New Jersey

The USS New Jersey, one of the most decorated vessels in the United States Navy, was named in honor of this state and is now a tourist attraction in Camden, New Jersey. The station eventually became today's San Francisco's KCBS-AM. Institution Name, Location. Herrold started the world's first radio broadcasting station on the corner of First and San Fernando streets in San Jose, as "Station FN". In addition to the above institutions, there are 19 community colleges, serving the 21 counties in the state. Most people associate San Jose's technology leadership with computers, but in 1909 Charles D. Institution Name, Location. The glossy, monthly San Jose Magazine focuses more on the people and culture of San Jose than on "hard news", but has won awards for its news coverage from the Bay Area's most prestigious media organization, the Peninsula Press Club.

[5] (http://measuringup.highereducation.org/2002/compare.htm). The bilingual weeklies La Oferta and El-Observador have articles and advertisements in both English and Spanish. New Jersey is home to more scientists and engineers than any other state. The publisher of the Mercury News, Knight Ridder, also publishes the daily Nuevo Mundo, serving San Jose's large Hispanic community along with other Spanish-speaking residents, and Viet Mercury, serving San Jose's large Vietnamese community. New Jersey also has the highest average scores for advanced placement testing in public schools in the nation. In addition to the major English-language newspapers, the daily San Jose Mercury News and the weekly alternative Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose is served by a variety of other local print media. In addition, 54% of high school graduates continue on to college or university, tied with Massachusetts for the second highest rate in the nation (North Dakota holds first place at 59%. The following lists include only local media.

Although some problems exist in certain inner city neighborhoods, New Jersey overall is considered to have one of the best public education systems in the United States. San Jose is served by local media as well as that of San Francisco and national media. see also: New Jersey locations by per capita income. See also attractions in adjacent communities in Santa Clara County. Wealth of cities by per capita income:. Some notable people who moved to San Jose include:. Small Cities (60,000-99,999 pop.). Some notable people born in San Jose include:.

Large Cities (+ 100,000 pop.). [19] (http://sjlibrary.org/index.htm). see also: List of Municipalities in New Jersey (by population). The Calabazas Branch has four primary language-specific collections: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, in addition to its English texts. Major cities (and their populations):. The East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library, a Carnegie library opened in 1908, is the last Carnegie library in Santa Clara County still operating as a public library, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. See also: List of New Jersey State Highways. Additionally, the city has 20 neighborhood branches, including the Biblioteca Latinoamericana, specializing in Spanish language works.

The airport has its own ralroad station on New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line which is also served by Amtrak. The library is the largest (built all at once) west of the Mississippi River, with a 1.5 million item collection. United Airlines and FedEx operate cargo hubs. Library, combining the collections of the city's system with the San Jose State library when it opened in 2003. Continental Airlines is Newark's largest tenant, operating an entire terminal at Newark which they use as a hub. The San Jose City Library system is unique, with the main branch, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, it is one of the main airports serving the New York City area. There is also the nonsectarian K-12 Harker School.

Run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who runs the other two major airports in the New York City region: John F. [18] (http://www.city-data.com/city/San-Jose-California.html) Valley Christian High School is a protestant high school in the North Valley neighborhood. Newark Liberty International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the United States. There are two Baptist high schools, Liberty Baptist School and White Road Baptist Academy. The Scudders Falls bridge on I-95 near Trenton is still free as of this writing. Many Roman Catholic churches operate schools, including four high schools:. Tolls for the bridges are charged in one direction - it's free to get into New Jersey, but you have to pay to get out. Private schools in San Jose are primarily run by religious groups.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Delaware River Port Authority (with Pennsylvania), and the Delaware River and Bay Authority (with Delaware) operate most of the major transportation routes into and out of New Jersey. The following districts use the "feeder" system:. New Jersey has interstate compacts with all three neighboring states. In addition to the main San Jose Unified School District, the unified school districts are Milpitas Unified School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Santa Clara Unified School District. In 1989, NJ Transit began service between Atlantic City and Lindenwold, extending it to Philadelphia in the 1990s. The result is a patchwork of local school districts in the areas annexed after 1954.¹ Public education in the city is provided by four high school districts, fourteen elementary districts, and four unified school districts (which provide both elementary and high schools). In the early 1980s, it acquired the commuter train operations of CONRAIL that connect towns in northern and central New Jersey to New York City. The city's legislators pushed a bill through the California Legislature, removing that requirement, and ending much of the opposition.

NJ Transit is a state-run corporation that began with the consolidation of several private bus companies in North Jersey. When San Jose began expanding, rural school districts became one of the major opponents, as their territory and tax base was taken by the city. The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) operates extensive rail and bus service throughout the state. Prior to 1954, California law required cities and school districts to have the same boundaries. Other expressways in New Jersey include the Atlantic City Expressway, Palisades Interstate Parkway, Interstate 76, Interstate 78, and Interstate 80. Most San Jose students go to schools in the San Jose Unified School District. It also acts as the trunk that connects the New York metropolitan area to Atlantic City. In addition, San Jose residents attend several other area universities, including Santa Clara University, De Anza College in Cupertino, Stanford University in Palo Alto, and the University of California, Berkeley.

It is true that some New Jersey residents who live near the Parkway or the Turnpike (a majority of the state population) locate their hometowns according to their respective highway exits, though very few New Jerseyans living anywhere else in the state will do so. The University of California, Santa Cruz operates Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton. The Garden State Parkway, or just "the Parkway," carries more in-state traffic, and runs from the town of Montvale along New Jersey's northern border with New York to the southernmost tip of the state at Cape May. San Jose's community colleges, San Jose City College and Evergreen Valley College, offer associate degrees, general education units to transfer to CSU and UC schools, and adult and continuing education programs. President Grover Cleveland; writers James Fenimore Cooper, Joyce Kilmer, and Walt Whitman; patriot Molly Pitcher; Red Cross advocate Clara Barton, and football coach Vince Lombardi. The San Jose campus of Golden Gate University offers business bachelor and MBA degrees. This toll road carries interstate traffic between Delaware and New York. Commonly referred to as simply "the Turnpike," it is also known for its numerous rest-areas named after prominent New Jerseyans as varied as inventor Thomas Edison; United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; U.S. Lincoln Law School of San Jose offers law degrees, catering to working professionals.

