Entry No. 34 — the New York City file — filed under: roadside-oddity

Nitro Girl (Werbany Tire Town)

An 18-foot fiberglass giantess has loomed over Werbany Tire Town since 1965, bought by founder Ed Werbany Sr. for $300 as a standard 'Uniroyal Gal' roadside giant. In 2007 the family hired two artists to transform her into a superhero, adding go-go boots, gloves, a winged-W chest logo, and stars across her skirt and hair. Renamed Nitro Girl (the shop fills tires with nitrogen), she is one of the surviving International Fiberglass giants that once dotted American highways, and reportedly the only one left in the Northeast.

The move: Make the drive a deliberate road-trip detour, snap goofy forced-perspective photos beneath the caped giantess, and grab a diner lunch nearby.

📍 Before you go It's roughly 90+ miles from Manhattan in South Jersey, so this is a committed road trip; the giant stands at a working tire shop, best viewed from outside.

• 📍 Blackwood, New Jersey
• 💸 Free
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: Highway 168 / Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, NJ (~2.5 mi south of NJ Turnpike exit 3)

Hours: Added 2026-06-23 — confirm current hours before you go.

Plan a visit & invite your people →

Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

last checked: 2026-06-23