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All in the Family (Business), 6; Trader Joe’s Up Close, 27;
Springsteen’s ‘Big Man’, 33; Google’s Princeton Tie, 55.
Start Your Weekend Early:
Gina Fox sings jazz on October 21
at Forrestal Village’s Salt Creek Grille.
Event listings, page 26.
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Opportunities
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Singles
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Jobs
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Open Space & Family
Memories: Vote ‘Yes’
To Preserve Both
than we do at our homes, we
looked forward to Barbara Fox’s
in-depth story of a new building
faced with two daunting tasks:
By Jennifer Coffey
First, to be on the cutting edge of
environmentally friendly office
all is a time for family.
design; and second, to accommoMaybe
it’s the anticipation of Haldate a group of Princeton University administrators who literally loween or looking forward to the
were being asked to leave the ivy- warmth that Thanksgiving brings,
covered halls of academe and but the colorful leaves, school acmove into new quarters in the cor- tivities and time outdoors makes
fall the perfect time for family
porate world next door.
Turn to page 10 for that story memories.
It’s fitting then that this Novemand to page 11 for listings of severber
New Jersey voters have an opal hundred commercial real estate
portunity to make a lasting investspaces currently for rent or sale.
So how is that real estate market ment in their family’s health, hapdoing? We read with interest an piness, and financial well being by
October 19 release from Cushman voting “yes” on ballot question #1.
& Wakefield, which sponsored a New Jersey’s only state ballot
question this year asks
panel of experts to advoters to renew the
dress that question.
Between
Garden State PreservaJames Hughes, dean of
tion Trust (GSPT).
The
the Bloustein School of
Through the GSPT,
Planning and Public
Lines
New Jersey has investPolicy at Rutgers, comed more than $2 billion
mented that “the freefall of housing starts has been ar- to preserve parks and recreational
rested, and there has been an and natural areas, our water
uptick in both housing starts and sources, farmland and historic
home sales. We’re still in a hole, sites.
The GSPT is successful bebut those are a couple of ‘green
cause it matches funds from counshoots’ that we’ve seen.”
Ken McCarthy, director of re- ty and local open space funds. Tosearch at Cushman, noted that, day all GSPT funds have been al“while we are seeing a slow grind located. Without support from
lower, the New Jersey commercial New Jersey voters to renew it, land
market is comparatively stable. I preservation in the New Jersey
believe we will see more compa- will virtually stop.
Yes, financial times are tough,
nies taking advantage of lower
rents to lock in long-term deals, but that is the reason we need to
make smart investments in our fuwhich will help the recovery.”
ture now.
Correction: In the October 14
When I was a child, I fell madly,
article on collaborative law, the Etruly, deeply in love with New Jermail contact for attorney Risa
sey. Our family vacationed at the
Kleiner was misprinted. The correct E-mail address is risa@Continued on page 4
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Aegis Properties, 10;
Bloomberg, 22; Bohren’s, 22;
Boston Properties, 10; Deloitte,
50; Gibbons P.C., 5; Global Engineering & Materials, 54; Google
Inc., 55.
Hunterdon Chamber, 8;
KlingStubbins, 10; KSS Architects,
10; McCann & Associates, 6;
Memory Arts, 57; Mikros Systems,
55; Mount Sainai Hospital, 8; NRG
Energy, 22.
Ocean Power Technologies,
55; Orchid Cellmark, 55; Pfizer,
55; Princeton University, 10, 55;
Princeton University Press, 10;
Rutgers University, 58; Soligenix,
56; T&M Associates, 10; Teknion,
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lot of great family memories.
Whether traveling through South
Jersey on our annual “dad and
daughter” crabbing and fishing
trip, or hiking on our favorite nature trail, New Jersey’s preserved
natural areas left lasting impressions on this Philly girl’s formative
years.
Fifteen years ago, I chose to
make New Jersey my home. And
now I am proud to work for an organization that protects clean water and healthy habitats in New Jersey and to support this year’s state
ballot question to renew funding
for open space preservation.
Land preservation in New Jersey is a wise investment. It is good
for our health and our wallets.
It protects our clean drinking
water sources from pollution and
the higher cost of treatment needed
if contaminated. Preservation supports our agricultural and tourism
industries. The GSPT gives
landowners the opportunity to
choose preservation rather than development when they need to sell
their land. In the most populated
state in the nation, our open spaces
also provide respite, recreation,
and beauty through natural hiking
and wildlife areas, baseball fields,
and the views of wide-open farms.
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greater than the taxes paid by new
development, and so, everyone’s
tax burden increases in that community. When land is preserved,
there is no additional cost to communities, but there are numerous
benefits.
On this Election Day, I urge you
to vote yes on the state ballot question, titled Green Acres, Water
Supply and Floodplain Protection,
NJ’s only state ballot
question this year
asks voters to renew
the Garden State
Preservation Trust
and Farmland and Historic Preservation Act of 2009. A “yes” vote
would allow the state to bond for
up to $400 million, which would
cost approximately $10 annually
per household. A recent analysis
found that this initiative would
protect approximately 73,500
acres of land and yield $10 in economic value for every $1 invested.
For more than 50 years, New
Jersey voters have supported land
preservation because they understand that a New Jersey that fails to
plan for its future is planning for
failure. Our prior investments have
made significant strides in protecting our clean drinking water, supporting agriculture and tourism two of our largest industries - and
in providing passive, active, and
historical recreation opportunities.
There is, however, much more to
do.
It is my hope that this fall, we all
recognize the importance and impact of the last 50 years of open
space investments when we enjoy
pumpkins, apples, and mums from
local preserved farms, when we
watch our kids play soccer in the
local preserved park, when we
gaze at the warm autumn colors of
the tress that have been protected
along our scenic byways, and when
we take that last fishing trip of the
season. And then, I hope that on
Thanksgiving, we can all give
thanks that we have once again
chosen to support what we love
about New Jersey by voting “yes”
on Election Day this November 3.
Jennifer Coffey is policy director for the Stony Brook-Millstone
Watershed Association, central
New Jersey’s first environmental
group. The association protects
clean water and the environment
through conservation, advocacy,
science, and education and is one
of the 135 organizations participating in the Keep It Green Coalition for renewal of the Garden
State Preservation Trust on the November 3 ballot. www.njkeepitgreen.org.
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Wednesday, October 21
Commercial Realty:
Only for the Brave
B
uying distressed commercial mortgage debt is not for the
faint of heart. Nor is it for the inexperienced, the risk-averse, or those
with shallow pockets. At the same
time, the current economic disturbances have created a treasure
trove of potential investment opportunities.
Distressed commercial mortgage debt is a more descriptive way
of saying that commercial mortgage loans are non-performing,
that is, they are in default or about
to be in default. Either the borrowers are not making monthly payments or the loans are not being
paid by the borrowers when they
come due and there is no way for
the borrowers to refinance the
loans.
Sometimes the source of distressed debt is just a bad market.
The developers of renovated Gold
Coast condos in Hoboken are unable to keep up with their loans because people have been walking
away from $50,000 deposits in order to avoid paying $750,000 for a
condo that has seen its value slip
significantly. Similarly, new or redone office buildings or industrial
sites must be leased at rentals that
are high enough for the developer
to repay loans.
As difficult as distressed debt is
for the borrower and the banks, it
might offer an opportunity to buy
assets at a good price. “The price
paid for distressed debt is always at
a substantial discount from the face
value of the obligation,” says Russ
Bershad, co-chair of the real property and environmental department
at Gibbons, a 230-attorney law
firm with offices in Newark, Trenton, New York, and Philadelphia.
To offer a loan of $10 million,
says Bershad, the original lender
had to believe the property was
worth about $12.5 million, or
would be worth that when it was
developed or improved. If the loan
is distressed and a purchaser acquires it for $7 million, the property likely will go through foreclosure, and the purchaser will likely
end up owning a piece of real estate
worth substantially more than the
purchaser paid to acquire the loan.
Bershad will speak on “Financing and Buying Distressed Debt” at
the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education on
Wednesday, October 21, at 9 a.m.
at the Renaissance Woodbridge
Hotel. Bershad’s presentation is
part of a day-long forum on commercial real estate. Other topics
covered include “Common Interest
Ownership” by Christine Li;
“Construction and Site Development” by Charles Kenny; “Bankruptcy and Foreclosure” by Ira
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Russell Bershad
says dealing in commercial properties is
risky and rewarding.
Vast quantities of bad commercial mortgage debt still exist on the
books of banks, Bershad says, but
the banks have not been very willing to sell over the past year, even
as his firm has begun to see clients
and service providers looking to
buy distressed debt.
Bershad understands banks’ reluctance.The primary problem for
them is, had they sold these properties they would have had to take a
hit immediately on their books.
If, after all, a loan for $10 million were sold for $7 million, there
would be a $3 million loss on their
books.
However, with a change in accounting rules this year that lifted
the rules that require banks to value
assets at prices reflecting current
market conditions, the banks can
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rebound. Additionally, says Bershad, “there has been a lot of hope
that if things were really bad, there
would be a government program
that would take debt off their hands
at a minor discount or close to par.”
But banks are beginning to sell
some of their bad debt. “The reason
is that they have a ton of these assets and have to do something,”
says Bershad. “They can’t hold on
to them indefinitely, and banks are
in much better shape so they can
handle more of a gradual release of
debt into the marketplace.”
Despite the investment potential
that this distressed debt represents,
Bershad warns interested parties
about what it takes to succeed with
this type of investment:
Possess sufficient know how.
Banks that sell distressed loans
proceed very quickly — usually
they prefer that less than a month
between the time they decide to
sell to when they get paid. “Banks
offer a loan or portfolio to a select,
capable purchaser or to bidding
among several bidders,” says Bershad. “They are expected to evaluate a portfolio, make bids, make a
decision, enter into a contract, and
close very quickly.”
Although potential buyers may
do some due diligence before mak-
ing a bid, they are usually given
greater access to information in the
bank’s files during and after the
bidding process, says Bershad.
Most lenders require buyers to enter into a confidentiality agreement
restricting the buyer from speaking
to the borrower or third parties
about the loan or the mortgaged
property.
Understand potential risks.
One potential risk is of litigation
that might be in process. “If the
bank is in a suit with the borrower,
that’s a whole other level of involvement if you are the loan purchaser — because you’ll step into
the bank’s shoes and have to continue the litigation,” says Bershad.
Sometimes the
source of distressed
debt is just a bad
market. Sometimes,
it’s bad decisions.
Although the borrower will often
assert some defenses, for example,
wrongful conduct on the part of the
lender, these rarely succeed, he
adds.
Another risk is that the borrower
will file for bankruptcy — his last
defense when a mortgage foreclo-
sure sale is imminent. Although the
lender can usually complete the
foreclosure, it inevitably takes
longer.
Following a bankruptcy filing,
an automatic stay goes into effect,
and can only be lifted by the bankruptcy court. Bankruptcy proceedings may also wrest control of the
assets from the lender. “If the property has equity,” says Bershad,
“then there is a chance that the
bankruptcy court will appoint a
trustee whose job is to take over the
property and find a way to sell it
and repay all the debt.”
If you’re lender, he explains,
you would prefer not to have
trustee, who will slow things
down. Rather, you would prefer to
complete foreclosure and sell the
property quickly instead.
Possess skills in commercial
real estate. Because one of the
ways a purchaser of distressed
commercial mortgage debt can
make money is by acquiring property in foreclosure, you have to
know how to deal with the distressed asset if you end up owning
it, says Bershad. “If it is being
built, you have to complete construction; if it is raw land, it needs
approvals; if it a condo and only
half sold, you have to know you
can revitalize a project that has a
stigma attached to it.”
Other problems that might accompany distressed real estate are
environmental issues or structural
problems with a building.
Be credible. A potential buyer
will need to have credibility with
the bank and have access to the
hefty sum necessary to buy the distressed debt. “They don’t want
people who will waste their time,”
says Bershad.
Bershad graduated in 1973 from
the University of Pennsylvania
with a bachelor’s in history, and
from Rutgers law school in 1977.
He was a clerk in the appellate
division, then worked for a couple
of years in a small firm in Cherry
Hill. He moved to Gibbons in
1982, where his expertise is in the
buying, selling, financing, leasing,
and redevelopment of commercial
real estate. He has served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University Law School, teaching real
estate financing.
Bershad’s wife, Sharon Wynn,
practices commercial real estate
law at Stark and Stark. They are
long time residents of Hopewell
Township.
The bottom line for investors in
distressed commercial mortgage
debt is that buyers need to be people who have built and sold similar
projects in the past. “This isn’t a
game to be played by an amateur,”
says Bershad. “There’s a reason
why the original developers of the
project went into a default. There
are a lot of profits to be made, but
only by those who are capable.”
— Michele Alperin
Thursday, October 22
Next Generation
Family Business
W
hen Greg McCann was
growing up in Pittsburgh he remembers waking up early on Saturday mornings, pulling his wagon
down the snow-covered streets,
and delivering fresh doughnuts
from his father’s shop. The gig
seemed like a lot of fun, until he
would return to the shop, and his
father would make him clean out
the doughnut fryer.
“It doesn’t really make you want
to have a doughnut,” he says. “I
probably have one doughnut a year
now. But it taught me what it means
to be a member of a family business.”
