I think it is all about what you feel like doing for the night....... if you just want to make it an easy drinking night than Jersey is the best place to be.......the crowds are clean, and the music is still good esp in north/central jersey......... if you are into the afterhours scene, you are left with no choice but to travel to NYC........but in NYC when u go to these afterhours places you don't know what is what (who is a guy and who is a girl).....The crowds are so shady and dirty looking sometimes......Hemafrodites, drags walking around, young kids in adidas pants with glowsticks....it makes u want to go home and pour boiling water over your head and sterilize yourself...... Where as jersey clubs you feel a lot more comfortable..... SF is the only NYC club i will go to now, and the crowds everywhere in NY have only gotten more dirty and shady......not excluding SF in anyway of the crowds.....(nothing will beat the crowds there in 98-99