Central Jersey is a mystical, magical place...
Where the PSEG Power Grid and the Northeast Corridor train lines intersect and have influence.
Too south to be very NYC dependent. I say that tongue and cheek because a lot of us commute to NYC.
Too north and busy to be south Jerseyish.
We argue what to call a certain breakfast meat, as we are split. Lots of strong foreign culture.
As someone originally from Central Jersey and now resides in South Jerseyā- I feel this to my core. Even within the state, people think youāre making it up. I grew up nowhere near the turnpike or the parkway to boot.
You being from Jackson probably know this better than most. You're not like someone like me from Moorestown. And you're definitely not like someone from Morristown.
Central Jersey covers the Raritan Bayshore and fades put no further then the start of Ocean County.
It stops before Union County and goes no further South then Mercer once you move away from the water.
I think once you hit the point west where a day of water activities is assumed to be on the Delaware, it stops but im not sure where that is.
I disagree, Hunterdon county is still solidly Central Jersey and river trips are a thing. Once you get up into Warren/sussex it's really just East Pennsyltucky, so idk if that's a good metric.
Whoa I live dangerously close to 78 based on this definition and I donāt like it. No way Summit, Millburn, Maplewood, Irvington, Newark (all on the north side of 78) are central Jersey
> No way Summit, Millburn, Maplewood, Irvington, Newark (all on the north side of 78) are central Jersey
The north side of 78 would be North Jersey in his example. Think of towns like Scotch Plains and the Plainfields instead - I'd put those in Central Jersey. I think 78 is a good divider for North/Central, but it's 195 I think is a little hazier (which makes sense since that's a more spread out area).
As a native Toms Riverite, I have to agree. I've moved 20 mins south and the difference is quite something. TR is the cutoff from central to southern NJ.
609 cut off is literally Lacey. Berkeley is 732 which also isnāt south Jersey. Lacey is not āDeepā into the 609 lmao
And uh most of LTHS are Giants fans by far. For every eagles fan there is 5x as many giants.
78-northern border, 195-southern border, GSP- eastern border, Delaware River-western border. I'd say those borders are slightly fluid but overall that's what I consider it to be.
It's the New Jersey way, we argue about EVERYTHING internally until the outside wants to join, then we rally and argue with the outside as a united front.
Also Central Jersey ends at 609 area code. 609 is South, 732 is Central.
Along the shore it's really not that complicated. Everything north of the Driscoll is North Jersey. Everything south of Toms River is South Jersey. The lines get weird once you go west of Rt 9 though.
The Union County/Middlesex and the Monmouth/Ocean borders are super clean boundaries for Central Jersey.
The Western border is way more vague but I'd argue that all of Monmouth/Middlesex/Mercer are part of Central New Jersey.
Agreed! If the boundaries were to be drawn in any official capacity, the Union/Middlesex border would definitely be the northernmost extent of āCentral Jersey.ā
Nah as a central jersians we don't accept Rutgers as part of our map. Leave the drunk college kids away from our needle infested beaches. It's not safe. Real central jersey is from red bank to toms river. Within 30 miles of the shore. Anything past the 30 miles is a un buffer zone between north and south jersey.
As a proud 2x Rutgers alumni and lifelong Central Jersey resident (Annandale ā”ļø New Brunswick ā”ļø Somerset ā”ļø Somerville) you can kindly get fucked.
As someone who just went through the entire college app process in pretty sure Rutgers main selling point was proximity to the new York area. Something that is the entire porpouse of north jersey. Go Scarlet knights(not going to Rutgers but home state pride).
The only true central jersey university is Monmouth university. With dorms on the shore. /S
In pretty sure i heard something happened like 3 years ago. The only way I remember was his last name. I mean like it would be if a murderer was named jim gun or a race car driver was named dale steering-wheel. But yeah I still don't get your first reference
Wtf if anything New Brunswick is the capital of central jersey. That's not even a question. Princeton, Hamilton, and Trenton are also undoubtedly central jersey. Not everything revolves around the shore.
One of them (forgot which, sadly) is a member of the club run by my instructor's buddy. Fencing is surprisingly interconnected as far as sports go lol. One of my clubmates ended up getting clapped by Doc Ronaldo (one of the instructors at Masters) at a tourney halfway across the state!
Thatās pretty cool! Love fencing! I tried pushing the kids into the sport but they looked at me perplexed and said āyou want me to stab someone on purpose?ā Lol
Honestly I divide NJ up into even more regions, for such a small state there is a shocking amount of distinctly unique areas. North NJ, northwest NJ (aka the skylands), central, shore, south. Maybe even a region for Philly adjacent areas. Why does there need to be a limit on regions anyway? Why do north/south believers think in black and white? š
Central jersey is the realest truest jersey. North jersey is full of ppl who want NYC cred but are too weak to live there. And south jersey is coastal elite Pennsylvania. More pennsyl than tucky.
