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I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.
I am a New Yorker.
New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.
If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
I'm from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.
I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore.
I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.
We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.
New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
New Jersey gives us glue.
born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers
HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, 1985 "We lived at 202 Elizabeth Street." My grandmother looked away from the video camera to my head.
I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.
New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.
When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.
Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said.
I'm from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike.
I live in Brooklyn.
Every town has its dark side, but I spend time in New York for my dark inspiration.
If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya.
I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.
Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her
I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the true strength of the communities where we live in America.
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.
Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
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New York is my, you know, second hometown.
New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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The Bronx? No Thonx!
Princeton isn't actually part of New Jersey. It's a small island of wealth and intellectual eccentricity floating in the Sea of Central Megalopolis. It's an honest-to-god town awash in the land of the strip mall. Hair is smaller, heels are shorter, asses are tighter in Princeton.
273 Page Street,
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.
I just love the sheer mess of New York.
I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
I'm a New York story.
I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities..the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.
Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Nincompoops. (Quincy,
We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.
Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there.
I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
I love New York.
New Brunswick. Shediac. Lobster Capital of the World.
I love New York City.
I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!
I was born in New York.
Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!!
I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was one of those moments that would always be Rutgers for me.
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
New York is in my soul.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'
Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.
New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.
I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.
Youngstown - the place where, you know, we were told, people got killed.
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.
I fell in love with New York.
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.
I like New York.York-- George Wendt
Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
I grew up in New York, I love New York.
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
What we need to do is to inspire businessmen and businesswomen to open up small businesses and medium businesses, and have big businesses come and relocate to New Jersey.
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.