Piscataway lies 45 minutes southwest of New York City and 53 minutes northeast of Philadelphia.

By the time the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering had been implemented and in law, the route was re-designated as State Highway Route S-28, a prefixed spur of State Highway Route 28 in Middlesex, following Raritan Avenue and River Road through Piscataway and Highland Park, joining State Highway Route 27 on a concurrency into New Brunswick, and onto George Street in New Brunswick southward.

In 2001, the New Jersey Department of Transportation approved construction of extending the Route 18 Freeway northward from Middlesex County Route 622 ( River Road, former CR 514 Spur ) in Piscataway to a new arterial on the existing Hoes Lane in the Rutgers University campuses.

It was part of the Anacostan chiefdom, centered on the lower Anacostia River near present-day Washington, D. C. ( John Smith visited them in 1608 ); the Anacostans were organized under the Piscataway paramount chiefdom ( not part of the Powhatan alliance ), which by the 1630s claimed to have had thirteen successive rulers.

Overall, the dominant tribe on the north side of the Potomac River was the Algonquian Piscataway tribe, which later absorbed some of the smaller tribes ' survivors.

Dunellen was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 28, 1887, when it broke away from Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 23, 1886.

What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township.

Middlesex was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1913, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 6, 1913.

Souvlaki grilling at the 2011 Greek Festival in Piscataway, New Jersey on May 15, 2011

Piscataway Township was formed on December 18, 1666, and officially incorporated on February 21, 1798.

South Plainfield was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1926, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum passed on April 6, 1926.

South Plainfield is bordered by Piscataway Township on the south and west, Edison on the east, and Plainfield on the north.

The supporters of the shield are, on the left, a Piscataway brave, of the Powhatan Confederacy, the predominant tribe along the Potomac, in this area.

), Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy ( Piscataway: Gorgias Press LLC, 2007 ) ( Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, 1 ), 169 – 190.

Jackson was faculty at Rutgers University in Piscataway and New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1991 to 1995, in addition to continuing to consult with Bell Labs on semiconductor theory.

Rutgers University built the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on its Busch Campus, near High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the Raritan River from its main campus in New Brunswick.

Bordered to the south are South Plainfield, and Piscataway.

In the 1960s, the route was planned to be upgraded to a freeway all the way up to Port Jervis and south to Piscataway, Middlesex County ; however, both freeway proposals were cancelled in the early 1970s.

A 1966 proposal called for Route 23 to be extended south as a freeway to Interstate 287 in Piscataway in Middlesex County, running parallel to the Garden State Parkway.

Eventually all roads intersecting Route 210 in the Fort Washington area ( from the Beltway as far south as the highway 210 curve at Piscataway Creek ) are planned for upgrading to controlled-access interchanges ( eliminating all traffic signals ).

Hopewell Township was supposed to be where the Somerset Freeway would have started in the south, ending in the north in either Piscataway or Franklin.

Some of Robert Middleton's property was near Piscataway Creek, about twelve miles south of present-day Washington D. C., across the Potomac River from the future site of Mount Vernon, the home of President George Washington.

On February 2, 1863, the Department of Washington was re-formed to encompass the area from north of the Potomac from Piscataway Creek to Annapolis Junction ( near present-day Fort Meade ), west to the Monocacy River, south to the Bull Run Mountains by way of Goose Creek, then east to Occoquan River.

At the time, the Patawomeck ( loosely affiliated with the Powhatan ) and the Doeg lived on the Virginia side, as well as on Theodore Roosevelt Island, while the Piscataway ( also known as Conoy ) tribe of Algonquians resided on the Maryland side.

Separated by the Raritan river are Busch Campus, in Piscataway, and Livingston Campus, also mainly in Piscataway but including remote sections of land extending into Edison Township and the Borough of Highland Park.

In 1977, the newly-formed New Jersey Department of Transportation received a federal grant to construct the Route 18 Freeway from New Street in New Brunswick, across the Raritan and terminating at Middlesex County Route 514 Spur in Piscataway.

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 ).

Piscataway is in Raritan Valley ( a line of cities in central NJ ).

Branchburg, Bridgewater, Somerville, Raritan, Green Brook, North Plainfield, Bound Brook, and South Bound Brook, which are all in Somerset, and Piscataway, South Plainfield, New Brunswick, Highland Park, Edison, Middlesex, Dunellen, and Metuchen, which are all in the northern and central portions of Middlesex County, New Jersey and Plainfield in southwestern Union County.

Raritan Landing, across from New Brunswick in today's Piscataway became was important inland port and commercial hub for the region.

Catonsville was located along the Piscataway Trail.

* a trail along the north shore of Piscataway Creek in Piscataway Park in Prince George's County, Maryland.

In addition, two state recognized tribes exist Piscataway Native American tribe, tribes that live along the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland ( see We-Sorts ).

The flagship campus is located in both New Brunswick and Piscataway, with additional campuses in Newark and Camden.

Rutgers University has three campuses across the state of New Jersey, with its largest campus located mainly in the City of New Brunswick and adjacent Piscataway Township, and two smaller campuses in the cities of Newark and Camden.

It begins at an intersection with Route 138 in Wall Township and ends when the road disseminates into Hoes Lane in Piscataway.

Dunellen grew from its start in 1867 with the construction of a railroad station, which was originally called New Market station, serving the nearby community of the same name in Piscataway Township.

The Piscataway Township Schools serves almost 7, 000 students 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.

Piscataway Township High School, with 2, 184 students in grades 9-12.

* Nu-View Academy Piscataway Campus, 1 Park Ave .-Programs for students with symptoms of ; Depression, ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Thought Disorder, or Anxiety Disorder.

* University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Piscataway Campus ( which overlaps with Rutgers Busch Campus )

As of the 2000 census, 10. 48 % of South Brunswick's residents identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the seventh highest of any municipality in the United States and the fourth highest in New Jersey — behind Edison ( 17. 75 %), Plainsboro Township ( 16. 97 %) and Piscataway Township ( 12. 49 %) — of all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

As of the 2000 census, 9. 19 % of Woodbridge Township's residents identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the tenth highest of any municipality in the United States and the fifth highest in New Jersey — behind Edison ( 17. 75 %), Plainsboro Township ( 16. 97 %), Piscataway Township ( 12. 49 %) and South Brunswick Township ( 10. 48 %) — of all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

After decades of encroachment by English colonists, surviving Conoy ( also called Piscataway by then ) went north to Pennsylvania and allied with the Susquehannock and Iroquois.

Each year, a new cohort of fifty rising eighth-grade students from each of the university ’ s host cities of Newark, Camden, New Brunswick, and Piscataway begins a five-year process of regular visits to campus, college preparation activities, and mentoring, with the guarantee of free tuition at Rutgers for all those who earn admission after high school.

* A SensorWeb Middleware with Stateful Services for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, Tom Kobialka, Rajkumar Buyya, Christopher Leckie, and Rao Kotagiri, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ( ISSNIP 2007, IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA ), Dec. 3-6, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.