What Happened to Atlantic City?

Thank you for your SUCCINCT and FACTUAL Information on why AC City is doomed. We use to visit often in the 2005-2010 and the place was awesome. The last time we visited prior to COVID, 2019? WAS DISCUSTING. 50% of the people are at least 400 pounds, not 300, 400+ These 50% are riding the boardwalk bus or in those old people carts, RASCALS. Here's the best part, they are drinking sugar sodas, JUST LIKE THE MOVIE. Ever see the movie Wall E - that's AC City.

Hotels are full of bedbugs too.

I came here for the weekend. Haven’t been here since summer the 2012, a few months shy of Hurricane Sandy. I can tell the charm it had when I was last here it’s not the same. This place lost so many attractions and it’s literally nothing here. Idk what happened but coming here this weekend made me realize how much stuff was gone. It’s literally a shit hole.

...As far as I am concerned, you really have NO business whatsoever in a place where the mainstay is gambling - if you DON'T gamble!

I think Atlantic City should re-invent itself like the other Jersey shore areas. Look at Asbury Park. It gambling at one point in time but now it doesn’t and it has become something different. Atlantic City might have to do the same.

Trump 2024

Three things that the federal government did that hurt the city. 1) Running down the hotels along the boardwalk by seizing them and converting them into hospitals for veterans returning home from WW2. 2) An overabundance of federally subsidized low income housing. 3) Requiring sand dunes to be built which eventually blocked the ocean view from the boardwalk.

WHAT HAPPENED IS; NEO NAZI DEMOCRATS. CHEATED TO GET IN OFFICE. AND DESTRYIED OUR ISLAND! NOW WE HAVE. THOUSANDS! OF ILLEGAL ALIENS LIVING IN THE STREETS! DAILY LOOTING. DAILY MUGGINGS. DRUGS. ON EVERY CORNER. DRINKING ALCHOHOL. IN PUBLIC. BEING DRUNK! IN FRONT OF YOUR CHILDREN! WE ARE OVER RUN WITH LGBTWBDS&M SEX CULTISTS. SEEKING ACCESS TO YOUR CHILDREN. AT SHOWBOAT'S WATERPARK WE LOCALS CALL PEDOVILLE.

Sooooo fallout is attracted to this atrocity

The local government of Atlanta City really are frustrating.
Ever since the "success" of the casinos in the late 70's, they've been obsessed with trying to find this next big "Quick Fix" to the city's problems, that simply doesn't exist.
If they really wanted to help the City, they'd address the real issues effecting it like the homeless problem, the drugs, the crime, the lack of jobs outside of tourism and the casinos, and the high cost of living.
If they would address just one or two of these issues, than people would consider coming back and actually have some hope for the city, but they just won't.

Time has changed and economic growth has changed dramatically and Atlantic City won’t be the same ANYMORE

Atlantic City summer 1998 was the bomb memories

Dysfunctional government and a 70% renter population including a 40% poverty rate. If there were a 70% home owner population, the people would throw out the corrupt politicians from office and begin to attract class and elegance that was once there a century ago.

I'm from Ontario Canada me and my friends used to go to Atlantic City all the time. You couldn't pay me to go there now

People got tired of being ripped off by casinos😮 That’s what happens😮

This so sad bc I grew up in Atlantic City and still live pretty close by, I got back all the time. I’m 24 now but when I was growing up there I never new it used to be a much brighter place filled with more life and less crime, always just thought poverty and crime was always how it was. When I got older of course I caught on but it’s just sad to say my home city in such bad condition especially when I got family there still, don’t even get me started on old friends I lost due to crime.

Palumbo finally got there.

There needs to be a new way to get new industry in Atlantic City Beaches need to be cleaned up as well as finding year round traffic not just the summer. Southern New Jersey is a big retirement area so why not increase services in health care and maybe convert hotels into assisted living spaces

Atlantic City New Jersey is a great place to go to gamble and to eat but not a good place to go for a vacation try Ocean City New Jersey

Just go a little farther to Ocean City New Jersey that's still very nice. Atlantic city still makes money. But there's alot of crime, people smoking weed everywhere, people asking you for money. Rude people butting in lines .people being to loud, fighting, chicken bones on the sidewalks. Empty bottle of Hennessey on a boardwalk bench ect...but if you can live with that Atlantic city is good

Why should I go to Atlantic City as Parx Casino is just twenty minutes southwest of New Jersey’s state capital of Trenton in Bensalem, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. It’s closer and more convenient.

