Reporting from New York - The sign on the chain-link fence warns “No Trespassing,” and a passerby walking through this industrial Brooklyn neighborhood wouldn’t think there was much to see beyond the barbed wire circling the lot, other than stacks of rust-colored shipping crates piled four high. (LA Times)

A  young man in short gray pants and argyle socks pushes a middle-aged couple in a rolling wicker chair.  A nurse in a starched white cap stands outside a storefront whose sign promotes the occupied “Baby Incubators” within. Nearby are Fralinger’s Salt Water Taffy, Babette’s Supper Club and an amusements and arcades pier. (NorthJersey.com-Read more)

Gretchen Mol has joined HBO’s upcoming drama series “Boardwalk Empire” as a recurring. (THR.com)

NEW YORK - You can see the Empire State Building from the Atlantic City boardwalk.

At least you can from the 300-foot section that in recent months has grown in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint section to provide a 1920s backdrop for HBO’s upcoming “Boardwalk Empire.”  (Philadelphia Daily News)

Set in 1920, the coming HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” is a project tailor-made for coverage by Speakeasy. Good music, illegal liquor, machine guns and saucy molls — what’s not to like? (WSJ–Read More)

In a wicker rolling-chair, two well-heeled tourists spent Monday wheeling along the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

But the cheery teenage boy at the chair’s helm, dressed in red-and-cream diamond-checked socks, kept having to make U-turns — because this boardwalk — in Brooklyn — is just 300 feet long.   (Press of Atlantic City–Read More)

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A nondescript parking lot here is the unlikely home for a re-created Atlantic City Boardwalk of the Roaring ’20s, a key setting for Boardwalk Empire, a drama due next fall. (USA TODAY..)

.. after a long day in the cutting room working on a pilot for Boardwalk Empire, a new HBO television drama series about Prohibition-era Atlantic City starring Steve Buscemi, his conversation is still high octane, the enthusiasms sparks that catch the weighty pack of his idea-loaded imagination.

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