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Rt. 78 is the official cutoff. There is major difference between Summit, NJ and Clark, NJ. Summit, Berkley Heights and New Providence should be absorbed by Morris County.
In addition to the county line, there is a clear difference in climate, soil and vegetation in Union county that aligns itself with Central, NJ rather than North Jersey. Pull up the topographical map and you will clearly see that most of union belongs with central, nj and probably the reason rt. 78 was also built where it is.
Route 78 “official cutoff?” There is nothing official about it, hence why these debates exist. What a joke. If 78 serves as some kind of border, what does that make Newark and Jersey City?
No way. I live in Berkeley Heights. Have neighbors that moved from North Jersey (Bergen County), and they moved here because it's NOT North Jersey.
You're right, Bergen County is much different than Berkley Heights. However, Berkley Heights is much more similar to Morris and Essex County versus central, NJ.
I never heard of most of these towns until I was an adult. And I never heard of others until I came to City. New Providence? Cream Ridge? They are towns in NJ????
When you grow up in Bergen County, you know Rockland County and Passaic County, and you have a vague idea about Sussex and some of the parts you drive through to get to the Poconos, but I never knew that people actually lived in the rest of NJ.
Just kidding. But really, growing up in NW Bergen County, we were more connected to NY State than the rest of NJ.
In fact, when I was 18, I got a temp job working for the Bergen County Board of Elections. I had to file things by town, and I was shocked to find there were actually 70 towns in my county, some of which I had never heard of or did not realize were part of the same County.
I am not the only one. I worked with a woman who grew up in Bayonne then moved to Oakland. She always complained about having to go all the way down to South Jersey to her brother's house for holidays. Her brother lived in Edison.
I worked with a woman who grew up in Bayonne then moved to Oakland. She always complained about having to go all the way down to South Jersey to her brother's house for holidays. Her brother lived in Edison.
Back in the '60s, I had a friend who lived in Ironbound/Down Neck Newark, and his mother was hospitalized at Greenville Hospital, in Jersey City. He drove his Aunt to Jersey City, so that she could visit his mother, and he reported that for the entire drive, his Aunt kept chanting--over and over again--"It's so fah, Chollie boy, it's so FAH!". (Translation: It's so far, Charlie boy, it's so far.)
The drive from Newark to Jersey City took all of 18 minutes. He noted afterward that the only other place she had ever visited outside of Newark was Seaside Heights. The lack of worldliness of some people is nothing short of amazing.
Makes no sense to include some of the towns some of you have mentioned that are so close to Newark in Central Jersey. South Jersey has a ton of land mass so does North Jersey. Central Jersey is smaller. Hillside and some of the others Central Jersey? You can't be serious.
I never heard of most of these towns until I was an adult. And I never heard of others until I came to City. New Providence? Cream Ridge? They are towns in NJ????
When you grow up in Bergen County, you know Rockland County and Passaic County, and you have a vague idea about Sussex and some of the parts you drive through to get to the Poconos, but I never knew that people actually lived in the rest of NJ.
Just kidding. But really, growing up in NW Bergen County, we were more connected to NY State than the rest of NJ.
In fact, when I was 18, I got a temp job working for the Bergen County Board of Elections. I had to file things by town, and I was shocked to find there were actually 70 towns in my county, some of which I had never heard of or did not realize were part of the same County.
I am not the only one. I worked with a woman who grew up in Bayonne then moved to Oakland. She always complained about having to go all the way down to South Jersey to her brother's house for holidays. Her brother lived in Edison.
It seems like Bergen, Essex, Hudson and the eastern bulby part of Passaic
Counties need to be their own category. Then the people in Union County can stop arguing about being part of North Jersey.
Makes no sense to include some of the towns some of you have mentioned that are so close to Newark in Central Jersey. South Jersey has a ton of land mass so does North Jersey. Central Jersey is smaller. Hillside and some of the others Central Jersey? You can't be serious.
Of course Hillside and Elizabeth aren't Central Jersey lol they're close to Newark so they're in North Jersey
I'm originally from Roselle, worked at the family business in Watchung, also lived in North Plainfield and Edison (by Brunswick) before going down to South Jersey in 93. Started in Burlington County, now in Gloucester County since 2008.
Way back when, Roselle was considered North Jersey, the split used to be when you were going down the shore, you drove over the big bridge on the Parkway.
Ah! Me too! My birth house is on Victory st. off of St. Georges Ave!
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