Princeton, New Jersey

Palmer Square in downtown Princeton, 2013.

Princeton, New Jersey is a town of ~30,000 people in the central part of New Jersey, home to Princeton University, and situated halfway between Philadelphia and New York City an hour's drive from either city. Princeton is in the same county as, and 12 miles north of, the New Jersey state capital Trenton.

Princeton, which was founded before the American Revolutionary War, now styles itself formally as a municipality with a borough form of government due to its consolidation of the Borough of Princeton (which encompassed the downtown area) and Princeton Township (which was the surrounding suburbs) on of Jan. 1, 2013. Both the former Township and Borough are now defunct. Informally, people may now refer to the "town of Princeton".

Princeton can be styled a "college town", not just because of the presence of Princeton University in its midst, but also because it is home to Princeton Theological Seminary. The town also was long home to the Westminster Choir College (WCC), but its Princeton campus is now largely unused while legal wrangling about the future of the campus and the WCC academic program continues. WCC had been acquired by Rider University (which lies in the nearby town of Lawrenceville) in 1992. In 2019, Rider attempted to sell the WCC campus to a Chinese company, resulting in extreme public outcry and the prevention of that sale. In 2020, Rider moved all activities of WCC from Princeton to its Lawrenceville campus.

Major companies in or near Princeton:

• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Church and Dwight
• Educational Testing Service
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Siemens Corporate Research
• SRI International
• FMC Corporation
• Opinion Research Corporation
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Berlitz International

• Dow Jones & Company