Oh my gosh this place is one of the worst places on the east coast.

Is this place being destroyed right before our eyes?

Atlantic City. Back in the roaring 20s, this place was called the World’s Playground. The beach, the boardwalk and gambling. There really was nothing like it. However, this city has fallen on hard times over the last couple decades. It has a really bad reputation for crime and blight, and is suffering from a huge loss in tourism. It’s a living breathing decay in progress, happening right now in front of us.

So of course I had to see it. So I went there.

Now we’re going to spend some time looking at the good and the bad parts of Atlantic City. Well, there really isn’t A LOT of good here - once you’re a block from the casinos, it’s pretty rundown. Even the streets NEAR the casinos are kinda shady. Right now, we’re on Pacific Avenue. This is the main drag where most of Atlantic City’s casinos are located. It’s pretty sketch here - there are strip clubs, ghetto bars, liquor stores, and people standing around that look like they’re doing something illegal. You’ll see homeless people, addicts, drunks, rowdy teens, and the mentally ill.

The liquor stores along Pacific Avenue get robbed. Tourists get robbed here. Actually, most of the assaults that take place in Atlantic City happen right here, within viewing distance of these rundown casinos.

Let’s go one street over. Now we’re on Atlantic Avenue - one block further from the boardwalk. This street is bad news, pal. It, too is super sketchy at all hours, but at night - it’s a horror show. It’s dark and seedy and people are doing terrible things in the shadows.

There’s no wonder why Atlantic City got a bad reputation and why hotel bookings are down. This place used to be amazing. For a long time, it was the only place to offer legal gambling outside of Nevada. It’s a short train ride from New York City, and people all over the northeast used to flock here every year.

Now, there’s casinos in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, or people can just fly down to Florida, Myrtle Beach or Virginia Beach.

Plus Hurricane Sandy really did a number on this place.

They were kinda optimistic here for a while. There were some new fancy casino openings, and crime was going down a bit.

This is a good time to transition to the Board Walk. Get it? The Atlantic City boardwalk isn’t that bad during the day. There’s a lot of stuff to get you entertained for an afternoon.
It’s sad to see the world’s first ever boardwalk in such decline. But at least the ocean views are pretty. So that’s cool.

Ok so now we’re going to the bad side of town where all the dangerous neighborhoods are. Let me just say, that practically this entire city is bad. There are some okay streets, but I haven’t really been to a place before where there wasn’t at least one large nice part of town. Everything in Atlantic City - practically every block - is below average run down. Not ghetto ghetto. But ghetto.

There’s a lot of section 8 housing here, and with that comes a lot of drug and gang activity. Lots of hoodlums and pimps. A lot of robberies, assaults and car jackings. Crime here is 12 times higher than the national average per capita.

It’s bad here at night. It’s very rundown and very sad.

A lot of people in these neighborhoods rely on the casinos for their employment. Dealers can make a lot of dough - maybe 25 an hour, plus a hundred bucks a day in tips. Though, most workers at the casinos make minimum wage. At least it’s cheap here - the average home price is $165,000. You can see why.

But the lifeline that the casinos provide residents here has been severed. Due to Covid and bad casino management, Atlantic City has seen some hard times, people. Residents here have been struggling for a long time now, but after Covid, 40% of the population here lives in poverty.

The president of the Atlantic City housing authority said - The landscape in Atlantic City is pretty dire right now.

People are broke and hungry and desperate here.

AC is a dumping ground for ex felons, needle exchanges, welfare recipients and sex offenders. Just look at the list of all the sex offenders who live here. What the what the


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