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april 11, 2003
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Live From New York is a week late and hastily thrown together. I'm not there anymore. It will be helpful if you dismiss all those silly little notions of journalistic integrity you may have had before reading.

Live From New York!

Q. What is not New York, but intricately linked and nobody seemed to care about until The Sopranos?

A. New Jersey!

Oh and hey, by the way, it's where the Statue of Liberty lives. More fun facts about New Jersey, where I entered and exited New York last week:

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New Jersey is a peninsula.
New Jersey has the highest population density in the US, an average 1,030 people per sq. mi.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana.
New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US
New Jersey strippers do not take all of their clothes off.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 sq. mi. radius.
New Jersey does not let you pump your own gas.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US located in Elizabeth.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, New Jersey lab.
Atlantic City, New Jersey is where the street names came from for the game Monopoly.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
Richard Nixon and Brooke Shields used to live in New Jersey, but not together.
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
You can't make a left-hand turn in New Jersey.
The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden, Jersey.
The New York Giants and the New York Jets live in New Jersey.
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson.
New Jersey has many towns that are mispronounced.
Click here to check out the "Weird New Jersey" web site.

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