Atlantic City

At the southernmost end of Atlantic City’s glitzy casino and entertainment district, Chelsea transitions from quiet, bayside residential blocks into a condo-lined gateway to the heart of America’s Playground. “Chelsea’s a very desirable area, it’s away from all the hoopla in the middle of the city, but you’re right on the biggest boardwalk in the country that’s always lit up and full of people,” says Deborah “Debbie G” Gegeckas, a Realtor living and specializing in the Ocean Club condo complex in Chelsea. “If you want to be bored you can, but you can walk right down to the boardwalk and see something you didn’t know was happening – there's no reason to be bored.” Between Stockton University’s Atlantic City campus and the flashing marquees of Tropicana, Chelsea balances the tourist-draw of the city’s beach block with the day-to-day events and institutions that serve Absecon Island residents far beyond the busiest weeks of summer. The roar of the Atlantic Ocean and surrounding beaches are the center of life in Chelsea, ranging from the busier stretches close to Tropicana to quieter sands further down toward Ventnor. Cyclists take off down the boardwalk, as do window-shoppers and midday strollers. On land, park-goers can stroll around the tree-shaded walking paths at O’Donnell Memorial Park, a vast green area known for its position across from Stockton University and for hosting frequent community gatherings. Toward Chelsea’s bayside, Texas Avenue Playground provides landlocked park amenities like a playground, soccer field and basketball court while the Back Sov Park is known for waterfront views stretching from its colorful skate park to Pete Pallitto baseball diamonds to the Atlantic City Boathouse, home of the AC High School Crew Team. Along sidewalk and young tree-lined blocks, Chelsea combines housing with a blend of early 20th-century historic urban architectural details and more modern beach house and condo designs. Detached single-family homes sell for $170,000 to $750,000 depending on square footage, renovation levels and distance from the water. Attached homes in varied rowhouse and duplex formats sell for $100,000 to $300,000. Rising above the skyline in complexes like the dual-towered Ocean Club and much shorter converted motels, condos near the beach block sell for $70,000 to $4 million for the most luxurious penthouses. The majority of Chelsea residents rent rather than own their homes. The Chelsea Economic Development Corporation brings the neighborhood together in celebration and community service at O'Donnell Memorial Park throughout the year. Annual events like the Tree Lighting Celebration each Dec. 1 feature entertainment like the caroling talents of Sovereign Avenue School, while more regular events like the C.R.O.P.S. Market fill the park with local farmers, artisans and live music on Saturdays from August through October. During Chelsea’s Community Clean-ups, volunteers focus on a new street each Sunday afternoon to beautify the neighborhood. Along the beach block and further back on Atlantic Avenue, Chelsea is full of AC staples, including reservations-recommended joints like Cafe 2825 which specializes in Italian cuisine and Knife and Fork Inn which was a favorite of infamous crime boss Nucky Johnson more than a century ago. Patrons lounge between the crashing waves and towering boardwalk condos at The Chelsea Beach Bar. Limited groceries and essentials are available at small convenience stores like Boom Food Market. “It’s a Spanish grocery store, everybody goes to Boom. They have better produce than ACME sometimes, there’s always fresh deliveries coming,” Gegeckas says. For larger shopping trips, ACME Markets is 2 miles away in Ventnor Heights. Several houses of worship, including Chelsea Baptist Church and Masjid Al-Taqwa, hold services throughout the neighborhood. Kids can attend kindergarten through eighth grade at Sovereign Avenue School, Texas Avenue School or Brighton Avenue School. They earn a C-plus, and two Cs from Niche respectively. Readers face off against rival Atlantic City Public Schools during the annual Read AC trivia competition, Sovereign Avenue’s team proving their skills with back-to-back victories during the 2023 and 2024 school years. Atlantic City High School earns a B-minus. Thanks to proximity to many of Atlantic City’s largest commercial, entertainment and Stockton University hubs, Chelsea places commuters within several blocks of major employers by foot or boardwalk bike. Jitney buses stop regularly along Pacific Avenue, while NJ Transit buses travel through the city along Atlantic, Arctic and Fairmount avenues. Chelsea is positioned between the bay-spanning Albany Avenue and the Atlantic City Expressway for those needing to head toward the mainland. The streets closest to Inside Thorofare and the salt marshes extending out between Absecon and Lakes bays fall into higher risk flood zones during unusually heavy rain and extreme weather.

