There are similarities. There are also differences. A lot of the qualities that I like about the areas are common to both. Some aren’t. I spent time in both places on one trip. The show & movie I mentioned remind me of the same trip.
Are we good?
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve eaten at the Grease Trucks when I was at Rutgers. Two items stand out: the cheese steak with a fried egg on top; and the Fat Cat, which was some kind of giant burger on a hero roll that I barely remember, but my arteries sure do.
Thanks for bringing up those memories. I will now go eat Special K and salad for a month in penance.
And Jim, the key to the Deegan cloverleaf, of course, is to go as fast as possible without tipping. Otherwise someone may try to merge in front of you…
I hold in my brain 2 secret ways to avoid the cloverleaf and get to “The Stadium” from NJ. Only my closest friends and family share these secrets and they claim to not be able to reproduce the twisted paths I take without me in the car.
Otherwise, yes, never give an inch, it is a sign of weakness and the wolves will prey on your carcass. That is the way to drive the Deegan Cloverleaf.
Jim
The Deegan Cloverleaf is a thing of beauty at 3:00am on Wednesdays.
Last season, for most of the baseball season, my client’s office was in the NJ suburbs. So, to get from work to my games, I would have to drive. The drive from NJ to Yankee Stadium is far, far worse than the drive from Queens to Yankee Stadium, even equalizing for distance (and both are worse than the subway). I could not leave the office early enough to get to Yankee Stadium without stadium traffic. Perhaps if, like suggested earlier, I left a whole day earlier?
Fortunately, I should be city-bound this season, and get once more to take a 15-20 minute subway trip, enjoy excessive amounts of adult beverages, and take the subway home. My estimate is that the wait time to exit the parking lot equalizes the extra travel time by subway (when are they going to make that Bronx - Queens express subway?).
ETA: And parking fees anywhere within walking distance of the stadium are about 2 beers.
When you are following a car in the fast lane that is going less than the traffic flow speed, it will have a New York Plate.
That’s just because we like to piss off NJ-ians. 
Every town in NJ has a River Road. None of them bear any relationship to one another and never connect to one another.
VCNJ~
According to the OP, New Jersey is exactly like LA, except with drifter zombies and deer.
Yeah, but drifter zombies and deer RULE!
I give welcome to our new Deer overlords.
Ditto Palisade Avenue.
Every little dirt connecting road will have some fancy name if there is even one building on it. Berdan Place is “the road that runs upside the laudromat by the check cashing place” but since it has a little auto repair shop on it, it has a name.
Wait, it really does feel like I have seen one or two River Roads in every town, I almost never see a Palisade.
I checked, there does appear to be 16 to 18 scatter around North Jersey. There appear to be at least 68 River Roads.
Jim
You know, as a kid listening to camp-fire stores at camp Wawayanda, I remember hearing stories about strange creatures that would slink into NJ. The males wore black socks, sandals, khaki shorts, and Hawaiin shirts that needed washing. The females had dyed jet black hair, designer clothes with full heels as beach-wear, but glowed in the dark from never having been in the sun. And they’d drive slowly…oh so slowly…on the left lanes of our highways to and from the Shore.
Funny though…from the stories I heard, I thought your name would be Benny. 
Well, I wouldn’t be so sure. According to that same Wikipedia article:
When the road was first opened, it carried five lanes; the center one was intended as a breakdown lane, but was in actuality used as a suicide lane for passing slower traffic. By the 1950s, the skyway was seeing over 400 crashes per year; an aluminum median barrier was added in mid-1956, in addition to a new coat of pavement designed to make the road less slippery.The idea of using the middle lane of the Skyway as a breakdown lane, with traffic whizzing past on either side is scary enough. But to have it being used as a two-way passing lane is friggin terrifying.