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Note that Tabor Heights is also reminiscent of Mount Tabor in the Galilee (where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount) and which overlooks the Sea of Galilee (or, Yam Kinneret in Hebrew, which is the name of the lodge in Tabor Heights).
 
   
 
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== Appearances ==

Revision as of 13:17, 23 October 2012

Tabor Heights is a small fictional village in New Jersey and a secondary location in the third season of Boardwalk Empire, when it is seized by Gyp Rosetti as part of his conflict with Nucky Thompson. Scenes set in Tabor Heights are filmed in the Historic Richmond Town of Staten Island, New York.[1]

Characteristics

According to the map examined by Rosetti in "Spaghetti and Coffee", Tabor Heights is situated 70 miles to the north of Atlantic City, roughly halfway in the coastal road to New York City. This places it in Ocean County just north of Toms River, New Jersey.

The population is Caucasian, rural, conservative and Protestant religious (the name itsef is a reference to the Taborites, a Protestant movement originating in Bohemia, modern Czech Republic). A Bible Camp Week is scheduled to take place there between July 29 and August 7 1923. Although Sheriff Victor Sickles is corrupt and gets paid by out of town bootleggers in order to let them pass through and refill gas in Tabor Heights, the civilian population maintains Prohibition and alcohol can't be found in local stores and dinning places.[2]

For bootleggers, the value of Tabor Heights resides in the fact that, until the new highway is completed as part of the Road Appropriation Bill, most traffic passes through Tabor Heights, and coincidentally the last gas station before reaching Staten Island is placed there.[3] If someone takes over the village and blockades the coastal road, then alcohol from Atlantic City can only reach New York by sea or through the longer, more dangerous dirt roads in the Pine Barrens.[4]

History

Season 3

Appearances

Season three appearances
"Resolution" "Spaghetti and Coffee" "Bone for Tuna" "Blue Bell Boy"
"You'd Be Surprised" "Ging Gang Goolie" "Sunday Best" "The Pony"
"The Milkmaid's Lot" "A Man, A Plan..." "Two Imposters" "Margate Sands"

References