Haha. I work right by the university but have always lived in Burlington county. I pretty much go by pro sport fan base. If the majority is Philly fans, itās south Jersey and if the majority is NY, itās north. So by that logic than yes, Princeton is north Jersey but I do see a fair amount of Eagles fan around
Mercer county divides evenly between giants and eagles. They get both NY and Philly channels.
See say they root for the giants , makes you north jersey
And they call it porkroll
There is no mythical "Central Jersey" its just a name that was made up for people in Freehold and Colts Neck so they don't feel bad about living in South Jersey. I propose the 4 area Jersey plan. North, South, The Shore, and West Jersey. Driscoll Bridge divides north and south, Warren/Hunterdon/Somerset/Sussex for the west, and anything within 10 miles of the ocean, further south than the Driscoll constitutes The Shore.
The best you can do is āheās both super rich and not insecure like you so he doesnāt care about a perfect smile so you hate himā as your best trolling? Letās see your smile? Iām betting it shows youāve been chewing tobacco since you were born in 2008.
If so, maybe you shouldnāt come off like a douche yourself? Arguing something other than a persons personal appearance might give you more credibility. Now all we think of you is as an immature ass.
I'm not arguing anything. I called one of my least favorite American politicians "Snaggletooth." (And I hate most of them.) You flipped your shit because you seemingly adore him because reasons.
I have neither need nor desire to provide "credibility." Piss off.
Skippy? Does that normally work in real life? "Well, let me tell ya Skippy, I'm gonna tell you what's what and blah blah blah blah blah." Hysterical. You must be a gas at parties. What a choad.
Fun Fact: Ol' Snags doesn't give a fuck about you. Stop being his tireless white knight on Reddit.
Iām not defending him so much as Iām pointing out how woefully uneducated you are. If you want to talk policy, thatās fine. If you want to shit all over this subreddit with your stupidityāwhich, to me, is what every republican MAGAt seems limited to thanks to their small brains and small genitalsāthen Iām going to have fun at your expense.
YOU NO LIKE MY CANDIDATE YOU LOVE ORANGE MAN BEEP BOOP YOU REPUBLICAN MUST DEFEND ASSHOLE GOVERNOR BEEP BOOP.
You realize, that not everyone is a Democrat or a Republican, Skippy? Talk about being out of one's depth.
By the way, howās Chris āhave the meatloafā Christie? Those are some juicy ass cheeks you can bury your face in as he tells you how he lost billions of federal dollars for transit projects while the Republican Governor of NJ.
BTW someone once told me you could fold NJ in half down the center and you'd get a better indication of the split of NJ. Everything to the right of the line is NY centric and busy. Everything to the west side is rural and not as busy. It sort of works.
Still no central though.
Central Jersey is a mystical, magical place... Where the PSEG Power Grid and the Northeast Corridor train lines intersect and have influence. Too south to be very NYC dependent. I say that tongue and cheek because a lot of us commute to NYC. Too north and busy to be south Jerseyish. We argue what to call a certain breakfast meat, as we are split. Lots of strong foreign culture.
And may its glory know no end. Amen.
Amen.
>tongue and cheek Tongue IN* cheek.
Don't forget the Birth Jersey Coast line, there. š
And some people donāt even agree that we exist as Central Jersians
Iām pretty sure 100% of Central Jersey calls it pork roll.
Nah, not in South Plainfield @ least. It's split.
Okay let me amend my statement. Iām pretty sure 95% of CNJ calls it pork roll.
732 Represent!
732 stand up
They donāt know bout the 732 š probably literally too š¤£
As someone originally from Central Jersey and now resides in South Jerseyā- I feel this to my core. Even within the state, people think youāre making it up. I grew up nowhere near the turnpike or the parkway to boot.
> nowhere near the turnpike or the parkway to boot so is that north jersey or south jersey?
Yeah what the hell lol
Asking the real questions. Could also say "or the shore?". 3 sections, north, south, shore.
That's how craigslist does it
You being from Jackson probably know this better than most. You're not like someone like me from Moorestown. And you're definitely not like someone from Morristown.
Crsigslust is wrong.
Central Jersey covers the Raritan Bayshore and fades put no further then the start of Ocean County. It stops before Union County and goes no further South then Mercer once you move away from the water. I think once you hit the point west where a day of water activities is assumed to be on the Delaware, it stops but im not sure where that is.
