Monmouth should 100% be included. I’m in northern ocean county and I feel like that is still central Jersey. The south doesn’t really start until you get down past Toms River. Once you hit the pine barrens that’s when you know you’re headed south.
That's how I view it. Grew up in Jackson, which I consider central.. live in TR now, which I consider the border of central/South. Go from TR just next door to Beachwood, Forked River, Lacey areas ... And them people's are just different, man.
Yeah right where 9 splits back off the parkway had always been my southern border growing up in Howell. I wouldn't even put Hunterdon/Somerset in Central personally. Anything north of the Driscoll is definitely North Jersey and Hunterdon has mountains.
South Jersey here. We absolutely cannot accept Monmouth County into our territory. You can’t literally see NYC from many places in Monmouth county for god sake.
TBF Monroe is really close to Mercer. But you're telling me Sayreville is close to Philly?
IDK maybe I did Monmouth dirty. But maybe up to South Brunswick is central, anything north of that is north. Basically exit 9-8a is your endpoint. If you are on exit 10 you're in North Jersey.
Except because of poor planning it's easier to commute to NYC from a decent portion of mercer county. Direct trains to Penn station from the entire NEC line vs having to transfer in Trenton or drive there.
There is literally a Wawa across the street to a Quik Check on Route 33 in Monroe/Millstone and I think that is the border between North and South if you still want to go that route.
Even though NJ has counties named for English counties that themselves were named for the lands of the East Saxons, South Saxons, and Middle Saxons…
^(see https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3zb60k/why_is_there_no_norsex_in_england/ ; I guess nobody naming NJ places back then cared about Wessex/West Saxons)
…The NJ -*sex* counties aren’t named according to their locations. Just look at the NJ county named for the **South** Saxon region in England—it’s all the way in NJ’s **North**!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Anglo-Saxon_Heptarchy.jpg/1140px-Anglo-Saxon_Heptarchy.jpg
Union County should have been added to central jersey. it would have made a semi-square, a solid line. It was left out like a stump!! WHY!!!!! Can't we have organized shapes!!!!!
Monmouth isn't in central Jersey, because nothing is in central Jersey, because central Jersey doesn't exist. The Venn diagram of counties in Central Jersey is an empty circle.
My absolutely indisputable, irrefutable, undeniable definition of Central Jersey: the portion of New Jersey that New Yorkers would call South Jersey and Philadelphia's would called North Jersey. This area has to include Monmouth county, Mercer, and Middlesex
This accords with my theory that the "Central Jersey" phenomenon is the result of superposition. All areas in NJ exist in a superposition of North and South Jersey, and are only perceived as one or the other when an individual interacts with a geotron particle and the wavefunction collapses. The probability of wavefunction collapse to N or S largely depends on the proximity of the geotron to the Philly and NYC poles. Towards the middle of the state, the probabilities are roughly even, so locals are constantly experiencing contradictory information and resolve this by naming this dissonance "Central", despite the fact that they are actually existing in both North and South Jersey simultaneously.
They didn’t include Monmouth based on the logic that it already is included in the shore region and sees significant tourism whereas the rest of the region of central jersey does not.
Monmouth is literally in the middle of the state. It doesn’t get any more central. And from someone that has lived in all 3 regions, it has much more in common with central than south.
If you’re in the camp that there is no central Jersey, the north/south line is 195. If you agree there is a central, the central/south line is still 195.
Bunch of folks down in Cherry Hill suffer under the delusion that Tom's River is North Jersey so I guess it all depends on which way you have the map turnt.
Toms River is north jersey if you don’t believe in central NJ but I do believe in central so it’s central jersey. Too many northern transplants to be south jersey
Yeah shore is its own area but I agree I would break it down into northern shore and southern shore. I’d also split up north jersey between north jersey (everything east of 287) and northwest NJ (everything west of 287) since they’re so different as well
I don’t think it being a 30 minute ferry ride to Manhattan indicates it being part of the shore though. Cape may doesnt have a ferry and it’s still the shore. I think the defining feature of if a place is at the shore, and this may be controversial, is that it’s near the ocean lol
Holy crap, the Cape May-Lewes DE ferry shut down? No way! Damn, that's brutal. A lot of people used that ferry for a long time. I'm shocked to learn that the Cape May Ferry is closed. Thanks for the sad news.
