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Fish heads atlantic city1/31/2024 Now the government has come for this home. He works out of the home, its central location key to his ability to work at all because of his autoimmune condition. His mother continued to live in the home until she was murdered. They had met while hiding in a forest during the Holocaust. The property was purchased by the man’s parents in 1969. Searching online for more details (it’s relatively high profile, subject of a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week), it just gets worse. This has to be one of the saddest and most frustrating stories I’ve heard in recent times. The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is attempting to use eminent domain to take his property for a yet-to-be-determined “better” use. I was touched by the painstaking care with which he maintained the house over the years, enjoying it as a living memory of his parents and a respite from Atlantic City’s hectic atmosphere.Īnd it was heartbreaking to know that it might all be taken away and torn down. …Charlie was a brilliant concert pianist earlier in his career and now worked as a piano tuner using the house as his “studio”. It was at dinner I got the chance to chat with their clients - Charlie Birnbaum and his wife. So it struck me when I saw Heels First write about the plight of a man she met while visiting the city. United offers new regional jet service to Chicago and Houston… not because there’s value in the route, but because Chris Christie promised big taxpayer dollars to support public transportation to and from United’s Newark hub if they’d do it, which would be a net transfer to the airline no matter how much they lose on the flights. New Jersey has some of the worst crony capitalism in the United States, and yet (or because of?) Governor Christie sees Atlantic City as a standout for how poorly their regulatory regimes work. Wikipedia gives us a list of cancelled casino projects, most of which currently sit as vacant lots. Most of the hoped-for casino projects over the past decade have failed to materialize. Vegas ain’t got nothing on Atlantic City. In Leaving Las Vegas, Nicolas Cage portrays a suicidal alcoholic and makes Vegas seem depressing. Sadly, that’s Atlantic City, although it really shouldn’t be. Sometimes a place can be a cesspool though. We say things like we “didn’t connect with” someplace we went, as though it was our fault or the destination wasn’t for us even though we all presume that it was – of course – special. We’re not supposed to say that destinations are awful, even when they are. Who should need Vegas, when you have Vegas-on-the-Beach accessible by car? Not only is there beach and gambling, but proximity to Manhattan - as a population center and financial center. On its face Atlantic City should have every conceivable destination. Take the beach in New Jersey and add legal gambling and you should have an even better destination in Atlantic City. I loved it when my train broke down on the way back to New York once, I think I was 7 and I was happy waiting for the next train to come by and pick us up since the cafe car on ours had run out of M&Ms. I have wonderful memories growing up of the beach in New Jersey, although I don’t remember the train as being especially reliable. We used to take the North Jersey Coast Line to Point Pleasant. Now, I grew up on Long Island but didn’t spend summer weekends in the Hamptons. But they are apparently trying to take the home of an ill senior citizen, son of a murdered holocaust survivor, in order to help a failing casino in some unspecified, Underpants Gnome way. I genuinely didn’t think my opinion of Atlantic City could get worse.
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