>>There is a good reason it's called The Garden State.
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>True, but none of that reason is along the roads one takes from the Philadelphia area to New York.
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New Jersey has been described as a state of beauty, marred by cesspools here and there, i.e. Camden, Newark, Jersey City, etc.

There is also Asbury Park, NJ (smiling broadly). Which I hear is no great treat if You Know Who didn't come from there. For that matter, Hoboken is also in Joisey.

The Boss's "ode" to New Jersey:

New Jersey Turnpike, ridin' on a wet night
'neath the refinery's glow, out where the great black rivers flow
License, registration, I ain't got none
But I got a clear conscience about the things that I done
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't stop me

Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife
The only thing that I got's been bothering me my whole life
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't stop me

In the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy
Radio towers lead me to my baby
Radio's jammed up with talk show stations
Talk, talk, talk, talk, till you lose your patience
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me

Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer
Hi-ho Silver-o, deliver me from nowhere
(howl)