Skyline of Jersey City
Northern New Jersey gets no respect. It is always lumped in with New York City. Its largest city, Newark, has only 278,000 residence. But its 10 most-populated northern counties together have a population of about 6 million in an area of about 2500 sq. miles, with a GDP of about $339 billion/year. On a map this is roughly the area east of I-287. This makes Northern New Jersey the 16th most economically powerful city on earth, and 8th in the US, ahead of Boston and San Francisco. Jersey City has 6 skyscrapers taller than 150m, with another one, Harborside Plaza 7, planned. It has the 98th best skyline on the planet, beating out Pittsburgh and Detroit.
New York is still ranked #2 (after Tokyo) even without New Jersey. So welcome Jersey City/Northern New Jersey! It would never show up on the list of best cities on earth elsewhere by the European snobs. But let's hear it for New Jersey.
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