“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.” KnowsYearsSchoolCitiesCompanyTeacherNew YorkVictimSellingNew York CityEngineersEquipmentPublic SchoolJerseyNew JerseySchool SystemLayoffFiltration Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?” IfsYearsLooksJobsStrongCommunityNew YorkTaxesGood JobJerseyCapsNew Jersey Author:Dannel Malloy
“New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.” TwoNew YorkMy FavoriteJerseyGet RealSurfNew JerseySummertimeFavorite Places Author:Brandon Cruz
“New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.” PeopleKindLeftCitiesNew YorkFilledGet AwayNew York CityJerseyNew Jersey Author:Fran Lebowitz
“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?” PeopleThinkingWorldSidesChanceWiseNew YorkOceanTownsSeedsJerseyNew JerseyHay Author:O. Henry
“My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.” FactsHappensWinningSportsGoalTeamNew YorkFameGiantsHallsChampionshipRetiredJerseyLifelongHall Of FameResigned Author:Michael Strahan
“My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.” WayWritingKidsSchoolUsedSongNew YorkHungIntuitiveJerseyNew Jersey Author:Donald Fagen
“A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.” YearsStudyFiveEffectsNew YorkDoctorsSmellFinishedFive YearsJerseyNew YorkersNew JerseyVanilla Author:Jay Leno
“I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.” WholeStoriesSeaNew YorkSummerSpendingWhole LifeShoreRidingJerseyNew YorkersRoller CoasterCoastersJersey Shore Author:Marissa Jaret Winokur
“I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.” SpeakParentNew YorkGrewGrew UpDistanceMilesJerseyBrooklynNew Jersey Author:Jonathan Ames
“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.” EndsBehindsFiveFourNew YorkHighestOppositesWestCaliforniaJust OneBoastPercentagesJerseySpectrumVirginiaAlaskaMississippiNew JerseyPassportsResidentsAlabamaKentuckyMassachusettsArkansasWest VirginiaDelaware Author:Richard Florida
“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.” ThinkingSaidFeelingsBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkPositionGrewGrew UpTownsGratefulPrivilegedJerseyWorldviewNew JerseyGreat Education Author:Anne Hathaway
“What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.” IfsStatesBigsLinesCompanyNew YorkPoliticianFortuneCaliforniaEmployeeHealthcareArtificialJerseyNew JerseyNegotiatingInsurance CompaniesBig Companies Author:Donald Trump
“I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I've never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it's Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.” PeopleKnowsInterestingNew YorkMetsSouthRangeFloridaJerseyNew JerseyMiamiCubanInteresting PlacesSouth Florida Author:Dave Barry
“I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPlayFeelingsRealityFatherOpportunityGrowing UpPathGrowingGenerationsNew YorkSonTownsSouthArtisticPianoAspirationImmigrantsYearningSmall TownJerseyNonconformityBondingDropoutsNexusProvincetown Author:Anne Waldman
“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.” KidsUsedBitsClassStudyComedyGroupsFeetNew YorkMonthsCoupleRight NowDancingJazzMusicalUsed To BeBalletSaturdayBrushesJerseyFunny ThingsSelectedNew JerseyHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.” New YorkGreat ThingsJerseyNew Jersey Author:Fran Lebowitz
“New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.” StoriesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkShadowAdvantageJerseyNew Jersey Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.” FoundCausesNumbersNew YorkClintonPrimariesCaliforniaJerseyNew York TimesNew JerseyDelegates Author:Terry Gross