Many key state agencies are shut down Monday following the July Fourth holiday weekend, including the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
State courts are open as are state agencies responsible for public health and safety. The state lottery headquarters is closed but the lottery drawings are going on as scheduled.
The furloughs come under the agreement between the state and employee unions to help close the state's budget gap.
State workers agreed to take one unpaid furlough day before June 30 and three furlough days in each of the next two fiscal years.
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The Giants and Jets football teams will have a new home next season. Check out these photographs of taken over the new stadium in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ by Tom Kaminski in Chopper 880 on Monday, November 23, 2009.
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