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Atlantic City, New Jersey Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2008, the city has a population of 35,770, with 266,268 people living in the Atlantic City–Hammonton metropolitan statistical area. The 3 routes into Atlantic City are the Black Horse Pike/Harding Highway (US 322/40), White Horse Pike (US 30) and the Atlantic City Expressway. Atlantic City borders Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville, Ventnor and West Atlantic City (part of Egg Harbor Township).Atlantic City officially became a city in 1854. The new city contained portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township. History Because of its location in South Jersey, hugging the Atlantic Ocean between marshlands and islands, Atlantic City presented itself as prime real estate and a potential resort town for developers. In 1853, the first commercial hotel, The Belloe House, located at Massachusetts and Atlantic Avenue, was built. The city was incorporated in 1854, the same year in which The Camden-Atlantic Railroad train service began. Built on the edge of the bay, this served as the direct link of this remote parcel of land with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By 1874, almost 500,000 passengers a year were coming to Atlantic City by rail. The first boardwalk was built in 1870, along a portion of the beach to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies. Because of its effectiveness and popularity the boardwalk was expanded and modified several times in the following years. The historic length of the boardwalk, before the 1944 hurricane, was about 7 miles (11 km) and it extended from Atlantic City to Longport, through Ventnor and Margate.The first official road from the mainland to the island was completed in 1870, after 17 years of construction. The road, which ran from Pleasantville, had a $.30 toll. The first free road was Albany Ave., constructed over the meadows from Pleasantville.By 1878 because of the growing popularity of the city, one railroad line could no longer keep up with demand. Soon, the Philadelphia-Atlantic City railroad & the Reading railroad was constructed to transport tourists to Atlantic City. At this point massive hotels like The United States and the Surf House, as well as smaller rooming houses, had sprung up all over town. The United States Hotel took up a full city block between Atlantic Ave, Pacific Ave, Delaware Ave, and Maryland Ave. These hotels were not only impressive in size, but featured the most updated amenities, and were considered quite luxurious for their time. On Wednesday June 16, 1880, Atlantic City was formally opened.In the 1920s, with tourism at its peak, many historians consider this decade Atlantic City's golden age. During prohibition, liquor flowed freely and gambling regularly took place in the back rooms of nightclubs and restaurants. This era in the city's history has inspired the HBO Original Series Boardwalk Empire. Historic hotels During the early part of the 20th century, Atlantic City went through a radical building boom. Many of the modest boarding houses that dotted the boardwalk were replaced with large hotels. Two of the city’s most distinctive hotels were the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel and the Traymore Hotel.In 1903, Josiah White III bought a parcel of land near Ohio Avenue and the boardwalk and built the Queen Anne style Marlborough House. The hotel was a hit and, in 1905–06, he chose to expand the hotel and bought another parcel of land next door to his Marlborough House. In an effort to make his new hotel a source of conversation, White hired the architectural firm of Price and McLanahan. The firm made use of reinforced concrete, a new building material invented by Jean-Louis Lambot in 1848 (Joseph Monier received the patent in 1867). The hotel’s Spanish and Moorish themes, capped off with its signature dome and chimneys, represented a step forward from other hotels that had a classically designed influence. White named the new hotel the Blenheim and merged the two hotels into the Marlborough-Blenheim. Bally's Atlantic City was later constructed at this location.The Traymore Hotel was located at the corner of Illinois Avenue and the boardwalk. Begun in 1879 as a small boarding house, the hotel grew through a series of uncoordinated expansions. By 1914, the hotel’s owner, Daniel White, taking a hint from the Marlborough-Blenheim, commissioned the firm of Price and McLanahan to build an even bigger hotel. Sixteen stories high, the tan brick and gold-capped hotel would become one of the city’s best-known landmarks. The hotel made use of ocean-facing hotel rooms by jutting its wings farther from the main portion of the hotel along Pacific Avenue.One by one, additional large hotels were constructed along the boardwalk, including the Brighton, Chelsea, Shelburne, Ambassador, Ritz Carlton, Mayflower, Madison House, and the Breakers. The Quaker-owned Chalfonte House, opened in 1868, and Haddon House, opened in 1869, flanked North Carolina Avenue at the beach end. Their original wood-frame structures would be enlarged, and