Daily NewspapersThe Asbury Park Press - 732.922.6000Neptune - www.injersey.com The Home News & Tribune 732.246.5500East Brunswick - www.injersey.com The Star Ledger 973.877.4241Newark - www.nj.comThe Times Trenton - 609.396.3232

Radio Stations

WDVR 89.7 FM, WHWH 1350 AM
WKXW 101.5 FM, WNJO 94.5 FM
WMGQ 98.3 FM, WCTC 1450 AM
WPRB 103.3 FM, WPST 97.5 FM

Cable Television

Cable Television Network of New Jersey Trenton - 609.392.4360
Cablevision of Raritan Valley - 583.0606, 548.2400
Serves Dunellen, Edison, Highland Park, Metuchen, Middlesex, Milltown, New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Piscataway, South Amboy and Sayreville
Comcast Cablevision - 238.3300, 800.982.5590
Serves Cranbury, East Brunswick, Helmetta, Monroe Twp., Plainsboro, So. Brunswick, & Spotswood

Major International Airports

Newark International Airport
(20 miles from central Middlesex County)
John F. Kennedy International Airport
(50 miles from central Middlesex County)
Philadelphia International Airport
(65 miles from central Middlesex County)

Public Transit Lines

AMTRAK - 800.872.7275
NJ Transit (bus and rail) - 800.772.2222
Suburban Transit (bus) - 800.872.7245
Academy Lines (bus) - 800.624.0316
Metropark Parking Facility
(Commuter Parking Lot with direct access to Amtrak and NJ Transit rail services)

Utilities

Elizabethtown
Gas Company - 800.289.6400
Elizabethtown Water Company - 908.654.1234
GPU - 800.662.3115
Middlesex Water Company - 732.634.1500
Milltown Municipal Electric Co. - 732.828.2100
PSE&G - 826.7000
So. River Municipal Electric Co. - 732.257.1200

Economy

• 2nd among U.S. metropolitan areas in 1997 for Median Household Effective Buying Income by Sales and Marketing Management Magazine;
  
• 1st in the state in total value added by manufacturing, value of shipments, new capital ventures;
  
• 2nd in retail sales, volume of wholesale sales, number of manufacturing employees and payroll, completed housing units;
  
• 1st in square feet of office space authorized by building permits;
  
• 4th in volume of receipts;
  
• 4th in number of manufacturing establishments, volume of receipts from manufacturing.
  Source: Middlesex County Office of Economic Dev.

Health Care facilities (# of hospital beds)

• JFK Medical Center (Edison) 501
  
• Raritan Bay Medical Center (Old Bridge) 110
  
• Raritan Bay Medical Center (Perth Amboy) 395
  
• R.W. Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick) 448
  
• St. Peter's University Hospital (New Brunswick) 420

Education

• Approximately 100,000 primary and secondary school students
  
• 5 County vocational-technical schools
  
• Over 70 parochial and private schools

Colleges 

• Middlesex County College - Edison
  
• Princeton University - Forestal Campus (Plainsboro)
  
• Rutgers, The State University
  (New Brunswick, Piscataway)
  
• University of Medicine and Dentistry (New Brunswick)
  
• DeVry University (North Brunswick)