List of City Nicknames in New Jersey

This partial list of city nicknames in New Jersey compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities, other municipalities, and other populated places in New Jersey are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" are also believed to have economic value. Their economic value is difficult to measure, but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by "branding" themselves by adopting new slogans.

Some unofficial nicknames are positive, while others are derisive. The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency.

  • Asbury Park - The Dark City
  • Atlantic City
    • A.C.
    • America's Playground.
    • Brick City
  • Burlington Township
    • The County's Town
    • The Coat Town
    • The Falcon's Nest
    • B-Township
  • Byram Township - The Township of Lakes.
  • Cranford - The Venice of New Jersey
  • Denville - Hub of Morris County.
  • Dumont - The Dirty D
  • East Orange - Illtown.
  • Elizabeth - Eastwick
  • Fortescue - Weakfish Capital of the World.
  • Fort Lee - The Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry.
  • Franklin - Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World.
  • Garwood - The Industrial Center of Union County
  • Hackensack - A City in Motion.
  • Hammonton - Blueberry Capital of the World.
  • Hoboken - The Mile Square City.
  • Jersey City
    • America's Golden Door
    • Chilltown
    • Jungle City
    • Wall Street West.
    • The Sixth Borough.
  • Keansburg - Gem of the Bayshore.
  • Long Beach Island - LBI.
  • Long Branch
    • America's First Seaside Resort.
    • The Friendly City.
  • Madison - The Rose City.
  • Metuchen - The Brainy Boro.
  • Morristown - MoTown, The Hollow
  • New Brunswick
    • Health Care City.
    • Hub City.
  • Newark - Brick City.
  • Ocean City
    • America's Greatest Family Resort.
    • A Moral Seaside Resort (historic slogan from the 19th century)
  • Paterson - Silk City.
    • P-Town
  • Perth Amboy - City by the Bay.
  • Plainfield - Queen City.
  • Rutherford
    • Borough of Trees
    • The First Borough of Bergen County
  • Seaside Heights - Your Home For Family Fun Since 1913!
  • Spring Lake - The Irish Riviera
  • Union City
    • Embroidery Capital of the United States
    • Havana on the Hudson
  • Vineland - Dandelion Capital of the World.

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, city and/or jersey:

    “Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
    Went down the list of the dead.
    Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
    The crews of the gig and yawl,
    The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
    Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
    —Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)

    “Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    “This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “New Jersey gives us glue.”
    —Howard Dietz (1896–1983)