New Jersey
New Jersey is the suburban wasteland stretching between New York City and Philadelphia. Its lights twinkle anticlimactically across the Hudson from Morningside Heights. Where it is not covered in strip malls, it is potentially toxic. It is nicknamed "the Garden State," which everyone already finds ironic, so don't think joking about it makes you original.
Many Columbia students come from here, the vast majority from Bergen County, a wealthy enclave (though not quite, perhaps, as wealthy as Westchester) in the northern part of the state.
New Jersey also cradles darkest Princeton.
Major cities
- Newark - car theft capital of the world
- Atlantic City - rundown, geriatric-infested version of Las Vegas
- Camden - per capita homicide capital of the East Coast
- Trenton - the Governor works here, but would never want to live in it
