Jersey City and Hoboken are what I like to call Schrödingers suburbs. Because they are towns that depend of people who want to live outside NYC and commute in daily, but they are far to dense and urban to be real suburbs.
Now this is not a complaint, they are really good dense human scaled cities which are incredibly Walkable, it's just funny how they exists in a weird grey area of being not New York Proper due to being outside Manhattan and the western parts of Brooklyn and Queens such as Long Island City or Downtown Brooklyn and yet are considerably super urban and therefore aren't really suburbs of New York
Hoboken is literally the 4th most densely populated city in the US, it is denser than NYC it self and if I showed you a satellite photo(picture below) of it, it looks like San Francisco and yet I am expected to call it just a suburb of New York