Once scored by the roar of the crowd at Surf Stadium and the nearby drone of aircraft taking off, Chelsea Heights has become a quieter neighborhood over the years, cradled by the forked flows of Inside and Beach thorofares and long, flat acres of salt marshes. “Bader Field used to be a private airport, when I went to Atlantic City High School my tennis matches were there,” says Todd Gordon, a broker sales associate at the Hartman Home Team and Berkshire Hathaway Fox and Roach Real Estate with 23 years of experience in Atlantic City. “Chelsea Heights is a great little gem of Atlantic City. You’re not far from the beach and you get a backyard. It’s more of a laid-back vibe.” Across the water from Stockton University and the rest of the city, Chelsea Heights remains connected to Atlantic City’s boardwalk-based community life as well as the reimagined event venues and recreation centers closer to the mainland. At the Annapolis Avenue Recreation Complex, pick-up players and league teams make use of the soccer field and ball diamonds. Decorated by Flyers memorabilia, the Atlantic City Skate Zone hosts icy private parties, free skates and Atlantic City Sharks youth hockey games. Nearby, the Atlantic City Municipal Boat Ramp launches boaters and anglers into Inside Thorofare and the connected waterways between Lakes and Absecon bays. After crossing the Albany Avenue bridge, boardwalk bikers and beach bums are only three blocks from the shore, able to choose between heading toward the busier Atlantic City blocks or the quieter stretches toward Ventnor and Margate. Quiet, sidewalk-lined suburban blocks pack the flat space between Beach Thorofare, Inside Thorofare and the salt marshes separating Chelsea Heights from Ventnor. "You get more value for your dollar in Chelsea Heights, whether that’s a backyard, a front porch or more real estate. You’re not paying as much as you would by the beach,” Gordon says. Single-family homes in classic vernacular styles from the 1900s through 1960s, including split-levels, ranch-style homes and bungalows, sell for $125,000 to $460,000 depending on square footage, renovation levels and lot size. Duplexes in a variety of styles and conditions sell for $225,000 to $240,000. Many homes in the neighborhood have been raised either a few feet or an entire floor over the years. Thanks in part to a handful of apartment complexes, most Chelsea Heights residents rent rather than own their homes. While the runways of the former airport have been closed for landing for years, Bader Field has developed into a popular venue for outdoor events. Each June, paintball vendors, amateur players and National X-ball League teams take over the grounds for the three-day Mid-Atlantic Major tournament and trade show. Craft brew vendors and sound stages take over the paintball battlefields later in the summer at the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival. Right next to the Annapolis Avenue Recreation Complex, the Atlantic City Vietnamese Center is a cultural hub for the city’s Vietnamese residents, often hosting community events ranging from food distribution to dinner and dancing-filled celebrations of the Vietnamese New Year in January. Beyond a smattering of car dealerships and the Salvation Army Thrift Store lining Albany Avenue, there’s little commercial life to be found in Chelsea Heights. Around the corner from a McDonald’s, Vagabond Kitchen & Tap House sits right on the bay, taking advantage of the views with both indoor and outdoor seating. “It’s a great restaurant where locals to Atlantic City go. You know, grab a beer, grab a burger,” Gordon says. A mile away past the salt marshes lining West End Avenue, shoppers pick up essentials at ACME Markets and a couple of dollar stores in Ventnor Plaza. Religious services are held at The Cathedral Grace Family Church and Masjid Muhammad’s Islamic Center. Chelsea Heights School serves prekindergarten through eighth grade and earns a C-plus from Niche and Atlantic City High School serves ninth through 12th grades and earns a B-minus. Proximity to the city’s public schools is a major factor for school-age children and their families – younger students often walk a few blocks to school with the help of parents and crossing guards, while high schoolers have the shortest bus ride in the district to the campus across Beach Thorofare on Great Island. Albany Avenue spans Inside Thorofare, giving pedestrians, drivers and coastal bikers a straight shot across the waterway to the main body of Absecon Island. Stockton University is right across the bridge, providing a sub-mile commute to the Atlantic City satellite campus. Jitney buses run all day and night along Pacific Avenue near the university, while NJ Transit buses pass through Chelsea Heights on the way toward the Tanger Outlets and Uptown. Positioned as it is between the Beach and Inside thorofares, Chelsea Heights falls into bayside flood zones that cover much of Atlantic City. Building and upkeep of bulkheads are some of the city’s mitigation efforts and homeowners often supplement these efforts by raising their homes.