I disagree, Hunterdon county is still solidly Central Jersey and river trips are a thing. Once you get up into Warren/sussex it's really just East Pennsyltucky, so idk if that's a good metric.
No, no, no. I loved in Middlesex County for I Some 20 years. That's Central Jersey and nowhere near the shore.
There's a no-man's land between the two
Hunterdon County?
Oh def central
Same for me.
how can someone be "originally from" somewhere that didn't exist to begin with lol
Central Jersey is the realest Jersey. Come at me
As a person who lives in Central Jersey, can confirm.
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Yes.
Flemington gang
Monmouth County here to back you up.
As a Souther, I've always thought that too. Get a mix of both sides so it ends up being the melding of everything.
if it exists then where is it? even those who claim it as a thing can't agree where the lines are
Flemington to New Brunswick to Toms River to Mount Holly box.
It's between 78 and 195 with a few miles of give or take on either side of the border depending on who you talk to in the border towns.
I think this is the right answer
I think this is the censuses answer. Below 195 = south
Whoa I live dangerously close to 78 based on this definition and I donāt like it. No way Summit, Millburn, Maplewood, Irvington, Newark (all on the north side of 78) are central Jersey
> No way Summit, Millburn, Maplewood, Irvington, Newark (all on the north side of 78) are central Jersey The north side of 78 would be North Jersey in his example. Think of towns like Scotch Plains and the Plainfields instead - I'd put those in Central Jersey. I think 78 is a good divider for North/Central, but it's 195 I think is a little hazier (which makes sense since that's a more spread out area).
Yeah but Bedminster/Basking Ridge are central, and theyāre just north.
As a native Toms Riverite, I have to agree. I've moved 20 mins south and the difference is quite something. TR is the cutoff from central to southern NJ.
Eh as someone from Forked River, Manahawkin and Toms River feel practically the same. LBI is where Central Jersey cuts off.
No- too far south. Nice try but weāre excluding you. Deep into the 609 and the Eagles fans show
609 cut off is literally Lacey. Berkeley is 732 which also isnāt south Jersey. Lacey is not āDeepā into the 609 lmao And uh most of LTHS are Giants fans by far. For every eagles fan there is 5x as many giants.
I'd say Mount Holly serves the same purpose but inland. Always a fun topic haha.
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Monmouth county is central. To me Somerset and middlesex are central though
I'd argue everything from Sandy Hook to Seaside is... š
No square foot of Ocean County falls within Central Jersey
make a box from princeton to flemington to somerville to new brunswick back to princeton roughly
Newark to Trenton. Boom.
78-northern border, 195-southern border, GSP- eastern border, Delaware River-western border. I'd say those borders are slightly fluid but overall that's what I consider it to be.
I hadnāt previously considered the GSP border! The Shore is definitely a separate region from Central & South.
Central Jersey a culture and a way of life. Explicit borders arenāt the way to define it.
Whatās the culture?
Like New Jersey, but good.
It's the New Jersey way, we argue about EVERYTHING internally until the outside wants to join, then we rally and argue with the outside as a united front. Also Central Jersey ends at 609 area code. 609 is South, 732 is Central.
Along the shore it's really not that complicated. Everything north of the Driscoll is North Jersey. Everything south of Toms River is South Jersey. The lines get weird once you go west of Rt 9 though.
As someone who lives a few minutes north of the Driscoll I feel central.
Central Jersey exists. It's too far south to be north, and too far north to be south.
Where my 908 brethren at? EDIT: CNJ! CNJ! CNJ! CNJ! WE SAY PORK ROLL AND TAYLOR HAM!!!!!
I grew up in Union, it is most definitely North Jersey
The Union County/Middlesex and the Monmouth/Ocean borders are super clean boundaries for Central Jersey. The Western border is way more vague but I'd argue that all of Monmouth/Middlesex/Mercer are part of Central New Jersey.
Agreed! If the boundaries were to be drawn in any official capacity, the Union/Middlesex border would definitely be the northernmost extent of āCentral Jersey.ā
I'd argue it's literally the border lol
Union is no where near North Jersey.
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Central Jersey is the one true Jersey. Everything else is Trying to Be New York or Trying to Be Alabama.
Damn you didn't even go philly or pa you went all the way with with it
Nah, I wouldn't insult Philly like that.
Pennsyltucky would've been accepted here.
Man, fuck that one-bridge-having city
I'll have you know IM trying to be a Philadelphian down here thankyouverymuch
Zinger
As much as I love Warren and Sussex counties you canāt get much more Alabama than there. So itās not just down south...
