Growing up in Central New Jersey (Plainfield) in the 50s, I heard occasional talk about Mischief Night as the night before Halloween, but never knew anyone who actually participated. Some kid once told me about an elaborate system of a whole week's worth of differently-named pre-Halloween nights dedicated to various categories of troublemaking. Maybe the kid had moved to our town from from some area where they had such highly-refined and well-organized vandalism, or maybe he just made it up himself.

I also remember hearing the term Devil's Night, but never heard of either "Cabbage Night" or "Goosy Night" before reading those terms here today as North Jersey traditions. New Jersey is so densely populated that towns no more than 10-20 miles apart can have entirely separate cultures...