“Unlike last summer, Atlantic City casinos in 2022 are operating without official public health restrictions, which were still in place at the start of summer 2021,” she said. Nonetheless, Atlantic City's performance in July “showed indications of a strong summer season fueled by a return to normal operations and consumer behavior,” said Jane Bokunewicz, director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute at Stockton University. That's more than the $277 million they collectively won in July 2019.īut five casinos - Bally's, Borgata, Golden Nugget, Harrah's and the Tropicana - won less from in-person gamblers last month than they did in July 2019.

(AP) - New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $480.7 million in July, an increase of 6.7% from a year ago.īut the resorts nine casinos continue to struggle to return to pre-pandemic levels in terms of the amount won from in-person gamblers, with five of them winning less in July 2022 than they did in July 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began.įigures released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show that the casinos collectively won just under $299 million from in-person gamblers. Wayne Parry/AP Show More Show LessĪTLANTIC CITY, N.J. 16, 2022, show that New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $480.7 million in July, an increase of 6.7% from a year ago. Figures released by New Jersey gambling regulators on Tuesday, Aug. Wayne Parry/AP Show More Show Less 3 of3 Gamblers play roulette at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Wayne Parry/AP Show More Show Less 2 of3 A gambler plays a slot machine at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. 16, 2022 show that New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $480.7 million in July, an increase of 6.7% from a year ago. Tides ran 3 feet to 4 feet above normal, with the tide reaching 7.5 feet above mean low water in Atlantic County and 8.5 feet above mean low water in Cape May County.1 of3 A gambler plays a slot machine at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. 8, 1996 paralyzed the East Coast and could serve as a textbook example of an extreme storm.ĭriving snow and hurricane-force winds that reached 81 miles per hour shut down all the roads in the state, including the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike for the first time in its history. But the severe nor’easter that raged from Jan. Ironically, the Blizzard of 1996 didn’t drop much more snow on New Jersey than the recent storm - 32 inches were recorded at Edison. Tallahassee, meanwhile, was a balmy -2 F.

The mercury in Atlantic City plunged to -7 degrees Fahrenheit, while Trenton shivered at -10 F. But snow was only part of the problem the deep freeze experienced by states as far south as Florida gave the blizzard its other name, the Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899. That would be the Great Blizzard of 1899, which dropped 34 inches of snow on Cape May. You have to go back two centuries (barely) for the second-deepest snowfall in the state.

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