I think NJ doesn’t need to define itself against NYC constantly though. I know a lot of people live here and work in the city, but there is SO MUCH in this state that has absolutely nothing to do with the city and is wonderfully and uniquely NJ. I don’t give a flying fuck how far from NYC I am, and we shouldn’t define our own geography in relation to travel time to the city.
I'd rather split it like a hot dog and be an east jersey and west jersey. Hunterdon and Somerset are like 2 different states.
Edit: Hunterdon and Middlesex are like 2 different countries.
Split into east/west is [how the state used to be divided.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Jersey) You know that diagonal line between Burlington and Ocean? That was the historical division line.
Interesting. It seems even they could not agree on who middle jersey was, although it could exist as the buffer between the Keith and mahacormak lines.
Imagine living in vertical middle jersey and having those awesome east jersey-ans as your neighbor, but a bunch of “eat spaghetti with their hands, dry” savages as your other neighbors in west jersey… so sad.
Imagine being so bad at life that you can’t be assed to include The county that includes the enormous township called “MIDDLEtown” in your map of central jersey
It's not Middle Jersey. It's Central jersey. Get your county to have a town called CENTRALtown and MAYBE they'll consider you. /s :P :gentlefriendlyribbingfromatotalstranger:
A map of Monmouth county would look pretty weird without it...
unless... can we replace it with something else? like a cartoon sandwich made with egg, cheese, taylor ham, AND pork roll
let's place it with, uhhh... keansburg
wait shit no
how about hazlet
shit, not that either
how about freehold
wait which one
fuck it let's just put red bank on it
I heard (from the radio, WCBS) that it’s because it’s mostly for tourism purposes.
Monmouth has the Jersey Shore to draw tourists into the county, but places like Middlesex are relatively unknown.
Monmouth's shape is very odd. It features the northernmost 25 miles of the Jersey Shore, but its westernmost edge is less than 5 miles from the Delaware River.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I call this place "south jersey." Go to monmouth county, then go to ocean county, and then tell me with a straight face these are culturally related places. We don't root for the fucking eagles. We're not south jersey.
If we aren't Central Jersey who the hell are we? We're too far north to be South NJ and Middlesex County, which is north of us is Central NJ to what does that make Monmouth? And what about Northern Ocean County.
That bill is wrong.
Centtral NJ is a feeling, a state of mind. There are no firm boundaries
I demand a redraw of that map. Monmouth County is as Central Jersey as they come. No county that has the Mets and Yankees on their cable system instead of the Phillies should be considered South Jersey.
Why does Central Jersey have to follow county lines specifically? You could make the argument that all Mercer, South Middlesex/Somerset and Northeast Monmouth are actually central.
I agree, as a resident of North Somerset county, I have never thought of myself as a central Jerseyan.
I also don’t think there is a central jersey, but I can continue that argument later.
I think Middlesex and Mercer should join forces to return Monmouth back into the Central Jersey fold. It should start with a military staging post at Raceway Park. From there, we can launch sorties across the border, freeing Englishtown and Marlboro from the South Jersey heathens. If they refuse to come to the negotiating table, then we'll break them with artillery on Freehold and Matawan. The captured Shop Rites can feed the army as they fan out toward the shore and inland to Allentown.
It won't be easy, nothing worthwhile ever is.
I guess they count anything with a beach as south jersey. Though say what you will about north/central/south jersey… there is also “the shore” which I feel like is separate from those three and it’s own part of the state.
> I guess they count anything with a beach as south jersey.
This sounds like such a NY-centric way of dividing the state. To a New Yorker, the entire shore may feel “south.” That’s the only paradigm where I can see this having logic.
But why should we define ourselves by what they think? This map says I’m south Jersey. Idgaf what New Yorkers think, *I* get to decide what to call where I live. My flair is staying what it is.
what the fuck that is not central jersey at all
mercer, monmouth, middlesex, and chunks of somerset, hunterdon, and the northern bits of ocean are central jersey
Though I live in Mercer now, having grown up in Monmouth; everybody and their mother's mother's father knows Monmouth has always been considered to be part of Central Jersey. This map is a joke. Forget about it, insanity.
As a foreigner (New England) I was under the assumption that there is only northern and southern New Jersey and that the division is strictly on Taylor ham/pork roll lines.
All kinds of bills and laws that get signed are total bullshit and wildly disrespected— this one is no different
Edit: to clarify, I’m not saying Monmouth being regarded as south jersey is bullshit, but rather the existence of central jersey is what’s bogus here
> The goal of the new legislation is to codify the area in order to promote it as a tourist destination.