even moved closer to the beach, over the years. The modern Chalfonte Hotel, eight stories tall, opened in 1904. The modern Haddon Hall was built in stages and was completed in 1929, at eleven stories. By this time, they were under the same ownership and merged into the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, becoming the city's largest hotel with nearly 1,000 rooms. By 1930, the Claridge, the city's last large hotel before the casinos, opened its doors. The 400-room Claridge was built by a partnership that included renowned Philadelphia contractor John McShain. At 24 stories, it would become known as the 'Skyscraper By The Sea.' Piers Ocean Pier was built in Atlantic City in 1882. Other famous piers included the Steel Pier, opened in 1898, and which once billed itself as 'The Showplace of the Nation.' It now finds itself opposite Trump Taj Mahal and is used as an amusement pier. The Million Dollar Pier opened in 1906 and is now opposite Caesars Casino and houses the Pier Shops at Caesars. The Garden Pier once housed a movie theater, and is now home to the Atlantic City Historical Society and an Arts Center. Steeplechase Pier, strictly for amusements, once existed just west of Steel Pier. Heinz Pier, located just east of the Garden Pier, was famous for its Pickle Pins, but was destroyed in the Hurricane of 1944. 1964 Democratic National Convention The city hosted the 1964 Democratic National Convention which nominated Lyndon Johnson for President and Hubert Humphrey as Vice President. The ticket won easily that November. 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 period of economic decline. Many felt that the friendship between Johnson and the Governor of New Jersey at that time, Richard J. Hughes, led Atlantic City to host the Democratic Convention. Decline and resurgence Like many older east coast cities after World War II, Atlantic City became plagued with poverty, crime, corruption, and disinvestment in the mid to late 20th century. The neighborhood known as the 'Inlet' became particularly impoverished. The reasons for the resort's decline were multi-layered. The automobile became available to many Americans after the war. Atlantic City had initially relied upon visitors coming by train and staying for a couple of weeks. The car allowed them to come and go as they pleased, and many people would spend only a few days, rather than weeks. Also, the advent of suburbia played a huge role. With many families moving to their own private houses, luxuries such as home air conditioning and swimming pools diminished their interest in flocking to the beach during the hot summer. Perhaps the biggest factor in the decline in Atlantic City's popularity came from cheap, fast jet service to other premiere resorts. Places such as Miami Beach and Nassau, Bahamas superseded Atlantic City as favored vacation spots.By the late 1960s, many of the resort's great hotels, which were suffering from embarrassing vacancy rates, were either closed, converted to cheap apartments, or converted to nursing home facilities. Prior to and during the advent of legalized gaming, many of these hotels were demolished. The Breakers, the Chelsea, the Brighton, the Shelburne, the Mayflower, the Traymore, and the Marlborough Blenheim were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s. Of all the pre-casino resorts that bordered the boardwalk, only the Claridge, the Dennis (now part of Bally's Atlantic City) the Ritz-Carlton (now a large condo complex no longer owned by the Ritz-Carlton company, known as the 'Ritz AC') and the Haddon Hall (now Resorts Atlantic City) survive to this day. The old Ambassador Hotel was extensively renovated to become the Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City, removing the Ambassador's distinctive brick facade, and replacing it with a more modern one. Smaller hotels off the boardwalk also survived. Legalized gambling In an effort at revitalizing the city, New Jersey voters in 1976 approved casino gambling for Atlantic City; this came after a 1974 referendum on legalized gambling failed to pass. The Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel was converted into the Resorts International; it was the first legal casino in the eastern United States when it opened on May 26, 1978. Other casinos were soon added along the Boardwalk and later in the marina district for a total of eleven today. The introduction of gambling did not, however, quickly eliminate many of the urban problems that plagued Atlantic City. Many have argued that it only served to magnify those problems, as evidenced in the stark contrast between tourism-intensive areas and the adjacent impoverished working-class neighborhoods. In addition, Atlantic City has played second-fiddle to Las Vegas, Nevada, as a gambling mecca in the United States, although in the late 1970s and 1980s, when Las Vegas was experiencing a massive drop in tourism due to crime, particularly the Mafia's role, and other economic factors, Atlantic City was favored over Las Vegas. The rise of Mike Tyson in boxing, having most of his fights in Atlantic City in the '80s, also helped Atlantic City's popularity. Modern