From out on the Atlantic Ocean, Downtown Atlantic City is defined by an illuminated skyline, the flashing spokes of the Steel Pier Ferris Wheel blending with the glow of casino marquees. Walking along the Atlantic City Boardwalk or Atlantic and Pacific avenues, locals and tourists alike get closer to the restaurants, commercial strips and entertainment venues that set the city apart from other coastal enclaves. “There’s a lot of things going on in Downtown Atlantic City – there's everything in the beach block, the Orange Loop development, we have investors from Asbury Park coming in,” says Todd Gordon, a broker sales associate at the Hartman Home Team and Berkshire Hathaway Fox and Roach Real Estate with 23 years of experience in Atlantic City. “People get to live where they can walk to everything.” With beachfront access to many of the city’s ever-adapting events and entertainment venues, Downtown Atlantic City’s amenities and attractions shift as often as the tides. Atlantic City’s beaches are the star of the show in Downtown Atlantic City, open to the public year-round and lacking the additional cost of an annual beach pass typical of many other New Jersey beaches. While beachgoers lounge in the sun, go for a swim and walk along the shoreline, cyclists traverse the bumpy-smooth stretches of the Atlantic City Boardwalk up past the grass-spotted dunes. Anglers may try their luck out on rocky jetties further north toward Uptown. Just off the boardwalk, Brighton Park is a tree-shaded pocket park decorated with benches and a central fountain. The Civil Rights Garden is a block over, combining well-maintained landscaping and shady Gingko trees with granite pillars and sculptures commemorating the activists and moments central to the Civil Rights era. The Orange Loop, a three-block stretch off the boardwalk, has become a point of pride for residents and Downtown developers. “If you venture to Tennessee Avenue, in the last three years they’ve been introducing a neighborhood vibe on the beach block,” Gordon says. “Restaurants, the outdoor Tennessee Avenue Beer Hall, a chocolate bar – cool things that you would never know existed in Atlantic City.” Around the corner, reservations to enjoy soul food and live music at Kelsey’s are a must, as lines wrap around the block during peak hours. Heading down Atlantic Avenue, shoppers pass preserved historic commercial buildings and newer developments housing global eateries and small businesses, Save A Lot and the AtlantiCare HealthPlex on the way to the dozens of retailers making up the Tanger Outlets. Several churches hold services throughout the neighborhood, including St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church which was built in 1905 and fills the sanctuary with the music of a restored antique pipe organ. Downtown Atlantic City has a CAP Index crime score of 6 out of 10 compared to the national average of 4. Teams of pilots and individual performers fly in tight formations and soar above massive crowds for two days at the Atlantic City Airshow each August. “People fill the beaches from the Steel Pier to Lower Chelsea. Thousands and thousands of people come,” Gordon says. Ticketholders can opt for more exclusive venues and a different angle on the action at places like The Vue, a bar at the top of the Claridge Hotel. Shows and more regular entertainment venues run throughout the year, including the amusement park attractions at Steel Pier and daily live shows at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Dominated as it is by commercial districts and beach block businesses, Downtown Atlantic City has fewer residential areas and housing options than other neighborhoods around the island. Scattered rowhouses built in the early 1900s are the primary home style, standing flush to the sidewalk and selling for $100,000 to $425,000 depending on renovation levels and potential to rent out additional living space. Oceanfront condos tower above the skyline, units selling for $150,000 to $320,000 depending on square footage and height above the waves. Nearly all Downtown Atlantic City residents rent rather than own their homes. New York Avenue School earns a C-minus from Niche and Pennsylvania Avenue School earns a C, both schools serving prekindergarten through eighth grade. Atlantic City High School serves ninth through 12th grades and earns a B-minus. High schoolers can enroll in dual credit courses at school to get a head start on earning a degree from Atlantic Cape Community College. With much of Atlantic City’s business life within several blocks of Downtown Atlantic City, locals may choose to walk a handful of blocks or bike up and down the island via the boardwalk and side streets. To access public transportation, bus riders can wait at NJ Transit stops along Atlantic Avenue or hop on Jitney buses which run up and down Pacific Avenue 24 hours a day.