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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Generation: Its Eight Biggest
Challenges” Thursday, October
22, at 8:30 a.m. at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Rothman Institute for Entrepreneurship in Madison. The
lecture is free, but registration is required. Call 973-443-8842.
Ever since McCann was a child,
the former college professor and
entrepreneurial consultant says,
his father has run several businesses. “Everything from restaurants to
hospitals,” he says. His mother
helped out with all aspects of the
various businesses, but her main title, he jokes, was CEO, or “chief
emotional officer.”
“Over the years, all of us worked
at one of the businesses,” McCann
says. “It taught me a lot.”
McCann went on to earn a bachelor’s in accounting from Stetson
University in Florida and a law degree from the University of Florida. In addition to being a certified
public accountant, he is a tenured
professor of business law and family business at Stetson, where he
founded the Family Enterprise
Center and served as its director
from 1998 to 2006. Currently, he is
the academic coordinator of the
family business curriculum.
In 2000 he founded his own
company, the Florida-based McCann & Associates Consulting,
where he works with family businesses in several areas, including
succession, communication, conflict resolution, gender issues, and
development of the next generation.
The challenges. The eight challenges facing the next generation,
according to McCann, are: establishing credibility, determining
your future, taking ownership and
gaining professional development;
applying intelligence and managing wealth and power; maintaining
marketability; and utilizing objective feedback.
With managing wealth and
power, it’s crucial to be a steward
of the family’s wealth, McCann
says, rather than a consumer of it.
You must use profits to develop
yourself and others, rather than to
finance an extravagant lifestyle.
And with marketability, it’s important that the next generation of
family business owners continually work to improve their skills, or
they risk getting trapped in the
“golden handcuffs,” a term used
when family members are under-
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qualified or overcompensated for
their positions.
“The most miserable people
I’ve seen are the 30-year-olds who
got a B average in college and were
hired as a charity by their parents,”
McCann says. “They’re overpaid,
underqualified, and feel trapped
because they can’t compete with
other employees. That corrupts the
person, the business, and the family’s reputation.”
Tackling the challenges. Of the
eight challenges, establishing
credibility and utilizing positive
feedback are the two that young
adults need to address early on in
their careers, particularly if they
want to be a help, not a detriment,
to their family business.
Credibility is weighted on internal and external levels. For example, developing self-confidence is
an internal barometer, while paying attention to how other people
view and validate your abilities is
an external barometer. Both are
needed for business owners to succeed, McCann says.
To establish credibility, it’s important to glean and utilize objective feedback from a mentor or
even well-respected employees.
This will help the next generation
recognize both their strengths and
Next Steps: Greg
McCann says family
businesses need to
take an objective look
at themselves.
weaknesses, as well as avoid a
sense of entitlement, which “is the
fastest way to erode your character,” McCann says.
“There is such a tendency with
people in power to not give that objective feedback,” he says. “It’s
like driving your car with the dashboard covered. You don’t get the
feedback on how the system is
working. With objective feedback,
you can prevent future problems.”
Consequences. Failing to address any of the challenges, or ignoring them altogether, could have
a damaging domino effect, both for
the next generation and the family
business, McCann says.
“The challenges can be managed. We all have blind spots. But
if you aren’t aware of your blind
spots, it could derail your career
and your business,” he says. “The
consequences are that you don’t
raise a healthy adult, and you don’t
create a legitimate employee.”
One way to avoid the consequences, McCann says, is to determine your future and develop a life
Trenton Small Business Week
October 19-23, 2009
“Building Business in a New Economy”
• Network with the cream
of the Greater Mercer County
business community
• Win prizes
• Have fun!
Plan now to attend! For a full schedule of the week-long activities,
sponsorship opportunities and to register, visit www.smallbizweek.com
or call 609-771-2947.
(All events are free unless otherwise noted.)
EVENT SPONSORS
The City of Trenton
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Friday, October 23
Hunterdon County
Chamber Unveils
Growth Board
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• Learn new business concepts
• Refresh old ones
• Meet state-of-the arts vendors
plan, or script, that charts the
course you plan to follow. This will
help the next generation of business owners become active players
in their lives and careers.
“Less than 3 percent of adults
have any written life goals, so this
is a powerful way to become a part
of that small number and grow
your family business,” McCann
says. “It’s taking ownership and responsibility for your life.”
— Kristin Boyd
BUSINESS SPONSORS
ACT Engineers, Inc.
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Credit Union of New Jersey
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Latino Chamber of Commerce
Leewood Real Estate Group
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Roma Federal Savings
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The DeRosa Group
The Fourth Estate
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Hunterdon
County
Chamber of Commerce is launching a new development program
called the Growth Board, designed
to “help small business owners
who want to take advantage of peer
advice, shared best practices, and
new marketing techniques,” according to chamber president
Chris Phelan.
John Hyman, a business coach
with 30 years of experience in marketing, sales, product development, and retail management, will
manage the program.
The Growth Board will leverage
the experiences of individual
members to help each make better
decisions in order to survive the recession and take advantage of the
unique business opportunities a
downturn can present, Phelan says.
“The small business people I
deal with are all incredibly smart,”
says Hyman. “They all work incredible hours. Over time, the
thing that will set some of them
apart and really make the difference between being profitable and
not will be the quality of the decisions they make.”
Hyman says the Growth Board
will look for ways to maximize
each other’s profitability, grow
sales, improve marketing efforts,
and generate quality leads and
word-of-mouth referrals.”
The Hunterdon Chamber of
Commerce will host a free informational meeting on Friday, October 23, at 8 a.m. at its offices in Liberty Village in Flemington. Visit
www.hunterdon-chamber.org, or
call 908-782-7115.
Saturday, October 24
Never Forget a Name
T
he networking event is bigger than you expected. You’re suddenly standing in a room full of
strangers, most of whom will want
to introduce themselves to you.
And you’re awful at remembering
names.
Or so you think. The truth, says
Cynthia Green, a staff doctor at
Mount
Sainai
Hospital’s
Alzheimer’s Disease Center in
New York, consultant, and author,
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Temporary & Virtual Offices: A Smart Alternative
by Troels E. Christensen
T
emporary or virtual office
space is a smart alternative to the high cost of doing business in a standard commercial office. It’s also the
cheapest way to launch, expand
or downsize a business in a
tough economy. Also known as
executive suites, fully-equipped
temporary offices are located in
modern office buildings in business hubs around the world.
They provide office space,
shared reception areas, conference rooms, and professional
business services, including receptionist and secretarial services, telephone answering, mail
forwarding, Internet access and
a prestigious address.
A virtual office is a place in cyberspace but your phone number, mailing address and business services are right down-toearth in the same center that offers the elegantly furnished executive suites. The fastest-growing segment of the temporary office market, virtual offices save
on energy costs, car mileage and
time spent commuting.
Executive suites and virtual
offices make financial and operational sense. Start a new business, downsize, expand, open a
branch, host a meeting, take on
a temporary project, conduct a
job search, or make a business
trip more productive.
Ten reasons why temporary &
virtual offices can cut costs, save
time, and provide a professional
image:
1. No big cash outlay. No
lengthy leases, payroll costs or
investments in equipment or utilities. Pay just for the business
services you use.
2. Open in an Instant. Your
executive suite or virtual office
can be ready to go at the turn of
a key or the click of a mouse.
3. Rentals are flexible. Executive office suites can be rented
is not that you can’t remember anyone’s name, it’s that you’re not really acquiring it in the first place.
Green will be the keynote
speaker at the Princeton Senior Resource Center’s free “Health Brain,
Healthy Memory” conference on
Saturday, October 24, at 8:30 a.m.
at the center, 45 Stockton Street.
Call 609-924-7108 or visit
http://princetonsenior.org.
The trouble with learning new
information, especially names,
says Green, is that it becomes “a
pop quiz for your brain.” Information comes at you unexpectedly
and suddenly, is said quickly, and is
offered to you while any number of
other things are going on around
you. In this environment, she says,
the information, even when it’s as
simple as a name, is not getting
through. When it comes time to recall the information, it just isn’t
there.
A good trick? Assign the person’s name to something. “You can
say, ‘Mort — like my friend’s father,’ or ‘Mort, like Morton’s
Salt,’” Green says. “Or you can
make up a little story — ‘Mort likes
salt.’ It sounds silly, but it actually
works really well.”
One of the most common problems Green finds in business circles is the recall of names, she says.
She often lectures on the topic for
companies that want to keep their
first-name-basis style of business
working during periods of growth.
She cites an aviation company for
by the day; week or month.
There’s no long-term lease to
sign.
4. Offices are fully furnished and equipped with all
the business basics — phone,
fax, Internet connection.
5. Expand your global
reach. With a virtual office,
businesses can have an office
in New York or New Delhi with
a prominent address, telephone answering and mail forwarding service — for as little as
$90 per month.
6. Prestigious Address. With
a virtual or temporary office,
companies have an address in a
top business hub, from Midtown
Manhattan to Paris or London.
7. Equipment at your fingertips. No need to invest in computers, copiers, broadband connections, fax and phone.
8. No payroll to meet. Your
receptionist and secretarial staff
are part of the package.
9. Concentrate on running
your business. Phone answering, mail handling, photocopying,
word processing and more are
handled by the staff, leaving you
free to grow your company.
10. Establish a professional
image. Running your business
from a poorly-equipped home office or a table at Starbucks won’t
provide the credibility and professionalism you need to succeed.
Troels Christensen is president of Princeton City-Office, an
international leader in providing
temporary office and meeting
space, comprehensive business
services and virtual office space.
Located at 5 Independence Way
in the Princeton Corporate Center on US Route, Princeton CityOffice has top-notch technical facilities, a professional staff, international management and affiliates in New York, Chicago and
Europe, Princeton City-Office of-
which she consulted that during the
1990s grew fourfold in only a few
years. The company’s calling card
was its ability to know its customers intimately, but as growth
occurred, it became harder to know
everyone’s name. “It’s a very common thing,” she says.
Memory loss vs. brain health.
In our professional and personal
lives, we all have a lot going on. We
are, says Green, “pulled in a million directions all the time.”
The result is frustration and moments of forgetfulness that make us
think we are losing our memories,
she says. But, like learning a new
name, we are more lacking in our
ability to pay attention than forgetting.
As we age, our brains do
change, Green says, and memory
loss does happen, but the good
news is that we can exercise our
brains (and bodies) to keep such
deterioration at bay.
Green, who grew up in North
Carolina, was very close to both
her grandmothers and became interested in gerontology and aging
early on. One of the characteristics
of people of her grandparents’ generation, and even that of her parents, is that many of those people
saw dementia as an inevitable fact
of getting old.
Not so, Green says. “We need to
have overall brain health, the ability for our brain to be plastic in its
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to phone, fax and
business services,
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
Making Carnegie Compete with the Campus
Y
by Barbara Figge Fox
Of course the workers weren’t
ou’re a programmer, or
really
going to have any choice,
you’re an accountant, and you’re
told the office is moving out to and in this job market who’s going
Route 1 to a brand new four-story to quit? Still, their bosses were a bit
building in the Carnegie Center. worried.
The stakes were high, admits
What’s not to like?
Mark
Burstein, executive vice
Potentially, plenty, if you are ensconced in the middle of the president. Moving administrators
Princeton University campus, with off campus to preserve academic
your own closed-door office and and residential space does make
downtown is just a five-minute sense, and other universities have
walk away. What, move out of made similar moves, but this represented a lot of firsts. The first unitown? What, lose my privacy?
So Princeton University offi- versity-occupied building in West
cials were more than a little con- Windsor. The first deal with a comcerned about the employees’ reac- mercial landlord in a commercial
tions when they decided to move office park. It was also crucial to
280 people from two departments, get this one right, he says, because
information technology and fi- setting foot in West Windsor
nance/treasury, to a four-story changes “the mental map” of the
building, 701 Carnegie Center, be- institution.
The university hired its own extween Alexander Road and Marperts
to work alongside the landketFair. Yes, it would be spiffy and
new, purpose-built by Boston lord’s. Boston Properties assigned
Properties. Yes, with 120,000 KlingStubbins to design the buildsquare feet, it would assemble peo- ing and Torcon to do both construcple from many disparate offices. tion and tenant fit-out. BP hired
Yes, it would be beautifully de- T&M Associates to do site engisigned by KSS Architects and neering, and Alexander RoadKlingStubbins, with a ceremonial based AKF for the mechanical enstaircase and natural light pouring gineering. David Stewart was BP’s
project managinto the interior.
er, with Peter
It would even be
Clark and Ed
‘We
pushed
the
enveenvironmentalMcDonald the
ly friendly, enlope of what is a stanconstruction
gineered
to
dard
office
building,’
managers. In
qualify for a
turn, the unisays architect Klimek
Leadership in
versity hired
Energy and Enof the new Princeton
the
Withervironmental
University space.
spoon StreetDesign (LEED)
based KSS ArSilver certifichitects for the
cate.
But the workers would be giving interior design, Vanderweil for its
up their cozy ivy-covered enclaves engineering, and Bob Rittenhouse
for the sleek modernity of Corpo- of Aegis Properties as construction
rate America. Some would move manager. Jeremiah Stoldt was the
from Prospect Avenue, beyond the project manager.
Says Edmund Klimek of KSS
eating clubs. Some would move
Architects:
“We pushed the envefrom New South, the tall building
by the Dinky Station. Some from lope of what is a standard office
three buildings on Alexander building through our design approach and our work with the peoStreet, some from Nassau Hall.