The New Jersey Turnpike is one of the best-known and most-trafficked roadways in the USA. Silicon Valley College offers bachelor's and associate degrees useful for workers in high technology industries. The properties in the United States version of the board game Monopoly are named after the streets of Atlantic City. Located in downtown San Jose since 1870, the university's 30,000 students in bachelor's and master's degree programs are primarily commuters from many areas in the South Bay. National Hispanic University, with an enrollment of 600, offers associate and bachelor's degrees and teaching credentials to its students, focusing on Hispanic students. Such horror stories were the inspiration behind the now nationally-famous Weird NJ magazine and website. The largest and most well known is San Jose State University, the original campus of the California State University system. Camp NoBeBoSco in Blairstown was also the setting of the original Friday the 13th movie, which was partially based on real murders that have occurred near the campground, in the state's very rural northwest. San Jose is home to several colleges and universities.

New Jersey is also home to several other urban legends, such as the ghost of Annie's Road in Totowa, Midgetville in Edgewater, Albino Village in Clifton, the haunted and demon-possessed Clinton Road in West Milford, and the Witch of Igoe Road in Marlboro. Cable television is provided by Comcast. It is also known sometimes as the Leeds Devil. Telephone service is provided primarily by SBC Communications. Many believe in a creature called the Jersey Devil, an evil demon born to a human mother who terrorizes the population of the Pine Barrens. Natural gas and electricity are provided by PG&E. Although supposedly set in New York, the 2003 movie School Of Rock was filmed primarily in Edison and Mahwah, perhaps due to the significance these towns have on rock music, also, the actor who played Lawrence in school of rock is from New Jersey. About ten percent of the treated wastewater is sold for irrigation ("water recycling") in San Jose, Santa Clara, and Milpitas, through local water providers San José Municipal Water System, City of Milpitas Municipal Services, City of Santa Clara Water & Sewer Utility, Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose Water Company, and Great Oaks Water Company.

Several locations seen in the movie include Princeton University, Newark, New Brunswick, and a fictional White Castle in Cherry Hill. Wastewater treatment happens at the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant, which treats and cleans the wastewater of the more than 1,500,000 people that live and work in the 300 square mile (780 km²) area encompassing San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and Monte Sereno. The 2004 stoner film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle took place in New Jersey. The list includes all plastic categories 1 through 7; aerosol cans and paint cans; polystyrene including "packing peanuts" and hard foam packing, such as in electronic and computer products' boxes; aluminum furniture; small metal appliances; metal pots and pans (including cast iron); and clean cotton, linen, polyester, rayon, and wool fabrics (for example, blankets, clothes, cloth diapers, rags, and sheets). It took place in the same locations as the movie. The no-sorting convenience and unusually long list of recyclable items has resulted in San Jose being one of very few cities that can boast that it recycles 64% of its waste. Clerks also had a short-lived animated series spin-off with the same name. Garbage, wastewater treatment, and recycling services are overseen by the city of San Jose's Environmental Services Department.

Director Kevin Smith sets many of his films in New Jersey, particularly his "New Jersey Trilogy" of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. The 2004 movie, Jersey Girl, is also based in New Jersey. Great Oaks provides exclusively well water, while the other two provide water from multiple sources, including well water, and surface water from the Los Gatos Creek watershed, Santa Clara Valley Water District, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Also, the popular animated series Megas XLR and Aqua Teen Hunger Force take place primarily in New Jersey. Potable water is provided primarily by the private-sector San Jose Water Company, with some by the Great Oaks Water Company, and ten percent by the public-sector San Jose Municipal Water System. The 2004 Sundance Film Festival favorite Garden State (starring Zach Braff and Natalie Portman) was shot on location in Morris Township. Cargo rail service to San Jose is provided by Union Pacific Railroad. The popular television drama The Sopranos depicts the life of a New Jersey organized crime family and is filmed on location at various places throughout the state. Seagoing container traffic goes through the Port of Oakland.

Motion pictures and televisions shows also have been set in New Jersey. The old port at Alviso was never upgraded to handle cargo containers and is now closed. New Jersey has long been an important area for both rock and rap music, with many artists coming from the state, they include the musicans listed at the bottom. Although it touches San Francisco Bay, the city has no seaport. The largest Protestant denominations in New Jersey are: Baptist (10% of the total state population), Methodist (7%), and Presbyterian and Lutheran (tied 3%). San Jose residents also use San Francisco International Airport, a major international hub located 35 miles (56 km) to the northwest, and Oakland International Airport, another medium-sized airport located 35 miles (56 km) to the north. The religious affiliations of the citizens of New Jersey are:. San Jose is served by the medium-sized Mineta San Jose International Airport, two miles (3 km) northwest of downtown.

Females made up approximately 51.5% of the population. Over the years, many plans to bring BART to San Jose have been suggested, but none have been built. 6.7% of its population were reported as under 5, 24.8% under 18, and 13.2% were 65 or older. During holidays, historic streetcars from the San Jose History Museum operate on the light rail lines in downtown. The VTA also operates many bus routes in San Jose and the surrounding communities, as well as offering paratransit services to local residents. New Jersey is also the most densely populated state in the nation, and the first and only state that has had every one of its 21 counties deemed "urban", as opposed to rural. Commuter rail service to San Jose is provided by Amtrak, Caltrain (commuter rail service to San Francisco and Gilroy), ACE (commuter rail service to Pleasanton and Stockton), and a local light-rail system connecting downtown to Mountain View, Milpitas, and Almaden Valley, operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This is largely due to the fact that so much of New Jersey is comprised of suburbs, most of them affluent, of New York City and Philadelphia. San Jose contains many expressways of the Santa Clara County expressway system.

