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 and the Institute for Advanced Study (where Albert Einstein famously spent the last years of his life). The town also was long home to Westminster Choir College, which became part of Rider University in 1992, but is 2020 Rider moved the Westminster program to its Lawrenceville, NJ, campus. Now the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton is largely unused while legal wrangling about its future continues (Rider attempted to sell it to a Chinese company in 2019, resulting in extreme public outcry and the prevention of that sale).

Major companies in or nearby Princeton:

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