Overview
Congregation Poile Zedek is an Orthodox Ashkenazic synagogue located in New Brunswick. In 1995 our beautiful building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. We offer daily morning, Shabbat and holiday services, and are committed to Torah education and community service. Please join us. Poile Zedek is located in the renovated historic Hiram Square district of downtown New Brunswick, in the heart of New Jersey. We are just down the street from the Hyatt Hotel, which is at the corner of Albany Street (Route 27) and Neilson Street, just opposite Johnson and Johnson's international headquarters and only a few blocks from Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Hospital and St. Peter's Medical Center, and the New Brunswick Train Station. We are a short 5 minute walk into Highland Park with its several shuls, mikvos and kosher eateries.
Rutgers Students
We cordially welcome all Rutgers students to attend our events. Students consistently attend both our morning and Shabbos services and learn with the Rabbi. Many also come for the holiday services and meals provided by the synagogue. We are serviced by the Rutgers bus system and within walking distance from both the College Ave and Cook/Douglass campuses.
New Brunswick Development Corporation
New Brunswick Development Corporation (Devco) is a tax-exempt urban real estate development company created in the mid-1970's to initiate redevelopment projects and to serve as the vehicle for public and private investment in the City of New Brunswick.
Since its inception, Devco has overseen more than $1.6 billion in investment to aid in New Brunswick's economic revitalization. Currently, Devco has under development approximately 2.5 million square feet of redevelopment projects, representing more than $450 million of new investment.
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Museum Hours:
| Tuesday - Friday: | 10:00am-4:30pm |
| Weekends: | Noon-5:00pm |
| Closed: | Mondays; all year, Tuesdays in July. Closed month of August. |
| Holidays: | Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Thursday & Friday, December 25, January 1 |
Admission:
$3.00 per person for adults who are not members of the museum. Entrance to the museum is free at all times for members, all children under 18, and Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff with a valid I.D. In addition, the first Sunday of each month will be free to all. Â
New Brunswick City Market
New Brunswick, New Jersey is a vibrant city of 50,000 residents, a number that triples during the business day with college students, corporate and business employees, hospital and health care workers and visitors. It is a community with richly diverse neighborhoods, a bustling downtown, and an innovative and popular cultural arts center.
Within a few city blocks converge Johnson & Johnson's world headquarters, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, the country's largest medical school, two premiere academic hospitals, three professional theaters, several four-star restaurants, and two four-star hotels.
On behalf of New Brunswick City Market, Inc., the nonprofit corporation serving as the management company for New Brunswick's Special Improvement District (SID), we welcome you to explore our city.
Ancestry.com - New Brunswick
CityTownInfo.com - New Brunswick
The city of New Brunswick is the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey. Situated on the banks of the Raritan River in central New Jersey, New Brunswick sits 31 miles southwest of New York City and only 20 miles south of Newark International Airport. Another large city not too far away is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (about 60 miles to the southwest). The city is serviced by the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) and U.S. Routes 1, 18 and 27. New Brunswick is the home of Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey.
First settled by non-natives in the late 1600s, New Brunswick was originally called Prigmore's Swamp and later Inian's Ferry. Its present name was derived from the English royal house of Brunswick. Incorporated as a town in 1736 and chartered as a city in 1784, New Brunswick served as an early hub for Colonial travelers and traders and later became an important center of industry and commerce. Rutgers University, founded in the city in 1766, was the eighth college to be established in the colonies and the only state university to have existed before the Revolutionary War. In 1885, the Johnson brothers located their adhesive tape and gauze business in an old mill in the city, marking the beginnings of Johnson & Johnson, today the world's largest health care products manufacturer and still headquartered in downtown New Brunswick.
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