Love ya, Rooster, but as someone born in NYC, spent her entire working career in NYC, I still could not tell you the difference between a NY accent and a Jersey accent until we get down to around the Philadelphia area. Oh! How I hate that Jersey/PA accent!
See Post #8
We here on the NJ/PA border have a bad accent because we talk to people from NJ/NY with disdain in our voices.
The Joisey accent (which I happen to love) changes as you drive down the toinpike. And if you go west in Joisey, there is a New England/Upstate NY twang that sets in.
But God forbid you go for a drive and end up in the Catskills.
"Oy vey"!
“I still could not tell you the difference between a NY accent and a Jersey accent”
Someone from New Jersey will speak with a more rhotic accent and pronounce their R’s, while a New Yorker tends to drop their R’s. Example, a New Yorker will say “New Yawk, while someone from from New Jersey will say New York. Otherwise the accent is similar. The closer to the city the more of a New York influence on the accent, the further away the less of an influence.