Wednesday - December 14, 2011

So Totally Busted

Joe Steinfeld, a 22-year old Rutgers graduate, claims authorship of the edgy, “tongue-in-cheek” map, which subdivides the Garden State into social, financial and ethnic realms. In less than 24 hours it has gone viral.

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Steinfeld is a Westfield native, and currently works for the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, monitoring preserved lands and maintaining trails. He also works with the Geographic Information Systems, making maps of preserves and researching resource conservation.

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“Oh, plenty of people have been chiming in, pointing out my inaccuracies, but for the most part, it’s been met with laughter and praise,” he said. “So far, I haven’t received any [negative feedback], so I feel pretty confident. I didn’t mean to offend any one group in particular, and for the most part, people have understood that it’s meant to be funny.”

After a few hours of searching Google Maps and using Photoshop to fill in a blank map of the state, Steinfeld has created a piece of internet gold, for better or worse.

In New Jersey, we spell “negative feedback” with 4 letters, beginning with “s”.

Here’s the map. Click it to go visit the big version.

It’s a good Joisey Joke if you don’t live here or know much of anything about the state. And if you do live here, then you know that this map is actually pretty damn accurate. See the “78” highway sign there on the left, underneath the first P in “Hill People”? Yeah, that’s me. And Pineys ... well, think hill billies, only without the benefit of hills. Flatland billies. Swamp rats. Several extra fingers to help play the banjo, kind of thing. What many outsiders don’t know about New Jersey is that about a fifth of the state is pretty much forest, and about a quarter of the state is pretty much deserted scrublands. That’s the Pine Barrens; almost empty. But NJ has the highest population density in America! Yes, because in the cities they’re packed in about 30 deep, maybe 40. And Camden really is the most God-awful shithole in the nation. Worse than Philly. Worse than Detroit. Even worse than Baltimore.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2011 at 02:31 PM   
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