While ducks no longer nest in little houses along the bay as they did when Italian immigrants set up their homes at the turn of the 20th century, Ducktown retains an identity as a neighborhood where cultures and culinary traditions meet in Atlantic City’s modern day business district. “Ducktown’s next to the commercial district, you’ve got some really nice restaurants out there,” says Gerard Barker, managing broker with the Weichert Realtors Asbury Group who has 15 years of experience in Atlantic City’s market. “Atlantic City has the most affordable coastal real estate no matter what section you look at – a lot of the people buying in Ducktown are investors. The deciding factor is how close you can get to everything and still afford it.” For snowbirds and peckish year-round residents alike, Ducktown retains a reputation for collecting plentiful fledgling and long-time dining locales and Atlantic City’s boardwalk destinations within blocks of each other. At the end of the Atlantic City Expressway, longtime AC staples like Angelo’s Fairmount Tavern and White House Subs lure in return customers with bright neon signage and interiors decorated with photos and awards from decades past. Ducktown’s stretch of Atlantic Avenue is lined with further global cuisines, including Pho Sydney’s Vietnamese staples and Maria’s Luncheonette, a brightly-painted, classic New Jersey diner. “Dock’s Oyster House has the best Happy Hour in Atlantic City, they start getting a line out the door at 3:00 every day. If you’re not in line by 3:45, you’re not getting in the door,” Barker says. The Tanger Outlets sprawl east of Mississippi Avenue, placing dozens of national retailers within blocks of Ducktown. For groceries beyond what’s available at La Bodega, shoppers head to the Renaissance Plaza Save A Lot. Plenty of houses of worship hold services within Ducktown, including the Hindu Temple Sree Sree Gita Sangha, Masjid Al-Hera and Our Lady Star of the Sea Church. Space is limited on Ducktown’s residential blocks, leading to streets lined by sidewalks and twin homes, rowhouse and duplexes built in the early 20th century. Attached homes from this era sell for $100,000 to $230,000, as do a handful of townhouses built in the early 2000s. Entire multi-family homes already converted into multiple apartments or mixed-use commercial and residential buildings can sell for $350,000 into the $500,000s depending on location, rentable units and renovation levels. The majority of Ducktown residents rent rather than own their homes. Long beyond the busiest summer months, Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall hosts frequent ticketed events. Ducktown residents are within blocks of comedy shows, athletic competitions and concerts, though the Miss America Pageant has skipped town in recent years. Bader Field, once an airport, is just across the bay from Ducktown and has been redeveloped into a popular entertainment space. The annual Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival is among the most popular, attracting tens of thousands each summer for days of craft brew sipping and live entertainment. Ducktown is minutes by foot or bicycle to Atlantic City’s beaches and boardwalks, open year-round for strolls through sand, sun-bathing and biking over wooden planks. Near the Playground Pier, the once segregated Chicken Bone Beach is marked by a plaque and photos of Black beachgoers from the 20th century. Classic community park amenities, including a playground and fenced-in soccer field, can be found at Texas Avenue Park. Ducktown is at the center of Atlantic City, positioning the boardwalk, Uptown neighborhood and Stockton University campus a matter of blocks away by foot or car. NJ Transit and Jitney buses stop throughout Ducktown and the greater Atlantic City area, the latter of which run 24 hours a day. The Atlantic City Expressway connects to the neighborhood’s bayside border when it’s time to take a trip to the mainland. Texas Avenue School serves kindergarten through eighth grade and earns a C from Niche. Atlantic City High School serves ninth through 12th grades and earns a B-minus. Kids at Atlantic City High can pursue coursework that lets them collaborate with professors at nearby Stockton University, like when environmental science classes got to catch crabs and operate sonar equipment with the university’s Marine Science department. Almost all of Atlantic City falls within a higher-risk flood zone, including portions of Ducktown. Streets on the bayside of the neighborhood may experience nuisance flooding and storm surge during times of unusually heavy rain.