And for those accustomed to ple who are to use the space. Naturworking in small buildings, the al light was a high priority for this
concept of 30,000 square feet of client. You couldn’t create a conspace on one floor can be daunting. tinuous light filled space in a cen(One floor at the 250-year-old Nas- tral campus environment.”
To entice the workers off camsau Hall, for instance, has 10,000
square feet.) If your old office has a pus, the university and the designdoor, and you are being told your ers offered a lot more handholding
new space will have five-foot or than even the most employee-censeven-foot walls, you realize you tric commercial company is likely
are losing some privacy. If, be- to provide. “Princeton was more
cause of the emphasis on natural sensitive than many corporate
light, your walls are going to be users in getting buy-in from their
glass, you might worry about pry- staff,” says Micky Landis, senior
ing eyes invading your work space. vice president and regional manag-
Photography by Frank Wojciechowski
er of Boston Properties. “They
have been all-inclusive about accepting input. Some companies
that we work with don’t have as
much sensitivity, but it pays off in
staff satisfaction and makes people
productive at work, when they are
part of the decision for what their
environment looks like.”
In the first year of planning the
IT department trouped off to New
York City to take a peek at how
“the other half” works in an open
floor plan. They inspected the
Hearst, New York Times, Google
and JWT offices and also went to
the showrooms of the furnishings
supplier, Teknion. Later, when it
was determined that the finance
and treasury group would also
move to 701, representatives from
that group were invited to visit
Teknion in New York or Philadel-
Welcoming Committee: Architects Sheila Nall
and Ed Klimek of KSS flank Bob Rittenhouse of
Aegis Group, the construction manager, as the
finishing touches are made for Princeton University’s move into 701 Carnegie Center.
phia plus some Princeton offices:
Novo Nordisk at 100 College
Road, Saul Ewing at 750 College
Road, Ironbound Capital at 902
Carnegie Center, and Princeton
University Press.
The meetings continued during
the eight month period for design
and documentation, and even during the two-plus years of construction. “I met with every single person,” says Betty Leydon, CIO and
vice president for information
technology. She held “Coffee Talks
with Betty,” to talk about potential
improvements in the work environment, about the process of the
move, and about any apprehensions. Meanwhile Sheila Nall, the
interior designer for KSS, also did
one on one consulting.
Overall the KSS architects did
many more renderings than are
usually required, and they even
constructed a prototype, in the
New Jersey is way ahead of the
rest of the nation in protecting the
environment, says Ed Klimek of
KSS: “Simply complying with the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection puts us in
LEED territory.”
— Barbara Figge Fox
Green Space: The
lawn doesn’t need
mowing, and the
parking lot welcomes
electric cars (and has
a handy outlet).
Eco-Friendly, From the Outside In
M
owing crews won’t be frequent visitors at the new 701
Carnegie Center building, nor will
planting crews. Instead of seasonal
flowers, the entrance features
LEED-friendly ornamental grasses
(Pennisetum alopecuroides, hybrid
“Hamelin” or Dwarf Fountain
Grass) that will grow 18 to 20 inches tall.
These native plants are drought
tolerant, grow quickly, are deer resistant, and have no serious pest or
disease issues, says Jeff Bottger,
group manager of landscape architecture at T&M Associates, which
did the engineering for Boston
Properties. “They have a nice yellowish color in the fall and look
good even into the winter.” And
they are mowed just once a year, in
the spring.
The areas at the side and back
have been planted with another environmentally friendly grass, hard
fescue, which despite its name
feels as soft as baby hair. “It is quite
graceful, especially in the wind,
and is quite hardy,” says Bottger.
Needing no fertilizing or watering,
it can be mowed just once in the fall
and then grows to about a foot.
Bottger says West Windsor has a
reputation for having the “strictest
and best” landscape ordinances in
the state, and the township’s landscape architect, Daniel Dobromilsky, welcomed this building’s plan.
Dobromilsky traces the use of ornamental grasses to Washington,
D.C., some 15 to 20 years ago and
says that, “as an alternative to
perennial flowers, the idea has
grown and become more accepted
into the mainstream.”
Even the plantings that line the
parking lot aisles play important
environmental roles. According to
the recent New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection regulations, water needs to run through
a “vegetative swale” on its way to
the detention basin, to treat impurities.
The detention basin is designed to capture the run-off rainwater from the impervious portions of the site (the parking lot,
sidewalks, and building roof system). It eventually empties into
the canal but has high-tech sensors that can help prevent flooding. Canadian geese now seem to
like swimming there, but Bottger
suggests that, in the future, the native trees and shrubs will proliferate and discourage them from
laying nests there. Among the
plants are varieties of hibiscus,
Yellow and Blue flag Iris, Cardinal flower, Pickerelweed, and Arrowhead.
All these environmentally
friendly plantings may look expensive, but aren’t, especially when
you factor in the low maintenance
costs, says Irene Vogelsong, a
LEED expert for KSS Architects.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Commercial Space for Rent & for Sale
Office Space
For Rent
Cranbury
Sudler Corporate Park, 1 Continental Drive. Available square feet:
500,000, divisible to 100,000. Net
rent $4.95. Approximate per-month
cost: $41,250, net.
CB Richard Ellis, Dan Casey,
473-325-0700. Building owner:
Sudler. Class A building. Aetna was
previous tenant.
Interchange Plaza, 102 Interchange Plaza. Available square
feet: 61,433, divisible to 30,000.
Gross rent, $28.5. Conditions: 10year term. Approximate per-month
cost: $71,250, gross.
Hilton Realty, Matt Malatich, Jon
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. A
new, three-story class A building;
features a fitness room.
Interchange Plaza, 101 Interchange Plaza. Available square
Gross rent, $24.50. Conditions: plus
tenant electric; five-year term. Approximate per-month cost: $9,914,
gross.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060.
Class A office building.
239 Prospect Plains Road.
Available square feet: 3,149, divisible to 581. Net rent $15.50. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses.
Approximate per-month cost: $750,
net.
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly,
609-520-0061. Located 1/2 mile
from Exit 8 of the NJ Turnpike. Parking for four cars per 1,000 SF. Common kitchen in the building.
Constitution Center, 2650
Route 130. Available square feet:
2,150. Net rent $15. Conditions: Plus
all operating expenses, utilities, janitorial. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,688, net.
609-520-0061. Office/medical for
lease, abundant parking, two-story
building built in 1990, elevator service, convenient to Turnpike, Exit 8A.
1,275 SF unit on second floor also
available.
East Windsor
120 Windsor Center Drive.
Available square feet: 3,900, divisible to 2,000. Net rent $23.5. Conditions: Plus utilities and janitorial. Approximate per-month cost: $3,917,
net.
609-520-0061. Class A office building located one mile to NJ Turnpike.
Second floor space with three private offices, elevator service, and
onsite bank facility.
Ewing
Ewing Commerce Park, 101 Silvia Street. Available square feet:
10,864, divisible to 4,800. Gross
rent, $22.57. Conditions: plus janitorial and utilities. Approximate permonth cost: $9,028, gross.
Class B single-story office building.
Princeton Crossroads Corporate Center, 250 Phillips Boulevard. Available square feet: 10,248,
divisible to 3,298. Gross rent, $18.
Conditions: Turnkey suite; build to
suit. Approximate per-month cost:
$4,947, gross.
Trillium Realty Agency Inc.,
Mark Bennison, 609-466-0400.
Building owner: 250 Phillips Associates LLC. Private offices and open
space; beautiful quiet setting, private
entrance, 30-day occupancy.
80 West Upper Ferry Road.
Available square feet: 10,000, divisible to 1,500. Net rent $12. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses,
utilities, janitorial. Approximate permonth cost: $1,500, net.
609-520-0061. Office suites for
lease, convenient to I-95 and within
30 minutes of Philadelphia. Close to
Hamilton and Trenton train stations.
Ewing Professional Park, 1901
North Olden Avenue. Available
square feet: 2,115, divisible to 775.
Net rent $10.50. Approximate permonth cost: $678, net.
Howco Management Company
LLC, Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505.
30-tenant office park on main road in
Ewing.
2000 Spruce Street. Available
square feet: 2,000, divisible to 1,000.
Net rent $8. Approximate per-month
cost: $667, net.
Also for sal,e $425,000.
Lexington Mews, 795 Parkway
Avenue, A4. Available square feet:
1,200. Gross rent, $12. Conditions:
Tenant pays electric, water, cable
TV, association fees. Approximate
per-month cost: $1,200, gross.
Weidel Realtors-Pennington,
Steven Marusky, 609-737-1500.
Building owner: Graham Webb. First
floor office condominium. Seven offices, four with windows, half bath.
Central air, covered entry. Easy access to I-95, Route 1 and Trenton.
Hamilton
White Horse Commercial Park,
127 Route 206. Available square
feet: 3,912.
Thompson Management, W.
Bryce Thompson, 609-921-7655.
Class C space. Rent negotiable.
Space as small as 700 SF available.
Listing information has been
provided by commercial real estate brokers and the amount of
available space and the cost per
square foot are subject to change.
Monthly cost is based on smallest
amount of divisible space.
Listings of space for sale begin
on page 52.
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Selling, Renting, & Developing
Bonanni Realtors
Trusted commercial real
estate advisors
A
half-century in commercial
real estate has made Bonanni Realtors the area’s
expert since 1956.
Dave Bonanni is the present
owner and operator of Bonanni
Realtors. With more than 50
years in the business, his experience precedes him. He prides
himself on strong communication skills, which have contributed to the success and
longevity of Bonanni Realtors.
Bonanni has been aggressively serving central and southern New Jersey, including Mercer, Ocean, Burlington, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Atlantic, Middlesex and Cape May counties, and
just expanded into Pennsylvania’s Bucks, Montgomery and
Philadelphia counties. This has
given the firm’s associates a
deep knowledge of the local
marketplace.
“We’re proud of our reputation,” said Sales Associate Monika Polakevic. “But we’re also
proud of how we treat our clients.
We are attentive to their needs,
promptly return calls and make
sure they are up-to-date with
regular communication.”
Polakevic says the Bonanni
commercial real estate philosophy is about making connections
— bringing together individuals
and businesses to find the right
opportunities in real estate. Bonanni associates become trusted advisors, assisting clients in
all aspects of commercial real
estate transactions.
“Our clients truly see us as experts who can help them with a
variety of issues and needs,” she
added. “We strive to bring a solution to the table every time. Often, we call on other trusted experts to assist, such as banking
officers and building designers.”
“Some clients come to us for a
fair market value opinion,” Polakevic noted. “Some buy with
the intent to sell in a few years,
some for a long-term investment.
We listen to their future plans
and needs to achieve their goals
and exceed their expectations.”
Bonanni Realtors sees the
current market as an opportunity.
Purchase prices have adjusted
to favor the buyer and finance
rates are certainly more than favorable.
Attractive pricing on investment properties is still available.
Polakevic says they are successfully structuring transactions
on favorable terms, and even
creating positive cash flow from
day one for some clients.
“There’s a lot of talk and predictions about commercial real
estate out there,” she said. “The
bottom line: we have been here
before. The market is cyclical
and it will cycle up again. Our job
is to assist in both good times
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It’s Shaping Up
As a Competitive
Market In NJ
by Vincent Marano, COO,
National Business Parks
F
or every space requirement on the market,
prospective tenants are receiving about 10 to 12 proposals.
In better times, three to four was
typical.
Businesses are continuing to
contract, leaving unprecedented
amounts of office space available. Even big pharma, one of
the mainstay industries of Central New Jersey, is now in sur-
vival mode and has undertaken
mergers and out-of-state relocations, leaving large amounts of
commercial space and thousands of jobs in its wake. And
since the bottom line for commercial real estate is jobs, the
market has been thrown into disarray.
For their part, landlords are
becoming competitive and extremely flexible in lease negotiations and are offering generous
concessions in the effort to keep
their buildings filled. Rents in
Princeton are now averaging in
the mid $20s, down from the upper $20s less than 18 months
ago. And while vacancy factors
in Princeton are currently 16 percent to 17 percent, well below
the statewide average, they still
reflect a significant number of
tenants lost.
National Business Parks has
always done whatever it can do
to retain its tenants. This has
been our operating policy in
good times and poor. And now
with a fragile economy this
method of doing business is
clearly showing its merits. College Park, with its 815,000
square feet, is at the 97 percent
occupancy mark with firms opting to renew in what is clearly a
tenants’ market.
need to become even more aggressive in deal making; for tenants, this is a time of unique opportunity.
College Park at Princeton
Forrestal Center is an 11-building complex fronting Route 1. Included among tenants are SES
Americom, Panasonic, JPMorgan Chase, the law firms of
Drinker Biddle & Reath and
Bracco Research. National Business Parks is the managing arm
of Lawrence Zirinsky Associates,
owners of College Park.
Vincent Marano, COO,
National Business Parks
Ironically, the emotionally
charged healthcare debate has
dominated our national consciousness and the “cash for
clunkers” program drew dazzling
media coverage, while the basic
issue of new job creation has
largely faded into the background. In our business it’s very
straightforward — without jobs,
there’s no need for real estate.
So from our point of view new
jobs are the imperative. As employment traditionally lags behind other economic indicators,
it’s difficult to see the office market in a rebound for the next 24
to 36 months. Landlords will
Larken Associates
Good news in medical
professionals’ office
space
N
ew Jersey’s build-to-suit
medical space specialist,
Larken Associates, is experiencing a good market in a
still shaky economy.
