> >
> > Highlands, New Jersey, has the highest elevation along the entire
> > eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
> >
> > New Jersey has the highest percentage urban population in the US
> > with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.
> >
> > New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as
> > metropolitan areas.
> >
> > New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
> >
> > New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana,
> > Cuba.
> >
> > North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with morecars stolen
> > in Newark then any other city. Even more than the 2 largest cities, NYC
> > and LA put together.
> >
> > New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in
> > the US.
> >
> > New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps, which is the most in any
> > one state in the nation.
> >
> > New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes
> > referred to as the diner capital of the world.
> >
> > North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world
> > with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square. mile radius.
> >
> > New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
> >
> > The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by
> > inventor John P. Holland.
> >
> >
> > New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the
> > nations most famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside

> > Cape May.
> >
> > New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical
> > producing state in the nation.
> >
> > New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in
> > the US located in Elizabeth.
> >
> > The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture
> > projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.
> >
> > The first sea-plane was built in Keyport.
> >
> > The first air-mail to Chicago was started from Keyport.
> >
> > The first phonograph records were made in Camden.
> >
> > New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
> >
> > Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game
> > Monopoly. Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
> >
> > New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of
> > the Middle East countries.
> >
> > The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
> >
> > New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world. (Union's claim to

> >
> > Two thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
> >
> > New Jersey had the first Medical Center, Jersey City.
> >
> > The Pulaski Sky Way (first sky way highway) runs from Jersey City
> > to Newark.
> >
> > The first tunnel under the Hudson River. (Holland Tunnel).
> >
> > The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in Paterson.
> >
> > New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse
> > prevention workshops to every public school.
> >
> >
> > The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.
> >
> > The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick; in
> > 1889 Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won.
> >
> > The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden.
> >
> > Home to two of NEW YORK'S Pro Football Teams.
> >
> > The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson.
> >
> > Unofficially divided into two parts... this side and that side of the
> > Parkway bridge.
> >
> > Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander,
> > Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Joseph
> > Czesnik, Dr. Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah
> > Vaughn, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney

> > Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Eileen Donnely, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow
> > Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer,

> Bruce

> > Willis, Phillip Roth, Caesar Romero, Lou Costello, Nick Adams, Nathan

> > Sandra Dee, Danny DaVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Robert Blake,