Long known as a quiet neighborhood bridging the aesthetics and ZIP codes of Atlantic City and Ventnor, Lower Chelsea ushered in a new era and identity with the opening of Stockton University’s Atlantic City Campus in 2018. “It’s a very small community, the bay and the beach are all within about a three-block radius,” says Todd Gordon, a broker sales associate at the Hartman Home Team and Berkshire Hathaway Fox and Roach Real Estate with 23 years of experience in Atlantic City. “Where the university is located, it was just vacant land. It’s been very important for the community to see them putting in that kind of long-term investment. It brings in a surge of all these other things – places for families to stay and coffee shops around it.” Among blocks of beachfront condos, historic manors and modern university facilities, Lower Chelsea blends communities of young scholars and longtime residents all seeking connection to the shore. A slim neighborhood, Chelsea Heights ensures that even the most bayfront residents are minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Crossing the wooden planks of the boardwalk, beachgoers find stretches of sand that are rarely as busy as those further north on Absecon Island. Cyclists can travel along similarly tranquil blocks of boardwalk leading toward Ventnor or head to the bustling, double-wide stretches further north toward the Inlet. Condo buildings like Enclave Condominiums invite members to lounge or splash around private swimming pools. Just outside Lower Chelsea, O’Donnell Memorial Park acts as a quad to Stockton University, packed with shady trees, coves of park benches and intersecting walking paths. Kingston Avenue Playground provides colorful playground equipment at the end of a block overlooking Inside Thorofare and more distant salt marshes. Like Lower Chelsea’s skyline, housing options and prices range from luxury units in beachfront towers to denser blocks of homes rarely cresting three stories. Manors built in the early 20th century with architectural details ranging from Mediterranean Revival to Dutch Colonial and upward of five bedrooms sell for $600,000 to $1.5 million depending on proximity to the beach block, as do their contemporary 21st-century counterparts. Smaller single-family homes from the same era sell for $165,000 to $600,000 depending on renovation levels and location. Condos in mid-rise buildings sell for $85,000 to $700,000 depending on proximity to the beach, square footage and access to amenities like 24-hour security, valet parking and fitness centers. Lower Chelsea is evenly split between renters and homeowners. Stockton University gets involved with Lower Chelsea’s community at small events like free movie screenings and wider-scale events like Atlantic City Community Day and Party in the Park, a citywide spring clean-up where residents start the day beautifying their neighborhoods and end it browsing vendor booths, petting animals, enjoying live music and meeting neighbors at O’Donnell Memorial Park. At the same park on Saturday afternoons from August through October, the C.R.O.P.S. Market supplies farmers market fans with fresh produce and artisan goods. The shopping and dining scene in Lower Chelsea takes advantage of waterfront pockets and university-adjacent commercial centers. “Wonder Bar is cool – they have great salads, great seafood and it overlooks the water. You get to watch people pull up to the docks in their boats,” Gordon says. Clustered along Atlantic and Ventnor Avenues, businesses like Beat the Daily Grind Cafe, Mexico Restaurant & Bar and Dover Market take up the first floors of commercial buildings on blocks closest to Stockton. Diner fans settle into closely packed tabletops or pull up a stool to the counter at the pocket-sized Brittany’s Cafe. The ACME Markets in Ventnor Heights is a 2-mile drive away for groceries. Traditional Orthodox services are held at Rodef Sholom within the neighborhood. Richmond Avenue School serves prekindergarten through eighth grade and earns a B-minus from Niche, as does Atlantic City High School which serves ninth through 12th grades. Stockton University Atlantic City Campus partners with students through one-off events and larger-scale programs throughout their academic careers, including through the GOALS GEAR UP Program which provides students with additional classes and field trip opportunities as well as guidance through the post-secondary admission process. While commuters can drive throughout Atlantic City or up Albany Avenue toward the mainland, alternative transportation is popular. NJ Transit buses run along Ventnor Avenue and Jitney buses make a loop from Lower Chelsea’s Ventnor and Atlantic Avenue blocks up to the casinos and commercial life in Atlantic City’s northernmost neighborhoods. An extensive sidewalk system and the nearby boardwalk provide straightforward routes for walkers and cyclists heading up or down the island. Residents living closest to the bayside of the island along Inside Thorofare fall into higher risk flood zones. Grant funding has allowed the city to build up improved bulkheads in hopes of mitigating future flooding.