Larken Associates has been
catering to a full range of medical
tenants for more than three
decades and continues to have a
strong tenant base. With the majority of its available portfolio in
spaces between 630 and 4,000
square feet, Larken properties
are the ideal size for medical professionals as well as for organizations that are downsizing and
individuals striking out on their
own.
“We’re doing fine,” said Victor
Kelly, executive vice president of
Larken Associates. “We have the
experience to really know what
medical professionals need. Our
team –– architects, engineers
and construction professionals
–– have deep experience building medical suites.”
Kelly says rental rates still are
down, but that he’s seeing an upturn. He’s noticed some tenants
are expanding and looking for
bigger spaces to accommodate
growth.
“Everyone isn’t going out of
business,” Kelly commented.
“Our tenants are smaller companies that are nimble and adjust to
the changing environment.
Things have definitely stabilized
since last fall.”
Larken Associates’ commitment to small businesses and
medical professionals has made
Kelly the area’s “go-to guy” in
those markets. He routinely
works with physicians, dentists,
hospital staff and other medical
professionals to match Larken
properties with their needs.
“What makes us unique is our
ability to completely cater to medical professionals,” Kelly said.
“We know they’re busy with their
practices and patients, so we
step in and handle everything.
Our team is knowledgeable, considerate and nice –– there’s no
worry when you work with us.”
Choice Larken properties include medical/office space in the
Princess Road Office Park in
Lawrenceville, offering 800 and
1,000 square feet; Montgomery
Commons Medical & Office Park
in Princeton with 630 to 1,250
square feet; and Montgomery
Professional Center in Skillman
ranging from 1,000 to 4,000
square feet. There’s also small
flex space in the Hillsborough
Business Center ranging from
1,135 to 20,000 square feet.
“Larken Associates’ properties
are first-rate,” added Kelly. “Plus,
our team’s professional medical
expertise, attention to detail and
personal service takes the worry
out of building professional medical space. We’re literally just
what the doctor ordered.”
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Physicians, dentists and other
medical professionals may learn
more about Larken properties locally and throughout the area at
www.larkenassociates.com or by
contacting Kelly at
[email protected].
Larken Associates. 249
Homestead Road, Building 5,
Unit 11. PO Box 6989, Hillsborough. 908-874-8686. Fax: 908874-6064. [email protected]
www.larkenassociates.com
Joseph R. Ridolfi
& Associates
Mercer County’s Premier
Commercial Realtor
J
oseph R. Ridolfi & Associates, LLC, Mercer County’s
Premier Commercial Realtor, specializes in the sale and
leasing of commercial, industrial,
office, and retail space, as well
as restaurants, investment properties, land subdivisions, and
consulting services.
“Of course the economy affects the commercial real estate
market,” says Joseph Ridolfi,
president and CEO of the Hamilton-area company, “but there are
things people can and should be
doing in this market.”
Landlords with all types of
commercial properties –– office,
retail, and industrial –– need to
make sure that they are offering
competitive prices and incentives to attract and keep longterm tenants. “Be flexible with
terms,” he advises. “You may
need to offer a shorter-term
lease than you have in the past,
or graduated pricing to help a
new client in the early part of the
lease.”
After 40 years in business in
the Hamilton area, Ridolfi says
that much of his business is repeat customers and referrals.
“When people need help, they
know who to call. They know
they are getting a deep knowledge of the area,” he explains.
Healthcare is one industry that
has stayed strong throughout the
downturn, he mentions. His company is in the process of leasing
a 64,000-square-foot office/retail
complex in Mansfield Township,
between Hamilton and Cherry
Hill. A large medical care facility
is the anchor for the complex, attracting other medical offices to
the center, which is called Mansfield Square and is located on
Route 206. The first of four
16,000-square-foot buildings is
now complete and work is nearing completion on the second
building.
“Hamilton continues to experience good growth in today’s uncertain economy,” Ridolfi said.
“We’re 90,000 people and growing. There’s unprecedented access by interstate and state highways, as well as the turnpike.
We’re home to two major regional shopping centers on Route
130, namely Hamilton Marketplace and The Shoppes at
Hamilton, that’s creating value
up and down Route 130. State
Highway 33 is another major retail corridor that is experiencing
good growth. Everyone wants to
be in Hamilton Township because that’s where the action is.”
Ridolfi believes that the best
investment today is still real estate. The 1031 exchange, in particular, is an excellent way to
shelter capital gains when buying or selling commercial real es-
tate properties, he adds. Mercer
County’s proximity to major metropolitan areas also makes it an
excellent place to invest. “For
people in the major metropolitan
areas of New York, North Jersey,
and Philadelphia, Mercer County’s prices look great by comparison,” he says. “That fuels our local economy, creates a tax base,
and boosts jobs. It’s good news
for our area.”
Joseph R. Ridolfi & Associates, LLC. 1245 WhitehorseMercerville Road, Bldg. A, Suite
402, Hamilton. 609-581-4848.
Fax: 609-581-5511. Ridolfi-associates.com, E-Mail: [email protected].
NAI Fennelly
Brighter times ahead for
area commercial real estate, economy
W
hen 2009's story is written, it will show nearly a
year of stagnation
capped by some fourth-quarter
movement showing an initial
positive upswing in the economy.
“An uncertain economy brings
new industries and new opportunities,” said NAI Fennelly President Jerry Fennelly, noting commercial real estate transactions
started to close again in September –– good news for everyone.
“The first half of the year saw a
negative GDP, and was a result
of too much consumer debt,” he
said. “Those numbers are starting to rebound, and the stock
market is showing a positive, upward response. This is giving
people the confidence to move
forward and close real estate
transactions.”
Gerard Fennelly,
President, NAI Fennelly
Fennelly cites three Hamilton
closings that are kick-starting the
area's momentum: flex/warehouse buildings on Crossroads
Drive, East State Street and
Sixth Street for a total of 95,000
square feet of properties transferred at 15-20 percent lower values then a year ago. He also
sees encouraging movement in
office sector sales and leasing
activity. There's also a rise in industrial leasing happening along
the turnpike, from exits 7A to 8A.
“Office-sector leasing is picking up, though the lease rates
may be less,” Fennelly added.
“There are two significant transactions in West Windsor and
Plainsboro leading the way, Otsuka and GSK Pharmacuticals
with total square feet leased of
78,000 square feet leased.”
Because rents are slightly lower than predicted, Fennelly says
it's an opportunistic time for tenants with leases coming due
from 6 to 18 months to renegotiate. Due to owners being more
aggressive in their leasing strategies, now's the time to open the
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conversation.
"Everyone's looking to lower
expenses, especially fixed operating costs," Fennelly noted.
"Every major company in the US
has attacked its fixed operating
costs, lowering or eliminating
fixed costs and bringing profit to
the topline."
Fennelly points out that central New Jersey is unique, boasting several universities that drive
business and bring a highly educated workforce to the area. He
also cites the impact two local
hospitals' building projects will
have on the area, including construction jobs and new positions
for physicians and ancillary personnel.
"We're seeing our local hospitals not only invest a billion dollars into new facilities, but also
develop flagship medical specialties, like neurosurgery or pediatric specialties so they can
provide services to local residents and remain competitive on
a regional basis."
Fennelly predicts employment
will start to improve, which will
further boost real estate transactions. He says New Jersey continues to be affordable for companies seeking lower costs without losing employees.
Fennelly Associates assists
companies with their specific
commercial real estate strategies on a local, national and
global basis. NAI Fennelly can
be reached at 609-520-0061 or
[email protected].
Gerard Fennelly, President,
NAI Fennelly. 3525 Quakerbridge Road, Suite 908, Hamilton. 609-520-0061. Fax: 609631-9208. www.fennelly.com.
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Office Space for Rent
VanNest Office Park, 3836 Quakerbridge
Road. Available square feet: 33,000, divisible
to 2,000. Net rent $18. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses. Approximate per-month
cost: $3,000, net.
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, Andrew
Weinstein, 609-520-0061. New brick construction, attractive corporate setting overlooking
the Van Nest forest reserve. Two-story atrium
lobby with waterfall. Close to Route 1, I-295
and the Hamilton train station. Convenient to
Robert Wood Johnson and other area hospitals.
Hamilton Clocktower Corporate Center,
Kuser Road at Exit 3B of I-195. Available
square feet: 12,504. Net rent $19.5. Approximate per-month cost: $20,319, net.
Ridolfi & Associates, Joseph R. Ridolfi,
609-581-4848. Class A buildings. Building 300
ready for tenant fit-out.
Hamilton Professional Office, 1345
Kuser Road, Suite 6. Available square feet:
4,850. Net rent $9. Conditions: NNN plus CAM
charge. Approximate per-month cost: $3,638,
net.
609-581-4848. Central air, utilities, abundant
parking (rear and side). Available immediately.
Hamilton Professional Office, 1345
Kuser Road, Suite 1. Available square feet:
4,850. Net rent $12.50. Conditions: NNN plus
CAM charge. Approximate per-month cost:
$5,052, net.
609-581-4848.
Concord Square Shopping Center, 1905
Route 33. Available square feet: 4,000, divisible to 1,000. Net rent $12.50. Approximate permonth cost: $1,042, net.
Howco Management, Howard Cohen,
609-896-0505. High exposure on Route 33.
34-44 W. Taylor Avenue. Available square
feet: 4,000.
609-581-4848. Single-story multiple-office
building. Suitable for medical use/professional
office. Lease: $650/month per office suite (all
inclusive of heat, electricity, water, sewer, and
taxes) - three 510 SF office suites and one 600
SF end cap unit. Immediately available.
1799 Klockner Road, Unit 5. Available
square feet: 2,166. Net rent $15. Conditions:
Plus 5.50/SF CAM. Approximate per-month
cost: $2,708, net.
building. Suitable for medical use/professional
office.
3 Nami Lane. Available square feet: 2,000.
Net rent $12. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,000, net.
609-581-4848. Zoned light industrial, flex
space, utilities available. Ample parking
spaces. Central AC.
3673 Quakerbridge Road. Available
square feet: 1,875. Net rent $16. Approximate
per-month cost: $2,500, net.
Howco Management Company LLC,
Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505. Large signage
on main road.
3673 Quakerbridge Road. Available
square feet: 1,872. Net rent $16; Conditions:
NNN plus tenant operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $2,496, net.
609-581-4848. Zoned REO 4. Two-story brick
building with partially finished 987 SF basement. Two two-piece baths, kitchenette, onehalf finished basement. Immediate occupancy.
1607 South Olden Avenue. Available
square feet: 1,600. Gross rent, $15. Approximate per-month cost: $2,000, gross.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609586-4300. One block from I-295. Potential for
owner-occupied unit plus rental units.
1245 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road. Available square feet: 1,568. Net rent $15. Conditions: Plus operating expenses. Approximate
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, John
Comp, 609-520-0061. Medical/office condo for
sale or lease. First floor unit. Eight private offices/exam rooms and reception area. Close to
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. Convenient to
I-295, Route 1 and the Hamilton train station.
Duck Island Terminal, 1463 Lumberton
Road. Available square feet: 1,300.
609-581-4848. $1,050/month gross (includes
taxes, water, sewer, heat and electricty) for
1,300 SF office. Also 300 SF office available
for $350/month gross. Available.
3890 Nottingham Way. Available square
feet: 1,250, divisible to 650. Net rent $12. Approximate per-month cost: $650, net.
Howco Management Company, Howard
Cohen, 609-896-0505. Office or retail space.
1799 Klockner Road, Unit 4. Available
square feet: 1,100. Net rent $15. Conditions:
Plus 5.50/SF CAM. Approximate per-month
cost: $1,375, net.
building. Medical/professional office.
Tower Building, 2382 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road. Available square feet: 600.
Gross rent, $12. Approximate per-month cost:
$600, gross.
Howco Management, Howard Cohen,
609-896-0505. Next to Applebee’s.
100 Youngs Road, Suites 8 and 9. Net
rent $12. Conditions: NNN plus tenant heat
and electric.
609-581-4848. Suite 8 (1,250 SF): one floor office. Suite 9 (2,025 SF): two floor office/showroom. 90-car parking. Available immediately.
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COMMERCIAL
DIVISION
PREMIER PROPERTY
Hopewell
330 Carter Road. Available square feet:
215,000, divisible to 5,000. Gross rent, $25.5.
Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, Andrew
Weinstein, 609-520-0061. Class A building for
lease can accommodate office, research, education, lab. Dual power feeds/back-up generator. Office campus site situated on 190 acres.
25,000 SF mansion farmhouse also available;
divisible to 4,000 SF.
Hopewell 57, 57 Hamilton Avenue. Available square feet: 30,000, divisible to 1,500.
Gross rent, $12. Approximate per-month cost:
$1,500, gross.
Commercial Property Network, William
Barish, 609-921-8844. The rental range is $12
to $19 per square foot. Onsite low cost storage, close to restaurants, expansion potential.
45 West Broad Street. Available square
feet: 1,300, divisible to 650. Net rent $17. Approximate per-month cost: $921, net.
Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505. Charming
property that can be used for office or retail; in
center of town.
Lambertville
Riverwalk, 201 South Main Street. Available square feet: 3,724. Net rent $22. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $6,827, net.
