If you go back on more street towards the bay Atlantic Avenue , that’s where it really gets dangerous. It’s still well lit because of the casinos and parking garages . A street back is very dark with beer and alcohol shops , very dark crowded with hoods and your walk down there you would have been molested by drunks , panhandlers and addicts . It’s great that you are covering Atlantic City but you are still a block away from the crime ridden streets, not to mention Atlantic City has a lot of public housing projects which are extremely dangerous. The casinos and tourists are prime pickings for the local criminals. Theft of property in parking car garages is rampant especially in Ballys .
Tourist walks through A noon safe area of Atlantic City, makes video, and claims Atlantic City is safe. What a bust. This is bogus. As someone that lives in the area, walk the rest of Atlantic City... If you're brave enough. That City ain't safe LOL
Just starting this. Lol. You said The good side of AC. I grew up coming down here in summers. And then when I was 23. I moved to Margate full time. But. With the housing market had to move offshore last year. So I've been here 24 years now! My first job was at Trump Plaza!!!! Looking fwd to this!
I do notice some street calming design to slow traffic. Still, too many fast food restraints have drive throughs. Those drive throughs create all kinds of serious traffic backup issues and parking lot hazards. Good chance the Duncan Donuts did not bother getting a drive through or failed to get a permit to put one in. That small brutalist architecture department store block could be renovated to have corner windows and corner lobby to make that intersection look more inviting and dynamic. Definitely more pedestrian friendly street design
It looks like a lot of money spent on half a dozen sketchy businesses like mattress stores and nail salons. Who paid for all this and why? The sidewalk work looks amazing and first class but I have to question why? The city treasury must be overflowing with cash.
The metal pipes sticking up are conduits for electric, because of the location, I'm guessing they are for bus stop shelters? Yes, they won't go up to the buildings because of property lines, and the risk of disrupting foundations. They also replaced a lot of infrastructure like sewer and water, so they likely went back far enough to access those. I'd hate to see those local businesses fold from the impact if construction, and then be replaced by franchises... Thanks, Frank!
Great video, everything you said was spot on and the knowledge was impressive. You are a true Atlantic citian lol. My aunt was a blackjack dealer at the ballys around the 2007 and when i tell you Atlantic city was hustling and busting back then the boardwalk was super packed and the pier boat mall was amazing with the mc donalds on the second floor. Music blasting the boardwalk performers doing their thing. Oh man the good old days 😢😂
Ocean one mall demolition was a tragedy…. They should’ve just fixed what was there and modernized it. Instead, they built the Ritz-Carlton of malls that no one could afford or care about and now it’s basically empty save for that movie studio thing.
When I was playing in AC in the 1980’s, I would stay at Harrahs as I had a very nice Korean female casino host there. When I wasn’t gambling at Harrahs, my other favorite was Del Webb's Claridge Hotel & Casino. From the boardwalk you had Bally’s to the left, and the Golden Nugget on the right. I played in every casino on the boardwalk.
@@victorfrankenstein50202 they moved it to the casino floor for a while and then closed it….the space on the casino floor was converted to a new (really nice) high limit slots area.
I was there today they did a test opening of the Tropicana and you're right about the family that wouldn't sell that house and he built around it it cost him actually millions of dollars to get the design adjusted to go over and around her it's crazy
Revel's interior design was designed to appeal Gen Z inheritors. There are more than half a million men and women in their 20's who are starting off in life with over $5 million in stocks and bond, inherited from their parents and grandparents. Most of them rarely gamble. Now that it's Ocean, there are still very few young people with big dollars gambling there -- they go to the Borgata. Morgan Stanley told the architects what they wanted and the architects did NOT tell Morgan Stanley that what MS wanted wouldn't work. They were glad to get paid. The long escalators are exciting, but also frightening; most casino patrons stopped going to amusement parks decades ago. Revel's lobby furniture was very uncomfortable for any one in their 30's or older. The long corridors from the parking garage to the hotel elevators and from the hotel to the casino floor were completely bare on all sides -- walking through felt like being in an early James Bond film with Odd Job going to come out of nowhere to slice your head off. When the place was completely full, at most hours of the day, anyone walking in those corridors was walking alone; a very distressing feeling. There was no place to sit in those long corridors and there still isn't. Most people over 50 need to rest after walking 200 feet or so, and most everyone over 60 needs a break after a quarter mile of walking -- that's not there. When it was Revel, the comp cards initially did not even have the casino's phone number on the card. When you did call, after googling for the hotel phone number, you didn't reach a call center at the hotel, or even in the USA. You reached people in Hyderabad who all had good ol' boy nicknames like Tex or Jake who were trained to understand Texas and Southern accents, not Philadelphia or New York. Casino patrons are lonely people. Revel was designed to have low labor costs with as little human interaction as possible involved in making a reservation and checking into a room. The whole process made people going there to gamble feel worse, not better, well before they placed any bets.
Second or third highest rate of crime in the state, good old getto AC. After a neighbor got mugged during afternoon a block from a casino a police officer said they only two safe places in AC are directly in front of Casinos and part of the boardwalk during daylight. No thanks. Was a nice place back in the day.
Atlantic city IS a nice place. if you don't go looking for trouble and stay in the tourist areas, the boardwalk beach and casinos. not saying some parts of the city arent extremely nice though.
I'm from a small town in GA, I was staying at Caesars for my birthday in May, I wanted to go to the Tropicana after a few hours of gambling at Caesars, it's about 1130pm, I could see the Tropicana from Caesars, so I figured, I'd take a walk there, well I took the elevator down to what I thought was the 1st floor of the hotel, it was actually like a basement floor, when I walked out the door, it LOCKED on me and I couldn't get back in (No key pad on this door) I was in a very dark alley behind Caesars and homeless ppl were EVERYWHERE, I had 5k in my pocket (Needless to say I was panicking, I had no weapon on me) I'm a big guy 6'2, 265 and in pretty good shape, so I walked with my head up and pretended to know where I was going, I was actually lost in this alleys behind Caesars and got turned around, I eventually saw Tropicana and decided walk there (not knowing it was further than I thought) I was not on the boardwalk, but I guess a side street similar to where this guy is, not many tourists on the street, just locals and homeless ppl, I was terrified inside, because I had this cash on me and NO WEAPON, eventually I made it to Tropicana, gambled a little was thinking, its no way I'm walking back to Caesars and caught a taxi back, I will never forget my visit to Atlantic City, funny thing is noone said a thing to me, not even the homeless begging for change