Day Atlantic City With the redevelopment of modern day Las Vegas in the early 90's, Atlantic City's tourism began to slide. Determined to expand, in 1999 the Atlantic City Re-development Authority partnered with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to develop a new roadway to a barren track of land in what is now the Marina district. Nicknamed 'The Tunnel Project', Steve Wynn planned the proposed 'Mirage Atlantic City' around the idea that he would connect the $330 million 2.5-mile (4.0 km) tunnel from the Atlantic City Expressway to his new resort. Before completion, the roadway was later named the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector. This would funnel incoming traffic off the expressway into the city's marina district and Brigantine, New Jersey.Although Wynn's plans for development in the city were scrapped in 2002, once Atlantic City's newest casino The Borgata opened in July 2003, its success brought an influx of developers to Atlantic City with plans on building grand mega casinos to revitalize the aging city. But due to economic conditions and the late-2000s recession, many proposed casinos never moved further than the initial planning stages. Much disappointment came to the region when MGM Resorts International announced that it would pull out of all development for Atlantic City, effectively killing their plans for City Center East.With plans to develop their own mega casino, Pinnacle Entertainment purchased the Sands Atlantic City, permanently closing it on November 11, 2006. The following year, the resort was then demolished in a dramatic, Las-Vegas styled implosion, the first of its kind in Atlantic City. While Pinnacle Entertainment intended to replace it with a $1.5–2 billion casino resort on 18 acres anticipated to open by 2011, harsh economic times later caused the company to delay construction indefinitely. In February 2010, the company announced that it had canceled its construction plans and would instead seek to sell the land.In 2006, Morgan Stanley purchased 20 acres directly north of the Showboat Atlantic City Hotel and Casino for a new $2 billion-plus casino resort., Revel Entertainment Group was named as the project's developer for an unofficially named Revel Casino. On Thursday, January 29, 2009, Revel Entertainment announced that it would delay interior construction and slow exterior work on the casino due to the poor state of the economy. Another blow to the company happened in April 2010 when Morgan Stanley, the owner of 90% of Revel Entertainment Group, decided to discontinue funding for continued construction and put its stake in Revel up for sale, walking away from its $932 million investment. As of July 2010, Revel has completed a large majority of exterior work and has put construction in the interior on an indefinite pause. Currently, Revel Entertainment Group is applying for a NJ tax break for its stalled mega-casino hotel to help close a billion-dollar financing gap and get the project completed. It is rumored to be opened in 2012.For the first time since 24 hour gaming began, gambling halted on July 5, 2006, at 8.00 am, during the 2006 New Jersey State Government Shutdown mandated by the state constitution when the legislature failed to present a budget. The casinos generally remained open for entertainment and hotel services, but ceased gambling functions due to the absence of state regulators. The casinos resumed gambling functions at 7:00 p.m. on July 8, 2006.In 2007, a 75 percent smoking ban imposed by Atlantic City's City Council went into effect, limiting smoking to no more than 25 percent of the casino floor. Casino operators, especially Donald Trump, have claimed that the ban places Atlantic City casinos at a competitive disadvantage with casinos in neighboring states and is leading to a revenue decline.In July 2010, Governor Chris Christie announced that a state take over of the city and local government 'was imminent'. Comparing regulations in Atlantic City to an 'antique car', Atlantic City regulatory reform is a key piece of Gov. Chris Christie's plan, unveiled on July 22, to reinvigorate an industry mired in a four-year slump in revenue and hammered by fresh competition from casinos in the surrounding states of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut The boardwalk of today, now with its planks placed in a unique herringbone pattern, are laid on a substructure of concrete and steel. The combined length of the Atlantic City and Ventnor boardwalks—the boardwalk now ends at the Ventnor/Margate border—is approximately 5.75 miles (9.25 km). It is currently the world's longest boardwalk.It is also worth noting that Atlantic City is home to New Jersey's first wind farm. The Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm consists of five 1.5 megawatt turbine towers, each almost 400 feet (120 m) high. Casino resorts Atlantic City is considered the 'Gambling Capital of the East Coast' and is second to Las Vegas in number of casinos, revenue, & size. Gaming revenue casino hotels According to New Jersey Casino Control Commission The last time that industry wide revenue was under $4 billion was 