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, 609-5200061. Historical brick building overlooking
riverfront. Located on the outskirts of downtown Lambertville. Restaurants and shopping
within walking distance. Minutes to Route 202,
I-95 and direct access to Route 29.
54 Mount Airy Village Road. Available
square feet: 3,533, divisible to 650. Net rent
$14. Approximate per-month cost: $758, net.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609586-4300. Located in a strip shopping center
three miles outside of Lambertville.
Lawrence
Lawrence Commons, 3371 Route 1.
Available square feet: 20,000, divisible to
1,100. Net rent $22. Approximate per-month
cost: $2,017, net.
Barish, 609-921-8844. Office or professional
condo; also for sale for $225 a square foot or
$247,500 for 1,100-foot unit.
Lawrence Executive Center, 3120
Princeton Pike. Available square feet: 14,724,
divisible to 839. Gross rent, $29.50. Conditions: Full gross. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,063, gross.
Hilton Realty, Matt Malatich, Jon Brush,
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Class A office space
with a medical building.
Lawrence Office Park, 168 Franklin Corner Road. Available square feet: 5,282.
Thompson Management, W. Bryce
Thompson, 609-921-7655. Building owner:
Princeton Research Lands. Class C office
space. Rent negotiable. As little as 569SF
available.
2997 Princeton Pike. Available square
feet: 7,500, divisible to 1,500. Net rent $18.
Conditions: Plus all operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $2,250, net.
Comp, 609-520-0061. Office/medical condos
for sale or lease. Will divide as needed and a
medical build-out is available. Located in
Lawrenceville’s medical district within minutes
of downtown Princeton. Property features 58
covered parking spaces and restrooms with
showers. Put your name on the building. Convenient to Route 1, I-295, Hamilton train station. Sale price $233/SF.
One Brunswick Circle, 1333 Brunswick
Avenue. Available square feet: 6,035. Gross
rent, 23. Conditions: Plus tenant utilities. Approximate per-month cost: $11,567, gross.
Nexus Properties, Andrea Sussman, 609396-6800. Located on business Route 1 with
easy access to major arteries. Landscaped.
On-site management. Ample parking.
680 Whitehead Road. Available square
feet: 5,000, divisible to 2,500. Net rent $13.
Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate
Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505. Will renovate
to your specifications.
2500 Brunswick Pike. Available square
feet: 1,464.
Princeton Junction - User or Investor Opportunity.
Two story masonry building containing 8 suites from
400 SF to 3000 SF FOR SALE. Two suites, 600 SF
and 3000 SF available FOR LEASE.
OFFICE SPACE
Ewing - Premium finished 1300 SF office space, partially furnished, having 3 private
offices and large clerical staff area, kitchenette and storage. Favorable lease rates.
Ewing Twp. - Economical 1,200+/-SF suite with seven offices, reception,
secretarial area and 1/2 bath. For Sale or Lease.
Ewing - Office - Attractive 4 office suites. 620 SF to 1,368 SF. Close to I-95, U.S. 1
& Princeton. Favorable lease rates.
Ewing - Medical Office Building, 7000 +/- sf 2 story, unfinished basement w/storage
room, elevator, 20+/- offices, 5+/- baths, reception area, waiting room, nurses station.
Parking lot and designated parking spaces on street for 20+/- spaces.
Highland Boro - 8,960+/- SF building w/5,760+/-SF Offices and 3,200+/-SF
warehouse near new Sandy Hook Bridge.
Hopewell - Ideally located, offering high visibility on the main street of Hopewell Boro.
1,250 +/- SF 1st floor office and/or retail space. Available for lease.
Montgomery Twp. - Economical office suites, 550 SF, 204 +/- SF & 211 +/- SF,
which can be combined for 1,335 +/- SF. Lease. On 206.
Pennington - Two (2) suites available for lease. 1,584 +/- SF. Rt. 31 near I-95.
Princeton - Central business district, opposite library. Second floor, front, single office
with private bath. 312 SF.
Trenton - 6000+/- SF -16,000+/- SF available FOR SALE or FOR LEASE.
Extremely high visibility, priced to move.
Trenton - Totally renovated 2850+/-SF office bldg. available for Sale. 6 Offices, large
reception and kitchen. REDUCED.
RETAIL SPACE
Ewing Twp. - Ideal for food use. 1,000 SF to 2,000 SF available for lease
located in neighborhood shopping center.
Hamilton - Two (2) units available or sale in neighborhood center on Rt. 33. 2,377 +/SF each or 4,755 +/- SF combined. Retail or office.
Hamilton - 1,600 +/- SF and 1,200 +/- SF available in neighborhood shopping center.
Hightstown - Lease - 1,000 SF in busy shopping center.
Trenton - 6000+/- SF to 22,000 +/- SF available FOR SALE OR FOR LEASE.
Extremely high visibility, priced to move.
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Branchburg Twp. - Sale or lease warehouse/shop space. 350 SF to 50,000 SF.
Ewing Twp. - 4,530 SF shop/warehouse - sale or lease.
Ewing Twp. - 8,800 +/- SF for lease. Warehouse or office.
Hamilton Twp. - 3,840 SF warehouse space available for lease.
Trenton - 5,395 +/- SF. Sale or lease. 1,600 +/- SF 3-bedroom apt., a 500 +/- SF
beauty salon and 3,295 +/- SF 1st floor space. Ready or you.
LAND
Hamilton Twp - Development opportunity includes Engineering drawings
for development of 15,200 +/- sf, 1.9 acres in Mercerville section.
Lawrence Twp. - .2.28 +/- acres in professional office zoning.
West Amwell Twp. - 5.4 +/- acres zoned highway commercial, conceptual plan
with some permits for 15,592 +/- SF bldg.
Highland Boro - 18,000 SF prime commercial lot on Bay Ave.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Hamilton Twp. - Profitable pet and pet supply store located in active shopping ctr.
Business only for sale.
Montgomery Twp. - Barber shop business for Sale, having three (3) chairs and one
(1) wash station in the Montgomery Shopping Center.
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Trenton - 2-family building near downtown, government buildings & courthouse.
REDUCED.
Trenton - Attractive 5,400 SF mixed use property, includes retail,
office & residential.
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2 Route 31 South • Pennington, N.J. 08534
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
701 Carnegie
empty building at 693 Alexander,
to show what an office would look
like, with the furniture, panels,
ceiling, and lighting. Each person
got to choose a new high-end chair
(Herman Miller Aeron or Humanscale Liberty), and the departments
voted on their desk configurations
— different for finance and IT. Almost all of it was agreeable to
everyone, except for the privacy issue. “There was a lot of buy-in
from the users when they saw it in
the flesh, but there was some real
tension about how much light to
use versus how much privacy was
needed,” says Klimek.
So Klimek and Nall tried various versions of a film called “obscure glazing.” As seen in the finished building, it is applied in footwide stripes on the outside glass
walls of the offices. The interior offices have three seven-foot opaque
walls plus two feet of glass wall on
top. The fourth wall, opening to the
walkway, is all glass. But if you are
seated in an interior office, the
stripes hide your head and shoulders, and, from your viewpoint,
they also hide the faces of those going by. Passersby can know your
office is occupied, but they see only your hands. You can probably
tell who is passing, but you can’t
see the face.
Many office buildings have reflective glass to keep out the glare,
but this building’s windows use
glass that encourages the entrance
of natural light that penetrates to
the inner offices. Semi-transparent
shades on the exterior windows
will cut the glare, yet not cut off the
view.
The move-in process starts
Monday, November 2, when
Bohren’s moving vans pull up to 87
Prospect and load the personal furnishings for the first 20 emigrees
from the IT department. They will
take only the boxes they have
packed — no furniture, not even
their favorite chair (unless some-
The light in the lobby
shines down from a
skylight through the
central staircase.
one has a medical excuse). Yes,
they can take plants and paintings.
No to personal refrigerators, fans,
heaters,
coffeemakers,
mi-
crowaves, or personal printers.
Every thing has been provided,
every detail micromanaged, down
to whether the individual coat closets contain a hook or a bar.
The space will not be totally
open (as it is in the NRG and
Bloomberg buildings) but will be
more open than, say, a law office. It
will have training rooms, 17 conference rooms, and a testing area,
consisting of back to back computers where internal clients can test
their new programs on “clean”
computers. There is a quiet room,
kitchens, a library, and a “phone
room” for personal calls, plus a
score of consulting areas — spaces
between workstations equipped
with rolling tables and chairs, so
Fit-Out for IT: KSS interior designer Sheila Nall
(second from right), shows how the blueprints
translated into actual office space for Princeton
University staffers Matthew Immordino, left, Betty
Leydon, Nancy Costa, and David Morreale.
that two half-circle tables can roll
together in a jiffy for quick meetings. Soon a first-floor cafeteria
and a gym, with lockers and showers, will be installed.
Princeton put the computer
moving contract out to bid, and the
bid was won by a division from its
own IT department. By Thanksgiving, when the move is finished, 162
people or just over half of the IT de-
partment will be at 701 Carnegie.
Meanwhile, starting on Thursday, November 5, a total of 123 finance and treasury people — from
payroll and accounts payable to asset administration and risk management — will move from five
floors in New South to the fourth
floor of Carnegie 701, says
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Office Space for Rent
Pennington
Howe Commons, 65 South Main Street.
Available square feet: 9,000, divisible to 850.
Gross rent, $15-25. Conditions: Full gross.
Commercial Property Network, Al Toto,
609-921-8844. Spaces available are 1,315;
1,265; 995 square feet. Close to downtown.
Pennington Point West, 2 Tree Farm
Road. Available square feet: 8,430, divisible to
648. Net rent $16. Approximate per-month
cost: $864, net.
609-921-8844. Four suites remaining, the
longer the lease, the lower the rent; rent range
— $16 to $18 per square foot.
Pennington Point East, 23 Route 31
North. Available square feet: 4,575, divisible
to 821. Net rent $16. Approximate per-month
cost: $1,095, net.
609-921-8844. $16 to $18 net per square foot.
From 821 to 3,936 square feet.
Circle West Office Park, 1 Washington
Crossing Road. Available square feet: 400.
Gross rent, 24.75. Approximate per-month
cost: $825, gross.
Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505. Two-room
suite at Pennington Circle.
Pennington Office Park, 114 Titus Mill
Road. Net rent $18.
609-921-8844. Space divisible to between
3,000 and 6,000 feet; for sale or for lease.
Princeton Research Lands. Class C. As little
as 375SF space available. Rent negotiable.
Lake Park Center, 6 Colonial Lake Drive.
Net rent $12; Gross rent, $18.46. Conditions:
Net plus CAM; tenant electric.
Punia Company LLC, Leonard Punia,
609-771-9000. Building owner: Lake Park
Center. Five-nights cleaning, heat, trash removal, parking, signage — all-included. Two
suites available: 903 SF and 1,135 SF.
Mansfield
Mansfield Square, 3230 Route 206. Net
rent $16. Conditions: Mininum three-year
lease term (options to renew available).
609-581-4848. Starts at $16/SF plus CAM
charge (end units $17.50/SF).
Monmouth Junction
Princeton Executive Center, 4301 Route
1. Available square feet: 16,148, divisible to
1,350. Gross rent, $24.5. Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,756, gross.
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Other tenants: IKON,
Guest Supply. Class A office building.
4287 Route 1 South. Available square feet:
6,748, divisible to 2,150. Net rent $16.25. Conditions: Plus operating expenses. Approximate
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, 609-5200061. Professional office built in 2000.Can be
divided into two units, high-end interior furnishings, and substantial monument sign available. Located right on Route 1 corridor.
Monroe
Ros-mon, One Rossmoor Drive. Available square feet: 5,800.
Princeton Research Lands. Class C space.
Rent negotiable. As little as 256 SF available.
Interchange Plaza, 104 Interchange
Plaza. Available square feet: 16,579, divisible
to 4,160. Gross rent, $25. Conditions: Plus
tenant electric; five-year term. Approximate
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Class A building.
Montgomery
Research Park, 40 Wall Street. Available
square feet: 40,000, divisible to 800. Gross
rent, $20. Conditions: Including tenant electric.
Approximate per-month cost: $1,333.
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Other tenants: Bank
of Princeton, Princeton Orthopedic, Princeton
Speech & Language, ELM, Carvers Cafe, LDH
Printing, Restricted Stock Systems. 18-building office park, Princeton address.
1060 State Road. Available square feet:
3,563. Gross rent, $25. Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost:
$7,423, gross.
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Class A office building, Princeton address.
1060 State Road. Available square feet:
3,500. Gross rent, $24. Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost:
$7,000, gross.
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, 609-5200061. Adjacent to Princeton Airport. Princeton
address, easy access to Route 1 and I-95.
182 Tamarack Circle. Available square
feet: 1,900. Gross rent, $20. Approximate permonth cost: $3,167, gross.
Barish, 609-921-8844. Corner suite, immediate occupancy.
Village Shopper, 1340 Route 206. Available square feet: 650. Net rent $18. Approximate per-month cost: $975, net.
Weidel Realtors-Pennington, Steven
Marusky, 609-737-1500. Building owner: RSC
Associates LLC. Three units available on second floor. Suite 205: 500 +/- square feet has
reception/bull pen, two offices and a workroom. Suite 204: 450 +/- square feet; Suite
201: 385 +/- square feet; Suite 206: 650 +/square feet. The units can also be combined.