As a long time resident of North Jersey who grew up in South Jersey, I'd never set foot in Central Jersey
I grew up in Middlesex and just moved away from union county and there was 0 point in time I considered union central NJ. It is way too dense and the traffic is abysmal.
Central NJ is needing to drive 10 minutes to ShopRite because it's 4 miles away, not because it's 1 mile away and every road is filled to the brim with cars
Central Jersey is where the area code changed from 201 to 908 thirty years ago.
Northern Jersey is the part that stayed 201. Southern Jersey is the part that stayed 609.
Other area codes are fake
Growing up in Somerset county… once you go over the Driscoll bridge and there are shore areas, it’s not central anymore. But looking at a map, I would include northern Monmouth county.
There's no Central Jersey... but if there was one, Monmouth county would definitely be part of it, hands down. That said, anything above 195 is North Jersey, and anything below is South. A more colloquial way would be to ask what "Go into the City" means
I'd see Philly from my apartment on a clear day if there weren't a bunch of trees in the way (and indeed I can from the highway that's like a quarter mile away from my apartment)
Let’s be honest here. North Jersey ends at the Driscoll Bridge. Then begins South Jersey and the Shore. Everything else is the Pines and Eagles fans.
Central Jersey is a myth.
Why not skip all this legislative nonsense and just have North and South Jersey? Just split it right at 195 and call it a day. Central Jersey doesn’t even have its own culture, it’s a mix of both.
All of Mercer
All of Monmouth
Middlesex south of the Raritan
Somerset south of the south branch of the Raritan
Hunterdon south of and including Flemington
Um.. Mercer, Middlesex, and Monmoth is Central Jersey. What's with this Hunterdown/somerset bullshit? Hell even parts of Middlesex are a little to north for my liking.
People in Branchburg and Hillsborough have made fun of my North Jersey accent (cawfee), so they are definitely in Central Jersey. And they don’t respond to orders for Taylor Ham there. It’s just science.
That map is of the lower part of North Jersey. Lower North Jersey exists as more of a region than central Jersey, which in no way, shape, or form exists.
I’m upset that Monmouth wasn’t included. I understand based on the “tourism” reason but to Monmouth. South jersey doesn’t start until ocean county.
Monmouth should 100% be included. I’m in northern ocean county and I feel like that is still central Jersey. The south doesn’t really start until you get down past Toms River. Once you hit the pine barrens that’s when you know you’re headed south.
That's how I view it. Grew up in Jackson, which I consider central.. live in TR now, which I consider the border of central/South. Go from TR just next door to Beachwood, Forked River, Lacey areas ... And them people's are just different, man.
Yeah right where 9 splits back off the parkway had always been my southern border growing up in Howell. I wouldn't even put Hunterdon/Somerset in Central personally. Anything north of the Driscoll is definitely North Jersey and Hunterdon has mountains.
100%!! Those areas totally have a different feel. Not bad just… *piney*.
I'd say 37 is a good line for the Central/South border . My brain always tells me to go with 571 though.
South Jersey here. We absolutely cannot accept Monmouth County into our territory. You can’t literally see NYC from many places in Monmouth county for god sake.
South of the Mason-Jackson line you mean…
Mercer, Monmouth, and Hunterdon are the only true central Jersey locations. They're counties where you can commute to New York or Philly.
People do from middlesex. Exactly 1 hour drive to each city in most towns
TBF Monroe is really close to Mercer. But you're telling me Sayreville is close to Philly? IDK maybe I did Monmouth dirty. But maybe up to South Brunswick is central, anything north of that is north. Basically exit 9-8a is your endpoint. If you are on exit 10 you're in North Jersey.
Sayreville is 55 minutes from nyc in no traffic. I’m 2 hours away from my cousin who lives in philly. Not that close.
That's what I'm saying.
Except because of poor planning it's easier to commute to NYC from a decent portion of mercer county. Direct trains to Penn station from the entire NEC line vs having to transfer in Trenton or drive there.
Oof I am an ignorant Mercer nut. Forgot the Monmouth line sucks.
Middlesex is far more Central than Mercer.
That spot where Middlesex, Mercer and Monmouth meet is basically as central as Jersey gets
Disbrow Hill Road for the win!
I grew up in Robbinsville and always considered that area to be almost on the dot central
There is literally a Wawa across the street to a Quik Check on Route 33 in Monroe/Millstone and I think that is the border between North and South if you still want to go that route.