1997 and under $3 billion was 1991.Legally, the casinos must have a minimum of 500 rooms, but most have many more. To counter the depression and encourage more hotel construction NJ State Sen. James Whelan,will introduce legislation in 2010 allowing four small casinos to be built in Atlantic City with at least 200 hotel rooms.In accordance with NJ state law 5:12-82e, no casino license shall be issued to or held by a person if the Commission determines that such issuance or holding will result in undue economic concentration in Atlantic City casino operations by that person. The percentage of a year's gaming revenue is only one of several variables that the commission is permitted to use.Non-gaming revenue is 30% of gaming revenue. In 2008 non gaming revenue was $1.34 billion, but promotional allowances were $1.36 billion. Atlantic City is unlike the Las Vegas strip where non-gaming revenue exceeds gaming revenue. Casino Hotels Under Construction In 2006, afterMorgan Stanleypurchased 20 acres (81,000 m2) directly north of theShowboat Atlantic CityHotel and Casino for a $2 billion-plus resort casino.,Revel Entertainment Groupwas named as the project's developer for an unofficially namedRevel Casino. The resort will feature up to 2 hotel towers, Atlantic City's first Vegas-style wedding chapel and more. On Thursday, January 29, 2009, Revel Entertainment announced that it would delay interior construction and slow exterior work on the casino due to the poor state of the economy.In April 2010, Morgan Stanley, the owner of 90% of Revel Entertainment Group, decided to discontinue funding for continued construction and put its stake in Revel up for sale, walking away from its $932 million investment. As of July 2010, Revel has completed a large majority of exterior work and has put construction in the interior on an indefinite pause. Currently,Revel Entertainment Groupis applying for a NJ tax break for its stalled mega-casino hotel to help close a billion-dollar financing gap and get the project completed. It is rumored to be opened in 2012. Planned casino hotels On March 23, 2010,Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida, has said it is interested in building aHard Rock Atlantic City,a potential $300 million dollar planned resort. The location has been indicated as the Boardwalk and Albany Avenue, near the eastern terminus ofU.S. Route 322andU.S. Route 40, known locally as theBlack Horse Pike. Hard Rock had shown interest after New Jersey SenatorJim Whelanintroduced legislation a day before to allow “small-scale” casinos with less than 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) and at least 200 rooms, with expansion requirements. Delayed casino hotels AC Gateway LLC, a development group headed by formerPark Place EntertainmentCEO Wallace Barr and formerCasino Reinvestment Development AuthorityExecutive Director Curtis Bashaw, planned to build a US$1.5 to $2 billion casino, hotel and entertainment complex to be known asAtlantic Beach Resort & Casino.The complex was to be constructed on land south of theAtlantic City Hiltonthat was purchased from Hilton's parent company,Colony Capital. The tract included the site of the formerAtlantic City High Schooland the planned but failed Dunes casino. In February 2010, Bashaw indicated that the group was closer to building in the $200 million to $300 million range. Canceled casino hotels Pinnacle Entertainmentpurchased theSands Atlantic City, at the time Atlantic City's smallest casino, and permanently closed it on November 11, 2006 at 6:00 AM. The resort was demolished in a dramatic, Las-Vegas styled implosion which took place on Thursday, October 18, 2007. The company intended to replace it with a $1.5–2 billion casino resort on 18 contiguous oceanfront acres, which was anticipated to open by 2011. Harsh economic times later caused the company to delay construction indefinitely.In February 2010, the company announced that it had canceled its construction plans and would instead seek to sell the land. Geography Atlantic City is located at 39°21′54″N 74°26′21″W / 39.364966°N 74.439034°W / 39.364966; -74.439034.Atlantic City is located on 8.1-mile (13.0 km) long Absecon Island, along with Ventnor City, Margate City and Longport to the southwest.The city has a total area, according to the United States Census Bureau, of 17.4 square miles (45 km2), of which, 11.4 square miles (30 km2) of it is land and 6.0 square miles (16 km2) of it (34.58%) is water. Climate Atlantic City has a humid subtropical climate and an average of 205 sunshine days annually.Summers are typically warm and humid with average high temperatures of 75–81 °F (24–27 °C) and lows of 64–70 °F (18–21 °C), however in the summer, Atlantic City gets a sea breeze off the ocean that makes temperature stay slightly cooler than inland areas. Temperatures exceed 90 °F (32 °C) an average of 18 days a year in the summer and drop down to 10 °F (−12 °C) for 10 days a year in the winter. Winters are mild with average high temperatures of 41–46 °F (5–8 °C) and lows of 29–34 °F (-2–1 °C). Spring and autumn are erratic, although they are usually mild with low humidity.Annual precipitation is 38 inches (965.20 mm) which is fairly spread throughout the year. Due to its close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and its location in South Jersey, Atlantic City receives less snow than a good portion of the rest of New Jersey. The city averages only 16 inches (40.64 cm) of snowfall each winter. It is not uncommon for rain to fall in Atlantic City while the northern and western parts of the state are receiving snow. Demographics As of the 2006-2008 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates, Atlantic City had 34,769 people. The racial makeup of the city was 24.0% White, 41.7% Black or African American, 14.9% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 18.3% from other races, and 0.6% from two or more races. 