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New Brunswick is the county seat of Middlesex County in central New Jersey, located 33 miles southwest of Manhattan on the Raritan River and serving as a major NJ Transit Northeast Corridor hub within the New York metropolitan area. With a 2020 census population of 55,266 - its highest ever - and an estimated 57,487 residents in 2024, it ranks as the 713th-most populous U.S. municipality and functions as both a college town home to Rutgers University's main campus and a regional commercial center. Known as the "Hub City" and "Healthcare City," New Brunswick hosts major medical institutions including Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Saint Peter's University Hospital, plus global pharmaceutical headquarters for Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb. The city, first settled by Europeans in 1681 and incorporated as a town in 1736, was named after the German city of Braunschweig to honor King George I of Great Britain, and witnessed an early public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776. New Brunswick is noted for its historic ethnic diversity, once housing one-quarter of New Jersey's Hungarian population, and continues developing into a major center for sciences, arts, and cultural activities with a growing downtown skyline. Toms River is a township on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, New Jersey, serving as the county seat and comprising a census-designated place that was officially renamed in a 2006 referendum from the Township of Dover. As of the 2020 census, it was New Jersey's eighth-most-populous municipality with 95,438 residents, marking its highest decennial count and a 4.6% increase from 2010. The township has featured prominently in popular culture, including MTV's Jersey Shore seasons 1, 3, and 5, HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and The Amityville Horror movie, while the Toms River East Little League won the Little League World Series in 1998 and the township hosts what is said to be the world's second-largest Halloween parade. Historically, Toms River was incorporated as Dover Township in 1798 and became Ocean County's seat in 1850, having served as a center for shipbuilding, whaling, and fishing during the 19th century and housing a strategically important salt works during the American Revolutionary War. The township was ranked as the 14th and 15th safest city in the United States in 2007 and 2006, respectively, and functions as a bedroom suburb and regional commercial hub for the New York metropolitan area. Perth Amboy is a city in northeastern Middlesex County, New Jersey, within the New York metropolitan area, with a 2020 population of 55,436 and a predominantly Hispanic population. Known as the "City by the Bay" for its location on Raritan Bay, the city was settled by Scottish colonists in 1683 as "New Perth" in honor of James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, and received a Royal charter in 1718. Perth Amboy served as the capital of East Jersey from 1686 and alternated with Burlington as capital of the Province of New Jersey until Trenton was designated the unified state capital in 1790. The city's historic waterfront features the Perth Amboy Ferry Slip, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and the Proprietary House, home of the last Royal Governor of New Jersey William Franklin, designed by architect John Edward Pryor and completed in 1764. Perth Amboy has transformed from a mid-19th century Industrial Revolution hub and Raritan Bayshore resort into a modern city with redevelopment efforts beginning in the 1990s.