New York and New Jersey are both members of the Drivers License Compact and Non-Resident Violator Compact. These Compacts allow the member states to exchange information between state's DMVs and to suspend the drivers license of those who fail to take care of out of state traffic tickets for moving violations.

Violation information typically is not transmitted to your home state's department of motor vehicles until after your have plead guilty and been convicted of the violation. Since you did not pay, it will likely be the suspension and failure to appear notices that the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission will receive from the New York DMV.

It may take a bit of time for this information to be passed along. In New York a scofflaw is when a person fails to answer or appear on a summons. The Court or Traffic Violations Bureau notifies the DMV of the outstanding traffic ticket and the DMV sends out the notices of suspension. The person then usually has 30 days to take care of the ticket before the suspension goes into effect.

Due to the many channels that the information about your failure to answer and suspension notice must go through it is likely that the NJ MVC has not yet received this information. It could be that your notice is also taking time. You should contact the NY DMV to take care of the citation and/or find out if your license has been suspended there yet.

If your license is suspended in New York, it will also be suspended in New Jersey. This means the suspension will show up on your NJ driving record and thus would very likely affect your insurance rates.