Newark and Camden are two of the poorest cities in America, but New Jersey as a whole has the highest median household income in the nation, as well as the second highest per capita income, after Connecticut. The San Jose area has a well-developed freeway system, including three Interstate highways—I-280, I-880, and I-680—in addition to several federal and state highways, US 101, CA-85, CA-87, CA-17, and CA-237. The five largest ancestry groups in New Jersey are Italian (17.8%), Irish (15.9%), African American (13.6%), German (12.6%), Polish (6.9%). In August, 2004, the Authority hosted the USA All-Star 7-Aside Rugby Championships at Watson Bowl, east of Downtown. The racial makeup of the state is:. Olympic team trials for judo, taekwondo, trampolining and rhythmic gymnastics at the San Jose State Event Center. It is the most Italian-American state in the nation, having passed New York state for that title in the 2000 Census, and has one of the largest percentages of African-Americans, Hispanics, Arabs, and Asians in the country. In 2004, the San Jose Sports Authority hosted the U.S.

It also has the second largest percentage of Jews, the second largest percentage of Muslims (trailing only New York in both), and one of the largest percentages of immigrants in the country (trailing only California and New York and just ahead of Illinois, Texas, and Florida). The Pac-10 Women's Basketball Championship is held at the HP Pavilion as well as either the men's or women's West Regional tournament during the NCAA's March Madness. It has a larger percentage and a greater mix of non-whites as well as a greater mix of Caucasian backgrounds than any other state. In college sports, the San Jose State Spartans are the local college team, but most of the city's population support either the Stanford Cardinal, the Cal Golden Bears, or the Santa Clara Broncos. New Jersey is also the most racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse state in the union. The city has also been selected to be one of five host cities for the inaugural Dew Action Sports Tour season; the San Jose event will be held in September 2005. state. The San Jose Grand Prix, scheduled to be held in July 2005, will bring Champ Car racing on a temporary road course on Downtown streets.

According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the estimated population of New Jersey was 8,638,396, making the state slightly more populated than Georgia, which was ahead of New Jersey in 2002; New Jersey is again, as it had been before, the ninth most-populous U.S. The SAP Open (formerly the Sybase Open) is an annual men's tennis tournament held at the HP Pavilion. New Jersey's economy has a large base of industry and chemical manufacturing. Although the state is certainly not defined by these activities, their existence and visibility to those passing through the state along some of its major highways does contribute to many jokes about pollution and ironic plays on the state's nickname, the "Garden State.". In addition to professional teams, San Jose hosts several sporting events. Its industrial outputs are pharmaceutical and chemical products, food processing, electric equipment, printing and publishing, and tourism. Previously, San Jose was home to the:. In particular, cranberries and eggplants are two of the state's largest crops. San Jose is the home of the:.

Its agricultural outputs are nursery stock, horses, vegetables, fruits and nuts, seafood, and dairy products. [16] (http://www.sjredevelopment.org/101204/5-1DowntownTheaterUpdate.pdf) (caution, PDF). Per capital personal income in 2003 was $39,577, 3^rd in the United States of America. [15]  (http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/leigh_weimers/10045287.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp) Including sporting events, the HP Pavilion averages 184 events a year, or roughly one event for every two days, which is significantly higher than the average for NHL arenas. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that New Jersey's total state product in 2003 was $397 billion. The HP Pavilion is one of the most active venues for events in the world. According to Billboard Magazine and Pollstar, the arena sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the United States, and third in the world after the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, England, and the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the period from January 1 – September 30, 2004. New Jersey is bordered on the north and northeast by New York, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania (the latter two across the Delaware River.) Prominent geographic features include:. In addition, the annual Cinequest Film Festival in downtown has grown to over 60,000 attendees per year, becoming an important festival for independent films.

High Point Sussex County is the highest elevation in the state. The city is home to many performance arts, including Opera San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Such geographic definitions are broad, however, and there is often dispute over where one region begins and another ends. The sharks can still be found in their new owners' homes and businesses. Central Jersey is a largely suburban area, while South Jersey is within Philadelphia's general sphere of influence. After the exhibition, the sharks were auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. North Jersey is within New York City's general sphere of influence, with many of its residents commuting into the city for work. Many displays were removed early because of vandalism.

See: List of New Jersey counties.
New Jersey is broadly divided into three geographic regions: they are North Jersey, Central Jersey, and South Jersey. Large models of sharks were decorated in a variety of clever, colorful, or creative ways by local artists and were then displayed for months at dozens of locations around the city. Justices serve an initial seven-year term, after which they can be reappointed to serve until age 70. In 2001, the city sponsored SharkByte, an exhibit of decorated sharks, based on the mascot of the hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, and modeled after Chicago's display of decorated cows [14] (http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cows_on_parade.htm). All are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of a majority of the membership of the state senate. [13] (http://www.morrill.org/books/quetzalcoatl.shtml) And the statue of Thomas Fallon, met strong resistance from those who felt that these people were largely responsible for the decimation of early native populations. The New Jersey Supreme Court [1] (http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/supreme/index.htm) consists of a chief justice and six associate justices. Two examples, include the statue of Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) in downtown which was controversial in its planning because some religious groups felt that it was pagan, and controversial in its implementation because many felt that the final statue by Robert Graham did not closely resemble a winged serpent, and was more noted for its expense than its aesthetics.

Assembly members are elected by the people for a two year term in all odd-numbered years; Senators are elected in the years ending in 1, 3, and 7 and thus serve either four or two year terms. Within the early efforts at public art, there are notable controversies. Each of the 40 legislative districts elects one Senator and two Assembly members. Of particular note, the Mineta Airport expansion will incorporate a program of Art & Technology into its development. It provides for a bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate of 40 members and an Assembly of 80 members. There is a considerable amount throughout the downtown area, and a growing collection in the City's neighborhood newer civic locations including libraries, parks, and fire stations. The constitution (http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/lawsconstitution/constitution.asp) was adopted in 1947. The City was one of the first to adopt a public art ordinance at 2% of capital improvement building project budgets, and the results of this commitment are beginning to have an impact on the visual landscape of the City.

