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Zawicki's belief in a cost-free route to fortune is what Atlantic City, in its newest incarnation, is all about. Shrine of the shill, hometown of hucksterism, municipal embodiment of the motto "Ocean, emotion and constant promotion," the city has reinvented itself time and time again for the sake...
Casino executives, for their part, resent what they describe as a city hall whose idea of governance has evolved little since the 1930s, when the city's political boss Enoch L. ("Nucky") Johnson, a carnation in his lapel, kept a paternalistic eye on the rackets, the bordellos and the firehouses...
Carver compares the standoff between the casinos and the city to the "British army in Belfast," but a metaphor from neocolonial Africa might be more apt. For in a city headed by its first black mayor, with a gambling economy run largely by white accountants and business school graduates, most...
In the city's precasino days, blacks and whites were at least united in their municipal misery. Atlantic City once had a strong pull on Philadelphians and New Yorkers seeking the seashore, but air travel changed all that. When the city snagged the Democratic National Convention in 1964, its creeping...
Only a day later, Manhattan-based Merrill Lynch said it plans to move 2,500 of its 13,000 workers across the Hudson River to Jersey City. Angry over the rejection, New York City Mayor Ed Koch revoked Merrill Lynch's position as senior underwriter for the city's municipal...