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Piscataway (/pɪˈskætəweɪ/) is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The township is a major bedroom suburb of the New York metropolitan area, located within the heart of the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township’s population was 56,044, reflecting an deposit of 5,562 (+11.0%) from the 50,482 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in face increased by 3,393 (+7.2%) from the 47,089 counted in 1990.

The proclaim Piscataway may be derived from the area’s old-fashioned European American settlers who were coming as transplants from New Hampshire near the Piscataqua River. This river is a landmark defining the coastal be next-door to between New Hampshire and Maine. This is an area whose herald derives from peske (branch) and tegwe (tidal river), or alternatively from pisgeu (meaning “dark night”) and awa (“place of”) or from a Lenape language word meaning “great deer” The Place was appropriated in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire.

Piscataway Township was formed upon December 18, 1666, and officially incorporated by an combat of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as allowance of the state’s initial help of 104 townships. The community, the fifth-oldest municipality in New Jersey, has grown from Native American territory, through a colonial times and is one of the friends in the earliest pact of the Atlantic Ocean seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States. 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 has advanced studious and research services due to the presence of Rutgers University, whose main campus spills into the township. SHI Stadium, home sports ground for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, is in Piscataway. Part of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is located in Piscataway as well.

In 2008, Money magazine ranked Piscataway 23rd out of the summit 100 places to flesh and blood in America. In 2014, the magazine ranked Piscataway 27th out of summit 50 places to alive in America.