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Midtown Atlantic City between the outlets and the Boardwalk
The biggest pipe organ ever built, more than 100 tax-free outlet stores, an 1897 oyster bar and a pizzeria that never closes, all within a few inland blocks.
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Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall (Boardwalk at Mississippi Avenue) is the landmark Midtown is built around. Inside sits the Midmer-Losh, the largest pipe organ ever built, and its more than 33,000 pipes are being restored while you watch. Free recitals play at noon through the summer. Two blocks inland, more than 100 outlet stores run along ordinary Midtown streets.
Boardwalk Hall and the Midmer-Losh organ
The hall went up in 1929, Spanish-Moorish limestone facing the Boardwalk, a barrel-vaulted ceiling over a column-free floor and the organ's pipe chambers built into the walls. A neon BOARDWALK HALL sign hangs above the Boardwalk entrance.
The Curator's Tour costs $10 and runs Wednesdays at 10 a.m., April to December. Book ahead. The summer organ recitals at noon are free and seat large walk-in crowds. Concert ticket prices vary with the act.
The Atlantic City Experience, a free local-history exhibit, sits inside the same building and opens weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both the tour and the exhibit close for show days, so check the events schedule before you commit a morning. Together they are the cheapest serious sight in the neighbourhood.
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Shopping The Walk on Michigan and Arkansas Avenues
Tanger Outlets Atlantic City (The Walk) (Michigan and Arkansas Avenues) is why most visitors come inland at all, and it is a short walk from the Boardwalk. More than 100 stores fill low brick-and-glass units laid out along real city blocks, with banner lamp-posts and street trees between them and the casino towers rising directly behind the shop roofs. Discounts run 30 to 70% off list.
New Jersey charges no sales tax on clothing or shoes. For a visitor flying in with a half-empty case, that is reason enough for an afternoon here.
The streets are public and unticketed, so there is nothing to book and no gates to open. A concierge desk looks after coach parties, which have their own parking.
Murals and galleries in the inland grid
The 48 Blocks Mural Trail has put more than 105 commissioned murals on Midtown and Orange Loop walls since 2017. They are building-height pieces, portraits and sea themes on bare brick party walls beside vacant lots. The trail is free and self-guided at any size of party. Use the interactive pin map to stitch an hour's walk between the outlets and the Boardwalk. The Atlantic City Arts Foundation runs the 48 Blocks Festival each September.
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University (2200 Fairmount Avenue) occupies the ground floor of a multi-storey concrete parking garage, murals painted up the exterior columns and roller-shutter bays still in place. Inside sit two white-walled museum galleries, eight glass-fronted working studios, shops and a café. Admission is free; artwork and workshops are priced separately, and school and community workshops are booked through the Noyes Museum. It opens Wednesday to Sunday and closes Monday and Tuesday. Exhibitions rotate quarterly. It is the most interesting indoor hour in inland Atlantic City.
Atlantic City Free Public Library, William K. Cheatham Building (1 North Tennessee Avenue) stands at the head of the Orange Loop, a low modern civic block with a glazed street frontage and a reading floor full of light. The Heritage Collections desk holds the city's own records: the Alfred Heston archive, clippings files and photo collections, scrapbooks and boardwalk postcards stacked up on the counter. Entry is free and the building is air-conditioned. The Heritage Collections need an appointment at least 24 hours ahead, and research hours are Wednesdays 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. The library closes Sundays and runs to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.
Dinner on Atlantic Avenue and in Ducktown
Dock's Oyster House (2405 Atlantic Avenue) has fed the inland grid since 1897 and the fourth generation of the Dougherty family runs it. The raw bar is long marble banked with crushed ice, carrying up to 10 oyster varieties a night, with steaks and a deep wine list behind them. The 1897 corner townhouse keeps its leaded stained-glass panels and dark wood booths. Mains run $34 to $58 and happy hour is daily 4 to 6 p.m. Service is dinner only from 4 p.m. and most nights close at 9 p.m., which rules out a late table. Reserve well ahead for a summer weekend, and ask about the private dining room if you want a room of your own.
Angelo's Fairmount Tavern (2300 Fairmount Avenue) sits two blocks off Atlantic Avenue in Ducktown, on Midtown's western shoulder, and three generations of the Mancuso family have run it since 1935. Under the pressed-tin ceiling are red-checked tables and framed black-and-white boxing and Frank Sinatra photographs. Mains are $18 to $34. Dinner starts from 5 p.m. on weekdays. Call ahead for six or more; the tavern has large tables and function space for family parties.
Kelsey's (1545 Pacific Avenue) is the neighbourhood's link back to the Kentucky Avenue nightclub era, a storefront with warm low lighting, a corner stage and drum kit, and jazz-era photographs on the walls. Fried chicken and shrimp and grits come out of the kitchen, and mains run $20 to $38. No other sit-down soul food within walking distance of the outlets comes close. It closes Monday and Tuesday, and weekend brunch starts at 10 a.m. Book if you want a table on a live-music night.
Counters on Arctic Avenue
White House Sub Shop (2301 Arctic Avenue) has sold subs from this red-and-white tiled corner since 1946, with a wall of signed celebrity photographs above the vinyl booths. Counter staff slice cold cuts into foot-long loaves of local Italian bread. Whole subs run $14 to $20, halves less. A half defeats most people. It opens 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and nobody takes reservations.
