Gothamist: Video of the Day: NYC vs. NJ

hurhg

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:55:55 -0500

Not really. New Jersey is what, the 1st or 2nd wealthiest state in the US? Most of the towns are older than the founding of the United States and have the architecture to prove it... beautiful old churches, stone walkways and fences from the Dutch days, etc. etc. Long Island and Westchester County are 1950s McMansion hellholes. But, no, I'll take Tony Douchotti on the LIRR who shoves old ladies in Penn Station so he can get to Goldman Sacks to pay off his hideous, 10,000 squarefoot cheapo cookie cutter "estate" in Suffolk County.

Shinobi Shaw

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:24:49 -0500

#19 I was one of the commenters above ranting on Jersey and I was raised in NY since I was 9. If I want suburban I'll take Long Island or Westchester, much classier then Jersey. JERSEY is the equivalent of LA's San Fernando Valley.

hurhg

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:12:23 -0500

The people who know nothing of New Jersey commenting above are definitely not from the NYC area, let alone New York City. And to the hicks and rednecks from South Jersey disparaging poor maligned North Jurz, you guys might as well be living in West Virginia. Anyway, if you've ever been to Ridgewood, Montclair, Passaic Park, etc. etc., you'll realize North Jersey is basically a more spread out analog to Brooklyn and Queens (as in, they all developed as suburbs of Manhattan ... and were suburbs until you people started moving there in the past decade). You've got your tony 1800s Brownstone towns, your working class crapholes, your average middle class towns (which look exactly like Bensonhurst when you walk down from 18th Ave in the 60s and 70s), etc. etc. NJ isn't a strange, faraway place you know--it only is to transplants (like all the commenters above) and the rare divas born and raised in Manhattan.

hurhg

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:11:18 -0500

The people who know nothing of New Jersey commenting above are definitely not from the NYC area, let alone New York City. And to the hicks and rednecks from South Jersey disparaging poor maligned North Jurz, you guys might as well be living in West Virginia. Anyway, if you've ever been to Ridgewood, Montclair, Passaic Park, etc. etc., you'll realize New Jersey is basically a more spread out analog to Brooklyn and Queens. You've got your tony 1800s Brownstone towns, your working class crapholes, your average middle class towns (which look exactly like Bensonhurst when you walk down from 18th Ave in the 60s and 70s), etc. etc. NJ isn't a strange, faraway place you know--it only is to transplants (like all the commenters above) and the rare divas born and raised in Manhattan.

Wza

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:52:02 -0500

No comparison.

Politburo

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:38:12 -0500

I have to take exception, donner.. I've never found that people seriously used exit numbers to describe where they're from. For instance, at Rutgers (the source of your icon, if I'm not mistaken), we didn't go around the dorms introducing ourselves as being from Exit 160, or whatever. Because there are 565 towns in NJ (five of which are named "Franklin"), you might have to use the exit number as a geographical reference, but not as a primary descriptor.

Shinobi Shaw

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:20:03 -0500

Aside from 'West New York' (i.e. Hoboken, Jersey City etc) what else is there in Jersey? Atlantic City and NEWARK? HAHAHAHAHAH! I just love entertaining myself on this beautiful Tuesday afternoon! In the future when NEW YORK is this huge megacity that reaches the edge of Philly, New Jersey will be its ghetto!

huffybike

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:57:41 -0500

Line of the night.

Outter Burrougher

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:57:09 -0500

aw, i love when people like to act all ignorant and pretend like the part of NJ that is right next to NYC is the whole state. guess what? most people from NJ hate that area, too.

donner

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:57:04 -0500

I am originally from South Jersey- Exit 4 off the Turnpike (Yes, that IS how NJ people describe where they're from). I knew this post was going to piss me off. For every idiot who thinks NJ is some "cesspool"- Try venturing SOUTH of exit 12 on the turnpike. Many ignorami allow a very SMALL portion of NJ to represent what is otherwise a beautiful state. But screw it, I'd rather keep most dirty, rude, egotistical, MEAN NYers out of my state anyway! :)

longacre

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:49:37 -0500

There is a town next to Weehawken, basically straight across the Hudson from Midtown, called "West New York." I think we should sue.

babyhitler

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:44:09 -0500

New York wins cause people don't even say they are from jersey now they say they are from "west new york".LOL

bagelman

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:34:14 -0500

NJ is pretty awful, but seriously, which states - not cities - are better? Jers has given us: Sinatra, Springsteen, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Lauryn Hill, Philip Roth, Travolta, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Alfred Stieglitz, Amiri Baraka, William Carlos Williams, Yo La Tengo... The key is to LEAVE new jersey as soon as possible.

BMMDan

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:12 -0500

"I never liked that cesspool armpit of NY aka NJ...it's just so...common and average and full of lame guidos and annoying B&T folk. Very salt of the earth types. I like HOBOKEN and Jersey city though." ha ha ha ha....i love the irony of your comment. visit places other than hoboken and jc and you'll see a plethora of culture to hate on. go see the rest of the country, then decide if jersey really is the cesspool armpit you speak of.

Shinobi Shaw

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:05:46 -0500

I never liked that cesspool armpit of NY aka NJ...it's just so...common and average and full of lame guidos and annoying B&T folk. Very salt of the earth types. I like HOBOKEN and Jersey city though.

aveB4life

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:57:47 -0500

c'mon, this is a funny show. i watched this last night and loved every minute. the episode was entitled I heart NJ. you see me. hi haters!

longacre

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:55:39 -0500

Since when does new Becky live in NJ?

Steven

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:53:16 -0500

Why not NY (as in the whole state) vs NJ? It's like saying Newark,NJ vs NYC. Lame.

Politburo

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:37:22 -0500

Marshall is from the midwest, which may explain his argument, if you're prone to generalizations of fictional characters based on where they were fictionally raised.

whantmoore

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:30:38 -0500

Who watches CBS let alone that crappy show. I figure most people who read gothamist are under 70 and the most people who watch CBS are over 70

Think twice

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:28:12 -0500

Replace every utterance of "New York" with "Manhattan" and this scene would be sooo OTM it'd be scary.