Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton
Location in Mercer County
Basic data
Foundation :	1894
State :	United States
State :	New Jersey
County :	Mercer County
Coordinates :	40 ° 21 ′  N , 74 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 21 ′  N , 74 ° 39 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	28,572 (as of 2010)
Population density :	605.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	47.8 km 2  (approx. 18 mi 2 ) of which 47.2 km 2  (approx. 18 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	58 m
Postcodes :	08540, 08542, 08544
Area code :	+1 609
FIPS :	34-60900
GNIS ID :	0885361
Website :	www.princetonnj.gov
Mayor :	Liz Lempert (Democrat)

Princeton [ ˈpɹɪnstən ] is an American university town with 6,885 students in Mercer County ( New Jersey ), according to the 23rd United States Census 28,572 (Princeton Township: 16,265; Borough of Princeton: 12,307) people live (as of 2010) .

history

The city was one of the hot spots in the American Revolutionary War . The Battle of Princeton was decided on January 3, 1777.

Princeton was the capital of the United States of America for six months in 1783 . At that time, the Second Continental Congress was meeting in the famous Nassau Hall on the grounds of Princeton University .

Administratively, the city of Princeton consisted of two parishes from 1894 to 2012 when it split over a dispute over school fees in Princeton Township and Princeton Borough . In November 2011, the parishes decided to merge again into one parish, which would then simply be called Princeton. The merger took effect on January 1, 2013.

politics

City administration

Liz Lempert (left) speaks during a wreath-laying ceremony for US President Grover Cleveland at Princeton Cemetery on March 18, 2013.

The first mayor of the reunited Princeton is the Democrat Liz Lempert.

Town twinning

Princeton has partnerships with Colmar in France , Pettoranello del Molise in Italy and Kalianpur in India .

Economy and Infrastructure

Educational institutions

The renowned Princeton University has been based in Princeton since 1756; it was founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey (until 1896) in Elizabeth . The Institute for Advanced Study , on which Albert Einstein worked, among others , is also based in Princeton. Other colleges in Princeton include Westminster Choir College (Rider University) and Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton is also home to one of New Jersey's most renowned theaters, the McCarter Theater .

Established businesses

Although Princeton is best known for the university, a number of well-known commercial and industrial companies are also based there. For example, Opinion Research Corporation , Siemens Corporate Research , Bristol-Myers Squibb , Sarnoff Corporation , FMC Corporation , The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , Amrep , Church & Dwight , Berlitz Corporation and Dow Jones & Company are based in Princeton with their headquarters or significant subsidiaries. In neighboring Lawrenceville there is still a BASF agricultural research facility . German companies are also increasingly settling in Princeton. They are supervised by the Princeton Institute, which has set up its own department for this purpose.

traffic

In the north of Princeton there is a privately operated airport, Princeton Airport ( FAA code: 39N), on which there is also a rental car agency, two charter companies and two flight schools - one only for helicopters  . The airport serves private air traffic .

Attractions

Princeton is home to Drumthwacket , the official residence of the New Jersey Governor. However, the current governor, Chris Christie , has preferred not to live there. Drumthwacket can be viewed on Wednesdays by prior arrangement.

Princeton Cemetery

Kurt Gödel's grave in Princeton

Princeton Cemetery, which was laid out in 1757, is the final resting place of a number of important figures, notably Princeton University scientists. Among other things, the graves of

• Aaron Burr (1756-1836), 3rd  Vice President of the United States (under Thomas Jefferson ); killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
• Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), Austrian-American mathematician, logician and philosopher
• Arnold Henri Guyot (1807–1884), Swiss-American naturalist and geographer
• Donald Lambert (1904–1962), American jazz pianist
• Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972), American mathematician
• Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American astrophysicist
• William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), American philologist and historian
• John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician of Hungarian origin, physicist and computer scientist
• Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Hungarian-American physicist

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Nina Baym (1936–2018), literary scholar
• Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996), mathematician
• Michael Bradley (born 1987), football player
• Mary Chapin Carpenter (* 1958), country and folk singer
• Iris Chang (1968-2004), writer
• David Childs (* 1941), architect
• Nell Craig (1891-1965), actress
• Jessica Hecht (born 1965), actress
• Chuck Henderson (* 1955), jazz musician
• Lars Hernquist (* 1954), astronomer, astrophysicist and professor
• Chris Hopkins (* 1972), jazz musician
• Lynn Jennings (* 1960), long-distance runner
• John Katzenbach (* 1950), writer
• Gail B. Kirkpatrick (* 1952), curator
• Robert Kraft (* 1955), music producer and film composer
• Donald Lambert (1904–1962), jazz pianist
• Charles Logg (born 1931), rower
• Florencia Lozano (born 1969), actress
• Christopher McQuarrie (* 1968), screenwriter, film producer and film director
• Bebe Neuwirth (* 1958), dancer and actress
• Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), journalist
• Paul Robeson (1898–1976), actor, singer, athlete, author and civil rights activist
• John P. Stockton (1826–1900), politician
• Richard Stockton (1730–1781), founding father of the United States
• Richard Stockton Jr. (1764-1828), politician
• Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer and politician
• Nikki Stone (* 1971), freestyle skier and Olympic champion
• Saskia Webber (* 1971), soccer player
• Randolph West (1890–1949), American medical doctor (M.D.) and biochemist

Known individuals with Princeton association

• Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Josef Stalin (1878–1953), lived in Princeton after fleeing the Soviet Union
• John Altman (born 1952), writer
• Trey Anastasio (* 1964), a member of the band Phish , lived with his family in Princeton
• Milton Babbitt (1916–2011), composer and professor at Princeton University
• Saul Bellow (1915-2005), writer and professor at Princeton University
• Paul Benacerraf (* 1931), philosopher and professor at Princeton University
• Peter Benchley (1940-2006), writer & screenwriter ( Jaws , The Deep ), lived and died in Princeton
• Ben Bernanke (* 1953), President of the Federal Reserve Board , Professor at Princeton University
• Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716–1757), co-founder of Princeton University and 2nd President of Princeton University
• Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th President of the United States , spent his old age at Princeton
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, Nobel Prize winner and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), Austrian-American mathematician, logician and philosopher, Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect, lived and worked in Princeton
• Darrell Guder (* 1939), Presbyterian theologian, missiologist and author
• Ethan Hawke (born 1970), actor
• Dr. Gregory House , fictional serial doctor
• John Lithgow (* 1945), actor, lived in Princeton in his youth
• Thomas Mann (1875–1955), writer, was visiting professor at Princeton University
• John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928–2015), mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate, whose life is the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind , professor at Princeton University
• Bebe Neuwirth (* 1958), actress, grew up in Princeton
• Joyce Carol Oates (* 1938), writer, professor at Princeton University
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), physicist, director at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Christopher Reeve (1952-2004), actor, grew up in Princeton

Web links

• Official site of the City Council (English)
• Princeton online (English)
• Princeton Airport (English)
• Princeton Institute (German / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor Liz Lempert. (No longer available online.) Municipality of Princeton, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; accessed on February 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Transition Task Force for the Consolidation of Princeton Borough and Township. Center for Governmental Research (CGR), accessed February 28, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Princeton Institute - The Interface for Tomorrow's World. In: www.princeton-institute.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Princeton Airport. AirNav, accessed February 28, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Make a reservation. Drumthwacket Foundation, accessed February 11, 2018 .