Nassau Hall has housed its share of independent thinkers. For a few tumultuous months in 1783, Princeton University’s oldest building was home to the entire U.S. government, and the Continental Congress once convened in its second-floor library....
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When Clement Price, a historian and distinguished professor at Rutgers University’s Newark campus, was quoted in an Esquire story about Newark Mayor Cory Booker last year, writer Scott Raab introduced the charismatic 63-year-old as “what passeth for God in this city, in terms of his omniscience.”...
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Jack Morey can hardly stop enthusing about the new sign at the Boardwalk terminus of Rio Grande Avenue. In 1950s-stylized letters, two-stories high, it reads, “Wildwoods” and in its foreground are a dozen brightly colored beachballs....
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With a new stadium at the Meadowlands inching closer to completion, a state-of-the-art training facility in Florham Park recently finished, and a pivotal game with conference rival New England looming the next day, Robert Wood Johnson IV, owner of the New York Jets, was talking insouciantly about trees....
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“This is your time,” the Reverend Reginald T. Jackson told 150 congregants at Orange’s St. Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church on a sunny Sunday in late October—a message that resonated with those filling the pews just nine days before the country would elect Barack Obama as its first black president....
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How do you become a star in the state’s Republican Party—spearheading John McCain’s presidential campaign here, serving two terms in the Assembly and one in the state Senate, and landing a seat on the powerful Judiciary Committee—by the time you’re 36?...
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On Super Bowl Sunday, 100 million Americans will watch the NFL and Madison Avenue play for all the marbles. In his new book, Allen St. John explains why. ...
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The starting point is London, England. The destination is Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The goal is to raise money for charity and go on the adventure of a lifetime....
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Christine Truhe’s son, Michael Aros-Truhe, a specialist in the Army, shipped out to Iraq in 2004. The Summit woman recognized right away she was going to need support....
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Naturi Naughton’s first impulse when she snared the role of Lil’ Kim in the upcoming biopic Notorious was to get in touch with the rapper and paramour of the slain hip-hop star Notorious B.I.G., the film’s title character. Lil’ Kim wanted none of it....
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jonathan rosenberg made millions in the first dotcom boom and cashed out to build a heaven-on-earth for seriously ill cats. ...
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Judith Bokman founded the Standardbred Retirement Foundation to save retired harness racing horses from the slaughterhouse. ...
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On TV's Man Caves, ex-NFL star Tony Siragusa builds palatial playpens for hubbies pushed to the home decor sidelines. ...
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ayna agarwal is not your average teenager. At 16, agarwal is the international outreach coordinator for the Teen Advisory Board of the United States Humane Society and has started two organizations of her own. ...
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Trenton-born Judith Light is helping AIDS victims—and helping herself to a hit TV show....
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