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Ocean City and Cape May also lost many homes in the storm with Ocean City's boardwalk suffering significant damage. Larry Savadove devotes a whole chapter in his book Great Storms of the Jersey Shore to the hurricane and the imprint and lore it left on the Jersey Shore. Damage photographed in Atlantic City on 14 September 1944
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Built during 1926–1929, it was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the new Atlantic City Convention Center in 1997.
Trump World's Fair at Trump Plaza was a hotel and casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that occupied 280 feet (85.3 m) of the Atlantic City boardwalk and was 21 floors in height. It had 500 guest rooms. It opened on April 14, 1981, as the Playboy Hotel and Casino, [1] then changed its name in 1984 to Atlantis Hotel and Casino.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (AP) — A fire broke out under the wooden Atlantic City Boardwalk on Wednesday right in front of the entrance to Resorts casino, melting part of its facade and burning the doors.
Atlantic City officials dismantled a notorious homeless encampment beneath its iconic boardwalk, where resourceful drifters had set up surprisingly well-appointed makeshift lodgings, complete with ...
Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The Atlantic City Boardwalk opened on June 26, 1870, [146] a temporary structure erected for the summer season that was the first boardwalk in the world. [147] [148] [149] At 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (8.9 km) long, the Atlantic City Boardwalk is also the world's longest and busiest boardwalk. [150]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — In a place with a long history of people living — and sometimes dying — under the Boardwalk, Atlantic City has launched an effort to address homelessness by ...
High floodwaters temporarily cut off travel between the city and the mainland. High waves destroyed the northern end of the Atlantic City boardwalk, which was already scheduled to be removed. [4] [8] In the city, more than 5,000 housing units were damaged during Sandy, which represented 11% of the statewide number of damaged units. [29]