For an example, Bergen County, which is very Republican in the northern half of the county, is mostly liberal in the more populated parts, causing it to usually vote mostly Democratic (same with Passaic County, with a highly populated liberal south and a rural, conservative north), other "swing" counties like Cape May tend to go Republican, as they also have population in conservative areas. Public art is an evolving attraction in the city. Most of the counties in New Jersey, however, are considered swing counties, but some go more one way than others. The new City Hall, designed by Richard Meier & Partners opened in 2005 and is a notable addition to the growing collection of municipal building projects. Somerset and Hunterdon counties, more suburban counties in the region, are also more Republican, but recently, with new immigration coming to these counties from Northern New Jersey and New York, they are beginning to become more close. The Children's Discovery Museum, Tech Museum of Innovation, and the San Jose Repertory Theater building have experimented with bold colors and unusual exteriors. The more suburban northwestern and southeastern counties of the state are bastions of the Republican party: Republicans have strong backing along the coast in Ocean County and in the mountainous northwestern part of the state, especially Sussex County and Morris County and Warren County. Municipal building projects have experimented more with architectural styles than have most private enterprises.

More suburban New York bordering counties such as Union and Middlesex counties are also largely democratic, as well as Atlantic City and the area around it. Because the downtown area is in the flight path to nearby Mineta International Airport, there is a permanent height limit for all buildings. The state's Democratic strongholds include Mercer County around the cities of Trenton and Princeton; Essex County and Hudson County, the state's two most urban counties, around the state's two largest cities, Newark and Jersey City; as well as in Camden County and most of the other urban communities just outside of Philadelphia and New York City. San Jose's downtown architecture is noted more for its limited height than for any particular buildings. Brady served eight months.). Related topics: Maps of San Jose, California. Senator by Governor Thomas Kean in 1982 after Harrison A. Williams resigned the Senate seat following the Abscam investigations. Out of the total population, 10.3% of those under the age of 18 and 7.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

(Nicholas Brady was appointed a U.S. 8.8% of the population and 6.0% of families are below the poverty line. Case in 1979. The per capita income for the city is $26,697. The last elected Republican to hold a Senate seat from New Jersey was Clifford P. Males have a median income of $49,347 versus $36,936 for females. Since the early 1980s, however, the state has given large victories to Democrats in the 1990's, while in the 2004 presidential election it was a little more close, but still an easy victory (with Kerry defeating Bush by about 6%). The median income for a household in the city is $70,243, and the median income for a family is $74,813.

It was named as a possible swing again in the 2004 election, following the September 11 terrorist attacks on nearby New York City and President Bush's policies after those attacks. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 102.5 males. It was, however, a Republican stronghold for years in the past, having given comfortable margins of victory to the Republican candidate in the close elections of 1948, 1968, and 1976. The state was a crucial swing state in the elections of 1960, 1968, and 1992. For every 100 females there are 103.3 males. Politically, New Jersey, like the rest of the northeastern United States, leans toward the Democratic Party. The median age is 33 years. New Jersey has 13 Congressional Districts. In the city the population is spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 35.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who are 65 years of age or older.

Lautenberg (Democrat) and Jon Corzine (Democrat). The average household size is 3.20 and the average family size is 3.62. Senators are Frank R. 18.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The state's two U.S. There are 276,598 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.0% are married couples living together, 11.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% are non-families. McGreevey's resignation on November 15, 2004. 30.17% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The governor of New Jersey is Richard Codey (Democrat), who took over as acting governor based on his role as State Senate President upon James E. The racial makeup of the city is 47.49% White, 3.50% African American, 0.77% Native American, 26.86% Asian, 0.40% Pacific Islander, 15.94% from other races, and 5.04% from two or more races. The capital of New Jersey is Trenton. There are 281,841 housing units at an average density of 622.3/km² (1,611.8/mi²). See: List of Governors of New Jersey; New Jersey Legislature. The population density is 1,976.1/km² (5,117.9/mi²). This meant the state lost more people in the attacks than any other state except New York. As of the census² of 2000, there are 894,943 people, 276,598 households, and 203,576 families residing in the city.

Of the 3,000 people who died in September 11, 2001, over 650 were commuters and air travelers from New Jersey (United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark Airport in New Jersey). [12] (http://www.mostlivable.org/cities/sanjose/home_accolades.html). New Jersey suffered heavy casualties in the September 11 Terrorist Attacks. are invested in San Jose and Silicon Valley companies. However, by the close of the Civil War, several African-Americans in New Jersey were still in bondage and New Jersey initially refused to ratify the Constitutional Amendments banning Slavery and granting rights to America's black population. patents than any other city, the average worker productivity in San Jose is double the national average, and 35 percent of venture capital funds in the U.S. Ironically, on February 15, 1804 New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish slavery by enacting legislation that slowly phased out slavery. San Jose residents produce more U.S.

On November 20, 1789 the state became the first in the newly-formed Union to ratify the Bill of Rights. [11] (http://www.fedc.com/ACCRACostofLivingIndex2ndQuarter2004.htm) Housing costs in the city are the primary reason for the high cost of living, although the costs in all areas tracked by ACCRA are above the national average. Despite the high cost of living, San Jose households have the highest disposable income on any large American city. It was there that the Continental Congress learned of the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the war. only New York City and San Francisco are more expensive. In the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall at Princeton University, making Princeton the country's capital for four months. The cost of living in San Jose and the surrounding areas is among the highest in California and the nation; in the U.S. Slightly more than a week after victory at Trenton, on January 3, 1777, the American forces scored an important victory over the British under Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. [10] (http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/factsheet/employment.html).