I went to Atlantic city when I was 12 years old. My mother and step father took me and my brother there. I remember the time there was laser games there. I wanted to go in the casino but security said no children allowed in the casino.

The real boardwalk empire

Great video! Camden, NJ next stop?

History always repeats itself. Atlantic City will rise again.

Low income losers have entrenched themselves in the residential areas of AC. They breed drug use and crime. Corrupt government doesn't help either.

AC spent a ton of money to build that outlet mall that is a few blocks from the boardwalk, when they should have spent that money to build attractions on the boardwalk where most of the casinos are..

AC straight down the drain. Such a horrible place to visit.

Likely bleek future ? You’re bugging man AC is the East coast Vegas it’s always Gon be there asshole!

Atlantic City is fine i go there a lot and many people are there.

As long as you don't lose money.

It's a real shame they had to blow up a perfectly usable building rather than to repurpose it. I'm not an expert but it seems like the Trump tower could have been repurposed for low-income and senior housing. That way the city could get some property taxes coming in, and the casino workers who live in that hellish, violent city off the boardwalk would have somewhere safe to retire to!

Another obstacle for Atlantic City, as a gambling destination, is the outrageous number of tolls an out-of-stater has to pay just to get there. With local casino's within 1/2 hour from their homes, why would anyone what to pay $60 in tolls and drive 3 hours to get there?

Does anybody know how big the Atlantic City Airport is,I want to go this year to Atlantic City but all the flights say there's a landing Philadelphia and you still have to drive to Atlantic City why do the flights land In Philadelphia ???? is my question Atlantic City still pretty far

In the summer of '72 my Aunt drove my sister and I to Atlantic City from Philly and the whole place was virtually abandoned except for the Boardwalk which was still popular. Really creepy place at the time but we still had fun at the beach.

Those outside casino didn't have the great entertainment back in 90 s where you could see Liza Johnny Mathis top very top entertainers the beach are dirty true
room are good it's entertainment that has failed

What happened to Atlantic City is the same thing that happened to Vegas. It died with the Mob and the Showgirl. Like everything else they touch, Progressives made it boring.

They need to open a hard rock in East Rutherford. Nobody from north jersey wants to drive 2 hrs to go to ac

Get all the smug, corrupt LIBERALS out of AC and it will turn around.

Atlantic city lost its monopoly
But Atlantic city is Monopoly

Monopoly!

Oh, and fun fact: the marina area is far better than the boardwalk area. There's a reason why The Borgata is the best casino in AC. Personally I miss Trump Castle. I really liked that place. My uncle was an iron worker and he helped build many of the casinos like Bally's, Tropicana, the now defunct Playboy, etc.

I grew up and still live not too far from AC(about 30 minutes) and what happened to AC is simple. While there was the casinos, a block off the strip AC is a complete shithole. They were never allowed to get rid of the street performers and panhandlers on the boardwalk and it didn't help to have one corrupt mayor after another. Even with the revenue they got from the casinos they did nothing to improve the city. High crime and crumbling buildings doesn't look too good to tourists. And say what you want about Trump, he did an awful lot for AC starting with the new convention center and tunnel. Oh, and he didn't just bring in boxing. He hosted Wrestlemania's 4 & 5.

Going there as a kid was awesome even not being able to gamble. Boardwalk food in any New Jersey town is the GOAT

Get the spit out of your mouth, stop speaking so close to the mic.

its kinda sad. Atlantic city was really my childhood. I remember every time on a Friday when I was 5 that I would ride an academy bus from new york to ac, which was the best part, and remembering staying in trump plaza(rip) and caesars. I'm now 23 and hopeful to revisit my childhood really soon

It's not the casinos entirely. There was lots of corruption done by the government and the mob (yes the mob exists in NJ). Trump making huge promises to help Atlantic City that didn't happen and forcing AC into more debt. Jobs declining at a rapid pace.

I'd never heard of Atlantic City New Jersey till I watched this video.

I going for Thanksgiving

I went here a few years ago and it was dry. Definitely not what I expected.