Deplorable Condition of This Heavy Use Atlantic City, NJ Road [Photos]

The condition of Atlantic Avenue, in Atlantic City, New Jersey … near the legendary Dock’s Oyster House on one side and The Duck Town Tavern on the other side … is in deplorable condition.

Atlantic City Councilman George Tibbitt has been saying on WPG Talk Radio 95.5 for years (as recently as this past Friday), that “the money is in place to repair the road and that the City of Atlantic City is responsible for any automobile and bodily injury that may occur, said Tibbitt.

Tibbitt agrees with many others in Atlantic City who believe that Mayor Marty Small is purposely leaving the road adjacent to the Duck Town Tavern in disrepair because of his political differences with establishment owner John Exadaktilos.

On Saturday, March 22, 2025, Exadaktilos took video and photographs of Atlantic Avenue near his restaurant and Dock’s Oyster House.

Exadaktilos has been regularly beating Small in court and in the “court” of public opinion.

It is important for a major road like Atlantic Avenue to be kept in good order for a variety of reasons:

• It’s simply the right thing to do for the residents, taxpayers and visitors.
• For safety purposes.
• For liability reasons.
• Conventions, meetings and prospective guests who are visiting Atlantic City to potentially bring their business, experience the dilapidated road.

It’s a very bad first impression of Atlantic City.

The City of Atlantic City has recently done some quick patches on the Dock’s Oyster House side of the street … but, nothing has been done on the Duck Town Tavern side of the street.

This road has been left in deplorable condition for years and it’s not right.

For example, here is a photo that I took more than a year ago in this very same area.

PLEASE NOTE: Before observing the photo (directly below), please be guided that the verbiage is very blunt:

It is one person's graphic description about the condition of Atlantic Avenue. We had recently wrote an entire article about how bad Atlantic Avenue is.

About two years ago, there was this creative solution made by residents of Chelsea Heights regarding an enormous sink hole.

Ho Ho Ho, in the spirit of The Christmas season, residents slapped a fully decorated Christmas Tree inside the deep sink hole.

There’s been a pattern of having to publicly expose Small in order for him to do the right thing.

Below are photos taken yesterday of the current Atlantic Avenue road conditions by John Exadaktilos, which we are publishing with his permission: