Piscataway

Central Jersey municipality

Piscataway is a township in central New Jersey, part of the New York metropolitan area.

The name comes from the Lenape people who inhabited the region.

Rutgers University maintains a major campus there.

Piscataway also refers to a Native American people originally from the Potomac River region in Maryland and Virginia.

geographic

New Jersey

Mid-Atlantic coastal state

municipality · suburban · commuter · residential · metropolitan · parkway · turnpike

indigenous

Lenape

Algonquian-speaking Eastern people

Delaware · indigenous · ancestor · nation · chief · confederacy · settlement · territory · Eastern Woodlands · pre-colonial

academic

Rutgers

New Jersey's state university

Livingston · research · college · students · dormitory · stadium · athletics · education · engineering · pharmacy

corporate

technology

Applied scientific methods

industrial · commerce · employment · corporate campus · logistics · warehouse · distribution · development · economic

Opposites
new jersey municipality type

PiscatawayNewark

Largest city in Jersey

Trenton · Jersey City · Camden · Paterson · Atlantic City

settlement character

PiscatawayManhattan

NYC's densest borough

Times Square · urban core · inner city · metropolis · central business district

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G