My first visit to New York City, was really a visit to New Jersey, the conference was held in a hotel on the banks of the Hudson River in New Jersey with spectacular views of Manhattan. I flew home from Newark that trip, only the second time I was ever in that airport.
Most of my contact with New Jersey has been passing through on trains, to and from New York, or Connecticut, or Massachusetts. The image above was taken while passing through a Newark, a train station trapped in time, other than the electronic signage, unchanged, parts of maybe even uncleaned since World War II.
It is a state I should give more attention to. It is in the heart of the northeastern United States. The major population centers are bedroom communities for New York City and Philadelphia. The state also has vast agricultural zones, and a famed Atlantic beachfront.
The winters are cold, and the statewide politics lean conservative, despite being sandwiched between NYC and Philly.
I have far too much connection with New Jersey. When I lived in Bucks County and worked at Bloomingdales, I drove to New Jersey for 15 years to work. In my youth the beaches were where we went. Been to Asbury Park numerous times and been to Princeton several times. And of course the quints towns of Lambertville, Stockton and Frenchtown. It's an alright state, but don't know I'd want to live there. I'm more a Delaware beach points person now. Far cleaner and lest populated beach points.
ReplyDeleteYou know far more about the garden state than I do.
DeleteI spent a lot of time in New Jersey. Typical New Yorker, when I was a kid I simply thought of it as outlying New York.
ReplyDeleteIt kinda is.
DeleteNewark Airport gets a guernsey for the most expensive sandwiches in the world. It was a disgrace. A few hours earlier we were at a bar at New York's Port Authority, where the drinks were cheap, a barman paid for drinks for each of us and gave us shot glasses to take home to Australia.
ReplyDeleteAirport food can be expensive.
DeleteNew Jersey is where my paternal ancestors lived before they fled to Canada from the 13 colonies as United Empire Loyalists after the War of independence.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting history.
DeleteI very much approve of monarchists... 😁
DeleteCan we ask the King to take us back?
DeleteOn my very first trip to New York City, I stayed with a friend who was living in New Jersey. This was back around 1975. Since that time, I've visited NYC many times and except for one time have always flown into Newark. It has to be my least favorite airport anywhere. I wish I could take the train like you can.
ReplyDeleteI have changed planes at JFK or LGA several times, but only the one time flew from NYC to DC, it is faster to take the train.
DeleteI have only been to New Jersey on the way into New York or the way out of New York.
ReplyDeleteThe northeast's flyover state.
DeleteDidn't Trump have a bunch of casinos in New Jersey that failed spectacularly as businesses such as "Trump Taj Mahal"? Not many people are capable of creating casinos that lose money. It might have helped if he had not insisted upon his family name being used in each casino's title.
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