Neighborhood Guides Buyers Resource Renter Resource Mortgage Calculator Glossary of Terms Click here to sign-up Neighborhood Guides > Jersey City > Trivia Trivia Colgate Clock in the Paulus Hook area The Colgate Clock, promoted by Colgate-Palmolive as the largest in the world, sits in Jersey City and faces Lower New York Bay and Lower Manhattan (it is clearly visible from Battery Park in lower Manhattan). The clock, which is 50 feet in diameter with a minute hand weighing 2,200 pounds, was erected in 1924 to replace a smaller one. Jersey City residents have nicknamed Jersey City "Chilltown." [11] The tallest building in New Jersey is Jersey City's Goldman Sachs Tower, which was completed in 2004. Other notable buildings in Jersey City include 101 Hudson Street, the Newport Tower, and the Exchange Place Centre. In 1916, German agents set off a series of explosions in present-day Liberty State Park in what came to be known as the Black Tom Explosion. Part of the 1993 Saturday Night Live spin-off movie Coneheads was filmed in Jersey City. Much of the 1999 movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai was filmed in Jersey City. The movie City Hall, starring Al Pacino and John Cusack is partly set in the Tunnel Diner, next to the Holland Tunnel The Statue of Liberty stands on Liberty Island and while many New Jersey residents unofficially cite its address as 1 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, the island is actually within the territorial jursidiction of New York. The statue is maintained by the National Park Service. Ellis Island is inside Jersey City's borders, but is managed jointly by the states of New Jersey and New York. Both islands are in New York Harbor.[12] In The Ren and Stimpy Show episode Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention, Ren and Stimpy tried to escape the Black Hole by riding an Intergalactic Bus to Jersey City, but didn't have the money to pay the fare. On The History Channel's 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America episode, When America was Rocked, an old newspaper article of a city-wide ban of Rock and Roll in Jersey City was shown and archival film footage of the Mayor explaining his reasoning of the ban was also shown. The animated series Megas XLR takes place primarily in Jersey City. The bar scenes in the movie CopLand, were filmed in the Paulus Hook Pub (no longer in existence) on Grand Street, owned by life-long Jersey City resident and civil servant Roy Zevoteck. It featured Sylvester Stallone, Debbie Harry, Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport and Frank Vincent. One of the scenes in the movie 8 mile is shot behind Indian Square, along the PATH train's route to Newark.