How Do I Get From New York To New Jersey

Why does New York hate New Jersey?

NYC sits East across the Hudson River from Jersey City (JC), New Jersey. By contrast NJ is a tiny state with a lot of its economy tied to what happens in NY. Many Wall Street firms have offices and IT Data Centres in NJ because it's cheaper. Several hundred thousand workers commute to NYC for work every single day.A lot of people misconstrue disdain for hate. New York City (NYC) has a reputation for being a more culturally vibrant, diverse and active city. Since most of the action happens in NYC, NJ is more of a large suburb and seen as less remarkable. It is often quoted about NYC, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!" The residents of NYC are proud to have stuck it out in the city despite the struggles of daily life in NYC. The people who visit NYC on work or pleasure from the Jersey side are often made fun of by terming them "bridge and tunnel people".  This term is even applied to the residents of Staten Island which happens to be a borough of NYC (the others being: The Bronx, Manhattan - the one you know and love, Queens and Brooklyn), since Staten Island is a separate island that sits West of Manhattan and just south east of NJ and the only way in and out is the ferry or the Verrazano-Narrows bridge.Choosing not to fork over a significant portion of your paycheck to reside in NYC shouldn't be held against you. The fact that some New Yorkers (as they call themselves) take pleasure in alienating others doesn't make them better. It just means they need to rationalise living in what is a majority of cases - a shoebox apartment built close to a century ago. The faux air of superiority is not something you really encounter. I spent two years living in NJ and working in Downtown Manhattan. I worked with a lot of people who lived in NYC and never once felt they cared where I lived. I recall my commute being less arduous than theirs. Some of them had to change more than two trains to get to work whereas I had to change one train and walk Downtown. So I'm not sure I got the raw side of the deal.

Is Gotham City in New York or New Jersey?

It’s neither — Gotham City is fictional, so it doesn’t actually exist anywhere.Actually, it’s even more complicated than that…..Gotham City was originally a fictional version of New York City in the early Batman comics. At that point, each comics character existed in a separate “universe,” so Gotham City was just what NYC was called in Batman stories.But as shared superhero “universes” started forming, things got stranger. Batman became part of the DC Universe through crossover stories in the ’40s and ‘50s, and so he shares his world (and the cities in it it) with Green Lantern, Flash, and many others. In particular, Batman often appeared in the same stories as Superman, and travels regularly to Superman’s home city Metropolis.Metropolis is also a fictional version of New York City, but a clearly different fictional NYC than Gotham. And they’re not that physically close to each other, so pretending one is Manhattan and the other is Brooklyn (for example) wouldn’t work. The two standard sayings are that either Gotham is downtown and Metropolis is uptown or that Metropolis is NYC by day and Gotham is NYC by night — they’re mutually exclusive visions of the same place.Even worse, eventually the real NYC appeared in the DC Universe, showing it was neither Gotham City nor Metropolis.There have been various explanations since then, none of them perfect. Generally in maps of the comics universe, Gotham City is placed somewhere in New Jersey — replacing Atlantic City, for example — so that it’s in the Northeast but isn’t right next to NYC. Metropolis similarly tends to get shoved into Delaware, on the Chesapeake Bay — so it’s close enough to Gotham to travel there easily, but not right next door.TV and movie versions of the characters have further muddied the situation — sometimes Gotham is NYC, sometimes it’s not, and sometimes it seems to be not-Chicago instead. (And the same for Metropolis.) Often, the story just doesn’t say exactly where it is, and leaves Gotham as pseudo-NYC by implication.So, in the end, Gotham City is wherever a particular story says it is. If the story doesn’t say, you can pick your favorite theory.

What do New Yorkers think of people from New Jersey?

I wonder if snooty and superior attitudes still prevail.  The stereotype would be that the New Yorker is sophisticated while the Jerseyite is crude and unsophisticated: men in wife beater tee shirts, subscribing to dumb magazines, women with big hair, kind of like Valley girls.  Or if they are wealthy they would have gaudy taste like in The Real Housewives of New Jersey vis a vis The Real Housewives of New York.  The New Yorker would have more fashionable tastes than the Jerseyite.  A New York date might be at an ironic dive bar, while the New Jersey date could take place at a bowling alley.  The New Yorker might go to the opera or a symphony, while the New Jerseyan thinks the Boston Pops or John Tesh is classical music.  New York music is punk rock like Patti Smith (who's actually from New Jersey) or someone hip and underground. New Jersey music is Bruce Springsteen or Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. (Have I dated myself?)  Or at least Bon Jovi. The stereotypes peak with food.  New Jersey food would be diner food or family style Italian food, and would feature pitchers of Coke or Pepsi, while New Yorkers would have tasting menus or prix fixe or seasonal this or that with fussy patrons, waiters, sommeliers, and wine lists.   The New Jersey person is heavily into his car and drives like a jerk.  The true New Yorker is a Manhattanite who doesn't own a car or even know the roads. He might know the subway system, but if he is in a car it is usually in the back seat, talking, and leaving the driving and navigation to the driver.  He may not even have a driver's license. The stereotypes are rubbish.  If one is talking about commuters from the suburbs or people who moved to New York from the suburbs, why would people from New Jersey be different from people from Long Island or Westchester or Connecticut?  People come to New York, and to New Jersey, from all over the world.  How can you tell a New Jerseyan from a Californian or an Oregonian or a New Mexican, etc.?Maybe New Yorkers are jealous because they live in tiny apartments on noisy streets with rude people all around, sirens 24 hours a day, etc.,  and as soon as they walk outside their buildings they are right there in Manhattan with dog droppings in the street, and on some level they wish they had roomy houses with lawns, back yards, and swimming pools, not to mention decent public schools for their kids, and leafy suburban town squares like their neighbors on the other side of the Hudson.