Anyone is New Jersey is welcome to join! Thanks for asking, and please bump your New Jersey friends. Why don't you post this link on your Locale's board.
We'll probably hang out exclusively in Manhattan, but there's nothing saying that eventually enough of you NJ folks will want to do the same thing across the river. You will always be welcome here.
And what if one half of a couple works in New York, and we are both ex-Manhattanites? Do we count (I mean hey, if you'll take people from NJ at least you could take a couple a fellow New Yorkers!):). V's wife.