{"id":11062,"date":"2019-04-22T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:45:05","slug":"its-a-little-ny-and-a-little-pa-meet-the-only-n-j-town-squeezed-between-2-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2019\/04\/its-a-little-ny-and-a-little-pa-meet-the-only-n-j-town-squeezed-between-2-other-states\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a little NY and a little PA. Meet the only N.J. town squeezed between 2 other states."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sussex-county\/2019\/04\/its-a-little-ny-and-a-little-pa-meet-the-only-nj-town-squeezed-between-2-other-states.html?fbclid=IwAR00v8O0iNkbHp1PQABkZJI6tDPrbEYnB4gFPLj9SWRpNOO3pFuSGwegusE\">My hometown of Montague, New Jersey: &#8220;It\u2019s a little NY and a little PA.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">The only municipality in our state that borders both New York and Pennsylvania is finally starting to feel a little bit more like New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">Residents of rural Montague Township, population 3,753, no longer have a New York mailing address. High school students are no longer being bused across the border to [New York].<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">Now, that\u2019s not to say that Montague is the typical New Jersey town. It covers more than 45 square miles, but there is not a single traffic light to be found. It\u2019s home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/dep\/parksandforests\/parks\/highpoint.html\">High Point<\/a>, the tallest elevation in New Jersey at 1,803 feet, but prohibits buildings from rising above 35 feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown of Montague, New Jersey: &#8220;It\u2019s a little NY and a little PA.&#8221; The only municipality in our state that borders both New York and Pennsylvania is finally starting to feel a little bit more like New Jersey. Residents of rural Montague Township, population 3,753, no longer have a New York mailing address. High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,244,206],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-local","tag-montague-nj","tag-new-jersey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-2Sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11065,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}