New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas. New Jersey also has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S., and the highest cost of auto insurance. New Jersey has the highest cost of living, and the highest property taxes in the nation. North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius. New Jersey has 50+ resort cities and towns, some of the nation's most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch and Cape May. The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on their playing board after actual streets in Atlantic City. And Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world. In 1642, the first brewery in America opened in Hoboken. The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra. The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889. (Rutgers College played Princeton.) The first Medical Center was established in Jersey City. The Pulaski Skyway, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway. New Jersey built the first tunnel under a river. The Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River connects the cities of New York and Jersey City. New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (one square mile) than Havana, Cuba. New Jersey is a peninsula. Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire Eastern Seaboard, from Maine to Florida. The tallest water-tower in the world is in Union, New Jersey. New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for Water Quality Control than any other seaboard state in the entire country. New Jersey is a leading technology and industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals. The light bulb, phonograph (record player) and motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory. The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ. The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ. The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ. New Jersey rocks! Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah in 1940. New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the World. The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains. http://njpolitics-opinion.blogspot.com/2008/08/things-they-say-about-new-jersey.html |