RIVER WARS — Episode 4 Raritan / Route 1 Brain Belt vs. The Delaware River Corridor: The Medicine Empire vs. The Muscle River
By The Garden State Gazette
RIVER WARS ranks New Jersey river corridors by economic dominance. We’re not grading scenery.
THE NEW BARONS — Episode 2 The Warehouse Belt: Exit 8A, Route 130, and the People Who Own the Middle
By The Garden State Gazette
THE NEW BARONS is a Garden State Gazette series documenting modern power in New Jersey—
THE NEW BARONS — Episode 1 Port Newark–Elizabeth: The Logistics Kingdom
By The Garden State Gazette
THE NEW BARONS is a Garden State Gazette series documenting modern power in New Jersey—
REST IN POWER Part X: Enoch “Nucky” Johnson — The Boardwalk Boss Who Turned Vice into Government
By The Garden State Gazette
For a minute, Nucky Johnson looked untouchable.
Not because he was elected to greatness—because
REST IN POWER Part IX: Frank Hague — The Boss Who Turned Jersey City Into a Machine
By The Garden State Gazette
For a minute, Frank Hague looked untouchable.
Jersey City kid.
Mayor for three decades.
National
REST IN POWER Part VIII: Hoboken — The Front Door of an Empire, Then a City Left Holding the Flood
By The Garden State Gazette
For a minute, Hoboken looked untouchable.
Not because it was big—because it was positioned.
REST IN POWER Part III: Newark — The Port That Powered the State and Paid the Price
By The Garden State Gazette
For a moment, Newark looked untouchable.
A port city.
A manufacturing powerhouse.
A transportation nerve
REST IN POWER Part VII: Elizabeth — The Factory That Stitched a City, and the Port That Replaced It
By The Garden State Gazette
For a minute, Elizabeth looked untouchable.
Not because it was glamorous—because it was productive.
REST IN POWER Part VI: Asbury Park — The Boardwalk That Wouldn’t Die
By The Garden State Gazette
For a minute, Asbury Park looked untouchable.
A shore town that didn’t just host
REST IN POWER Part III: Eldridge R. Johnson — The Man Who Put Camden on the Map and Watched It Fade
By The Garden State Gazette
For a moment, Eldridge R. Johnson looked untouchable.
A precision machinist turned industrialist.
Founder of
