Piscataway, New Jersey Piscataway, New Jersey Location of Piscataway Township highlighted in Middlesex County.
Location of Piscataway Township highlighted in Middlesex County.
Enumeration Bureau map of Piscataway Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Piscataway Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Souvlaki grilling at the 2011 Greek Festival in Piscataway, New Jersey on May 15, 2011 Piscataway /p s k t we / is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 56,044, reflecting an increase of 5,562 (+11.0%) from the 50,482 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,393 (+7.2%) from the 47,089 counted in 1990. The name Piscataway may be derived from the area's initial Native American residents, transplants from near the Piscataqua River defining the coastal border between New Hampshire and Maine, whose name derives from peske (branch) and tegwe (tidal river), or alternatively from pisgeu (meaning "dark evening") and awa ("place of") or from a Lenape language word meaning "great deer" or from words meaning "place of dark evening". The region was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire. Piscataway Township was formed on December 18, 1666, and officially incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as part of the state's initial group of 104 townships. The community, the fifth-oldest municipality in New Jersey, has grown from Native American territory, through a colonial reconstructionand is one of the links in the earliest settlement of the Atlantic Ocean seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States.
Over the years, portions of Piscataway were taken to form Raritan Township (March 17, 1870, now Edison), Dunellen (October 28, 1887), Middlesex (April 9, 1913) and South Plainfield (March 10, 1926). In 1666, the first appointed Governor of New Jersey, Philip Carteret, granted 12 new pioneer from Massachusetts a 100 square mile lot of territory that was later established as the townships of Woodbridge and Piscataway. After this initial purchase, additional pioneer from the Piscataqua River region of New Hampshire also moved to the area, bringing the name.
Coming from a lumbering, ship assembly and fishing background, these settlers, consisting of mostly Baptists and Quakers, were comfortable with their new surroundings, and looking forward to starting a new life away from political and theological persecution in the north.
Piscataway Township is the fifth earliest town in New Jersey and among the fifty earliest suburbs in the United States.
The township lies on the south side of the Raritan Valley, a line of metros/cities in Central Jersey, along with New Brunswick, Highland Park and South Plainfield.
Piscataway is 45 minutes southwest of New York City and 53 minutes northeast of Philadelphia.
Piscataway is bordered by nine municipalities: Dunellen, Edison, Highland Park, Middlesex, New Brunswick and South Plainfield in Middlesex County and Franklin Township and South Bound Brook in Somerset County and Plainfield in Union County. Piscataway is often segmented by small-town inhabitants into unincorporated communities, localities and place names which include Arbor, Bound Brook Heights ("the Heights"), Fellowship Farm, Fieldville, Johnson Park, Lake Nelson, New Brunswick Highlands, New Market (known as Quibbletown in the 18th Century), Newtown, North Stelton, Possumtown, Randolphville, Raritan Landing and Riverview Manor. The initial village settlement of Piscatawaytown is positioned in present-day Edison Township.
The Arbor and New Brunswick Highland sections of Piscataway were historically African American neighborhoods.
As of the 2000 Census, 12.49% of Piscataway's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the fourth highest of any municipality in the United States and the third highest in New Jersey behind Edison (17.75%) and Plainsboro Township (16.97%) of all places with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. Louis Brown Athletic Center is the home of the Rutgers University men's and women's basketball teams, and was the home of the experienced New Jersey Nets amid 1977 1981. The venue was originally titled the Rutgers Athletic Center, still called the RAC by many, and can accommodate 9,000 attendees. In November 1966, Piscataway voters, under the Faulkner Act, allowed a Charter Study and propel a Charter Study Commission to recommend the form of Government best suited to the township's needs.
Voters allowed the plan in a popular vote in November 1967 and the new form of government was inaugurated on January 1, 1969. Under Plan F the Mayor is the administrator and the Council is the legislative body.
Chanelle Mc - Cullum was appointed in April 2013 to fill the vacant at-large seat of Kenneth Armwood, who had been the township council president until he was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Mc - Cullum was propel in November 2013 to serve the balance of the unexpired term through its expiration in December 2016. Piscataway is positioned in the 6th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 17th state legislative district. New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District is represented by Frank Pallone (D, Long Branch). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Egan (D, New Brunswick) The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Middlesex County is governed by a Board of Chosen Freeholders, whose seven members are propel at-large on a partisan basis to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election.
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.
The major law enforcement agency in the township is the Piscataway Police Department. Rutgers University Police Department operates on its campuses inside Piscataway.
The New Jersey State Police patrols the section of Interstate 287 that bisects the town.
The Piscataway Township Schools serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grades with its high school, four schools that educate students in kindergarten through third grade, two intermediate schools serving grades 4 5, and three middle schools for students in grades six, seven, and eight.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 10 schools had an enrollment of 7,287 students and 516.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 14.12:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are the four elementary schools Eisenhower Elementary School (grades K 3; 540 students), Grandview Elementary School (Pre-K 3; 730), Knollwood Elementary School (K 3; 499) and Randolphville Elementary School (K 3; 557) both Arbor Intermediate School (556) and Martin Luther King Intermediate School (551) for grades 4 and 5, three middle schools for grades 6 8 Conackamack Middle School (433), Quibbletown Middle School (579) and Theodore Schor Middle School (606) and Piscataway Township High School with 2,236 students in grades 9 12. Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School Piscataway Campus, 21 Suttons Lane Vocational and Technical High School. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 206.70 miles (332.65 km) of roadways, of which 181.68 miles (292.39 km) were maintained by the municipality, 18.94 miles (30.48 km) by Middlesex County and 6.08 miles (9.78 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Other limited access roads that are accessible include the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) in East Brunswick Township (Exit 9) and neighboring Edison Township (Exit 10).
Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in New Jersey.
See also: Category:People from Piscataway, New Jersey.
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"At least I personally have a good feeling for 'old' because my hometown of Piscataway, New Jersey was established in 1666 old? "LOW, Isaac, a Delegate from New York; born at Raritan Landing, near New Brunswick, N.J., April 13, 1735" "Nicholas Low was born in Raritan Landing, New Jersey, on March 30, 1739, the son of Cornelius Low Jr., and Johanna Gouverneur." 1748 1826) Born near Piscataway, New Jersey, February 9, 1748 (the date usually given), son of Hannah and Benjamin Martin (farmer)." "Piscataway native making waves on NYC radio", Courier News, July 24, 2003.
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