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...today the City By the Sea offers the worst of urban America. Visually, it's a ghost town whose rotting buildings are mere remnants of its glorious past. Driving up Pacific Avenue and into the Inlet, it's obvious that time has passed this town by. Most of the collapsing store names that hang above the small businesses which line both sides of Atlantic Avenue don't even match the products being sold below. No one has ever bothered to replace the signs...
Except for the barking of stray dogs, the Inlet is a quiet neighborhood, not because of its tranquillity but because of its gaps -- vacant lots where houses were razed and replaced by fields of pink clover, Queen Anne's lace and beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald...
...until 1986 did the casino reinvestment development authority begin to do business. The agency is now preparing to resurrect the Inlet by leading a $500 million investment program for building heavily subsidized housing for the middle class. But neither the casinos nor many of the Inlet's inhabitants have much faith in the effort. "You can't mix caviar with tuna," says Dorothy McCann from the rocker on the porch of her oceanfront Victorian home. McCann, 71, has reason to sound ornery: the agency bought her out last month as part of its raze-and-rebuild plan, despite the headline...
...some cases, the casinos' impact on the lives of Atlantic City residents has been direct and enormous. Redenia Gilliam-Mosee, 41, is vice president of a casino in a city where she once worked as a chambermaid. She had been moving up and away from her childhood in the Inlet, earning a Ph.D. in urban planning at Rutgers University, when Bally's Park Place Casino tapped her for the job. Now she has transformed the row house where she grew up into a modern testament to her faith in the neighborhood. Her picture hangs inside Dave's Groceries nearby...
...gambling palaces have revived the tourist trade and poured billions into the economy, but behind the glitzy facade is the Inlet, where the razzle- dazzle seems like a bad joke...