Matt Kirkland has the right sort of idea for New Jersey taking over some inferior and less beloved states in the sake of greater efficiency. It would have to involve some exit renumbering though.
According to PolitickerNJ Monmouth county GOP Chairman Adam Puharic wants former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to run for the U. S. Senate from New Jersey against Frank Lautenberg. One catch, Giuliani lives in New York!
A drunken woman decided to park her car on the tracks of New Jersey Transit’s Pascack Valley Line tonight in the Bergen County town of Hasbrouck Heights. Thankfully nobody got hurt and the woman wasn’t in the car, which was destroyed after negatively impacting with a New Jersey Transit locomotive. Remember, the train always wins!
Schnackenberg’s Luncheonette, 1110 Washington Street, Hoboken
How did WCBS salute New Jersey in 1981?
With about ten seconds of film - a plane landing at Newark Airport, what we think may be the State House in Trenton, and a highway bridge!
Yeah, that really sums up New Jersey!
Hudson and River Streets, Hoboken
We heard Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take On the Garden State being talked about on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show last summer and finally picked up a copy. It is a collection of essays about New Jersey. Instead of chapters, there are exits. You should really give the show a listen to get an idea about the book.
There are some omissions of locales, and that is actually mentioned in the introduction, but it is a quick read and is going to have us looking for the other works of these New Jersey writers.
We got this when we were a little kid and have hung onto it ever since. It is a General Electric manual for of all things New Jersey Department of Transportation trains. It is from the 1970s and is filled with all that great sort of 1960s-1970s industrial typography, plus it has the Star Trek like NJDOT logo on the front.
Hoboken PATH, 1998
This sign in Hoboken has always struck us as a bit odd. You would have expected them to have at least matched the font.