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
Immediate vicinity of Tabor Heights. ("Spaghetti and Coffee")
Tabor Heights is situated between 60[2] and 70 miles to the north of Atlantic City, roughly halfway in the coastal road to New York City, and just south of Toms River, in Ocean County, New Jersey.[3]
The population is Caucasian, rural, conservative and Protestant religious. A Bible Camp Week is scheduled to take place there between July 29 and August 7 1923. Although both Sheriff Victor Sickles and his deputy, Ramsey, are corrupt and get payments from out of town bootleggers in exchange for letting 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.[4]
For bootleggers, the value of Tabor Heights resides in the fact that, until the new highway to New York scheduled in the Road Appropriation Bill is completed in 1925[5], most traffic passes through Tabor Heights, and coincidentally the last gas station before reaching Staten Island is also placed there.[6] 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 crossing the Pine Barrens.[7]The volume of alcohol demanded by Arnold Rothstein in each shipment (8 vehicles, including trucks) renders this alternate route impracticable, at least during the early part of the year when the roads are covered in ice and later mud.[8]
Naming
The name Tabor Heights is a likely reference to the Taborites, a Protestant movement originating in Renaissance Bohemia, modern Czech Republic. 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).
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
- ↑ http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/hbos.html
- ↑ "Resolution"
- ↑ "Spaghetti and Coffee"
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ "You'd Be Surprised"
- ↑ "Spaghetti and Coffee
- ↑ "Bone for Tuna"
- ↑ "You'd Be Surprised"