Flooding
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Saturday saw some of the worst flooding in the Atlantic City area since Superstorm Sandy. We compiled some social media posts that reflected the extent of the flooding, and residents’ humor in dealing with it.
AC Needle Exchange Seeks To Delay Move To Mobile Unit
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Atlantic City Council should delay moving the state’s biggest needle exchange to a mobile unit because the move would limit access, a spokeswoman for the program said on Friday.
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The Atlantic City To New York Bus Hack
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Anyone who lives in or around Atlantic City knows that public transit to New York is biased toward casino travelers traveling in the other direction. Greyhound charges more for a round-trip ticket starting from Atlantic City than for that same ticket starting from New York. New Jersey Transit is cheaper but only runs 12 schedules a day at not-so-convenient times.
More about: Transport, 319 bus, Atlantic City, bus, casino bus, Greyhound, lucky streak, New York
How Did Atlantic City’s Needle Exchange Open In A Business District?
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Atlantic City’s syringe exchange program has operated for more than a decade from a downtown office building just a few blocks from the city’s casinos. Back when the South Jersey Aids Alliance started offering clean needles from the Oasis Drop-in Center in 2007, the site was in the Central Business District. We requested property records from the city and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, which oversees planning in the district. The city’s most recent document for the property (posted below) shows it as having the present use “office building”. Neither CRDA or the city had any certificate of land use compliance on file for the property, at 32 S Tennessee Ave.
More about: Watchdog Journalism, Atlantic City, bill gormley, downtown revitalization, Oasis Drop In Center, planning, South Jersey, South Jersey Aids Alliance
Atlantic City Council To Reconsider Syringe Access Program
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The City of Atlantic City Council on Wednesday will again discuss doing away with ordinances that allow New Jersey’s largest needle exchange to operate.
The Oasis Drop-In Center on Tennessee Avenue, operated by the South Jersey Aids Alliance, has existed for years in an office building on a site that was, until recently, like many others in the city’s Tourism District.
More about: Atlantic City, Atlantic City, Council, CRDA, needle exchange, South Jersey Aids Alliance, syringe access program, syringe services program
Atlantic City’s Mailboxes Have Shrunk
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At some point in the last month or so, the USPS added screws to Atlantic City’s mailboxes to limit the drop-down opening. Now only letters or thin packages pass through.
More about: Government, Atlantic City, mailbox damage, mailbox opening, mailbox size, pleasantville, screws, USPS
Mapping New Jersey’s Pending Deportations
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There is a Margate resident facing deportation. Over the bridge in Ocean City, 12 people are facing deportation. The Margate resident has a lawyer. Just four of the 12 Ocean City residents have lawyers.
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Talking To Trees
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“We’re gonna talk to them!” says Robert Preston, Atlantic City’s interim planning director, when I ask him how the city is going to make sure 45 young trees survive planting in Uptown Park. One of the side effects of being a city that is constantly in the cross hairs of some or other developer is that the city is a sort of mausoleum to dying and dead landscaping. The buildings go up, the trees go in, the ribbon is cut, and then everyone forgets about watering the plants. There’s probably a metaphor there somewhere.
More about: Atlantic City, Exploring South Jersey, Voices
CRDA To Fund Search For An Atlantic City Grocery Store
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A not-for-profit consulting company will get a $157,500 contract to find Atlantic City a grocery store, if all goes to plan at Tuesday’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority board meeting.
More about: Government, 600 nobe, Atlantic City, boraie, CRDA, food desert, grocery store, supermarket
What Is The Atlantic Club’s Owner Up To?
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The Atlantic Club is still up for sale and its owners just modified a $10 million mortgage on their other Atlantic City Boardwalk property, The Claridge. These things are not related, Dale Schooley, director of acquisitions for the owners, TJM, told me yesterday.