This image was also chosen to represent the State of New Jersey on the reverse side of the 1999 New Jersey State Quarter released by the United States Mint. Sizable government employers include the city, Santa Clara County, and San José State University. The river crossing has become an iconic moment in the early history of the United States of America, having been immortalized in Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. The city lists 25 companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the headquarters of Adobe Systems, BEA Systems, Cisco, and eBay, as well as major facilities for Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hitachi and Lockheed Martin. In December, 1776, the Continental Army under George Washington crossed the Delaware River and engaged Hessian troops in the Battle of Trenton. As of 2003, the city reported 355,000 jobs within the city limits and an unemployment rate of 8.7%. During the War for Independence, British and American armies crossed New Jersey several times. During the peak of the tech bubble, employment, housing prices, and traffic congestion peaked, but all eased as the economy slowed during the first few years of the 21st century.

New Jersey was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. San Jose considers itself "the Capital of Silicon Valley." As such, its economy rises and falls with high-tech employment in the Bay Area. In 1702 the two provinces were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor. Downtown San Jose experiences the lightest rainfall in the city, while South San Jose, only 10 miles (16 km) distant, experiences more rainfall and slightly more extreme temperatures. New Jersey was governed as two distinct provinces, West Jersey and East Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702. Again, like most of the Bay Area, San Jose is made up of dozens of microclimates. On March 18, 1673 Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to Quakers in England (with William Penn acting as trustee for a time) who settled the Delaware Valley region as a Quaker colony. Snow fell on the valley floor in San Jose most recently in January of 1976, about an inch (25 mm) that melted soon after the sun rose.

The first permanent English settlement was Elizabethtown, now Elizabeth. The snow level drops as low as 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level occasionally each winter, coating nearby Mount Hamilton with light snow that seldom lasts a day> This sometimes snarls traffic travelling on State Route 17 towards Santa Cruz. Settlement for the first ten years of English rule was in the Hudson River region and came primarily from New England. During the winter, hillsides and fields turn green with native grasses and vegetation, although deciduous trees are bare; with the coming of the annual summer dry period, the vegetation dies and dries, giving the hills a golden cover, which some find beautiful but which also provides fuel for frequent grass fires. In 1663 in recognition of his loyalty to the English Crown Sir George Carteret, Jersey's Royalist Governor, was gifted a large tract of land in North America henceforth known as New Jersey. Rain occurs primarily in the months from October through April or May, with hardly any rainfall from June through September. Helier that Charles II of England was first proclaimed King of England in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I of England. With the light rainfall, San Jose experiences over 300 days a year of full or significant sunshine.

It was from the Royal Square in St. Temperatures between night and day can vary by 30 or 40 °F (17 to 22 °C). During the English Civil War the Island of Jersey remained loyal to The English Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. The highest temperature ever recorded in San Jose was 109 °F (42.8°C); the lowest was 21 °F (-6 °C). James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the English Civil War: Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton. January's average high is 59 °F (15 °C) and average low is 42 °F (6 °C), with overnight freezes several nights each year; July's average high is 84 °F (29 °C) and average low is 58 °F (14 °C), with heat exceeding 100 °F (38 °C) several days each year. The newly taken lands were divided by King Charles II of England, who gave his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II) the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony). However, temperatures are generally moderate.

They met minimal resistance, perhaps because of the unpopularity of the Dutch colonial governor, Peter Stuyvesant. It also avoids San Francisco's omnipresent fog most of the year. The entire region became a territory of Britain in 1664 when a British fleet under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls sailed into what is today New York Harbor and took over the colony. Unlike San Francisco, which is exposed to the ocean or Bay on three sides and whose temperature therefore varies relatively little year-round and overnight, San Jose lies more inland, protected on three sides by mountains. This shelters the city from rain and makes it more of a semiarid, near-desert area, with a mean annual rainfall of only 14.4 inches (366 mm), compared to some other parts of the Bay Area, which can get up to four times that amount. These territories were taken by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated into New Netherland. San Jose, like most of the Bay Area, has a Mediterranean climate tempered by the presence of the San Francisco Bay. Some of southwestern New Jersey was also settled by the Swedes in the mid-1600's as part of the Swedish colony of New Sweden, which included parts of Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. Some residents object to the deep yellow color of the streetlights, saying they are distracting because they are the same shade of yellow as traffic lights and other illuminated traffic warnings--image of the similarity here (http://www.baddesigns.com/strlt.html).

At the time, much of what is now New Jersey was claimed as part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which also included parts of present-day New York State and had its capital at New Amsterdam, now known as New York City. To recognize the city's efforts, the asteroid 6216 San Jose was named after the city. Once inhabited by the tribes of the Lenape, the first Europeans to settle the region were the Dutch in the early 1630's, who formed a settlement at present-day Jersey City. Due to the proximity to Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton, San Jose has taken several steps to reduce light pollution, including replacing all street lamps with low pressure sodium lamps. The state is named after the island of Jersey in the English Channel. The lowest point in San Jose is at sea level at the San Francisco Bay in Alviso; the highest is 4,372 feet (1,333 m) at Copernicus Peak, Mount Hamilton. It is also the fifth smallest state. military from 1870 to 1945.

postal abbreviation of NJ. Along the southern part of the river is the neighborhood of Almaden Valley, originally named for the mercury mines which produced mercury needed for gold extraction from quartz during the California gold rush as well as mercury fulminate blasting caps and detonators for the U.S. New Jersey is the most densely populated state of the United States of America and has the U.S. The Guadalupe River runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains (which separate the South Bay from the Pacific Coast) flowing north through San Jose, ending in the San Francisco Bay at Alviso. List of people from New Jersey. The other faults near San Jose are the Monte Vista Fault, South Hayward Fault, Northern Calaveras Fault, and Central Calaveras Fault. List of New Jersey-related topics. The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 also did some damage to parts of the city.

State license plate slogan: Garden State. The Daly City Earthquake of 1957 caused some damage. State motto: Liberty and prosperity. Earlier significant quakes rocked the city in 1839, 1851, 1858, 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1891. State dance: The Square Dance. The most serious earthquake, in 1906, damaged many buildings in San Jose as described earlier. State fish: Brook Trout. San Jose lies near the San Andreas Fault; a major source of earthquake activity in California.

