Is there a glut of NPs in NJ & NYC?

I'm not an NP -- someday, hopefully! -- but I've read a lot about the shortage of primary care MDs, which is supposed to get significantly worse over the next decade. Med school costs so much that graduates are increasingly specializing in areas like neurology (average salary over $650,000/year) instead of internal medicine (average salary something like $150,000/year) in order to pay off their loans. The shortage is projected to get so bad, the Obama administration is starting to float ideas for luring doctors back in primary healthcare. The lack of PCPs is no doubt bad for health maintenance, but good for you because NPs and PAs are stepping increasingly into the PCP role. The fewer MDs there are to provide primary care, the more in demand adult or family NPs will be.

So, while I'm not sure about the current job market for NPs in this area, I do think that it's a job that will be quite in demand over the next few decades.