East Brunswick, New Jersey This article is about the township in New Jersey.
East Brunswick, New Jersey Township of East Brunswick Location of East Brunswick Township in Middlesex County.
Location of East Brunswick Township in Middlesex County.
Enumeration Bureau map of East Brunswick, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of East Brunswick, New Jersey State New Jersey East Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
The suburban improve is part of the New York City urbane region and is positioned on the southern shore of the Raritan River, directly adjoining to the town/city of New Brunswick. According to the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 47,512, reflecting an increase of 756 (+1.6%) from the 46,756 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,208 (+7.4%) from the 43,548 counted in the 1990 Census. East Brunswick was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 28, 1860, from portions of both Monroe Township and North Brunswick Township.
As of the 2010 Census, the United States Enumeration Bureau figured that New Jersey's center of populace was positioned a several hundred feet east of Nenninger Lane, near the New Jersey Turnpike. Based on the results of the 2000 Census, the state's center of populace was positioned on Milltown Road in East Brunswick. According to a 1677 bill of sale now in the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, Thomas Lawrence, a New York baker, purchased thousands of acres of territory from small-town Native Americans titled Querameck, Kesyacs, Isarick, Metapis, Peckawan, and Turantecas.
The region today known as East Brunswick was incorporated in 1860 from parts of North Brunswick and Monroe townships, including the improve of Old Bridge. Originally a farming community, suburban settlement started in the 1930s with improved road access.
The extension of the New Jersey Turnpike to East Brunswick in 1952 led to a sharp spike in populace growth, with the 1950 Enumeration population of 5,699 more than tripling to 19,965 as of the 1960 enumeration. In the early 1970s a people group Concerned Citizens of East Brunswick sued the New Jersey Turnpike Authority over a proposed primary widening project.
East Brunswick was also the site of the gunfight at Turnpike exit 9 shortly after midnight on May 2, 1973, in which a car being driven by Zayd Malik Shakur (born James F.
Costan), with Assata Shakur (formerly Jo - Anne Chesimard) and Sundiata Acoli (born Clark Squire) as passengers, was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle.
The township lies on exit 9 of the New Jersey Turnpike.
The township borders the Middlesex County municipalities of Edison Township, Helmetta, Milltown, Monroe Township, New Brunswick, North Brunswick Township, Old Bridge Township, Sayreville, South River, South Brunswick Township and Spotswood. The Township of East Brunswick was established in 1860.
Since January 1, 1965, the Township has directed under the Mayor-Council Plan E form of government pursuant to the Faulkner Act, Chapter 69 - A of Title 40 of the New Jersey Statutes. In February 2014, the Township Council appointed Michael Spadafino to fill the seat expiring in December 2016 that had been held by Nancy Pinkin, until she stepped down the previous month to take office in the New Jersey General Assembly. In the November 2014 general election, Spadafino was propel to serve the balance of the term of office. David Stahl served as mayor from his election in 2012 until his resignation on January 14, 2016, when he left office to take on a judge position in close-by Woodbridge Township. The Township Council appointed Kevin Mc - Evoy, a former history teacher at East Brunswick High School and trustee of the East Brunswick Public Schools, to serve the balance of Stahl's term as mayor that expires in December 2016; Mc - Evoy has stated that he will not run to serve a full term as mayor. East Brunswick Township is positioned in the 12th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 18th state legislative district. New Jersey's Twelfth Congressional District is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, Ewing Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019). Barnes III, who left the Senate to turn into a judge on New Jersey Superior Court, while Karabinchak was chosen to fill Diegnan's vacant Assembly seat. The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Rios (D, term ends December 31, 2015, Carteret; Ex-officio on all committees), Freeholder Deputy Director Carol Barrett Bellante (D, 2017; Monmouth Junction, South Brunswick Township; County Administration), Kenneth Armwood (D, 2016, Piscataway; Business Development and Education), Charles Kenny ( D, 2016, Woodbridge Township; Finance), H.
Valenti (D, 2016, New Brunswick; Community Services). Constitutional officers are County Clerk Elaine M.
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 31,297 registered voters in East Brunswick Township, of which 9,957 (31.8%) were registered as Democrats, 5,298 (16.9%) were registered as Republicans and 16,024 (51.2%) were registered as Unaffiliated.
