JOBS | Metro NY and NJ

September data on Metro Area non-farm jobs shows an increase of 130,500 jobs in the Greater New York area, which includes all of Long Island. This is the best performance of metro areas in New York State. In fact, jobs grew substantially in New York State only in the Hudson River corridor from New York City through Kingston to Albany.

Metropolitan area	State	Sept. 2013  (‘000)	Sept. 2014(p) (‘000)	Change (‘000)	Change (%)
Trenton-Ewing, NJ	New Jersey	247.2	252.0	4.8	1.9
Ocean City, NJ	New Jersey	46.8	47.2	0.4	0.9
Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ	New Jersey	57.3	57.8	0.5	0.9
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	New Jersey	138.7	128.7	-10.0	-7.2
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA	New York	8,710.1	8,840.6	130.5	1.5
Kingston, NY	New York	60.3	60.8	0.5	0.8
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	New York	448.2	451.3	3.1	0.7
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	New York	551.9	554.5	2.6	0.5
Elmira, NY	New York	38.7	38.8	0.1	0.3
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY	New York	254.0	254.4	0.4	0.2
Ithaca, NY	New York	70.4	70.5	0.1	0.1
Rochester, NY	New York	515.7	516.2	0.5	0.1
Binghamton, NY	New York	106.3	106.1	-0.2	-0.2
Glens Falls, NY	New York	55.0	54.8	-0.2	-0.4
Syracuse, NY	New York	317.3	316.1	-1.2	-0.4
Utica-Rome, NY	New York	128.0	127.3	-0.7	-0.5

Source: BLS Metro Areas report, October 29, 2014.

In New Jersey, the state capital, as in New York State, gained jobs but growth was weaker in the rest of the state. Atlantic City remains in economic crisis, losing 7.2 percent of its jobs, 10,000 of them, in the year ending September 2014.

For cities, density remains destiny. The bigger cities survive economic downturns best, and so do state capitals, where the state taxes go.