It’s literally called **Middle**sex!
Even though NJ has counties named for English counties that themselves were named for the lands of the East Saxons, South Saxons, and Middle Saxons… ^(see https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3zb60k/why_is_there_no_norsex_in_england/ ; I guess nobody naming NJ places back then cared about Wessex/West Saxons) …The NJ -*sex* counties aren’t named according to their locations. Just look at the NJ county named for the **South** Saxon region in England—it’s all the way in NJ’s **North**! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Anglo-Saxon_Heptarchy.jpg/1140px-Anglo-Saxon_Heptarchy.jpg
I’m not denying Monmouth’s slight here, but I’ll be damned before I call Mercer county South Jersey.
Spend much time in Mercer?
Yes, a ton. Lived in Middlesex, went to school in Mercer.
How is Middlesex "more central" than Mercer in your estimation?
Many reasons. How about Mercer is all Phillies/Eagles/Flyers/Sixers fans and Middlesex is the NJ/NY teams?
Central Jersey is where the team loyalties blend. Where there's Eagles flags across the street from Giants flags (no one likes the Jets)
I think we can all agree nobody like the Jets
I'd say 50/50 on the fan aspect ..I see many NY fans in burlington county now myself included
Ahh I don't really pay attention to sports. I didn't even think to include that as a metric to distinguish region! Lol so yeah, that makes sense.
Dude there are a ton of NY fans in Mercer. Literally half and half with Philly. That's a mark of central Jersey.
I think it’s the hoagie vs sub demarcation line.
Gotta add Somerset County, I’m thinking
I think I would consider parts of Somerset county central Jersey.
Doesn’t really make sense that you didn’t include Somerset.
Somerset looks an awful lot closer to NY than it does to Philly.
Somerset and Middlesex are easy commutes to NYC too. Less than an hour.
Union County should have been added to central jersey. it would have made a semi-square, a solid line. It was left out like a stump!! WHY!!!!! Can't we have organized shapes!!!!!
Yeah I mean the northernmost part of Union is further south than the northernmost parts of both Hunterdon and Somerset, this map makes no sense
I would argue Middlesex ahead of Hunterdon if we had to pick 3 ?
if it's three, then it'd be middlesex, mercer, monmouth
Middlesex borders Staten Island which firmly puts it in the north.
Gross, good point, but I respectfully disagree.
Please include the north half of Ocean. Once you get down to like Lacey things start getting super weird. We don’t want to be associated with them…
I always considered Monmouth county towns, beach towns, making it part of The Shore.
Monmouth isn't in central Jersey, because nothing is in central Jersey, because central Jersey doesn't exist. The Venn diagram of counties in Central Jersey is an empty circle.
agreed!
My absolutely indisputable, irrefutable, undeniable definition of Central Jersey: the portion of New Jersey that New Yorkers would call South Jersey and Philadelphia's would called North Jersey. This area has to include Monmouth county, Mercer, and Middlesex
This accords with my theory that the "Central Jersey" phenomenon is the result of superposition. All areas in NJ exist in a superposition of North and South Jersey, and are only perceived as one or the other when an individual interacts with a geotron particle and the wavefunction collapses. The probability of wavefunction collapse to N or S largely depends on the proximity of the geotron to the Philly and NYC poles. Towards the middle of the state, the probabilities are roughly even, so locals are constantly experiencing contradictory information and resolve this by naming this dissonance "Central", despite the fact that they are actually existing in both North and South Jersey simultaneously.
I mean obviously.
They didn’t include Monmouth based on the logic that it already is included in the shore region and sees significant tourism whereas the rest of the region of central jersey does not.
Shore makes sense… south jersey doesn’t
If you can see Manhattan from it, it ain’t south Jersey.
This is the proper litmus test.
Yeah you have to have rocks for brains to think Monmouth is south jersey but unfortunately many people do think that.
I mean, many people think anything south of the Driscoll bridge is “South Jersey” but I always thought that wasn’t right either.
Monmouth is literally in the middle of the state. It doesn’t get any more central. And from someone that has lived in all 3 regions, it has much more in common with central than south.
Yup those are the people I’m thinking of lol but I’ve seen people claim Newark is central jersey lol so there’s really no bottom to these rotten takes
If you’re in the camp that there is no central Jersey, the north/south line is 195. If you agree there is a central, the central/south line is still 195.
