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MusicNew Jersey has long been an important area for both rock and rap music. Some prominent musicians with connections to New Jersey are:
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The New Jersey Turnpike is one of the best-known and most-trafficked roadways in the USA. This toll road carries interstate traffic between Delaware and New York. Commonly referred to as simply "the Turnpike," it is also known for its numerous rest-areas named after prominent New Jerseyans as varied as inventor Thomas Edison; United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; U.S. Presidents Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, ; writers James Fenimore Cooper, Joyce Kilmer, and Walt Whitman; patriot Molly Pitcher; Red Cross advocate Clara Barton, and football coach Vince Lombardi.
The Garden State Parkway, or just "the Parkway," and "The Garden State Parking Lot" on Fridays during the summer, carries more in-state traffic, and runs from the town of Montvale along New Jersey's northern border with New York to the southernmost tip of the state at Cape May. It is true that some New Jersey residents who live near the Parkway or the Turnpike (a majority of the state population) locate their hometowns according to their respective highway exits, though very few New Jerseyans living anywhere else in the state will do so. It also acts as the trunk that connects the New York metropolitan area to Atlantic City.
Other expressways in New Jersey include the Atlantic City Expressway, Palisades Interstate Parkway, Interstate 76, Interstate 78, and Interstate 80.
The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) operates extensive rail and bus service throughout the state. NJ Transit is a state-run corporation that began with the consolidation of several private bus companies in North Jersey. In the early 1980s, it acquired the commuter train operations of CONRAIL that connect towns in northern and central New Jersey to New York City. In 1989, NJ Transit began service between Atlantic City and Lindenwold, extending it to Philadelphia in the 1990s.
New Jersey has interstate compacts with all three neighboring states. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Delaware River Port Authority (with Pennsylvania), and the Delaware River and Bay Authority (with Delaware) operate most of the major transportation routes into and out of New Jersey. Tolls for the bridges are charged in one direction—it is free to get into New Jersey, but people have to pay to get out. The Scudders Falls bridge on I-95 near Trenton is still free as of this writing.
Newark Liberty International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the United States. Run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who runs the other two major airports in the New York City region: John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, it is one of the main airports serving the New York City area. Continental Airlines is Newark's largest tenant, operating an entire terminal at Newark which they use as a hub. United Airlines and FedEx operate cargo hubs. The airport has its own ralroad station on New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line which is also served by Amtrak.
New Jersey has 566 municipalities; until recently, 567. Unlike other states, all of its municipalities are incorporated entities, with fixed boundaries, and no local government can simply absorb land from another.
When the types of government were devised in the nineteenth century, the intention was that cities would be large built-up areas, with progressively smaller boroughs, towns, and villages; the rural areas in between would be relatively large townships. This is still often true, although Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey has been divided until it is less than a square mile, and consists of a single housing development. Some townships - notably Middletown, Brick, Hamilton, and Dover (which includes Toms River) have, without changing their boundaries, become large stretches of surburbia, as populous as (if often more spread out than) cities, often focused around shopping centers and highways rather than traditional downtowns and main streets.
As with Toms River, many locations in New Jersey are simply neighborhoods, with no exact boundaries; often the cluster of houses, the traditional neighborhood, the postal district, and the Census designated place will differ.
The five types of muncipality differ mostly in name. Originally each type had its own form of government, but more modern forms are available to any municipality, whatever it may be called. This is the only difference between boroughs and cities or townships: only boroughs can have the "borough form" of government (although few still do).
The Federal Government has often failed to understand that a New Jersey township is just another municipality; and some municipalities have become the Township of the Borough of Verona or the Township of South Orange Village to receive more Federal aid. The Census Bureau also has a hard time every ten years.
Loch
Arbour is New Jersey's only remaining village.
Large Cities (+ 100,000 pop.)
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Towns and small cities (60,000–99,999 pop.)
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Other (59,999 -) The following communities are college towns or other notable places in New Jersey with under 60,000 people. |
Wealth of cities by per capita income:
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Mantoloking, New Jersey $114,017 2 Saddle River, New Jersey $85,934 3 Far Hills, New Jersey $81,535 4 Essex Fells, New Jersey $77,434 5 Alpine, New Jersey $76,995 6 Millburn, New Jersey $76,796 7 Rumson, New Jersey $73,692 8 Harding Township, New Jersey $72,689 9 Teterboro, New Jersey $72,613 10 Bernardsville, New Jersey $69,854 |
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Newark, New Jersey $13,009 694 Laurel Lake, New Jersey $12,965 695 Passaic, New Jersey $12,874 696 Seabrook Farms, New Jersey $12,499 697 McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey $12,364 698 New Hanover Township, New Jersey $12,140 699 Lakewood, New Jersey $11,802 700 Bridgeton, New Jersey $10,917 701 Fort Dix, New Jersey $10,543 702 Camden, New Jersey $9,815 |
Although some problems exist in certain inner city neighborhoods, New Jersey overall is considered to have one of the best public education systems in the United States. In addition, 54% of high school graduates continue on to college or university, tied with Massachusetts for the second highest rate in the nation (North Dakota holds first place at 59%. New Jersey also has the highest average scores for advanced placement testing in public schools in the nation.
New
Jersey is home to more scientists and engineers than any other state.
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In
addition to the afore mentioned institutions, there are 19 community
colleges, serving the 21 counties in the state.
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New Jersey Devils,
National Hockey League
New Jersey Nets, National Basketball Association
MetroStars, Major League Soccer
New Jersey Pride, Major League Lacrosse
National
Football League
New York Giants
New York Jets
Minor League Baseball teams
Atlantic City Surf
Camden Riversharks
New Jersey Cardinals (Augusta)
New Jersey Jackals (Montclair)
Newark Bears
Lakewood BlueClaws
Somerset Patriots (Bridgewater)
Trenton Thunder
The USS New Jersey,
one of the most decorated vessels in the United States Navy, was named
in honor of this state and is now a tourist attraction in Camden,
New Jersey.
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