I shot 100 over average!

[chrono00]

I'm from Queens, NY and in my league most call it "Brooklyn".

I think most people call it that. The jersey thing is mostly in the Philly area

[JasonNJ]

I think most people call it that. The jersey thing is mostly in the Philly area

Hmm...maybe it depends on the part of NYC, since Queens doesn't border Jersey. When I lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn I mostly heard it called Jersey.

[ep1977]

Hmm...maybe it depends on the part of NYC, since Queens doesn't border Jersey. When I lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn I mostly heard it called Jersey.

Here on LI you hear both but Jersey I hear much more.

[LOUVIT]

Well, this made me curious so I looked it up and what I found is that people from New York would call it Jersey as in "crossing the river into Jersey" where people from Jersey would call it in Brooklyn as in "crossing the river into Brooklyn." For some reason the rest of the country adopted the term Brooklyn and only New Yorkers use the term Jersey.

Only took me 61 years to find this out....lol.... The best was the Jersey mixer, which of course is a light 1-2 hit that mixes up the pins...lol.. I still say C'mon....JERSEY sometimes in the heat of the moment....haha

[LOUVIT]

Here on LI you hear both but Jersey I hear much more.

I bowled in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island and it was always Jersey anywhere. If I remember correctly when the Tour was on TV on Sunday afternoon 40 years ago they also called crossing over Brooklyn. Down here they laugh when I yell Jersey and if I go through the nose they ask and I say that was Connecticut...lol