Topic: New Jersey

Burlington

Burlington, county, central New Jersey, U.S., bounded by Pennsylvania to the west (the Delaware River constituting the border) and the mouth of Great Bay in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mullica River to the southeast and south. The city of Burlington, settled ...

Essex

Essex, county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., bounded by Newark Bay to the southeast and the Passaic River to the east and west. Essex, one of the original New Jersey counties, was formed in 1683 and named for Essex, Eng. The industrial port ...

Aviation sites in New Jersey

When Pierre Blanchard had ascended from Philadelphia in a hot air balloon on January 9, 1793 and made the 15-mile journey across the Delaware River to Depford, New Jersey , he had made the Western hemisphere's first aerial flight, sparking a long ...
Jersey City Heights, also known as The Heights, is a neighborhood nestled so high on the steep cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades that it takes a 100-foot brick and glass elevator to reach the 9th Street-Congress Street Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station. ...
Island Beach is New Jersey's busiest state park and attracts more than a million visitors each year. Another interesting fact is that the west side of the park is bordered by Barnegat Bay. You can walk from the Atlantic Ocean beach, through ...

Bike Events in New Jersey

New Jersey hosts a number of bike events. They often serve to raise money for charities and provide an opportunity for cyclists to meet and enjoy the scenery of New Jersey's farmlands, Pine Barrens and shoreline. This family-friendly event takes place at ...
Trips to the cinema, shops and museums need no longer be lonely experiences after this week's UK launch of a company which rents out friends for innocent dates.Rent A Friend has already proved a big hit in the US where 2,000 people, ...
2 baby snow leopards delighting crowds at New Jersey zooTwo baby snow leopards have stepped into the spotlight at a New Jersey zoo.The cubs were born at the Cape May County Zoo in May.The 2-month-old males had been mostly in seclusion with ...
Lonely Planet giving away free road trip itineraries through FacebookLonely Planet is giving away itineraries online from an upcoming guidebook, "USA's Best Trips: 99 Themed Itineraries Across America."The free PDFs can be downloaded from Lonely Planet's Facebook page. A different itinerary is ...
The eastern U.S. cooked for another day Wednesday as unrelenting heat promised to push thermometers past 100 degrees in urban "heat islands," buckled roads, slowed trains and pushed utilities toward the limit of the electrical grid's capacity.Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, where ...
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