atlantic city when did casinos start closing

Longacre just spent a fortune on a sound system. There’s a preternaturally ginormous disco ball in the center of everything. For the moment, though, the thumping pulse of a subwoofer has been replaced by the sounds of a work crew that’s transforming the room into Longacre’s dream: a thousand-person indie music venue that he describes as the Union Transfer of Atlantic City, but with the intimacy of Johnny Brenda’s. Deja Vu once pumped out house music at conversation-thwarting levels to guys in tight Ed Hardy t-shirts and girls in slinky dresses and strappy shoes.

We’re standing on the currently railing-less second-floor balcony of what used to be Club Deja Vu, a nightclub at New York Avenue and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, in between Bally’s and Resorts. But on this unseasonably cold and dreary day in early April, Longacre - a stocky 46-year-old with a penchant for craft beer - is about an hour southeast of his now-all-the-rage Point Breeze enclave, warning me not to trip and die.

Atlantic city when did casinos start closing