Not so fast. The N/S divide is determined by the original area codes 201/609, respectively. It was a simpler time, once.
Bunch of folks down in Cherry Hill suffer under the delusion that Tom's River is North Jersey so I guess it all depends on which way you have the map turnt.
Toms River is north jersey if you don’t believe in central NJ but I do believe in central so it’s central jersey. Too many northern transplants to be south jersey
So is the shore a 4th area, or is all of it considered south? Since I consider Monmouth Beach way different than LBI.
Yeah shore is its own area but I agree I would break it down into northern shore and southern shore. I’d also split up north jersey between north jersey (everything east of 287) and northwest NJ (everything west of 287) since they’re so different as well
I mean you can literally take a half hour ferry ride from wall street to sandy hook. To call that central jersey is a stretch
newsflash: New York City is east of north jersey. not north.
Do you not believe in central jersey?
Haha I do, just saying this lends credibility to the argument that 'the shore' is kind of it's own thing separate from North, central, South Jersey
I don’t think it being a 30 minute ferry ride to Manhattan indicates it being part of the shore though. Cape may doesnt have a ferry and it’s still the shore. I think the defining feature of if a place is at the shore, and this may be controversial, is that it’s near the ocean lol
Holy crap, the Cape May-Lewes DE ferry shut down? No way! Damn, that's brutal. A lot of people used that ferry for a long time. I'm shocked to learn that the Cape May Ferry is closed. Thanks for the sad news.
Lol I don't disagree, more making the point that it's not central jersey because of the proximity to Manhattan
Cape may doesnt have a ferry? Explain the cape may-lewis ferry?
Since when doesn't Cape May have a ferry? I'm also pretty sure they weren't saying the ferry is the indicator
Ferry to *manhattan*
I think NJ doesn’t need to define itself against NYC constantly though. I know a lot of people live here and work in the city, but there is SO MUCH in this state that has absolutely nothing to do with the city and is wonderfully and uniquely NJ. I don’t give a flying fuck how far from NYC I am, and we shouldn’t define our own geography in relation to travel time to the city.
45 minutes on a good day
I'd rather split it like a hot dog and be an east jersey and west jersey. Hunterdon and Somerset are like 2 different states. Edit: Hunterdon and Middlesex are like 2 different countries.
Split into east/west is [how the state used to be divided.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Jersey) You know that diagonal line between Burlington and Ocean? That was the historical division line.
Very cool! I had not known this before.
Interesting. It seems even they could not agree on who middle jersey was, although it could exist as the buffer between the Keith and mahacormak lines. Imagine living in vertical middle jersey and having those awesome east jersey-ans as your neighbor, but a bunch of “eat spaghetti with their hands, dry” savages as your other neighbors in west jersey… so sad.
Look up Province line road
East /west it is!!! Although Somerset is central even in the east/west map.
Some parts are similar. The Flemington suburban sprawl is not that different than the Hillsborough suburban sprawl.
As a former resident of HC I agree, it does not belong the in the CJ discussion
We could always sell it to PA
Fully agree.
Concur. Grew up in Hunterdon and currently live in Somerset.
That sounds delicious
Obviously, the drafter of this map has a problem with the concept of basic elementary fractions.
Imagine being so bad at life that you can’t be assed to include The county that includes the enormous township called “MIDDLEtown” in your map of central jersey
It's not Middle Jersey. It's Central jersey. Get your county to have a town called CENTRALtown and MAYBE they'll consider you. /s :P :gentlefriendlyribbingfromatotalstranger:
YOU JEST AND YET Centerville, NJ LEAVING CENTERVILLE OUT OF CENTER JERSEY WHAT A SCRUB MOVE
LMAO omg that's great! Yeah total scrub move! haha
as a middletown native i wouldn't include middletown on maps either
A map of Monmouth county would look pretty weird without it... unless... can we replace it with something else? like a cartoon sandwich made with egg, cheese, taylor ham, AND pork roll
let's place it with, uhhh... keansburg wait shit no how about hazlet shit, not that either how about freehold wait which one fuck it let's just put red bank on it
Why not include Monmouth?
I heard (from the radio, WCBS) that it’s because it’s mostly for tourism purposes. Monmouth has the Jersey Shore to draw tourists into the county, but places like Middlesex are relatively unknown.
Monmouth's shape is very odd. It features the northernmost 25 miles of the Jersey Shore, but its westernmost edge is less than 5 miles from the Delaware River.
