Portal:New Jersey/Did you know/1

• ... that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street (pictured)?
• ... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
• ... that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?