More understated than tourist destinations like Ducktown and Uptown Atlantic City, Monroe Park stretches quiet residential blocks between Route 30 and the Atlantic City Expressway. “Monroe Park is one of those neighborhoods that people know if they’ve grown up or been raised there,” says Todd Gordon, a broker sales associate with the Hartman Home Team and Berkshire Hathaway Fox and Roach real estate with 23 years of experience in Atlantic City. “It’s further off the beach and the boardwalk. You get a backyard, more of a year-round community and that home feel.” Abutting major Atlantic City destinations from the convention center to Tanger Outlets shopping mall, Monroe Park transforms from quiet coastal suburbs into the heart of America’s Playground in the span of a few blocks. On a long, slim field above the Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector tunnels, Horace Bryant Park is a landscaped, bench-dotted green space to relax along the Penrose Canal. Several blocks away, Horace J. Bryant Jr. Playground provides a court for pick-up basketball games. After being closed for several years, Pop Lloyd Stadium began redevelopment in April of 2024 and is slated to become a multi-field athletic complex for Atlantic City youth sports leagues. The Atlantic City Boardwalk and surrounding beaches are just blocks from Monroe Park, free and open to the public year-round for bikers, walkers, anglers and sunbathers heading toward the waves in both the on- and off-seasons. Set on larger lots furthest from the Atlantic Ocean, classic suburban vernacular homes like split-levels, bi-levels and ranch-style homes line up along quiet sidewalks and sell for $170,000 to $380,000. “People move to Monroe Park looking for a house with a backyard, fenced-in yards. More home and more value instead of other neighborhoods where you’re closer to the beach but in a rowhouse,” Gordon says. “There’s still some rowhouses that are more like city-living, concrete and less grass. Those are all over Atlantic City.” Rowhouses, townhouses, twin homes and similarly slim detached single-family homes built in the early 1900s sell for $70,000 to $220,000 depending on renovation levels and rental potential. Narrow sidewalks connect Monroe Park’s residential blocks to the Tanger Outlets commercial district and more distant oceanside casinos. Monroe Park has a CAP Index crime score of 6 out of 10, earning higher scores for violent crime. The national average is 4. The Atlantic Convention Center hosts expos and special events throughout the year, drawing in upward of 500,000 visitors annually between out-of-towners and local attendees. Held within nearly a million square feet of space broken up into wide-open event halls, smaller meeting rooms and atriums hung with colorful flying fish sculptures, events range from real estate career expos to the lively Atlantic City Beer & Music Festival. Just across Bacharach Boulevard, Atlantic City Rescue Mission has been providing food, clothing, housing and career counseling to those in need for over 60 years. Sprawling across the blocks surrounding the end of the Atlantic City Expressway, the Tanger Outlets, formerly called The Walk, are the city’s commercial center and make up the southern edge of Monroe Park. Shoppers walk along broad sidewalks edged with blue wave detailing and through tree-planted courtyards to retailers from Gap and Old Navy to the Nike Factory and new Bass Pro Shops. Between stores, foodies can grab a quick boba tea from Bambu Desserts & Drinks or sit down at restaurants like Applebee’s and Wingcraft Kitchen & Beer Bar. Iconic Atlantic City fixtures like Dock’s Oyster House and White House Subs are blocks away in nearby Ducktown. Beyond grabbing a handful of essentials at convenience stores like West Side Grocery & Deli, weekly grocery shopping means a trip to the Save A Lot at Renaissance Plaza. Houses of worship of a handful of denominations hold services in Spanish and English throughout Monroe Park. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Complex and New York Avenue School each serve prekindergarten through eighth grade and earn a C and C-minus from Niche respectively. The King Complex sits within Monroe Park and regularly brings the community together around the school’s basketball courts, hosting the annual cops-versus-kids game each December and after-school three-point showcases featuring celebrities like Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown put on by the city’s recreation department. Atlantic City High School serves ninth through twelfth grades and earns a B-minus. The Atlantic City Expressway ends to the south of Monroe Park, typically bringing in more travelers and commuters than it sends out of the city. NJ Transit bus stops line North Indiana and Ohio avenues, taking riders toward Uptown Atlantic City. Jitney buses pass through the Tanger Outlets and AC Convention Center area toward citywide entertainment and casino hubs all day and all night. The last stop on the Atlantic City Rail Line, the Atlantic City Rail Terminal sends riders on an hour and 40-minute train ride into Philadelphia. Almost all of Atlantic City, including Monroe Park, falls into higher risk flood plains during unusually heavy rain and coastal storms. With the warmer months comes a wave of tourists and events, bringing in more traffic through the Atlantic City Expressway and around the Tanger Outlets, as well as the more clearly defined tourism hubs along the boardwalk.