Hence the "central" part.
Totally. Union and Monmouth are both Central
Lived here my whole life. Nobody says we’re from South Jersey.
Monmouth always claimed central since the beginning. We’re not really south but not really north lol. we’ve always been in between
Always have, always will.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I call this place "south jersey." Go to monmouth county, then go to ocean county, and then tell me with a straight face these are culturally related places. We don't root for the fucking eagles. We're not south jersey.
If we aren't Central Jersey who the hell are we? We're too far north to be South NJ and Middlesex County, which is north of us is Central NJ to what does that make Monmouth? And what about Northern Ocean County. That bill is wrong. Centtral NJ is a feeling, a state of mind. There are no firm boundaries
Da fuck is this Monmouth is central
I demand a redraw of that map. Monmouth County is as Central Jersey as they come. No county that has the Mets and Yankees on their cable system instead of the Phillies should be considered South Jersey.
Why does Central Jersey have to follow county lines specifically? You could make the argument that all Mercer, South Middlesex/Somerset and Northeast Monmouth are actually central.
I agree, as a resident of North Somerset county, I have never thought of myself as a central Jerseyan. I also don’t think there is a central jersey, but I can continue that argument later.
I just realized Middlesex looks like a mini NJ with a squished top.
how the hell is Monmouth county not in central jersey???? It’s clearly in the middle
LOL. Welcome to South Jersey, you red-neck!
Hee-Haw baby!!
Nah nah wtf give me Monmouth
I think Middlesex and Mercer should join forces to return Monmouth back into the Central Jersey fold. It should start with a military staging post at Raceway Park. From there, we can launch sorties across the border, freeing Englishtown and Marlboro from the South Jersey heathens. If they refuse to come to the negotiating table, then we'll break them with artillery on Freehold and Matawan. The captured Shop Rites can feed the army as they fan out toward the shore and inland to Allentown. It won't be easy, nothing worthwhile ever is.
I guess they count anything with a beach as south jersey. Though say what you will about north/central/south jersey… there is also “the shore” which I feel like is separate from those three and it’s own part of the state.
Hell even Craigslist has Jersey Shore as a region
> I guess they count anything with a beach as south jersey. This sounds like such a NY-centric way of dividing the state. To a New Yorker, the entire shore may feel “south.” That’s the only paradigm where I can see this having logic. But why should we define ourselves by what they think? This map says I’m south Jersey. Idgaf what New Yorkers think, *I* get to decide what to call where I live. My flair is staying what it is.
Be proud Central Jersian. I’m 3 miles west of Manhattan, so I’m north jersey as fuck
You think a New Yorker can understand the subtleties?! They’re too busy believing they have better pizza.
Monmouth county IS central Jersey! Don’t rope us with with those backward southern folk!
Monmouth is literally in the middle of the state 🤣
So true, wtf?
NO, NO, NO. I like it the way it was.
I am so glad all the other problems have been solved and our Legislature can finally address this pressing issue. /s
How would there be parts of “central Jersey” that are farther north than “northern Jersey”?
Will they have Taylor ham and hookers or pork roll and prostitutes?
But like... Monmouth County basically IS Central Jersey.
Swap Monmouth and Hunterdon. Makes way more sense that way.
Monmouth is definitely central Jersey. Most of it is north of the southern end of Mercer.
central jersey borders should be north of the pines and south of the watchung mtns or btw 195 and 78 if you need harder lines
This is the official map: https://i.imgur.com/OmaOjFf.jpg
I always look at it as south of 78 north of 195, that is Central Jersey.
How the hell is Monmouth not part of this new central NJ
what the fuck that is not central jersey at all mercer, monmouth, middlesex, and chunks of somerset, hunterdon, and the northern bits of ocean are central jersey
Though I live in Mercer now, having grown up in Monmouth; everybody and their mother's mother's father knows Monmouth has always been considered to be part of Central Jersey. This map is a joke. Forget about it, insanity.
Monmouth is Central Jersey
As a foreigner (New England) I was under the assumption that there is only northern and southern New Jersey and that the division is strictly on Taylor ham/pork roll lines.
Grew up in Monmouth and it's central. Ocean and similar are South to me.
Who are the idiots dictating CNJ borders?
You know how I know "central" NJ doesn't exist? They felt the need to pass a bill insisting that they do.
Guess Ill just say Im from the Shore now.
