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I agree. It is also crazy how a 20 minute drive to the Brunswicks are a completely different world than Princeton…
In that regard, Princeton — which I refer to as "terminally charming" — is like no other place in New Jersey. It looks and feels as though a piece of the Hamptons had been surgically removed from Long Island and plopped down in the middle of Central New Jersey.
In that regard, Princeton — which I refer to as "terminally charming" — is like no other place in New Jersey. It looks and feels as though a piece of the Hamptons had been surgically removed from Long Island and plopped down in the middle of Central New Jersey.
Good insight. I might get a lot of hate.. but I even see a bit of Oxford in Princeton. A little bit of Greenwich CT too. Its very nice. I think Princeton is also the prettiest Ivy and Ivy town, with the best campus. (I like it better than Cornell...)
Good insight. I might get a lot of hate.. but I even see a bit of Oxford in Princeton. A little bit of Greenwich CT too. Its very nice. I think Princeton is also the prettiest Ivy and Ivy town, with the best campus. (I like it better than Cornell...)
The two Ivies in more rural territory (Cornell and Dartmouth) are the only two whose campuses I've never seen. I think I agree with you about the relative beauty of Princeton's campus compared to the other Ivies, but I will admit that I'm actually fond of the urban campuses that also try to replicate the college-green feel, in order: Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown. (Columbia's campus is a bit too urban to fit into this box.)
I thought I'd add another data point for the Princeton-is-where-it-is-because-it's-exactly-halfway-between-New-York-and-Philly data set:
I know a woman here who runs a branding and marketing firm headquartered in the Callowhill Loft District that works with urban businesses and food producers. (We're friends and fans of each other.)
She's a lifelong Philadelphian who recently married a chef/restaurateur whose business is located in New York, where she lived briefly while setting up her company's New York office and met while she lived there. She was looking for a more rural location where she could grow food and flowers and raise farm animals, and he was looking for a place a little closer to New York than Fishtown.
They bought a 1739 farmstead right on the Hopewell Township side of the Hopewell-Princeton line.
"Central" NJ is just North Jersey to me, and I think most people from South Jersey would agree with me.
The daily paper that used to be published in New Brunswick was the Home News of Central New Jersey. Maybe a small data point, especially as the paper bit the dust in the 1970s, but non-trivial IMO.
Still, anyone who divides New Jersey into two parts rather than three puts Mercer County in the south, not the north — including Ma Bell, which placed it in area code 609 rather than 201. And the way the North American Numbering Plan (I think that's what it's called post-AT&T dismemberment) divided the area code, it remains in the south (area code 856 was assigned to the parts of South Jersey closest to Philadelphia while Trenton and the Shore kept 609).
The colonial-era dividing line between the colonies of East Jersey (North Jersey today) and West Jersey (South Jersey today) is today's Burlington-Ocean county line. Continue that line on its course towards the Delaware and it splits Mercer County neatly in two, with Trenton falling on the West Jersey side of the line and Princeton just barely on the East Jersey side of it (or maybe the line splits Princeton too).
Yeah, Ive gotten people telling me Union County is NNJ (??)
Union County (seat: Elizabeth) is in North Jersey.
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. Yeah, i've been several times, never felt it favored one city entirely... Princeton does it's own thing