State tree: Red Oak
. The total area is 1.86% water. State flower: Common Violet
. 452.9 km² (174.9 mi²) of it is land and 8.6 km² (3.3 mi²) of it is water. State animal: Horse
. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 461.5 km² (178.2 mi²)¹. State bird: Eastern Goldfinch
. San Jose is located at 37°18'15" North, 121°52'22" West (37.304051, −121.872734)¹.

Warren County Community College, Washington. As of 2005, there are seven sister cities (aka twinned towns): Okayama, Japan (established in 1957); San José, Costa Rica (1961); Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (1975); Tainan, Taiwan (1975); Dublin, Ireland (1986); Pune, India (1992); and Ekaterinburg, Russia (1992). Union County College, Cranford and Elizabeth. The Office of Economic Development coordinates the San Jose Sister City Program. Sussex County Community College, Newton. [7] (http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/22/vietnamese.shooting.ap/) [8] (http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2355136&nav=5D7lRMbK) [9] (http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/10/1701805.php). Salem Community College, Carneys Point. [6] (http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm#500,000+) However, reports of police brutality have become more common.

Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch. [5] (http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats.cfm) In 2003 and 2004 the city was ranked as the safest American city with a population over 500,000 by the Morgan Quitno Awards. Passaic County Community College, Paterson-Wanaque-Wayne. During the 1990s and 2000s, the crime rate has consistently fallen. Ocean County College, Toms River. San Jose has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in the United States. Middlesex County College, Edison. The LAFCO also defines a subset of the Sphere as an 'Urban Service Area' (indicated by the red line in the map), effectively limiting development to areas where urban infrastructure (sewers, electrical service, etc.) already exists.

Mercer County Community College, Trenton. The Santa Clara County LAFCO has set boundaries of San Jose's 'Sphere of Influence' (indicated by the blue line in the map near the top of the page) as a superset of the actual city limits (the yellow area in the map), plus parts of the surrounding unincorporated county land, where San Jose can, for example, prevent development of fringe areas to concentrate city growth closer to the city's core. Hudson County Community College, Jersey City. The goal of a LAFCO is to try to avoid uncontrolled urban sprawl. Gloucester County College, Sewell. Like all California cities except San Francisco, both the levels and the boundaries of what the city government controls is determined by the local county Local Agency Formation Commission (http://www.santaclara.lafco.ca.gov) (LAFCO). Essex County College, Newark & West Caldwell campuses. ³.

Cumberland County College, Vineland. Other city officers elected by the council are the city attorney, city auditor, and city clerk. County College of Morris, Randolph. The council elects the manager for an indefinite term, and may at any time remove the manager, or the electorate may remove the manager through a recall election. Camden County College, Blackwood. The city manager is the chief administrative officer of the city, and must present an annual budget for approval by the city council. Burlington County College, Pemberton. This council member has the right to act as mayor during the temporary absence of the mayor, but does not have the right of succession to the mayor's office upon a vacancy.³.

Brookdale Community College, Lincroft. The council elects a vice-mayor from the members of the council at the second meeting of the year following a council election. Bergen Community College, Paramus. Council members and the mayor are limited to two successive terms in office, although a council member that has reached the term limit can be elected mayor, and vice versa. Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing. Council members and the mayor are elected to four-year terms; the even-numbered district council members beginning in 1994; the mayor and the odd-numbered district council members beginning in 1996. Lakewood 60352. The mayor has no veto powers.

Old Bridge 60456. The San Jose City Council is made up of ten council members elected by districts, and a mayor elected in an at-large election. During city council meetings, the mayor presides, and all eleven members can vote on any issue. Irvington: 60695. The city has a council-manager government with a city manager nominated by the mayor and elected by the city council. Bayonne: 61842. San Jose is a charter city under California law, giving it the power to enact local ordinances that may conflict with state law, within the limits provided by the charter. Glouchester: 64350. A large portion of the Santa Clara Valley still contained commercial orchards.

Middletown: 66327. Highway 101, which touched only the outermost edges of the city and was still a rural route or controlled by traffic lights in some areas. Union City: 67088. The only freeway through or near San Jose was U.S. Passaic: 67861. Many people's view of San Jose is still formed by the Dionne Warwick hit from the 1960s, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (neither of whom had spent time there and chose the name because it suited the tune), it includes the lyrics, "there's a lot of space in San Jose; there'll be a place where I can stay" and "I may go wrong and lose my way," and contrasts it to Los Angeles, "a great big freeway." In 1960, the population of San Jose was only 204,000, just over a fifth of the 2003 population. East Orange: 69824. ².

Cherry Hill: 69965. The average 2003 home price in Santa Clara County was approximately 330 percent of the national average. Brick: 76119. As a result, housing costs in San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area rose faster than the national average in the 1980s and 1990s; between 1976 and 2001, San Jose's housing costs increased by 936 percent, the fastest growth in the nation over that time. Clifton: 78672. However, the city council passed another General Plan in 1994 with the original 1974 urban growth boundaries intact. Camden: 79904. By 1980, the city's population was 630,000; it reached 782,000 by 1990; and 894,943 by 2000—at which point Santa Clara County as a whole had 1,682,585 residents.

Trenton: 85403. However, with the boom of the electronics industry, specifically personal computers and integrated circuits, San Jose and the surrounding areas' population continued to grow rapidly. Toms River: 86327. ². Hamilton: 87109. The plan's goal was to bring population growth down to a more manageable level. Dover: (Census Estimate 2003: 93,000). The result was that there was no land available to build housing.

