The Press of Atlantic City', October 8, 2010.
"Christie enacts law allowing windmills on piers along New Jersey coast, including on Steel Pier in Atlantic City", The Press of Atlantic City, February 8, 2011.
"Atlantic City (1980)", The New York Times, April 3, 1981.
"Atlantic City, Louis Malle's fine new movie, may be one of the most romantic and perverse ghost stories ever filmed, set not in a haunted castle but in a haunted city, the intact Atlantic City, a point of transit where the dead and the living meet briefly, sometimes even make love, and then continue on their individual ways." "Penn Teller Get Killed (1989) Review/Film; Antic Duo in Atlantic City: Magic a la Penn and Teller", The New York Times, September 22, 1989.
GETS FAIR SHARE OF EXPOSURE IN 'ROUNDERS'", The Press of Atlantic City, September 8, 1998.
"Atlantic City may never again get the star treatment it received from director Louis Malle in 1980 with his dreamy, bittersweet film Atlantic City.
"Televised from the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey." "Brian (Foul Play) Dennehy is a large, rumpled, divorced Atlantic City home detective whose job is threatened by the conversion of the town/city into a gambling resort." "It will be filmed at the Trump Castle Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., and will feature three contestants trying to answer questions and thereby filling in their 'Trump Card' a box of 15 squares." Ruckus was played each day in Atlantic City at Resorts International in front of 700 fans -- the biggest audience in game show history.
"The critically-acclaimed initial dramatic tv series from HBO, Boardwalk Empire tells the story of corruption that takes place in Atlantic City, New Jersey amid the Prohibition era." "While taping the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion special at Atlantic City's Borgata hotel September 7, the costars interval even further apart when cookbook author Giudice, 40, accused her ex-BFF, 41, of hiding her own Las Vegas stripper past, a origin tells the new copy of Us Weekly." "When an Atlantic City casino stature turns up dead with a ring of eight dollar bills around his head, the BAU is called in to investigate the ritualistic killing." "Castle, Ryan and Esposito follow Captain Gates' orders and head to Atlantic City to investigate the murder of the Sapphire Casino owner Sam Seagal, who was found on an abandoned New York City dock with a fat lip and a bullet wound to the chest shot at close range." In the video, Guru, DJ Premier and Nice & Smooth head to Atlantic City where they chill on the boardwalk and mack with the fly girls." "The Death and Life of Atlantic City; Zeno's paradox down the shore.", The New Yorker, September 7, 2015.
"For a while, it was home to some of the world's grandest hotels (the Marlborough-Blenheim was the biggest reinforced-concrete building in the world, and was later imploded in the music video for Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City'), as well as some of its more ardent iniquities and diversions.
"Born in Atlantic City, N.J., Abramoff, 46, graduated from Brandeis University and Georgetown University Law Center." He interval up in the Atlantic City of the 1950s and 60s, before casinos brought tourist dollars and jobs." "ACHIEVEMENTS / JAMES AVERY RETURNS HOME TO ACCEPT AWARD FROM NJEA", The Press of Atlantic City, November 10, 2001.
"Transport: Atlantic City Dream", Time (magazine), November 5, 1934.
"Longtime dream of Atlantic City's Mayor Harry Bacharach has been a new barns station for 'America's Playground.' After serving on the Atlantic City Council (1907 1911), he was propel to the State Assembly (1913) and the US Congress (1915)." 4, 1931, and raised in Atlantic City.
Bryant returned to Atlantic City, was propel to the City Commission two years later and was City Commissioner of Revenue and Finance until 1980." "Harry Carroll, the composer of such enduring standards as I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Trail of the Lonesome Pine and By the Beautiful Sea, was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on November 28, 1892." Cash was born in Atlantic City and attended City College of New York." "ATLANTIC CITY; Land and the Law", The New York Times, August 2, 1998.
"ON July 20, Judge Richard Williams of New Jersey Superior Court rejected the use of eminent domain to force Vera Coking, who owns a rooming home, and three other Atlantic City property holders to sell to Donald Trump, saying the seizure would benefit Mr.
He was born in Atlantic City and interval up in Gloucester City." "Cooper was born and raised in Atlantic City and graduated from Atlantic City High School." Farley, whose friends called him 'Hap' was born in Atlantic City on Dec.
D'Amico, Diane."Vera King Farris, Stockton college's longest-serving president, dies after short illness", The Press of Atlantic City, November 29, 2009.
"An Atlantic City native, Farris was titled Stockton's third president in 1983, making her the first black woman college president in New Jersey." "ATLANTIC CITY'S CHRIS FORD TAKES CHARGE OF 76 - ERS / FIRST GAME TONIGHT FOR HOLY SPIRIT GRAD", The Press of Atlantic City, February 11, 2004.
"Born Helen Fogel in Atlantic City, Ms.
"Assemblyman Gaffney was born March 23, 1934, in Atlantic City.
"Born in Atlantic City, NJ, where her parents were working in a specialty act, Garrett literally lived in a trunk backstage the first summer of her life." Accessed November 16, 2013."Marjorie Guthrie was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on October 6, 1917, the fourth of five siblings: Herbert, a merchant marine; Gertrude, an artist; David, a mechanical engineer; and Bernard, a psychiatrist." She appeared on the Boardwalk in 1984, and she eventually moved into a condominium in Atlantic City purchased with the proceeds from her busking." "Hillman interval up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with parents in the hotel company they partly owned the George V in Paris.
Kaprow was born in Atlantic City and began his longterm position as an abstract painter in New York City in the 1940's, studying with Hans Hofmann." "Atlantic City radio legend Pinky Kravitz dead at 88", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 1, 2015.
"The radio man, born in West Virginia, moved to Atlantic City with his family when he was 7.
In 1988, the alumnus of Atlantic City High School told the New York Times that a class bully gave him his famous nickname." Laskin was born June 30, 1936, in Atlantic City.
"Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lawrence moved with his family to Harlem in 1930, where he came into contact with some of the greatest creative and intellectual minds of his generation." "The son of a sweet- manufacturer, Merrill was born in 1921 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but raised in Philadelphia." King Kong Bundy, whose hometown is Atlantic City, as governor of New Jersey?" He attended enhance schools here and was graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1904 and Pennsylvania Law School in 1907." "Alfredo Silipigni was born in Atlantic City on April 9, 1931, a son of Italian immigrants.
"Rex David 'Dave' Thomas was born on July 2, 1932, in Atlantic City, NJ, and was adopted soon afterward by Rex and Auleva Thomas, who lived in Kalamazoo, MI." "When I was 24 and living in Atlantic City, my parents helped me pack up what little stuff I owned into the back of their pickup truck and dropped me off on the corner of One-hundred-second Street and Broadway, where I had found a sublet for $575 a month in the classifieds of The New York Times." "Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept.
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