Lol somehow it’s still wrong
Everyone knows Central Jersey is only Mercer,Middlesex.and Mommuth
Yah know what!? Forget the blackjack.
Bunch of Taylor Roll Pork Ham loving savages.
Middlesex best county Numbah 1 numbah 1
Very weird to not include Monmouth county. When someone says "central Jersey," it's the first thing that comes to mind.
Anything north of the Driscoll Bridge is North Jersey
OPs reference in the post is the best part of this post tbh
You the real hero. 
As a proud Toms River resident I refuse to associate myself with south Jersey. We need an amendment
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Ahhh, screw the whole thing.
Tell me with a straight face that live at the top of Hunterdon County and you call that "Central Jersey"
Central Jersey is Hunterdon, Somerset and Mercer Counties, only. Monmouth is in Eastern NJ.
All kinds of bills and laws that get signed are total bullshit and wildly disrespected— this one is no different Edit: to clarify, I’m not saying Monmouth being regarded as south jersey is bullshit, but rather the existence of central jersey is what’s bogus here
> The goal of the new legislation is to codify the area in order to promote it as a tourist destination. As a long time resident of North Jersey who grew up in South Jersey, I'd never set foot in Central Jersey
Trenton is not central jersey lol.
I feel betrayed
Lies
What in the holy name of Danny Devito Monmouth County is the quintessential central jersey
Why's is Union County not part of central NJ?!?!?! What in the living hell?
that’s what I’m saying!
I agree. Doesn't make sense.
Union County too?
The lower tip of Union definitely is, but not the rest. Anything below 78 really.
It feels too densely populated with Elizabeth and proximity to Newark
I grew up in Middlesex and just moved away from union county and there was 0 point in time I considered union central NJ. It is way too dense and the traffic is abysmal. Central NJ is needing to drive 10 minutes to ShopRite because it's 4 miles away, not because it's 1 mile away and every road is filled to the brim with cars
Once you cross Driscoll, you’re in South Jersey 🤷🏼♀️
No such thing as central jersey. Its just a myth. Its north and south lol
Central Jersey is where the area code changed from 201 to 908 thirty years ago. Northern Jersey is the part that stayed 201. Southern Jersey is the part that stayed 609. Other area codes are fake
Growing up in Somerset county… once you go over the Driscoll bridge and there are shore areas, it’s not central anymore. But looking at a map, I would include northern Monmouth county.
all that freehold tourism probably swayed them..
There's no Central Jersey... but if there was one, Monmouth county would definitely be part of it, hands down. That said, anything above 195 is North Jersey, and anything below is South. A more colloquial way would be to ask what "Go into the City" means
Manhattenite or Philadelphian?? Declare where you stand!!
I'd see Philly from my apartment on a clear day if there weren't a bunch of trees in the way (and indeed I can from the highway that's like a quarter mile away from my apartment)
Let’s be honest here. North Jersey ends at the Driscoll Bridge. Then begins South Jersey and the Shore. Everything else is the Pines and Eagles fans. Central Jersey is a myth.
BRB using this to torture my dumbass boyfriend who insists union County is central jersey
We’re not? 😳
Why not skip all this legislative nonsense and just have North and South Jersey? Just split it right at 195 and call it a day. Central Jersey doesn’t even have its own culture, it’s a mix of both.
what the fuck is a central jersey? this map just shows north jersey
Monmouth is the shore. Shore = south jersey
Did the Hudson River just dry up? Also Central Jersey is a myth.
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Ha, u wish…
Yo south jersey keep your clam diggers
All of Mercer All of Monmouth Middlesex south of the Raritan Somerset south of the south branch of the Raritan Hunterdon south of and including Flemington
Y’all really had to get a bill signed for this…no matter.. still no such thing as central Jersey
Since the Manasquan River is one of the dividers between North and South Jersey, it would only make sense to include Monmouth in Central Jersey!
Um.. Mercer, Middlesex, and Monmoth is Central Jersey. What's with this Hunterdown/somerset bullshit? Hell even parts of Middlesex are a little to north for my liking.
People in Branchburg and Hillsborough have made fun of my North Jersey accent (cawfee), so they are definitely in Central Jersey. And they don’t respond to orders for Taylor Ham there. It’s just science.
Central Jersey Sucks its all about the North or South
That map is of the lower part of North Jersey. Lower North Jersey exists as more of a region than central Jersey, which in no way, shape, or form exists.