Atlantic City Boardwalk - NJ, USA

This live camera looks north along the Atlantic City Boardwalk between Tennessee Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, one of the most heavily trafficked stretches of the world's first purpose-built boardwalk. The original structure was constructed in 1870 specifically to keep sand out of hotel lobbies, and the current boardwalk runs 5.6 kilometres along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. To the right of frame sits Schiff's Central Pier Arcade, one of the surviving commercial pier structures on a boardwalk that once supported over a dozen such piers extending directly into the sea.

The blue building in the upper right is the Atlantic City Beach Patrol Headquarters, which oversees one of New Jersey's busiest guarded beach systems covering roughly 8 kilometres of public shoreline. LandShark Bar & Grill sits on the beach directly in front of Resorts Casino Hotel, the first legal casino to open outside Nevada when it launched in May 1978. Steel Pier is visible at the upper left, positioned directly in front of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino; the pier originally opened in 1898 and at its commercial peak hosted performers including Harry Houdini and Frank Sinatra.

Atlantic City draws approximately 27 million visitors per year, making it one of the most visited destinations on the US East Coast. The city sits on Absecon Island, a barrier island on the Jersey Shore, and its street names including Tennessee and Pennsylvania, visible at this camera's cross-streets, directly inspired the original US Monopoly board, designed in 1935 using Atlantic City's street grid.

Did You Know? The Atlantic City Boardwalk was the world's first boardwalk, built in 1870 at a cost of $5,000 after hotel owners petitioned the railway to solve the problem of sand being tracked into carriages and lobbies.

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