No, most of northern Jersey you can't make a left turn. You do this funky thing where you get in the right hand lane and go around a butterfly, then intersect the road you were just on, wait at a red light and go on green.
It's brilliant, only you wind up with stop lights every 100 feet. And that's why..... New Jersey's Freeways are so important up there ! If you want to go to the next town over, you hit the freeway, always.