North Brunswick
North Brunswick Commerce Center, 100
North Center Drive. Available square feet:
8,139, divisible to 2,376. Gross rent, $21.13.
Conditions: plus direct meter utilities. Approximate per-month cost: $4,184, gross.
Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Class B single-story
office/flex building.
Plainsboro
Princeton Forrestal Center, 650 College
Road East. Available square feet: 44,800, divisible to 3,800. Gross rent, $29.50. Conditions: Plus tenant electric, with escalations.
Approximate per-month cost: $9,342, gross.
Aegis Property Group, James A. Kinzig,
215-568-5050. Class A, on-site cafe.
Plainsboro Village Center, Schalks
Crossing and Scudders Mill Road. Available
square feet: 20,000. Net rent $16.5. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $27,500, net.
Comp, 609-520-0061. Two-story newly constructed office building with elevators close to
Route 1, Route 130, and Turnpike. Mixed-use
town center development. Close to the new
Princeton Medical Center. 700 to 20,000 SF.
Princeton Forrestal Village, Route 1
South. Available square feet: 20,000. Net rent
$15; Gross, $24.5. Approximate per-month
cost: $40,833, gross; $25,000, net.
Fred Knapp, 609-799-7400. Building owner: CANDO Fitness, Koi SpaSalon, retail
stores, restaurants, Westin. Class A.
Princeton Forrestal Center, 600 College
Road East. Available square feet: 11,402, divisible to 11,402. Gross rent, $29.50. Conditions: Plus tenant electric, with escalations.
Approximate per-month cost: $28,030, gross.
Aegis Property Group, James A. Kinzig,
215-568-5050. Class A, on-site cafe.
College Park at Forrestal Center, 305
College Road East. Available square feet:
8,500, divisible to 8,500. Net rent 25.50. Conditions: plus tenant electric. Approximate permonth cost: $18,063, net.
National Business Parks, Tom Stange,
609-452-1300. Building owner: College Road
Associates LLC. First floor space — a 3,869
square foot space is also available.
Forrestal Village, 100 Village Boulevard.
Available square feet: 8,500, divisible to 4,000.
Gross rent, $23. Conditions: Sublet. Approximate per-month cost: $7,667, gross.
Barish, 609-921-8844.
8,400. Net rent $25.50. Conditions: plus tenant
electric. Approximate per-month cost:
$17,850, net.
Associates LLC. Second floor. Class A.
8,400. Net rent $25.50. Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost:
$17,850, net.
Associates LLC. First floor space.
101 College Road East. Available square
feet: 5,292. Gross rent, $21. Conditions: Plus
tenant electric and janitorial. Approximate permonth cost: $9,261, gross.
NAI Fennelly, Gerard Fennelly, 609-5200061. Office sublease. Class A atrium office.
Office furniture and phones available. First
floor unit. Lease expires January, 2014.
Princeton Meadows Office Center, 666
Plainsboro Road. Available square feet:
4,800, divisible to 850. Net rent $16. Conditions: Plus CAM and electricity. Approximate
TQM Property Management, Winn
Thompson, 609-799-2466. Other tenants: NJ
Bariatrics, Intellisphere, Talent Development.
Separate entrance, signage, and HVAC.
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RETAIL SPACE
NEW
NEW
DEER PATH PAVILION
Hamilton - Rte 130
4,000 sf (will divide) retail unit avail. in new retail ctr.
across from Hamilton Marketplace Regional
Shopping Ctr. Abundant parking.
LEASE
SERENITY PLAZA
Ewing - Parkway Ave.
Units avail. from 1,233-2,516 sf in active center
anchored by Marrazzo's Supermarket.
Immediate occupancy.
LEASE
Storefront - Trenton - N Olden Ave - 4,950 sf 2-story bldg w/10 car parking. 2,471 sf retail area w/counter
and rear whse space, 2,475 sf 2nd flr storage space. Located on heavily traveled hwy. SALE
Retail/Office - Hamilton - S. Broad St. - 600 sf bldg w/bsmt located on heavily traveled Rte 206 near
Whitehorse Circle. Excellent move-in condition. Available immediately. SALE - $81,500
Retail/Office - Mansfield Square - Mansfield Twp - Rte 206 - New Construction, 61,000 sf complex, suitable
for medical/prof. offices & retail. Now leasing with competitive rates. LEASE
Retail Unit - Red Lion Plaza - Southampton Twp - Rte 206 - 1,200 sf unit available in active 16,000 sf
shopping center located on heavily traveled US Route 206. LEASE
Retail Unit - Trenton - E State St. - 3,000 sf ready for fit out. Located in downtown Trenton shopping district.
Available Immediately. LEASE
Retail/Office - Robbinsville - Route 130 - 1,650 sf space, parking at door, on heavily traveled
Rte 130 (southbound) across from I-195 Exit 5 and Exit 7A NJTP. LEASE
Retail/Office - Robbinsville - Route 130 - 1.06 +/- acres corner Kuser Rd. Will build to suit and/or ground
lease. Easy access to Exit 5, I-195. LEASE - TO BE BUILT
Retail/Office - Forest Glen Shopping Ctr - Hamilton - Rte 33 - 4,755 sf condo unit whole or divisible into
2 units of approx. 2,377 sf., lrg parking lot. Suitable for office/retail. SALE/LEASE
Retail/Office - Hamilton - Nottingham Way - 2 lots w/house located at Nottingham Way and Rte 33
traffic light intersection. Zoned Community Comm'l. Call for details. SALE
OFFICE SPACE
REDUCED
REDUCED
OFFICE BUILDING
Hamilton - Quakerbridge Rd
Sale: 2,820 sf 2-story bldg w/rental income or
Lease: 1,872 sf space. 12 car parking.
Near Lawrence Twp. line. Excellent condition.
SALE/LEASE
OFFICE BUILDING
Hamilton - E State St Ext
2,500 sf single story brick bldg., 2 units,
retail/office w/rental income, 19 car parking.
Move-in Condition
SALE
Office - Lawrence - Whitehead Rd - 5,000 sf remodeled office bldg w/full bsmt storage, 20+ parking
spaces. Ready for tenant fit-out. LEASE
Office/Retail - Lawrence - Brunswick Pike - 3,906 sf 2-story bldg. w/2 rental income units, positive cash flow,
34 car parking. SALE
Office - Hamilton - Youngs Rd - 1,200 sf prof. office bldg. 4 offices, reception area, kitchenette, bathroom.
Centrally located. Move in condition. SALE $265,000
Office - Hamilton - Youngs Rd - 2 Units: 2,025 sf office/showroom and 1,250 sf office in multi-tenanted
complex, 90 car parking. LEASE $12.00/sf NNN
Prof. Office - Hamilton - Kuser Rd - 1,600-3,500 sf office stes avail. Abundant parking. Competitive lease
rates. Immediate occupancy. LEASE $12.00/sf NNN
Office/Retail - Robbinsville - Route 130 - 1,556 sf 1st flr w/700 sf 2nd flr office/conf rm, & 20,163 sf used car
lot. Available Immediately! LEASE
Office - Ewing - Dryden Ave - 2,600 sf office part of 5,000 sf bldg. Recently renovated w/8' ceilings,
loading dr., 7 parking spaces. LEASE
Office Complex - Hamilton - Reeves Ave - Sale: 12,000 sf office complex or Lease: 1,900 sf & 3,600 sf office
suites. Large parking lot, near I-295 entrance. SALE/LEASE
Office Space - Florence - Rte 130 - 2 units available: (1) 2,600 sf and (1) 9,000 sf divisible in a 17,300 sf
bldg., lg parking lot. LEASE
Office Suite - Lawrence - Franklin Corner Rd - 1,251 sf corner suite, (3) priv. offices, conf rm, reception
and waiting area, private entrance. LEASE - $15.00/sf NNN
Office/3 Garages/2 Apts - Hamilton - S Olden Ave - Contractor's office zoned comm'l. Large parking lot
w/brick pavers. 1st flr office, 3 garages w/ovrhd drs; 2nd flr 2 apts. 1 w/2 bdrms and 1 w/1 bdrm.
Investment property. SALE
Office/Retail - Hamilton - Nottingham Way/Rte 33 - 2,600 sf 3-story w/1,200 sf office, 3 bdrm apt., 2 car
detached garage & 9 car parking. Corner location on main hwy. SALE $250,000
WAREHOUSES
NEW
REDUCED
WHSE/MANUFACTURING
Trenton - Plum Street
150,000 sf bldg. on 3.86 +/- ac, 15'-28' ceilings,
drive-in & dock drs, possible rail srv.,
located in Trenton UEZ. Excellent Condition
SALE
WAREHOUSE/OFFICE
Upper Freehold - Herbert Rd
20,000 sf whse bldg, 1,600 sf office space,
rental income. 10.63 +/- ac, 24' ceilings,
drive-in & dock drs.
SALE - $1.75 M or LEASE - $3.95/sf NNN
Warehouse - Hamilton - Hamilton Ave. - Sale: 9,834 sf bldg, 1 dock dr, 2 ovrhd drive-in drs, 12'ceilings
or Lease: 4,858 sf front section $4/sf. SALE/LEASE
Warehouse - Hamilton - Sculptors Way - 34,566 sf bldg, 3 ovrhd drs w/ covered loading platform,rail siding,
16' clear ceilings. LEASE
Whse/Distribution Bldg. - Hamilton - Whitehead Rd - 100,000 sf multi-story indust. bldg. 1.85 ac. All NJDEP
environmental clearances completed. Will subdivide. SALE/LEASE
Warehouse/Office - Ewing - Stokes Ave - 1,350 sf whse bldg. w/office space, 2 loading drs, onsite & street
parking. LEASE
Whse/Manufacturing - Trenton - Pennington Ave - Hill Indus. Park - 30,000 sf whse space, freight elev.,
dock & drive-in drs, high ceilings, avail. immediately. LEASE - $3.50/sf NNN
Warehouse/Office - Hamilton - Lamberton Rd - Duck Island - Newly remodeled office space 300-1,300 sf;
whse 830-5,000 sf, yard space approx. 17,000 sf (1/3 ac). Easy access to Rte. 29, I-295 & I-195. LEASE
Contractor's Yard - Trenton - Calhoun & New Rose - Presently used as contractor's yard w/2 maint. bldgs.,
1.09 ac. on corner location. Zoned Business B and Residential B. SALE
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College Park at Forrestal Center, 2 Research Way. Available
square feet: 4,674. Net rent $26.50.
Conditions: plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost: $10,322,
net.
National Business Parks, Tom
Stange, 609-452-1300. Building
owner: College Road Associates
LLC. First floor — a 3,344 square
foot space is also available.
College Park at Forrestal Center, 307 College Road East. Available square feet: 3,540, divisible to
3,540. Net rent 25.50. Approximate
per-month cost: $0, gross; $7,523,
net.
National Business Parks, Tom
Stange, 609-452-1300. Building
owner: College Road Associates
LLC. First floor space.
Princeton Borough
190 Nassau Street. Available
square feet: 691, divisible to 251.
Gross rent, $36. Conditions: Full
gross. Approximate per-month cost:
$753, gross.
66-68 Witherspoon Street. Available square feet: 312. Gross rent,
$38.46. Conditions: Gross, one year
of less. Tenant responsible for own
janitorial. Approximate per-month
Second floor, front, one-office suite
with full bath in two-story building
across the street from public library.
One block from Nassau Street. Paid
parking adjacent to building and in
municipal parking garage. All utilities
included.
Palmer Square, 17 and 47 Hulfish Street, 1 Palmer Square, 32
and 44 Nassau Street. Gross rent,
$42. Conditions: Plus tenant electric
and parking.
609-520-0061. Prime location in
downtown near the Nassau Inn. Passenger elevators. Parking deck at
rear of building. Located across from
Princeton University. Unit sizes from
225 to 7,371 SF.
15 Spring Street. Gross rent,
$25. Conditions: Plus utilities.
Commercial Property Network,
Al Toto, 609-921-8844.
Spring Street. Divisible to 1,500.
Al Toto, 609-921-8844. New construction; divisible to 1,500 feet.
Robbinsville
feet: 1,650. Net rent $15.50. Conditions: NNN plus $2.50 CAM charges.
Tenant pays heat and electric. Approximate per-month cost: $2,131,
net.
Ridolfi & Associates, Joseph R.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Large office
with wall-to-wall carpet, kitchenette,
bathroom, sprinkler system, and
smoke alarm. Immediate occupancy.
West Lake Office Building/Washington Town Center, 1 Union
Street. Net rent 16.5. Conditions:
Plus all operating expenses.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. New
construction in a town center environment. Two elevators, mix of office
and retail. 10,279 SF on first floor,
one unit at 6,250 SF and one unit at
1,250 SF on second floor.
South Brunswick
4 Independence Way. Available
square feet: 17,657, divisible to
Plus tenant electric. Approximate
609-520-0061. Class A office, corporate setting, on-site hotel, exercise
room, basketball, volleyball, and tennis. Conference room holds 75 people. Three passenger elevators. Just
off Route 1. Furnished space. 4,657
SF unit on first floor also available.
Stouts Lane Industrial Park, 4951 Stouts Lane. Available square
feet: 17,500, divisible to 5,000. Net
rent $12. Approximate per-month
cost: $5,000, net.
Bill Barish, 609-921-8844. Expansion potential — design to suit.
