Indeed  We all know that until the renovation in the late s the Statue of Liberty was in New Jersey  Phones on the island had  area codes and power came from the NJ side  Another interesting New Jersey border fact is that for all intents and purposes geographically New Jersey is a peninsula  but not all of the New Jersey peninsula is New Jersey  Look carefully at the Delaware  NJ state border south of Pennsville  Part of Dealware is  in New Jersey