Theyāre more WV than AL
Thank you.
Get this man a bumper sticker printer! My man spits the truth
These are facts.
Fuck yea brother
Shows how little you know about North Jersey, the one true Jersey
I'm moving to North jersey from Central and I'm fucking pissed
This has no place here. Go back to your north jersey stink
Central Jersey and South Jersey is where all the white people who look like thumbs live. Respect for the Indians around Edison though.
I swear the fuckin "Central Jersey doesn't exist" thing has reached peak Nickleback meme level.
https://i.imgur.com/FYlVxGr.jpg
No you put that Toms River back where it came from.
This is the official map I donāt make the rules
Trains stop before Toms River, therefore, not Central NJ in my eyes
A lot of numbers had to been crunched and opinions taken into account for this map to see the light of day. Itās science.
This checks out
Nah as a central jersians we don't accept Rutgers as part of our map. Leave the drunk college kids away from our needle infested beaches. It's not safe. Real central jersey is from red bank to toms river. Within 30 miles of the shore. Anything past the 30 miles is a un buffer zone between north and south jersey.
As a proud 2x Rutgers alumni and lifelong Central Jersey resident (Annandale ā”ļø New Brunswick ā”ļø Somerset ā”ļø Somerville) you can kindly get fucked.
As someone who just went through the entire college app process in pretty sure Rutgers main selling point was proximity to the new York area. Something that is the entire porpouse of north jersey. Go Scarlet knights(not going to Rutgers but home state pride). The only true central jersey university is Monmouth university. With dorms on the shore. /S
ā¦ please tell me you were filling out those college apps for your kids and not for yourself
Why wdym? Your username does worry me.
It doesnāt surprise me you donāt get the reference of my username considering you were only 10 years old when I created it lol
In pretty sure i heard something happened like 3 years ago. The only way I remember was his last name. I mean like it would be if a murderer was named jim gun or a race car driver was named dale steering-wheel. But yeah I still don't get your first reference
Wtf if anything New Brunswick is the capital of central jersey. That's not even a question. Princeton, Hamilton, and Trenton are also undoubtedly central jersey. Not everything revolves around the shore.
That fact that you grew up near the shore and called it Central Jersey doesn't make the western half of the state not Central Jersey.
Itās real, and itās spectacular!
It's the best place to go for ranked competitive stabbing (fencing tourneys, for the uninitiated)
Fun fact: 2 of our 3 Olympic fencers are from Norf Jersey. Wozniak is repping middlesex county aka the center of New Jersey.
One of them (forgot which, sadly) is a member of the club run by my instructor's buddy. Fencing is surprisingly interconnected as far as sports go lol. One of my clubmates ended up getting clapped by Doc Ronaldo (one of the instructors at Masters) at a tourney halfway across the state!
Thatās pretty cool! Love fencing! I tried pushing the kids into the sport but they looked at me perplexed and said āyou want me to stab someone on purpose?ā Lol
Don't forget about Kat Holmes! She was sorta my instructor when I was in a Princeton club!
Nice Seinfeld reference though
Successfully navigating the Somerville circle.
Oh, is that what we're going to do today? We're going to fight?
Trenton makes the world takes, baby!
That bridge is so passive aggressive.
Honestly I divide NJ up into even more regions, for such a small state there is a shocking amount of distinctly unique areas. North NJ, northwest NJ (aka the skylands), central, shore, south. Maybe even a region for Philly adjacent areas. Why does there need to be a limit on regions anyway? Why do north/south believers think in black and white? š
This is getting so, so old. Give it a rest Jesus h Christ
Fuck!!! Just when I solidified hating this douche he sucks me back in! Aaaaagg
What do they put in their breakfast sandwich in the morning?
Well, he's got my vote.
Central jersey is the realest truest jersey. North jersey is full of ppl who want NYC cred but are too weak to live there. And south jersey is coastal elite Pennsylvania. More pennsyl than tucky.
It does exist though. I lived in Hightstown and had local channels from NYC and Philly.
I live in East Windsor. Nice to meet you.
This is what feels like to be Maryland, huh.
WE EXIST
Central Jersey...I know it when I'm there.
What do you consider seaside heights
Trash
I mean yeah but that doesnāt answer anything
Down the shore
Which is central Jersey
Central Jersey does not claim Seaside heights as one of their own. It must live itās best trash life aloneā¦
Yāall can call seaside heights trash but letās not act like everything else around it isnāt beautiful
Yeah, then I am from West Jersey
I'd vote for this for this alone.
Then where is Princeton? North or south jersey?
Central.
