Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey is a town of ~30,000 people[1] 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) as 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.
Princeton lies immediately to the south of a long, curving ridge, today locally referred to as Princeton Ridge[2][3] This means the town and its suburbs are mostly located in a low-lying area which, for many years, has reported issues with cell phone signals.[4] The ridge is still wooded, and a portion of it contains protected habitat including wetlands, but the remaining part that is privately controlled is under considerable development pressure.
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
Notes
- ↑ QuickFacts Princeton, New Jersey, United State Census Bureau. Accessed December 26, 2022.
- ↑ Recent references to "Princeton Ridge" in the local newspaper, Planet Princeton
- ↑ Princeton Ridge is detectable in Google Maps with the right settings.
- ↑ Many Princeton Residents Reporting Poor Cell Phone Coverage for the Last Few Months on Planet Princeton, 7-25-2017.