New Jersey
Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger shouts out Clifton’s Tick Tock Diner and his famous sandwich
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Legendary singer Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones gave a shout out to the infamous New Jersey eatery the Tick Tock Diner at his MetLife show on Thursday night.
Jagger was engaging with fans at the concert, asking them if anybody there was from Long Island, New York City, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens and New Jersey.
After the crowd roared for New Jersey, Jagger said, “When I was last here in 2019, I mentioned I’ve been to the diner called the Tick Tick Diner in Clifton. So on the way to the show I stopped in there and I found out they got a new sandwich and it’s called the Mick Jagger.”
He enthusiastically said he never had a sandwich named after him. Jagger said he is so proud and announced he will eat there after the show with band members Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.
The Tick Tock thanked Jagger on Facebook: “Thanks for mentioning us during your performance again Mick!”
The diner also showed off a photo of its Mick Jagger sandwich.
The last time the Rolling Stones visited MetLife in August of 2019, and Jagger shared to the audience that he dined at the iconic New Jersey restaurant during their stop in the Garden State. The rock n’ roll star said at the time, “It’s great to be here in New Jersey, we’re really loving it here. It’s the health food capital of the USA, right? So we went to the Tick Tock Diner and we had Taylor ham, egg and cheese! With disco fries! And sloppy joe to go!”
The Clifton restaurant has been open since 1948 and they serve customers 24/7, 365 days a year, according to their website. You can grab a bite there anytime you would like as they serve classic dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner from burgers, eggs, salads and much more.
The Mick Jagger is on the breakfast all day menu. It’s a sandwich with Taylor ham, cheese, and two fried eggs on a roll served with disco fries, the same item Jagger ordered when he ate at the eatery nearly five years ago.
Tick Tock manager Maria Portalakis said earlier this month that she constantly gets asked about the time Jagger and the band visited the diner as she says, “People come in and ask can we sit where Mick Jagger sat when he came here.” When he visited in the summer of 2019, Portalakis says the crew working did not recognize the singer as one hostess said, “He didn’t really show his face. He was very quiet and low key.”
The Stones are currently on tour for their latest album Hackney Diamonds that came out last year. Along with Jagger, Richards and Wood the other members include Darryl Jones on bass and Steve Jordan on drums. The setlist for Thursday’s show included classics such as Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Women and Jumpin’ Jack Flash and some for their latest album such as Angry and Mess it up.
The Stones are returning to MetLife this Sunday for another rocking show.
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill addresses affordability crisis in NJ: video
Watch new Gov. Mikie Sherrill on state affordability: “Too many people are working too hard and still falling behind.” Jan. 20, 2026 at NJPAC, Newark
Gov. Mikie Sherrill is set to present her first state budget proposal in a Tuesday, March 10, address to the New Jersey Legislature. It’s clear the proposal will make some hard choices as state finances face major headwinds.
Late last month, Sherrill said her budget plan will include some “tough choices” because of the looming uncertainty of a structural deficit for state finances.
The governor explained that if projections stay on the current path, the state would have a structural deficit of about $3 billion by the end of June, when her proposed budget would be in the final stages of negotiations with the Legislature.
Uncertainty due to federal funding cuts, along with the end of pandemic relief funding, has already forced Sherrill to consider all of her options when crafting her plan for New Jersey’s fiscal year 2027.
The governor wouldn’t give particulars about what to expect in her upcoming fiscal plan but instead said she is “setting the table so people can anticipate that this is going to be a tough budget season.”
What does a structural deficit mean for New Jersey taxpayers?
A structural deficit, simply put, means New Jersey spends more than it earns.
Among the costliest tax relief programs in the state’s history, Stay NJ was introduced legislatively in the run-up to the fiscal year 2024 budget and received funding for three years without paying anything out.
The first Stay NJ checks are being sent out to qualifying New Jersey seniors, but the accumulated $1.2 billion covers only the first six months of the program for this year. Roughly $900 million will need to be added to the line item in Sherrill’s first fiscal plan to maintain the program.
The law that created Stay NJ requires full pension payments, full school funding payments and a surplus of at least 12% to be built into the budget as prerequisites for funding the program. The surplus was not 12% when the budget was signed during the last two years, but budget language allowed for a work-around.
Sherrill would not commit to requiring the prerequisites before she would be willing to sign a budget bill in late June.
Increasing costs for the State Health Benefits Program, which is already a contentious topic, could also be a concern for the new governor, as payments are about $2 billion annually and the 10% increase needed in this year’s budget added more than $180 million.
How does New Jersey’s budget process work?
New Jersey’s $58.8 billion budget for fiscal year 2026 is the largest in history and is set to expire at the end of June.
The plan for fiscal year 2027 — which will run from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027 — is a major factor in how New Jersey state government will function by dictating which state departments and programs are funded.
After Sherrill’s address in March, her proposed spending and revenue plan will be analyzed and shaped in the Legislature through the spring. Negotiations will heat up as the current fiscal year winds to a close in June. If the budget cycle is normal, a final budget bill will land on Sherrill’s desk hours before the current fiscal year ends at 11:59 p.m. on June 30.
Though it would be unlikely — given Democratic control of both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s office — in the event the budget bill does not get signed, state government shuts down. There have been two shutdowns in state history: for 10 days in 2006 and three days in 2017.
Katie Sobko covers the New Jersey Statehouse. Email: sobko@northjersey.com
Phil Murphy on NJ Transit future during State of State address
Gov. Phil Murphy discussed the future of NJ Transit during his final State of the State address.
A woman was fatally struck by a train in Ramsey on the morning of March 8.
The unidentified woman was hit by the train at 10:49 a.m., just west of the Main Street crossing near the main Ramsey station, said John Chartier, director of media relations for NJ Transit.
Rail service was suspended in both directions between Allendale and Port Jervis but has since resumed, with delays of up to 30 minutes.
The train came from Port Jervis and was heading to Hoboken, and 150 people were on board at the time, Chartier said.
NJ Transit police are leading the investigation. No additional information about the circumstances of the death was available.
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