Woodbridge: 97203 (Census Estimate 2003: 108,000). To the west, communities such as Campbell and Cupertino had incorporated as cities to avoid being annexed to San Jose, while expansion to the north was impossible because of San Francisco Bay. Edison 97687 (Census Estimate 2003: 101,000). Under Mineta, the city adopted the "General Plan" that restricted development of land inside the incorporated area of San Jose and banned development in an additional 200 mi² east and south of the city, an area known as San Jose's sphere of influence. Elizabeth: 120568 (Census Estimate 2003: 124,000). Following Hamann's retirement, anti-growth city councils came to power, cemented with the 1971 election of Norman Mineta as mayor. Paterson: 149222 (Census Estimate 2003: 152,000). ¹.

Jersey City: 240055 (Census Estimate 2003: 242,000). When Hamann left office in 1969, San Jose had grown to 495,000 residents and 136 mi². Newark: 273546 (Census Estimate 2003: 278,000). Hamann's efforts resulted in an annual population growth rate of over eight percent. Finally, in the future, New Jersey's garage bands have become more based in 00's alternative rock and classic rock revival, two styles to expect to hear more coming out of New Jersey. Hamann also spent significant time on the East Coast, selling San Jose as an ideal place for businesses to expand into. He sang with a neighborhood vocal group, the Hoboken Four, and appeared in neighborhood theater amateur shows. Hamann instituted an aggressive growth program by annexation of adjacent areas, such as Alviso, Cambrian Park, and other neighborhoods, and a program of dispersed urbanization, sometimes called "los angelization".

in Hoboken. At the time, the city had a population of 95,000 and a total area of only 17 mi². Frank Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, the only child of working-class Italian-American immigrants, in a tenement at 415 Monroe St. Hamann (nicknamed "Dutch") became city manager in 1950. In the 1960s, he colaborated on several albums with fellow New Jersey native Frank Sinatra. P. Legendary jazz pianist and bandleader Count Basie was born in Red Bank in 1904. A.

He has two albums out: musicforthemorningafter (2001) and Day I Forgot (2003). [4] (http://www.uniteddefense.com/co/history.htm). Pete Yorn is another New Jersey artist. FMC's military business would later be spun off into United Defense. The Bloodhound Gang produced a song called "The 10 Coolest Things About New Jersey," which consists of 10 seconds of complete silence. [2] (http://www.fmc.com/Corporate/V2/GeneralDetail/0,1478,16,00.html) [3] (http://www.fmctechnologies.com/FTI/__about_history_action/1,1114,1,00.html?) In 1941 the company received an order from the United States War Department for one thousand LVTs, bringing defense contracts to San Jose for the first time. The brothers, Dean and Robert, are the guitarist and bassist for the band. ¹ Food Machinery Corporation (FMC) was founded in San Jose as the Bean Spray Pump Company in 1883.

The DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots are both from New Jersey. The Del Monte cannery in Midtown was the largest employer in the city for many years. Punk music is also an important alternative style in New Jersey, perhaps starting with the band that essentially invented hardcore, The Misfits from Lodi, in the 90's, The Bouncing Souls and Catch 22 were also prominent figures in New Jersey punk. In 1922, the first commercial farming of broccoli in the US was started in San Jose, by brothers Stephano and Andrea D'Arrigo. Such bands that fit into this category include My Chemical Romance, Midtown, Senses Fail, Saves The Day, Thursday, Hidden In Plain View, The Early November, Armor For Sleep, Outmarting Simon, Denver In Dallas, and many more. Prunes, grapes, and apricots were some of the major crops. Emo lately has found its home in New Jersey, particularly near New Brunswick, New Jersey. For nearly two centuries a farming community, San Jose produced a significant amount of fruits and vegetables until the 1960s, and many past and current names of teams, streets, buildings, and so on reflect its agricultural beginnings.

Another emerging New Jersey band is Seven and the Sun [4] (http://launch.yahoo.com/ar-292720---Seven--The-Sun). Photos of the lynchings were even used as Nazi propaganda. Musical artists Fountains of Wayne [2] (http://www.fountainsofwayne.com/home/)are a group of New Jerseyians who took the name of a semi-famous lawn and garden store [3] (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NJWAYfountains.html) on Route 46 in Wayne, New Jersey (also featured on an episode of The Sopranos). It is also notable as the last public lynching in California's history. Redman, an influential underground figure and Newark native, has recently found commercial success through collaborations with Eminem and the Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man. The case drew international attention to San Jose, for the kidnapping, lynching, and for the praise that Governor James Rolph directed to those who participated. Other rap artists include Irvington's Queen Latifah, the first female rapper to succeed in music, film and TV, and the Grammy-winning Naughty By Nature of East Orange, who cut 1992's smash hit "O.P.P.". About 10,000 residents (approximately 1/6 of the city's population at the time) stormed the jail and lynched the two men who had confessed to the killing.

Hip-hop's longest running radio show was founded by two Jerseyans, Special K (Kevin Bonners) and Teddy Ted (Ted Whiting) of Hackensack, who began on New York's WHBI in 1982 and now appear on WPAT-AM. The 1933 kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart resulted in mob violence in San Jose. Her 1998 debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, sold 10 million copies internationally. The 8-year-old San Jose High School's three-story stone and brick structure also collapsed, and many other buildings were severely damaged. Former Fugee Lauryn Hill, a South Orange resident, is hip-hop's best-selling solo female artist. The all-brick Agnews Asylum (later Agnews State Hospital) suffered possibly the worst damage in the San Jose area, killing over 100 people as the walls and roof collapsed. Wylde is famous for his signature "Bulls-eye" Gibson Les Paul guitar. The city was still primarily rural and the population much smaller than San Francisco, so houses and businesses were not so closely built, providing no opportunity for a major fire like the one that destroyed the city up the Peninsula.

