During the mid to late 1960s, Atlantic City’s housing czar, Pauline Hill, dismantled an entire neighborhood to make way for commercial development.

Eighty acres in the city’s South Inlet section were razed. Forty-five-hundred people were displaced.

But development, in large part at least, never came. In the ensuing decades, the South Inlet remained a scattering of mostly low-rise housing pocked by barren lots.

— Press of Atlantic City