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Staten Island whilst just across the Bay from Brooklyn doesn't share a land border with any of the other boroughs and being closer to New Jersey has always seemed a little odd to me. A little while back however I ran across a mention of Hudson County and Bergen County of New Jersey originally having been a part of the New Netherlands and it got me thinking, what if it hadn't become part of East Jersey but like Staten Island instead ended up with New York? This is a rough idea of what I was think of.


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Basically Hudson County less Kearny, Harrison, and East Newark west of the Hackensack River as shown by the left hand red line, the upper red line being our timeline's modern day northern boundary. Or slightly more extensively also include part of Bergen County as well - Leonia, Fort Lee, Palisades Park, Ridgefield, Edgewater, Fairview, Cliffside Park - east of Overpeck Creek which would be up to the blue line. So not really knowing much about New York or New Jersey I was wondering what this might do to things.

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