Main article: East Brunswick Public Schools The East Brunswick Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Frost Elementary School (K-5; 423), Irwin Elementary School (K-5; 459), Lawrence Brook Elementary School (Pre - K-5; 426), Memorial Elementary School (Pre - K-5; 499), Warnsdorfer Elementary School (Pre - K-5; 440), Hammarskjold Middle School for grades 6 and 7 (1,353), Churchill Junior High School for grades eight and nine (1,317) and East Brunswick High School for grades 10-12 (2,238). In the 2012 "Ranking America's High Schools" copy by The Washington Post, the district's high school was ranked 45th in New Jersey, after being ranked 48th statewide in 2011. A lottery is held each year, with separate draws for inhabitants of East Brunswick Township and non-residents, to allocate the limited number of positions available for each class. The school plans to build a permanent structure as part of the Campus for Jewish Life (formerly known as the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley) to replace its current facility the school has rented positioned near Trinity Presbyterian Church. Concerns have been raised regarding the funding for the school, which will come from the East Brunswick Board of Education budget, including $1.34 million for the 2010-11 school year, and that the precinct will not be able to reduce costs by the amount that will be paid to the charter school.
Hatikvah school officials accentuate that charter schools can often educate students at a lower cost than traditional enhance schools and that "taxpayers do not pay an extra penny for having a charter school in town, period". The school received $75,000 in grants from foundations to cover the costs of applying for a charter and for getting the school operational. Hatikvah budgeted $11,033 per student for the 2010-11 school year, while the East Brunswick Public Schools budgeted $12,782 per pupil for that same year. Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley, a Conservative Jewish day school, closed its doors before the start of the 2013-14 school year in the wake of sharply lower enrollment and financial difficulties. During the 2009-10 school year, the school was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 205.94 miles (331.43 km) of roadways, of which 176.11 miles (283.42 km) were maintained by the municipality, 19.65 miles (31.62 km) by Middlesex County, 5.48 miles (8.82 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 4.70 miles (7.56 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Route 18 passes through East Brunswick, and is an meaningful artery connecting New Brunswick, U.S.
Route 1, the Jersey Shore, and the New Jersey Turnpike, Interstate 95 (which also passes through the township).
Other limited access roads are accessible outside the township, such as the Garden State Parkway in neighboring Sayreville and Old Bridge, and Interstate 287 in neighboring Edison Township.
East Brunswick is 22 miles (35 km) from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark / Elizabeth, via the New Jersey Turnpike.
Playhouse 22, East Brunswick's Community Theatre and Performing Arts Center, resides in the multi-purpose Community Arts Center at Heavenly Park.
See also: Category:People from East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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A several hundred feet into the woods along tiny Nenninger, a dead-end road beside the New Jersey Turnpike, sits the heart of the Garden State in terms of population, as stated to the U.S.
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"Ecko, who was born in Orange County, California and moved to East Brunswick, New Jersey to found Ecko Unltd in 1992, says he painted the airplane to protest against laws against outside art in various metros/cities including New York." "The good news is that Hallie Kate Eisenberg of East Brunswick, playing a spunky but vulnerable 8-year-old, gives the movie a real jolt of charm." "East Brunswick native, 26, stars in two new films", Asbury Park Press, May 23, 2010.
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Most recently, a song the East Brunswick High School junior wrote about bullying thriving the consideration of the annual Secret 'Mean Stinks' and Seventeen periodical contest." "He had been born, on February 18, 1908, one of five sons, in East Brunswick Township, N.
Irving Freese had gone to a one-room elementary school and had been graduated from the New Brunswick High School." "Oliver was a nephew of General Gage's wife, the former Margaret Kemble, from East Brunswick, New Jersey, who adapted to British ways while clinging to her American identity." "God Forbid guitarist Doc Coyle left the band he'd started as a teenager in 2013, and soon after departed the cozy confines of East Brunswick, New Jersey for the greener pastures of Los Angeles." "To the New York Yankees credit they allowed Steven Goldman of East Brunswick to bury the team in June in a column he writes on its YES Network Web site..." "New band brings a statement about intensity", Home News Tribune, December 7, 2010.
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"But last week, Roy, an East Brunswick, New Jersey based tabla player, who has performed with the likes of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Yoko Ono, was part of the tournament's opening evening act." "April Saul was born on May 27, 1955, in New York City, and interval up in East Brunswick, New Jersey." Jack Sinagra, New Jersey Legislature, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 25, 1998.
My assistant section prestige was Technical Sergeant Philip Streczyk, East Brunswick, New Jersey." "East Brunswick's Streetlight Manifesto covers all the bases", Home News Tribune, October 3, 2008.
"The East Brunswick Museum is homed in the former Simpson Methodist Church assembled in 1862 in the heart of the township's historic district.
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