New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick is a city located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 48,573. It is the county seat of Middlesex County{{GR|6}}. The City of New Brunswick is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.

Culture

Today, New Brunswick is one of the cultural hubs of central New Jersey.

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• Theater: Several thriving professional theaters are located there, including Crossroads, the George Street Playhouse, and the State Theater. Those three theaters are located on Livingston Avenue, not George Street, and they are practically next to each other.
• Museums: New Brunswick is home to several fine museums including the Zimmerli Museum of Fine Art at Rutgers University, the Rutgers University Geology Museum and the New Jersey Agricultural Museum at the Cook College campus of Rutgers University.
• Higher Education:
• Home of Rutgers University, New Brunswick enjoys the fruits of a close proximity to a thriving college scene including sports, concerts, plays and other events. Rutgers splatters all over the city and neighboring Piscataway, with a campus along College Avenue by the old Pennsylvania Railroad (now Amtrak) tracks, another campus on the other side of downtown that houses Douglass and Cook colleges, and several isolated buildings in between the two, along with vast lands in Piscataway. Two schools, the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Mason Gross School of the Arts, belong to Rutgers as well, and they are next to the three theaters mentioned above.
• New Brunswick is the home to the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, a seminary in the Reformed tradition, founded in 1784.
• Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, part of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway.
• Fine Dining: New Brunswick is filled with an abundance of great restaurants including Nouvelle American, Italian, Indian, Ethiopian, Thai and Chinese. Popular fine dining restaurants include Stage Left, The Frog and The Peach, Makeda's, Dolls Place and Soho on George. While many of the downtown fast-food establishments close after about 6 to 8 pm, those on Easton Avenue are open well into the night. There are Indian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, and numerous bars that are also open relatively late,including a brew pub. Some of the most famous are Tumulty's Pub (founded by an Irishman from The Bloody 6th Ward), Olde Queens Tavern and Harvest Moon Brew Pub. A vigorous local music scene is also present with live bands appearing at the Court Tavern, Old Bay, Nova Terra, Tumulty's and other locations.
• Fun Fact: In the movie "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle," the main characters attempt to go to the White Castle in New Brunswick, however find it shuttered. In actuality, the New Brunswick White Castle is operating 24 hours a day and located at 680 Somerset Street. The movie shuttering of the active fast food restaurant leads the main characters on their journey through New Jersey with wacky hijinks on their quest to find the ubiquitous sliders.