24.1% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 19.2% of the population was non-Hispanic whites.There were a total of 20,637 housing units, with 23.9% of them vacant. Atlantic City's unemployment rate was 12.8%. The city had 26.3% of all people living below the poverty line, including 35.2% of those under 18 and 22.5% of those over 65. 61.2% speak only English, while 21.3% of the population speaks Spanish.As of the census of 2000, there were 40,517 people, 15,848 households, and 8,700 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,569.8 people per square mile (1,378.3/km2). There were 20,219 housing units at an average density of 1,781.4/sq mi (687.8/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 44.16% Black or African American, 26.68% White, 0.48% Native American, 10.40% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 13.76% from other races, and 4.47% from two or more races. 24.95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 19.44% of the population was non-Hispanic whites.There were 15,848 households out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 24.8% were married couples living together, 23.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.1% were non-families. 37.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.26.In the city the population was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males.The median income for a household in the city was $26,969, and the median income for a family was $31,997. Males had a median income of $25,471 versus $23,863 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,402. About 19.1% of families and 23.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.1% of those under age 18 and 18.9% of those age 65 or over. Local government Atlantic City is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.The City Council is the governing body of Atlantic City. Members of Council are elected to serve for a term of four years. There are nine Councilmembers, one from each of six wards and three serving at-large. 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, Councilmembers review budgets submitted by the Mayor; provide for an annual audit of the City’s accounts and financial transactions; organize standing committees and hold public hearings to address important issues which impact Atlantic City.The current Mayor is Lorenzo T. Langford. As of 2010[update], members of the City Council are G. Bruce Ward (1st ward), Marty Small (2nd ward), Vice-President Steven L. Moore (3rd ward), President William 'Speedy' Marsh (4th ward), Dennis Mason (5th ward), Timothy Mancuso (6th ward), Moisse Delgado (at-large), Frank M. Gilliam Jr. (at-large) and George Tibbitt (at-large). Mayoral disappearance and resignation Following questions about false claims he had made about his military record, Mayor Bob Levy left City Hall in September 2007 in a city-owned vehicle for an unknown destination. After a 13 day absence, his lawyer revealed that Levy was in Carrier Clinic, a rehabilitation hospital. Levy resigned in October 2007 and then-Council President William Marsh assumed the office of Mayor and served the six-week remainder of his term. Federal, state and county representation Atlantic City is in the 2nd Congressional district. New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Frank LoBiondo (R, Ventnor City). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).Atlantic City is in the 2nd legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature, which is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Jim Whelan (D, Atlantic City), and in the Assembly by John F. Amodeo (R, Margate) and Vincent J. Polistina (R, Egg Harbor Township).Dennis Levinson is Atlantic County's Executive.The Board of Chosen Freeholders, the county's legislature, consists of nine members elected to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with three seats coming up for election each year. As of 2010, the current Board of Chosen Freeholders members are:Alisa Cooper, Freeholder At-Large (2011) ChairmanJames Curcio, 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. (2012) Richard Dase, Freeholder District 4, including Absecon, Brigantine, Galloway Township and Port Republic. (2010) Frank Giordano, Freeholder At-Large (2012) Charles Garrett, Freeholder District 1, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part) and Pleasantville. (2010) Joseph