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:''This article is about the township in New Jersey. For the suburb in Melbourne, Victoria see Brunswick East, Victoria''. |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Middlesex |government_type = Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) |government_footnotes = 〔 |settlement_type = Township |governing_body = Township Council |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = David Stahl (term ends December 31, 2016)〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2015.〕 |leader_title1 = Administrator |leader_name1 = James White〔 |leader_title2 = Clerk |leader_name2 = Nennette Perry〔(Township Clerk ), Township of East Brunswick. Accessed August 29, 2012.〕 |established_title = Incorporated |established_date = February 28, 1860 |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 57.679 |area_land_km2 = 56.200 |area_water_km2 = 1.479 |area_total_sq_mi = 22.270 |area_land_sq_mi = 21.699 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.571 |area_water_percent = 2.56 |area_rank = 122nd of 566 in state 6th of 25 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for East Brunswick township, Middlesex County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 3, 2012.〕〔〔(Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for East Brunswick township, Middlesex County, New Jersey ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed January 3, 2012.〕 |population_total = 47512 |population_rank = 38th of 566 in state 7th of 25 in county〔(GCT-PH1 Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed July 30, 2013.〕 |population_density_km2 = 845.4 |population_density_sq_mi = 2189.6 |population_density_rank = 276th of 566 in state 20th of 25 in county〔 |population_est = 48474 |pop_est_as_of = 2014 |pop_est_footnotes = 〔 |timezone = EST |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern (EDT) |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = 〔, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 5, 2013.〕 |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 131 |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |coordinates_region = US-NJ |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_footnotes = 〔〔(US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |latd = 40.426247 |longd = -74.418244 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08816〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for east Brunswick, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed January 4, 2012.〕〔(Zip Codes ), State of New Jersey. Accessed September 9, 2013.〕 |area_code = 732〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for East Brunswick, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed September 9, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3402319000〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed May 21, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0882163〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} East Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The township is considered a suburb of New York City, and to a lesser degree Philadelphia, and is located on the southern shores of the Raritan River, and is directly adjacent to the city of New Brunswick.〔(Raritan River ), Sierra Club, New Jersey Chapter - Raritan Valley Group. Accessed September 9, 2013.〕 According to the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 47,512,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 756 (+1.6%) from the 46,756 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,208 (+7.4%) from the 43,548 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed June 11, 2012.〕 East Brunswick was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 28, 1860, from portions of both Monroe Township and North Brunswick Township. Portions of the township were taken to form Washington town within the township (February 23, 1870; became independent as South River on February 28, 1898), Helmetta (March 20, 1888), Milltown (January 29, 1889) and Spotswood (April 15, 1908).〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 170. Accessed June 11, 2012.〕 As of the 2010 Census, the Census Bureau calculated that New Jersey's center of population was located a few hundred feet east of Nenninger Lane, near the New Jersey Turnpike.〔Stirling, Stephen. ("U.S. Census shows East Brunswick as statistical center of N.J." ), ''The Star-Ledger'', March 31, 2011. Accessed July 14, 2011. "For any of you who have ever lain awake at night asking: Where, oh where is the statistical center of New Jersey, there really is an answer. Nenninger Lane, East Brunswick. A few hundred feet into the woods along tiny Nenninger, a dead-end road beside the New Jersey Turnpike, sits the heart of the Garden State in terms of population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau."〕 Based on the results of the 2000 Census, the state's center of population was located on Milltown Road in East Brunswick.〔("East Brunswick, N.J., Represents State's Population Center." ), ''The Star-Ledger'', March 27, 2001. Accessed September 17, 2007. "And the center of New Jersey, according to 2000 census data, is a litter-strewn patch of woods on Milltown Road in East Brunswick. Demographers call it the ''center of population,'' the place that would require the least amount of travel if all the state's 8.4 million residents were to converge on one spot.〕 ==History== The general area of central New Jersey was once occupied by the Lenape Native Americans. According to a 1677 bill of sale now in the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, Thomas Lawrence, a New York baker, purchased thousands of acres of land from local Native Americans named Querameck, Kesyacs, Isarick, Metapis, Peckawan, and Turantecas. In this document, the area is called Piscopeek, which later become known as Lawrence Brook, after its purchaser. Around the late 17th century, settlers began arriving in the northern part of East Brunswick, and by the mid-19th century, a small village had formed in the southeastern part, known as the Old Bridge section of the town, an area that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.〔Cheslow, Jerry. ("If You're Thinking of Living in: East Brunswick" ), ''The New York Times'', December 2, 1990. Accessed January 4, 2012. "The first settlers -- Dutch, English, Scots and Germans -- arrived in the 16th century, according to the East Brunswick Historical Society. One of them, Thomas Lawrence, bought several thousand acres from the Leni Lenape Indians to create a plantation in an area now known as Lawrence Brook, which is within walking distance of the park-and-ride operation at the Tower Center. The oldest homes are in a 126-acre historic district called Old Bridge, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Not to be confused with the nearby town of Old Bridge, the district arose next to the first bridge across the South River, which was used by early settlers to ship fruit and vegetables to New York City and Philadelphia."〕〔(History of East Brunswick ), East Brunswick Historical Society / Township of East Brunswick. Accessed January 4, 2012.〕 The area today known as East Brunswick was incorporated in 1860 from parts of North Brunswick and Monroe townships, including the community of Old Bridge.〔 Originally a farming community, suburban settlement started in the 1930s with improved road access. Large scale housing and road construction, especially after World War II, transformed East Brunswick into a more suburban community. The extension of the New Jersey Turnpike to East Brunswick in 1952 led to a sharp spike in population growth, with the 1950 Census population of 5,699 more than tripling to 19,965 as of the 1960 enumeration.〔 In the early 1970s a citizens group Concerned Citizens of East Brunswick sued the New Jersey Turnpike Authority over a proposed major widening project. The citizens group effectively won this case gaining concessions in turnpike design, scale and mitigation measures for noise and air quality. The citizens group presented technical data from their own experts and prevailed in what was one of the earliest technical confrontations regarding urban highway design related to environmental factors in U.S. history.〔Ladeda, James. ("COMPROMISE SETTLES SUIT OVER WIDENING OF TURNPIKE" ), copy of article from ''The Star-Ledger'' at the New Jersey Historical Society, January 29, 1972. Accessed January 4, 2012.〕 East Brunswick was also the site of the gunfight at Turnpike exit 9 shortly after midnight on May 2, 1973, in which a car being driven by Zayd Malik Shakur (born James F. Costan), with Assata Shakur (formerly JoAnne Chesimard) and Sundiata Acoli (born Clark Squire) as passengers, was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle. After Zayd Shakur was asked to step out of the car to address a discrepancy in his identification, a shootout ensued in which Trooper Foerster was shot twice in the head with his own gun and killed, Zayd Shakur was killed, and both Assata Shakur and Trooper Harper were wounded.〔via Associated Press. ("Man Arrested In Slaying of Trooper" ), ''The Morning Record'', May 4, 1973. 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