Narrative:

[I was] working a combined newark departure position; not too busy or complex. It's close to the end of my day shift after a quick turn around (eve shift night before). We're in a southwest flow. Aircraft X departed mmu and needed to turn left northeast bound and head up to brezy intersection; around the same time aircraft Y departed teb; he needed to turn right westbound; with mmu southwest of teb these aircraft routes were on converging courses. This convergence of courses or vectors was in its self not the problem; we deal with this all day long; I never keyed in aircraft X's type aircraft. I must have seen a slow speed or climb an thought nothing of sending direct brezy and climbed him to 6;000 ft; meanwhile aircraft Y departed teb on the dalton 19 which keeps him VFR at or below 1;300 ft until clear of the ewr final. Once clear you can't forget these guys as they need a climb as soon as possible to get on their way. Again I didn't see any pressing concerns and climbed aircraft Y to 10;000 ft. Aircraft X was northeast bound at 3ish for 6;000 ft and aircraft Y is westbound at 2ish for 10;000 ft; the flight paths converge over cdw airport. I knew in the back of my head to keep this in mind but again nothing struck me as requiring extra vigilance. Suddenly my hand off man alerted me to these aircraft coming together; it was ugly; aircraft X was level at 6;000 ft trucking along at 270 indicated an aircraft Y was dogging his climb at 5ish; trying to separate them was even uglier; TCAS; I even snapped at aircraft Y like it was his fault; it was a sloppy session all the way around and this incident; and the way I handled it; was the icing on the cake. Day in day out; routine; night after night; six days a week; over and over. I was in a light conversation with a fellow controller; pretty confident in my abilities even though this particular session was a little choppy; lack of attention.

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Title: N90 Controller described a loss of separation event between a departure from MMU and one from EWR; noting lack of attention as the primary causal factor.

Narrative: [I was] working a combined Newark Departure position; not too busy or complex. It's close to the end of my day shift after a quick turn around (eve shift night before). We're in a southwest flow. Aircraft X departed MMU and needed to turn left northeast bound and head up to BREZY intersection; around the same time Aircraft Y departed TEB; he needed to turn right Westbound; with MMU southwest of TEB these aircraft routes were on converging courses. This convergence of courses or vectors was in its self not the problem; we deal with this all day long; I never keyed in Aircraft X's type aircraft. I must have seen a slow speed or climb an thought nothing of sending direct BREZY and climbed him to 6;000 FT; meanwhile Aircraft Y departed TEB on the DALTON 19 which keeps him VFR at or below 1;300 FT until clear of the EWR final. Once clear you can't forget these guys as they need a climb ASAP to get on their way. Again I didn't see any pressing concerns and climbed Aircraft Y to 10;000 FT. Aircraft X was northeast bound at 3ish for 6;000 FT and Aircraft Y is westbound at 2ish for 10;000 FT; the flight paths converge over CDW Airport. I knew in the back of my head to keep this in mind but again nothing struck me as requiring extra vigilance. Suddenly my hand off man alerted me to these aircraft coming together; it was ugly; Aircraft X was level at 6;000 FT trucking along at 270 indicated an Aircraft Y was dogging his climb at 5ish; trying to separate them was even uglier; TCAS; I even snapped at Aircraft Y like it was his fault; it was a sloppy session all the way around and this incident; and the way I handled it; was the icing on the cake. Day in day out; routine; night after night; six days a week; over and over. I was in a light conversation with a fellow controller; pretty confident in my abilities even though this particular session was a little choppy; lack of attention.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.