Formica Freitag Bakery (2310 Arctic Avenue) bakes that bread, and the bread inside every other Atlantic City sub. It has been going since 1919 and at this address since 1928. Brick ovens show through the back doorway, the flour-dusted counter is stacked with long seeded Italian loaves, and trays of cannoli and tomato pie sit behind glass. Pastries are $2 to $6 and loaves under $6. It trades as Formica Freitag Bakery now, not Formica Bros. Hours run mornings to mid-afternoon, and big bread and pastry orders are fine by phone.
Tony's Baltimore Grill (2800 Atlantic Avenue), on Midtown's Atlantic Avenue spine, has been open 24 hours a day, every day, since 1927. Thin-crust pizzas start at $12 and arrive on battered metal trays, and the bar prices are among the cheapest in town. Red vinyl booths carry tabletop jukebox selectors, and the bar runs long and dim at the back. Booths are first-come and there are no reservations. When the casinos empty out at 4 a.m., this is where people end up.
Orange Loop bars, music and the distillery
Tennessee Avenue Beer Hall (133 South Tennessee Avenue) started the Orange Loop revival. Long communal wooden tables run under exposed ductwork, the tap list is chalked behind a zinc bar, and a roll-up garage door opens onto the street. Draughts are $7 to $10, plates $14 to $24. Walk in; it closes Mondays and Tuesdays. Its sibling bars Bar 32 Chocolate, Rhythm & Spirits and Cuzzie's Pizzeria are on the same two blocks.
Anchor Rock Club (247 South New York Avenue) is Atlantic City's one independent music room, at the Orange Loop's edge. The room is a narrow black box, low stage against the brick back wall, hand-lettered gig posters layered up the stairwell, string lights over an outdoor yard. Touring indie and reggae acts play here, along with tribute bands; vinyl nights and flea markets fill the rest of the calendar. Most tickets run $15 to $35 and sell per head, and shows are standing room. The door is 21-plus for most bar-side events. Bar hours lean to Friday and Saturday, so read the calendar before a midweek walk over.
Little Water Distillery (807 Baltic Avenue) is a working small-batch distillery on an ordinary Midtown back street, with the door round the back on Lexington Avenue. A copper pot still stands behind glass, pallets of grain beside it, and bottles of 16 Knots bourbon and Rusted Revolver gin line a plank-top bar under caged bulbs. The 45-minute tasting tour starts at $15 per adult, books online, and sends everyone in the party home with a souvenir shot glass. Cocktails are $12 to $16. Monthly Spirit Sessions, each built on one spirit, run through December. Check the hours first; the tasting room does not open every day.
Where to stay in Midtown
The Claridge Hotel (Boardwalk & Park Place) opened in 1930 as the "Skyscraper by the Sea" and still sits set back behind Brighton Park, brick and stone under a stepped art-deco crown. It is the Midtown bed that is not inside a casino, five minutes' walk from Boardwalk Hall and the outlets, with ballrooms and a conference centre downstairs. The 23rd-floor VÜE is the city's only 360-degree rooftop bar, glassed onto the Boardwalk and the ocean, and it hosts large events. Rooms start at $90 off-season and go past $250 on summer weekends. The building is old and rooms vary. Ask for a renovated high floor.
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City (1000 Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue) is the big-capacity choice on Midtown's Boardwalk edge: 2,032 rooms in twin towers on a 17-acre seafront site, giant illuminated guitar signage, cases of stage-worn costumes, several ticketed theatres. Steel Pier's rides light up directly opposite. Rooms run $135 midweek off-season to more than $400 on summer weekends. The Orange Loop is five minutes away on foot and Tanger under 10. Absecon Lighthouse, New Jersey's tallest at 171 feet, stands 1.5 km north-east along the seafront in the Inlet.
Planning notes
Noyes Arts Garage, Tennessee Avenue Beer Hall and Kelsey's all close Monday and Tuesday, the library closes Sundays, and Boardwalk Hall's tour and exhibit both shut for show days. Book the Curator's Tour and a Little Water tasting ahead, reserve Dock's for a summer weekend, and call Angelo's for a party of six or more.
See the Atlantic City guide and the Atlantic City hotel search.
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What is there to do in Midtown Atlantic City apart from the casinos?
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall holds the Midmer-Losh organ, whose more than 33,000 pipes are being restored. Tanger Outlets Atlantic City (The Walk) puts more than 100 stores on open city blocks. The 48 Blocks Mural Trail is a free self-guided walk past more than 105 murals. The old food trade is on Arctic and Atlantic Avenues. Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University has two free galleries and eight working studios.
How much is the Boardwalk Hall tour and when does it run?
The Curator's Tour costs $10, runs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. from April to December, and can be booked ahead. The noon organ recitals in summer are free and take large walk-in groups. The free Atlantic City Experience exhibit in the same building opens weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tour and exhibit both close on show days, so check the events schedule.
Is shopping at Tanger Outlets Atlantic City really tax-free?
New Jersey charges no sales tax on clothing or shoes, including at The Walk's stores on Michigan and Arkansas Avenues. Discounts run 30 to 70% off list on top of that. The streets are public and unticketed, and a concierge desk handles coach parties.
Where can you eat late at night in Midtown?
Tony's Baltimore Grill at 2800 Atlantic Avenue has been open 24 hours a day, every day, since 1927, with pizzas from $12 and first-come booths. Dock's Oyster House closes at 9 p.m. most nights and White House Sub Shop at 8 p.m., so Tony's is where you eat at 4 a.m.
Which Midtown places are closed early in the week?
Noyes Arts Garage, Tennessee Avenue Beer Hall and Kelsey's all close Monday and Tuesday. Anchor Rock Club's bar hours lean to Friday and Saturday, so check its calendar before a midweek visit. Little Water Distillery's tasting room does not open every day, and the library closes Sundays.
