Are they kidding? The storied Knife and Fork Inn at the oddly shaped 45-degree angled intersection of Atlantic and Pacific Avenues in Atlantic City is at least as distinctive for its iconic location a block from the Ocean as its Flemish architecture. It's where Burt Lancaster took Susan Sarandon for lunch in the great Louis Malle movie Atlantic City ("...Yeah, you should have seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days...") The restaurant's own website cites its location as part of what makes it as much of a landmark as Lucy the Elephant. Hmm. Lucy had a big old famous move one time too, a few blocks to its current location. Casino developers (who else) planning a new project at Albany Avenue and the Boardwalk want to up and move the Knife & Fork a block away. Knife & Fork owner Frank Doughtery is just glad the developers, who have an option to buy the restaurant in 2009, don't want to just tear it down. But will it be the same at the more prosaic intersection of Hartford and Atlantic? Is there no way to make this iconic landmark a part of the new gateway? City Council gave developers the green light earlier this month. The developers also want to relocate the World War I Monument, which sits in the middle of the Albany Avenue traffic circle and is virtually inaccessible to pedetrians, to a park across the street.

That makes more sense, as the war monument is impressive, if only you could didn't have to cling to it to avoid being hit by a car as you peer inside.