609-520-0061. Office sublease.
Price negotiable. Located in Dow
Jones Corporate Complex. Furniture
and phones available.
Trenton
50 West State Street. Available
1,500. Gross rent, $29.50. Conditions: Plus tenant electric, with escalations. Approximate per-month cost:
$3,688, gross.
Aegis Property Group, James A.
Kinzig, 215-568-5050. Class A, onsite cafe.
847 Roebling Avenue. Available
square feet: 16,000. Net rent $12.
Conditions: Plus operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost:
$16,000, net.
609-520-0061. One-story building
zoned office, medical and retail. Park
for 105 cars, one drive-in door, lower
level includes 500 SF of storage with
a lift. Close proximity to St. Francis
Hospital and other medical offices.
Scotch Plaza, 1239 Parkway Avenue. Available square feet: 11,316,
Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost: $1,960,
gross.
Nexus Properties, Andrea Sussman, 609-396-6800. Building owner:
Nexus. Park-like atmosphere near
Route 295, complete space planning.
Riverview Plaza, 400 Riverview
Plaza. Available square feet: 10,000,
divisible to 2,000. Gross rent, $22.5.
gross.
Andrew Weinstein, 609-520-0061.
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1800 E. STATE ST - HAMILTON
5 COMMERCE WAY - HAMILTON
AVAILABLE:
WAREHOUSE/FLEX UNITS
2,000-50,000 SF
OFFICE SPACE
700-4,000 SF (Divisible)
• Great Locations off
Route 1/ I-295/195
• Flexible Lease Terms
Situated in a park-like setting overlooking the Delaware River and next
to Trenton Thunder Waterfront Park.
Two-story class A office building features an on-site deli and on-site
property management, plenty of
parking, high visibility and direct access to I-95 and Route 29 South.
28 West State Street. Available
Gross rent, $19.50. Conditions: Plus
tenant electric, with escalations. Approximate per-month cost: $1,625,
gross.
Aegis Property Group, James A.
Kinzig, 215-568-5050. Former Trenton Trust headquarters; first floor formerly a bank branch.
354 South Broad Street. Available square feet: 3,500, divisible to
100.
The DeRosa Group, Elizabeth
Faircloth, 888-482-8776. Class A office building. Walking distance to
Trenton train station, green building
features, base rent price range from
$250 to $3500/month. Free parking,
secuirty, fully handicapped accessible, on-site manager.
West Windsor
West Windsor Professional
Center, 51 B Everett Drive. Available square feet: 33,000, divisible to
1,100. Net rent 12. Approximate permonth cost: $1,100, net.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Next
to three restaurants, near train.
Windsor Business Park, 186
Princeton-Hightstown Road,
Building 5. Available square feet:
26,466, divisible to 13,000. Gross
rent, $27. Conditions: plus tenant
electric. Approximate per-month
New, two-story Class B office building.
902 Carnegie Center. Available
Gross rent and tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost: $14,251,
gross.
Class A; features a cafe, fitness
room, showers, and basement storage; Princeton mailing address.
Carnegie Center, 214 Carnegie
Center. Available square feet:
Plus electric. Approximate per-month
Boston Properties, John K.
Brandbergh, 609-452-1444. Second
floor — divisible.
Center. Available square feet:
Brandbergh, 609-452-1444. Second
floor — divisible.
191 Clarksville Road. Available
square feet: 13,000. Gross rent, $23.
Approximate per-month cost:
$24,917, gross.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Freestanding contemporary building with
huge windows and great signage.
Alexander Park, 777 Alexander
Road. Available square feet: 9,300,
$8,759, gross.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Great
signage, move-in condition, short
term considered, cafe on site.
Center. Available square feet: 8,857.
Gross rent, $34. Conditions: Plus
Brandbergh, 609-452-1444. First
floor.
Princeton Commons, 29 Emmons Drive. Available square feet:
6,700. Gross rent, $22. Approximate
William Barish, 609-921-8844.
Spaces of 1,000-4,000 square feet
available. Walk to restaurants, hotel.
West Windsor Professional
Center, 51 A & B Everett Drive.
Available square feet: 6,550, divisible to 800. Net rent $10. Approximate per-month cost: $667, net.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Immediate occupancy, expansion potential; spaces of 800; 1,450; and
3,150 square feet available.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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Windsor Business Park, 186
Princeton-Hightstown Road. Available square feet: 4,209, divisible to
203. Gross rent, $23.50. Conditions:
five-year term. Approximate permonth cost: $398, gross.
Renovated office building with five
new suites: 203 SF, 920 SF, 1,284
SF, 2,042 SF, 1,686 SF.
Alexander Court, 701 Alexander
Road, Building 3. Available square
feet: 3,191. Net rent $14. Conditions:
NNN plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost: $3,723, net.
Nexus. 24-hour maintenance, onsite daycare center, first-class heating/AC system, complimentary
space planning.
Conditions: Plus electric. Approximate per-month cost: $7,627, gross.
Brandbergh, 609-452-1444. Princeton address, Class A space on second floor.
Princeton Plaza, 731 Alexander
Road, Building 1. Available square
feet: 1,964. Gross rent, 27. Conditions: Plus tenant electric. Approximate per-month cost: $4,419, gross.
Nexus. Brick and glass exterior,
floor-to-ceiling bay windows at the
corner of each floor, 24-hour maintenance, landscaping and ponds.
Conditions: Plus electric. Approximate per-month cost: $3,205, gross.
Brandbergh, 609-452-1444. Class A
space on the second floor.
Flex Space
Ewing
1405 Lower Ferry Road. Available square feet: 39,700. Net rent
$4.45. Approximate per-month cost:
$14,722, net.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Free
standing office, warehouse, lab.
Hamilton
Mill One, 1 North Johnston Avenue. Available square feet:
100,000, divisible to 5,000. Net rent
$2. Approximate per-month cost:
$833, net.
Modern Recycled Spaces, Brian
Rushing, 609-731-0378. Rent
ranges from $2 - $10 NNN.
Studio Park, 1800 East State
Street. Available square feet:
50,000, divisible to 1,000. Net rent
$2. Conditions: short-term available.
net.
2101 East State Street. Available
Class C office space. Rent negotiable.
100 Youngs Road. Available
Net rent $12. Approximate permonth cost: $2,025, net.
Howco Management, Howard
Cohen, 609-896-0505.
Gateway 195 Centre, 5 Commerce Way. Available square feet:
2,200, divisible to 500. Net rent $10.
net.
ranges from $10 - $15 NNN. Class A
space.
Sports & Entertainment
Factory, 200 Whitehead Road. Net
rent $4.50.
609-520-0061. Sports/entertainment
facility. Many variations of space
available with a mix of office and
warehouse. Ceiling heights from 14’
to 32’ clearance. Convenient to
Route 1 and I-95. $4.50/SF warehouse plus operating expenses;
$10.50/SF office plus operating expenses. 18,100 SF available in
Building A; 19,310 SF available in
Building B.
Hightstown
658 Etra Road. Available square
feet: 11,000. Net rent $7.50. Conditions: Plus all operating expenses,
utilities, janitorial. Approximate permonth cost: $6,875, net.
609-520-0061. Recently remodeled
building on 2.5 acres. New parking
lot, two tailgates, three drive-ins, ceiling height: 20’ clearance. New septic
system. Cloe to Route 130 and the
NJ Turnpike.
Hopewell
48 West Broad Street. Available
Conditions: 3 years or less, opt to renew. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,188, gross.
Building owner: Haverim LLC. First
floor office and/or retail space. Currently comprises 3 offices, reception
area, two half baths, data center,
small conference room, two main entrances. Location offers high prominence in the heart of Hopewell Borough.
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Street. Available square feet: 5,000,
divisible to 500. Net rent $10. Approximate per-month cost: $417, net.
Canal Center, 243 North Union
Street. Available square feet: 3,000,
divisible to 500. Net rent $10. Approximate per-month cost: $417, net.
ranges from $10 - $15 NNN. Class
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Lawrence
15-19 Princess Road. Net rent
$14. Conditions: Plus operating expenses.
John Comp, 609-520-0061.
Office/warehouse/medical use. Drive-in doors available, 18’ ceilings.
Located at the intersection of I-295
and Princeton Pike. Unit 1: 3,750 SF
office/flex; unit 2: 7,500 SF office divisible to 1,875 SF; unit 3: 5,000 SF
office/flex. Warehouse/flex: $7/SF
plus operating expenses.
Pennington
Pennington Business Park, 55
Route 31 North. Available square
feet: 12,000.
Class C office space. Rent negotiable.
1589 Reed Road. Available
Net rent $12. Conditions: Plus utilities, tenant electric and janitorial. Approximate per-month cost: $1,500,
net.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. Combination of warehouse and office
space with one drive-in door with 10’
clearance and ceiling heights of 22’.
Equipped with FIOS high speed internet. Convenient to I-95 and Route
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Tree Farm Village, 5 Tree Farm
Road. Divisible to 1,121. Net rent
$2,335, net.
Al Toto, 609-921-8844. New construction; spaces of 1,500 and 1,121
square feet available; Route 31
frontage; office/medical or retail;
liquor license available.
Robbinsville
2317 State Highway Route 33.
Available square feet: 7,100. Net
rent $25.71. Conditions: Ground
lease land/building. Approximate
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. 150x200’ (.69
acre) for development site. TC-2
zoning permits wide range of retail,
offices, banks, restaurants, etc.
Trenton
Roebling Metro/TRW, 171 Jersey Street, Building 6-7. Available
gross.
Nexus properties, Andrea Sussman, 609-396-6800. Building owner:
Nexus. Located near I-195, 95,
Route 1, and NJ Turnpike, on-site
management, 24-hour maintenance,
extensive parking, fiber optics, generous work letter, complimentary
space planning. Office/Warehouse.
Roebling Metro/TRW, 171 Jersey Street. Available square feet:
27,147. Gross rent, 20. Conditions:
Nexus..
125 East State Street. Available
Conditions: Plus electric. Approximate per-month cost: $13,655,
gross.
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U.S. 1
ART
OCTOBER 21, 2009
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
MUSIC
PREVIEW
DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, OCTOBER 21 TO 28
Italian Wine for Beginners,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Italian wine aficianado
and Bucks County resident Augie
Turturro presents. Register. $35.
7 p.m.
Wednesday
October 21
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
The Real Afghanistan
Gardens
Multi-media Presentation on
Afghanistan, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Vandeventer
and Nassau streets, 609-9255022. www.peacecoalition.org.
“On the Ground in Afghanistan: A
Firsthand Account of a Nation in
Conflict,” presented by David
Wildman, executive secretary for
human rights and justice with the
United Methodist Church Board of
Global Ministries. He has been to
Afghanistan four times since
2004, most recently in May, 2009.
Co-sponsored by the Coalition for
Peace Action and the Princeton
United Methodist Church. Free.
7:30 p.m.
From Lawn to Food, Master Gardeners of Mercer County, 431A
Federal City Road, Pennington,
609-989-6830. www.mgofmc.org.
Register. 7:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Nottingham Fire Company, 200 Mercer Street, Hamilton
Square, 800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 2 to 8 p.m.
Blood Drive, New Jersey Blood
Services, Westminster Choir College, Walnut Lane, Princeton,
800-933-2566. www.nybloodcenter.org. 2 to 7:30 p.m.
Art
Financial Workshop
Exhibition and Sale, Princeton
Area Community Foundation,
15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Exhibition and sale featuring works
of Princeton artist Thomas
George including brush and ink
drawings, abstract oil paintings,
watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond
series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m.
Art Exhibit, Rider University,
Bart Luedeke Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
609-896-5033. “A Painter’s Journey: Paintings by Howard Goldstein.” A native of the Bronx, Goldstein settled in central New Jersey almost 50 years ago to launch
a lengthy career at the College of
New Jersey and became chair of
the college’s art department. On
view through Sunday, October 25.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Kingston Wellness Associates,
4446 Route 27, Kingston, 215598-7225. www.thenewtemperament.com. “Money Consciousness and Your Temperament”
presented by Jay Sanders, CPA;
and Michael Edelstein, founder of
the New Temperament. Register.
$25. 7 to 9:30 p.m.
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How Do Artists Connect with Their Subject?
‘Song of Songs,' above, by Frank Magalhaes, is one of 16 installations
in 'Connect,' a group show on view through Thursday, November 12,
at the Gallery at Mercer County College, West Windsor. Gallery talk
For Parents
Monday, October 26, 7 p.m. www.mccc.edu/gallery.
Special Needs, WW-Plainsboro
Art Exhibit, Riverrun Gallery,
287 South Main Street, Lambertville, 609-397-3349. Opening reception for “Breakthrough Paintings,” an exhibit of paintings by
Charles David Viera. Coffee and
guided tour on Sunday, November 1, 2 to 3 p.m. On view to November 2. 6 to 9 p.m.
Drama
She Stoops to Conquer, McCarter Theater, 91 University
Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787.
www.mccarter.org. Comedy
about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. Directed by Nicholas Martin. Through November 1.
$20 to $55. Post performance discussion. 7:30 p.m.
The Grapes of Wrath, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey,
F.M. Kirby Theater, Drew University, Madison, 973-408-5600.
www.shakespearenj.org. Drama
based on John Steinbeck’s novel.
