bytheslice

@Grabthars Hammer  You made me laugh.  I am a Jersey born girl, but because of my hubby's career we have not lived there for 30+ yrs.  My Jersey accent comes back in full mode when we sail out of Liberty bc there are soooo many NJ/NYers.  
1st day I look at my hubby and say do we really sound like that?  When we return home to VA, go back to work and our co-workers laugh and say OMG you were in Jersey.
Here is an example.
Normal people:  I drove the parkway to the diner to visit Dina, had a bottle of water and called my friend's phone, 333, 4488
NJ/NY people:  I took the PAWKWAY to the DINA to visit DEENA.  had a BODDLE of WHATER and called my friend's phone. TREE TREE TREE, FAHR FAHR ATE ATE .
FWIW our daughter spelled water WHATER until she was about 10, because phonetically that is what she heard her father and I say.  She also spelled chocolate...choclate   Sausage in NJ is pronounced SAWSAGE. Caramel is CARMEL.   A drawer sounds like draw.  I was teased for decades regarding my accent...Pima, what is that thing you pull out in a cabinet?
I love NJ/NYers they are vocal, but soooo much fun.  
I will also say the vibe is different on a cruise out of NJ than Miami.  We always feel that sailing out of Liberty is filled with more US citizens than when we sail out of Miami.  Nothing bad or good either way, it just always seem that when we sail out of Miami there are more European passengers.  No flaming me, just saying when they do the 1st night welcome, we always notice there seems to be more passengers from Europe on our Miami sailings.  It makes sense to me bc many add on a pre/post vacay to Disney.

? We could only justify it by forgoing/ pooling multiple gift day budgets for the year or more to live it up in that one week! Also haven't taken a vacation for about 3-4 years now so I think we're overdue! I've learned so much from this forum so very thankful for that. Trying to pay attention and remember all of the SC tips for Anthem out of Bayonne!
Thanks for the reminder! I'm genuinely terrified of doing that as I don't want to come off rude to the porters. I'm also terrified of any comments or looks we may get about cutting in front of the line anywhere but really want to take advantage of that since we will have such a short window of time away from the kids to do anything like North Star or Bumper cars. Heard that since it's a lot of NY/ NJ folks on sailings out of Cape Liberty they tend to be on the more vocal side about that and I don't have tough skin.

Not much to add here:  stay in right lane, get there by 10:30 am, tip the porters/longshoreman, park and walk back to terminal. 
We had a starboard side balcony and watched the huge traffic jam at 1:30 pm on embarkation day.   
I will ADD that post cruise, as we paid for our parking and were leaving the garage, a big, burly longshoreman said to us "yous guyz have a safe and pleasant journey home."    Very nice touch.

Scary stories.  I have to say we do tip and we have never had any issues at all.  My only problem is that driving there you really need to pay attention to the signs that direct you to the port.  They are small blue signs.  I have a navigation system in my car so we don't have a problem, otherwise use Wayz.    You will see a golf course right on your right prior to getting to the port.  That course is Trumps' golf course.  You can also see the tear drop memorial from the ship.  The interesting fact about the memorial is it was a gift from Russia.  The tear drop is made from the steel from the twin towers.  It is an absolutely stunning memorial.  

@Mikeb1892  It doesn't matter if you are the only ship departing that day.  The parking garage can only handle so many cars.  We have sailed multiple times out of Liberty.  Parked in both the outdoor and garage.  It all comes down to the cycle.  If I am correct Oasis is taking over for Anthem next summer, thus, impo it is highly likely you will get the garage, not the outdoor parking.  If I am incorrect and it is taking over for Adventure, and not Anthem, you will probably be parking in the outdoor lot.
You will not know until you get there.  Bring a window screen for your car just in case.  Last yr we sailed on Adventure, and had to park in the outdoor lot.  We debarked at 9:30 (drove) and it was already 90+ degrees.  Make sure if you are in the outdoor lot to remove any coffee cups, etc bc if you don't your car will stink to high heaven.
The outdoor lot is very secure.  It is maybe 30 seconds more of a walk at tops.
We absolutely love Cape Liberty.  They have it down to a science.  From entering the terminal to walking onto the ship is maybe 20 mins.
The negative is if you show up @11:30-12:00   The drive into the terminal was poorly designed.  It becomes a bottle neck, but not horrendous, just a slow crawl.  
Make sure you keep your carry on separate from your luggage.  Learned that the hard way the 1st time.  We had the carryon in the trunk with our luggage, the porters grabbed everything and threw it in their big totes.  Only when we parked did we realize they took our carry ons too.