Another popular Jerseyan in rock music today is Zakk Wylde of Jersey City, who is currently the guitarist with Ozzy Osbourne and is with another popular rock band, Black Label Society. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with its epicenter near Daly City [1] (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/11/BAGB163KV81.DTL) between San Jose and San Francisco, devastated the few large buildings in San Jose. Songs included "There She Goes Again" and "Heroin". In 1989, the city of San Jose filed suit against France and the Eiffel estate, claiming that the Eiffel Tower was a copyright infringement of the Electric Light Tower; the suit was eventually dismissed. The Velvet Underground had their first performance as a band at Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey. It collapsed during a gale in 1915. Asbury Park, home of The Stone Pony, where Springsteen and Bon Jovi frequented early in their careers, is still considered by many to be a mecca for up-and-coming musicians. It didn't provide sufficient illumination, and by 1884 was used only for ceremonial purposes.

Fellow musician Jon Bon Jovi has also written many songs about New Jersey and even named one of his albums after it. Owen of the San Jose Mercury News, the city council authorized the construction of the San Jose Electric Light Tower, ostensibly to replace the gas streetlights that had illuminated downtown San Jose since 1861. Musician Bruce Springsteen has sung of New Jersey life on his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and in many of his most popular songs, including "Atlantic City", "Born to Run", "Darlington County", "Freehold", "Jersey Girl" (written by Tom Waits), "Jungleland", "Spirit in the Night", and others. In 1881, because of a forceful campaign by editor J.J. Non-Religious – 6%. It also served as the state's first capital with the first and second sessions of the California Legislature, known as the Legislature of a Thousand Drinks, being held there in 1850 and 1851. The legislature was unhappy with the location, as no buildings suitable for a state government were available in the city, and took up State Senator Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's offer to build a new capital on land he donated to the state in what is now Benicia. Other Religions – 5%. state of California, the first mayor was Josiah Belden.

Other Christian – 4%. On March 27, 1850, San Jose became the first incorporated city in the U.S. Protestant – 37%. The importance of the mercury industry at the time explains why the local newspaper is named the Mercury News. Roman Catholic – 46%. The cinnabar deposits had been discovered during the Mexican era, and mining operations began in 1845, the first operating mine in the province. 2.5% mixed race. During the California Gold Rush period, the New Almaden Mines just south of the city were the largest mercury mines in North America (mercury was used to help separate gold from ore).

0.2% American Indian. Fallon would later become the seventh mayor of San Jose. 5.7% Asian. Sloat, and raised it over the pueblo on July 14, as the California Republic agreed to join the United States following the start of the Mexican-American War. 13.3% Hispanic. Fallon received an American flag from John D. 13.6% Black/African American. During the Bear Flag Revolt, Captain Thomas Fallon led a small force from Santa Cruz and captured the pueblo without bloodshed on July 11, 1846.

66.0% White/Caucasian. In 1797, the pueblo was moved from its original location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Street, to a location in what is now Downtown San Jose, surrounding Pueblo Plaza (now Plaza de César Chávez). South Mountain. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68. Sandy Hook. Mission San José de Guadalupe was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by de Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. Raritan River. (Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara.

Rancocas River. El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe was founded by José Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777, the first settlement not associated with a mission or a military post (presidio) in Alta California. Pine Barrens. De Anza returned to Mexico City before any of the settlements were actually founded, but his name lives on in many buildings and street names. Passaic River. He selected the sites of the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco; on his way back to Monterey, he sited Mission Santa Clara de Asís and the pueblo San José in the Santa Clara Valley. The Palisades. He left the colonists at Monterey in 1776, and explored north with a small group.

New Jersey Meadowlands. Late in 1775, Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition to bring colonists from New Spain to California and to locate sites for two missions, one presidio, and one pueblo (town). Delaware Water Gap. It is likely that Don Pedro Fages, the military governor at Monterey, passed through the area on his 1772 expedition to explore the East Bay. Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolá and Father Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south. For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans.

After over 150 years as an agricultural center, increased demand for housing from soldiers and other veterans returning from World War II and starting families, as well as aggressive expansion during the 1950s and 1960s led first to San Jose being a bedroom community for Silicon Valley in the 1970s, then attracting businesses to the city; by 1990 the city was calling itself the Capital of Silicon Valley. It served as the first capital of California after statehood was granted in 1850. San José was the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California (later Alta California), founded in 1777 as a farming community to provide food for nearby military installations. The San Francisco Bay Area, of which San Jose forms part, is the fourth largest in the U.S.

and not to the urban area. All of these figures refer to the area within the city limits, which is the sense in which the word "city" is normally used in the U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2004 indicate San Jose has overtaken Detroit as the United States' tenth most populous city; according to the formal 2000 count, it is ranked eleventh. As of 2005, it reported an estimated population of 944,857, making it the most populous city in Northern California (it surpassed San Francisco in 1989) and third most populous city in the state, after Los Angeles and San Diego.

The city is located at the south end of the San Francisco Bay, within the informal boundaries of Silicon Valley, and is the largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, it is still more commonly spelled without the diacritic mark. On April 3, 1979, the city council adopted San José as the spelling of the city name on the city seal and official stationery. state of California and is the county seat of Santa Clara County.

San José (officially the City of San José) is a large city in the U.S. The Weather Channel data for San Jose (http://www.weather.com/activities/other/other/weather/climo-monthly-graph.html?locid=USCA0993&from=search). 2E. Bruno, Andy; INCONSISTENCY ACCENTED BY SAN JOSE AND SAN JOSE; San Jose Mercury News; February 15, 1996, p.

Arbuckle, Clyde; Clyde Arbuckle's History of San Jose; 1985. ³San Jose City Charter (http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Charter.htm). ²San Jose case study, part one: the urban-growth boundary (http://www.ti.org/vaupdate31.html). ¹Flashback: A short political history of San Jose (http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/PoliSci/faculty/christensen/flashback.htm).

KEZR 106.5 MHz - music mix, Infinity Broadcasting. KBRG 100.3 MHz - Entravision. KUFX 98.5 MHz - classic rock, Citicasters (slogan name is "98.5 KFOX"). KSJO 92.3 MHz - Spanish language music, Citicasters.

KSJS 90.5 MHz - San Jose State University. KMTG 89.3 MHz - San Jose Unified School District. FM