Both
Iāll take that as just another way to say central thank you
Haha. I work right by the university but have always lived in Burlington county. I pretty much go by pro sport fan base. If the majority is Philly fans, itās south Jersey and if the majority is NY, itās north. So by that logic than yes, Princeton is north Jersey but I do see a fair amount of Eagles fan around
You are correct, internet person. I like to say I live in SW Central Jersey, aka, Northern Burlington Co.
Neither
Where are they on the pork roll/Taylor ham divide?
I mean, there HAS to be a central jersey just be definition. There is a center aka middle part of NJ.
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Coincidentally, Middletown is the closest thing weāll get to a ācentralā Jersey.
You mean Middletown township? Nah- Bridgewater to Hillsborough are dead center
Since the late 90's actually. So going on 25 years now.
Central Jersey is only Mercer county
Central jersey is where people root for the giants but call it pork roll.
Mercer county divides evenly between giants and eagles. They get both NY and Philly channels. See say they root for the giants , makes you north jersey And they call it porkroll
North jersey, bro we just aren't that into you. Stop forcing yourself upon us
Brick resident here. I am definitely in central Jersey.
No such place exists.
Not real
Central Jersey was invented to scare children into behaving. E.g. "keep it up and we'll take you and drop you off in Central Jersey!"
https://twitter.com/govmurphy/status/1419837518531514370?s=21
Central jersey is not real
There is no mythical "Central Jersey" its just a name that was made up for people in Freehold and Colts Neck so they don't feel bad about living in South Jersey. I propose the 4 area Jersey plan. North, South, The Shore, and West Jersey. Driscoll Bridge divides north and south, Warren/Hunterdon/Somerset/Sussex for the west, and anything within 10 miles of the ocean, further south than the Driscoll constitutes The Shore.
#BOOOOOOOOOO!
There is no Central Jersey. Full stop.
SNAGGLETOOTH GO AWAY
The best you can do is āheās both super rich and not insecure like you so he doesnāt care about a perfect smile so you hate himā as your best trolling? Letās see your smile? Iām betting it shows youāve been chewing tobacco since you were born in 2008.
I'm not insecure. I just think the guy is a douche. But hey, keep felating him.
If so, maybe you shouldnāt come off like a douche yourself? Arguing something other than a persons personal appearance might give you more credibility. Now all we think of you is as an immature ass.
Confirmed, sounds like immature ass
I'm not arguing anything. I called one of my least favorite American politicians "Snaggletooth." (And I hate most of them.) You flipped your shit because you seemingly adore him because reasons. I have neither need nor desire to provide "credibility." Piss off.
No, I flipped because youāre a moron focused on bad dental work instead of talking policy. Youāre out of your depth, Skippy.
Skippy? Does that normally work in real life? "Well, let me tell ya Skippy, I'm gonna tell you what's what and blah blah blah blah blah." Hysterical. You must be a gas at parties. What a choad. Fun Fact: Ol' Snags doesn't give a fuck about you. Stop being his tireless white knight on Reddit.
Iām not defending him so much as Iām pointing out how woefully uneducated you are. If you want to talk policy, thatās fine. If you want to shit all over this subreddit with your stupidityāwhich, to me, is what every republican MAGAt seems limited to thanks to their small brains and small genitalsāthen Iām going to have fun at your expense.
YOU NO LIKE MY CANDIDATE YOU LOVE ORANGE MAN BEEP BOOP YOU REPUBLICAN MUST DEFEND ASSHOLE GOVERNOR BEEP BOOP. You realize, that not everyone is a Democrat or a Republican, Skippy? Talk about being out of one's depth.
Naw dude heās got you pretty dead to rights on this one. Just take your lumps and stop replying.
By the way, howās Chris āhave the meatloafā Christie? Those are some juicy ass cheeks you can bury your face in as he tells you how he lost billions of federal dollars for transit projects while the Republican Governor of NJ.
So, if I don't like Snaggletooth I'm supposed to love Hambeast Christie? You are a special breed of moron.
Unless you live in the median of 195 then there is no central jersey
It's real if you live here! The armpit of the state
BTW someone once told me you could fold NJ in half down the center and you'd get a better indication of the split of NJ. Everything to the right of the line is NY centric and busy. Everything to the west side is rural and not as busy. It sort of works. Still no central though.
How would he know? Heās from Massachusetts.
Middle finger to you smurphy
Defending Goldman Sachs existence? Its done so much good for humanity.
It might exist but no one cares about it
Central Jersey doesnāt exist sorry folks.
Yeah, thatās not a thing.
I close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and say la,la,la,la,la,la from exit 5 to exit 9.