McDevitt, Freeholder At-Large (2010) Frank Formica, Freeholder District 2, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part), Longport, Margate, Somers Point and Ventnor. (2012) Jim Schroeder, Freeholder At-Large (2011) Frank Sutton, Freeholder District 3, including Egg Harbor Township (part), Hamilton Township (part), Linwood and Northfield. (2011) The New Jersey Casino Control Commission is headquartered in the Arcade Building at Tennessee Avenue and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Education The Atlantic City School District serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Brighton Avenue School for preschool (72 students), eight K-8 elementary schools — Chelsea Heights School (383), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Complex (613), New Jersey Avenue School (403), New York Avenue School (587), Richmond Avenue School (378), Sovereign Avenue School (792), Texas Avenue School (411) and Uptown School Complex (732) — Atlantic City High School for grades 9-12 (2,574), along with Venice Park School (35) and Viking Academy.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.Oceanside Charter School, which offers pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, was founded in 1999.Our Lady Star of the Sea Regional School is a Catholic elementary school, operated under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Camden.Nearby colleges in the area include Atlantic Cape Community College and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Sports On November 16, 2006, Hal Handel, CEO of Greenwood Racing, announced that the Atlantic City Race Course would increase live racing dates from four days per year, to up to 20 days per year. www.saveacrc.com has been actively involved in expanding racing at the Atlantic City Race Course and created the movement to bring full time racing back to ACRC in 2005. Newspapers and magazines The Press of Atlantic City(official website) GoAC.com(official website) Atlantic City Weekly(official website) Su Voz(official website) Casino Connection(official website) Radio stations Atlantic City's radio market is ranked #139 in the nation.WAYV 95.1 FM - Top 40 WTTH 96.1 FM - Urban AC (The Touch) WFPG 96.9 FM - AC (Lite Rock 96.9) WENJ 97.3 FM - ESPN Radio/Sports WTKU 98.3 FM - Oldies (Kool 98.3) WZBZ 99.3 FM - Rhythmic (Kiss FM) WZXL 100.7 FM - Rock (The Rock Station) WWAC 102.7 FM - Rhythmic Top 40/Dance (Wild 102.7) WMGM 103.7 FM - Classic Rock (The Shark) WSJO 104.9 FM - Hot AC (Sojo 104.9) WPUR 107.3 FM - Country (Cat Country 107.3) WWJZ 640 AM - Kids (Radio Disney) WMID 1340 AM - Oldies WOND 1400 AM - News/Talk WENJ 1450 AM - ESPN Radio/Sports WBSS 1490 AM - Spanish Television stations WQAV-LP Channel 34Atlantic City (AsiaVision/Independent) WMGM-TV Channel 40Atlantic City (NBC) WMCN-TV Channel 53Atlantic City (ShopNBC) W60CX Channel 60Atlantic City (TBN) WWSI-TV Channel 62Atlantic City (Telemundo) Rail and bus Atlantic City is connected to other cities in several ways. New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line runs from Philadelphia and several smaller South Jersey communities directly to the Atlantic City Rail Terminal at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Within the city, public transportation is provided by New Jersey Transit along thirteen routes, and by the Atlantic City Jitney Association (ACJA) on another four fixed-route lines and on shuttles to and from the rail terminal.On June 20, 2006, the board of New Jersey Transit approved a three-year trial of express train service between New York Penn Station and the Atlantic City Rail Terminal. The approximate travel time is 2½ hours with a stop at Newark's Penn Station and is part of the Casinos' multi-million dollar investments in Atlantic City. Most of the funding for the new transit line is provided by Harrah's Entertainment (owners of both Harrah's Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City) and the Borgata. The line, known as ACES (Atlantic City Express Service), began service on February 6, 2009.The Atlantic City Bus Terminal is the home to local, intrastate and interstate bus companies including New Jersey Transit and Greyhound bus lines. The Greyhound Lucky Streak Express offers service to Atlantic City from New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.. Highways Access to Atlantic City by car is available via the 44 miles (71 km) Atlantic City Expressway, US 30 (commonly known as the White Horse Pike), and US 40/322 (commonly known as the Black Horse Pike). Atlantic City has an abundance of taxi cabs and a local jitney providing continuous service to and from the casinos and the rest of the city. Airline service Commercial airlines serve Atlantic City via Atlantic City International Airport, located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the city in Egg Harbor Township. Many travelers also fly into Philadelphia International Airport or Newark Liberty International Airport, where there are wider selections of carriers from which to choose. The historic downtown Bader Field airport is now permanently closed and plans are in the works to redevelop the land.The two airline