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4 unusual facts about South Jersey


Dani Shapiro

In a 2011 interview with the Jewish Ledger, Shapiro described being raised in a family with an Orthodox Jewish father and a mother from South Jersey who had grown up in a non-Orthodox home.

Irv Smith

He played high school football for Pemberton Township High School, a small public school located in Pemberton Township in South Jersey a few miles from Fort Dix/McGuire Air Force Base.

Mercurybeatz

David "Mercury" Haulsey, Super Producer, was born in Queens, New York, who later relocated to South Jersey--where he still gets it in!

Wometco Home Theater

PRISM, an over-the-air and cable television subscription service that served Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula.


John O. Bennett

In June 2002, Bennett was involved in a shoving match with South Jersey Democratic Party boss and Commerce National Insurance CEO George Norcross after Norcross threatened to publicize a pardon Bennett gave during his three day executive tenure if Bennett could not convince his fellow Republican senators to vote for a tax increase and stadium construction bill in committee.

Philadelphia crime family

Dovi had good connections with the Chicago Outfit and the five families of New York, and expanded operations to Atlantic City, South Philadelphia and parts of South Jersey.

Wind power in New Jersey

Google and Good Energies, an investment firm, are the major investors in the $5 billion project proposed by Trans-Elect Development Company which would deliver power ashore at two points, one in South Jersey and one in northeastern New Jersey as well as Delaware and southern Virginia.


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Atlantic City Expressway

In 2008, two separate plans were made to raise the tolls along the road, one proposed by Governor Jon Corzine and one proposed by the South Jersey Transportation Authority that would increase tolls 50%.

Chris Mulford

Mulford was also an active member of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program of South Jersey (eastern USA), co-chairman for the Business Case for Breastfeeding project, a Trustee of the New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition (NJBFC) and Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition.

Pamela Rosen Lampitt

As a result, Lampitt is active in the South Jersey Chapter of the City of Hope, a cancer research institution.

Rutgers Law School

Rutgers School of Law–Camden, an American law school originally established in 1926 as "South Jersey Law School", which merged with Rutgers University in 1950

Willie James

In 1958, Levitt and Sons started selling homes for their new Levittown project in South Jersey (in what would later become Willingboro Township).