Directed by Joe Discher. $34 to
$54. 7:30 p.m.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Bucks
County Playhouse, 70 South
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Musical. $25. 8 p.m.
Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, George Street
Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue,
New Brunswick, 732-246-7717.
www.gsponline.org. Premiere of
drama about love written and directed by Arthur Laurents. $28 to
$78. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamil-
ton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and
dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Social, G & J
Studios, 5 Jill Court, Building 14,
Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. Standard, Latin, smooth, and rhythm.
Refreshments. BYOB. $12. 8 to
11 p.m.
Salsa Class, Pennington Ewing
Athletic Club, 1440 Lower Ferry
Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000.
www.peachealthfitness.com. For
beginners. $15. 8 to 9:30 p.m.
Literati
Creative Writing, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Maxine Kumin and
Joyce Carol Oates read. 4:30 p.m.
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. “Mrs. Packard and
Other Works” with Emily Mann as
she reads both from her new play
and previous works. 5:30 p.m.
Rutgers University, Douglass Library Galleries, 8 Chapel Drive,
New Brunswick, 732-932-9407. “A
Tongue Within Tongues,” a talk
and poetry performance by Cecilia
Vicuna in conjunction with “Water
Writing: Anthological Exhibition
1966-2009,” an exhibition of works
by the Chilean-born artist. On view
to December 4. Reception followed by performance. 6 p.m.
New Jersey Writers Society,
Hickory Corner Library, 138
Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor, 609-448-1330. Foundations
of creative writing. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Faith
Parish Mission: Get Real, St.
Paul’s Roman Catholic Church,
609-924-1743. www.stpaulsprinceton.org. “Cool Off: Coping
with Anger” and “Brought Near: A
Sense of Belonging in the
Church.” 12:10 and 7:30 p.m.
A Taste of Judaism: Are You Curious?, Har Sinai Temple, 2441
Pennington Road, Pennington,
609-730-8100. www.harsinai.org.
Rabbi Stuart Pollack presents a
modern, Jewish perspective on
living in today’s complicated
world. Register. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Living the Questions, Prince of
Peace Lutheran Church, 177
West Windsor, 609-799-1753.
www.popnj.org. Discussion of issues in modern theology. 7:30
p.m. to 9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Introduction to Korean Cuisine,
Princeton HealthCare System,
Princeton Fitness & Wellness
Center, 1225 Route 206, Princeton, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. Sue K. Choo,
Asian cuisine master chef and author of eight cookbooks, demonstrates the preparation of several
Korean dishes. Anthony Dissen,
Princeton Healthcare dietitian,
discusses Asian cuisine and nutritional values of the dishes served.
Register. $10 includes a light supper. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Special Kids Special Parents,
Plainsboro Municipal Building,
609-799-8036. www.wwpsksp.org. “Fathers Only,” a discussion
of the father’s role in the family
and the unique needs that fathers
have when parenting a special
needs child. 7:45 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, American Legion Post
401, 148 Major Road, Monmouth
Junction, 732-329-9861. 7 p.m.
Werner Lecture Fund, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. www.bethel.net. “Jews in
Sports” presented by Michael
Sleppin, who will talk about famous Jewish sports figures. Refreshments. Free. 7 p.m.
Intro to Your Retirement, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
princetonlibrary.org. Information
about the Engaged Retired program presented by Carol King, a
certified retirement coach. 7 p.m.
Warfield Lectures: Ravished
with Wonder: John Calvin and
the God Who is Love, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Mackay
Campus Center, 609-497-7990.
www.ptsem.edu. “The Restoration of Israel by Gospel and Law:
John Calvin and Ezra the Scribe,”
Randall C. Zachman, University
of Notre Dame. Free. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Darla Rich Trio, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. 5
to 8 p.m.
Bob Shetzline, Limelight, 812
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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Let’s Try . . . Trader Joe’s
A
bout 20 years ago I
worked for a public relations firm
in Carnegie Center with clients in
the Bay Area and Los Angeles.My
boss, a California native, introduced me to two of California’s
finest creations. No, not Napa Valley merlot and the scenic coastal
Route One drive. I’m talking about
Nordstrom’s and Trader Joe’s. My
boss was a stickler for quality and
class but like a lot of people who
can afford the best, she also deeply
loved a great bargain. So after
racking up a four-digit bill at Nordstrom’s she would get a glint in her
eye and say, “Now, Trader Joe’s!
You won’t believe the prices!”
I was skeptical. What could be so
great about a food store? “Trust
me,” my boss said. “You’ll love it.”
And I did. A few years later, when
Nordstrom’s came east (to Edison
and Freehold), and I was still
pulling in a public relations salary, I
said, joy to the world. But when
would Trader Joe’s get here? We
waited and waited and waited, year
after year, driving an hour north to
the Westfield store or an hour south
to the Marlton store. It was like a secret society. Those who knew about
Trader Joe’s and those who didn’t.
Finally Trader Joe’s has opened
in the Square at West Windsor
(a.k.a. the Lowe’s shopping center), a mere four-minute drive from
my office on Roszel Road.
What is it about Trader Joe’s that
makes its customers so besotted it’s
practically embarrassing? People
gush, “Ohhh, I love Trader Joe’s”
the same way they gush, “Ohhh, I
love George Clooney.” All weekend I heard people talking about it:
At the AMC movie theater in
Hamilton on Saturday night, I overheard someone say to their friend,
“I just went to Trader Joe’s. I love
that place.” In my Sunday morning
spinning class at Gold’s Gym, the
two women in front of me were saying “Did you go to Trader Joe’s yet?
I just love Trader Joe’s.”
Here’s the bottom line: Trader
Joe’s has healthy (mostly organic)
food and gourmet food — the two
food categories you usually pay
more for — for cheap. In some cases, scary cheap. Imagine if Sam’s
and Whole Paycheck and Bon Appetit crashed into one another. And
they serve it up in a sweet little store
with a small town market feel. It’s
not impersonal like a supermarket or
cavernous like Sam’s, just five little
aisles that will rock your world.
For some reason going to Trader
Joe’s feels remarkably like going to
a party. They play upbeat music —
oldies that put you in a party mood
or cool Latin American guitar music
that sounds like Ottmar & Liebert.
The people who work there are happy and polite; the people who shop
there are happy, friendly, and polite.
(We learned that the company hires
crew as much — if not more — for
their cheeful personalities as it does
for their food knowledge.)
The first night I went I ran into
one of our freelance writers with his
two sons, big grins on their faces.
“Isn’t this great?” he said. “Dad, can
we get these?” said one of his sons,
holding up a bag of Trader Joe’s
chocolate chip “dunker” cookies.
The second time I went, as I was
deep into the decision-making
process between Sea Salt Brownie
Petites ($3.99), a Viennese lemon
tart ($6.49), the Piled High Apple
Pie ($6.99), and the Rockin’Chocolate Chip Fudge Cake ($5.99), a
woman started talking to me — like
we were at a party and she was introducing herself. “It’s like being in
California,” she said rather breathlessly, as an icebreaker. “They always have little surprises. And little
by Jamie Saxon
tastings of things. I think they buy
from smaller vendors so they can
get unique items.”
I made my way down the refrigerated aisle. Great food for lunches —
all under $5. Things like Curried
Chicken Salad with a side of salad
greens ($3.99); spicy California
rolls ($3.69 for eight); individual
flatbread pizza on handmade ciabatta crust ($4.99); or fresh spring rolls
with shrimp (big shrimp!) and veggies ($4.99 for 10 ounces). By the
way the fresh mild salsa ($2.99 for
12 ounces) is really good. I keep
buying it and finding the container
the next morning three-quarters
empty in my husband’s home office.
S
o how do they do it? Trader
Joe’s Organic Low-fat Plain Yogurt ($2.99 for 32 ounces; the
house brand at Wegman’s is
$3.39), a four-pack of Trader Joe’s
organic applesauce ($1.99); Trader
Joe’s Multi-Grain High-Fiber
Bread ($2.49, and six grams of
fiber in each slice). It just goes on
Imagine if Sam’s and
Whole Paycheck and
Bon Appetit crashed
into one another.
and on. Joe’s O’s (just like Cheerios, $1.99; same price as Wegman’s), Trader Joe’s Organic
Raisin Bran ($4.29). Frozen blueberries ($1.69 for 12 ounces; $2.76
at Wegman’s). In fact all their
frozen berries and frozen mango
chunks are inexpensive — it’s a
smoothie lover’s pajama party.
Free range organic chicken breasts
($6.99 a pound; $8.99 a pound at
Wegman’s). Get the picture?
We tried to interview the
spokesperson for the company but
she said they’re not allowed to talk
about their business practices. Fortunately, an employee standing near
the cheese fridge on one visit offered that they send tasters literally
all over the world to find interesting
food. When they find something
they like, they buy it in bulk — and
pay cash — and in most instances
package it into the Trader Joe’s
house brand, though sometimes
they keep the original brand packaging. They buy direct from farmers
and growers, with no middlemen.
But really, the most fun part of
shopping at Trader Joe’s, in addition to the bargains, is looking for
unusual items, like the Dorot brand
frozen chopped herbs ($1.99).
They come in packages of 20
miniature cubes, like a little ice
tray for game board dice — basil,
cilantro, garlic — you just pop one
out as you need it. One cube equals
one clove of garlic or one teaspoon
of chopped herbs.
Having just tasted green tea ice
cream for the first time, I was happy
to see Trader Joe’s carries it ($3.49),
made by Mikawaya, “the makers of
the finest in traditional Japanese
pastries, family owned and operated
since 1910” (other flavors include
mango and chocolate).
As I picked up a package of
Trader Joe’s frozen mandarin orange chicken ($4.99 for five servings) a salesperson looked over my
shoulder and said, “We can’t keep
those in the store. It’s one of our
most popular items.” In fact, this
happens a lot at Trader Joe’s —
customers talk to one another, and
share what they’ve tried and what
they recommend. I looked down
and indeed there were only five
packages left in a bin that must
have held 50 or 60. That night my
family scarfed it down. Another
item that went over big in my house
were the Trader Joe’s ice cream
sandwiches made with two large
chocolate chip cookies and vanilla
ice cream with chocolate chips
packed around the edges.
Trader Joe’s has a remarkably
global selection of frozen entrees
from virtually every ethnic cuisine
you can think of (chicken tikka
masala with cumin basmati rice,
$3.49; roasted poblano peppers
filled with Spanish rice and shrimp,
$7.99 for a box of two; shrimp
etouffee, $3.49 for 11.3 ounces), in
addition to lots of vegetarian items.
The gourmet cheese prices are way
below Bon Appetit (St. Andre Triple
Creme, $9.99 per pound; $8.99 for a
half pound at Bon Appetit).
Even non-food items will attract
the bargain hunter. Dr. Bronner’s
peppermint pure-castile soap made
with organic oils is one of the few
brand name items in the soap and
shampoo aisle ($2.49 for a fiveounce bar; $3.99 at Whole Foods).
A FaceBook friend raves about
Trader Joe’s Tingly Shampoo.
In one corner of the store is a
kitchen area where they hand out
bite-sized tastings. On one visit
they were serving tomato and fresh
mozzarella on toasted baguette
slices. On another visit mini pancakes (made from Trader Joe’s
pumpkin pancake and waffle mix,
$2.99) with real maple syrup.
Another warm and fuzzy part of
Trader Joe’s is its distinct retro aura.
When you enter the store, you’ll see
a rack displaying Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer, its monthly newsletter.
Written and designed to look like the
Old Farmers Almanac (or the Vermont Country Store catalog), it touts
various food items, written with
folksy humor, illustrated with oldfashioned pen and ink drawings.
I am a big biscotti baker. Biscotti
ingredients are very expensive, like
crystallized ginger, hazelnuts, dried
cherries, and high-end chocolate. I
was happy to read in the Fearless
Flyer about Trader Joe’s uncrystallized ginger (a mere $1.49 for eight
ounces), “lightly sweetened ginger,
without the sugar crystals found on
most dried ginger products.” I can
now get large hazelnuts for $5.49 a
pound ($7.99 a pound at Wegman’s)
and dried cherries for $6.98 a pound
($7.99 at Wegman’s).
The October newsletter reveals
how Trader Joe’s gets its expensive-looking flowers so inexpensively: it buys directly from growers, including orchids from one of
the world’s largest orchid growers,
located in northern California.
There are no keytags that get
you the sale price. A cashier told
me, “We don’t nned to have sales.
Everything’s always the lowest
price.” There are no magazines.
There is no annoying intercom.
You will, however, occasionally
hear bells (Trader Joe’s is built
around a nautical theme), which is
how the service crew communicate. If you bring your own bags,
the cashier gives you a little ticket
to write your name and phone number on, to be added to a drawing for
$25 of free groceries (drawings
take place twice a month).
Acouple of weekends ago, at the
opening night party of “Come
Back, Come Back, Wherever You
Are” at George Street Playhouse,
the woman on line next to me at the
buffet said, by way of an introduction, “Have you been to Trader
Joe’s yet? I just love Trader Joe’s.”
Trader Joe’s, the Square at West
Windsor, 3528 Route 1, 609-8970581. www.traderjoes.com. Open
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North Easton Road, Doylestown,
PA, 215-345-6330. Piano and vocals. 6 to 11 p.m.
Gina Fox, Salt Creek Grille, One
Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200.
www.saltcreekgrille.com. 6 to 9
p.m.
Acoustic Showcase, KatManDu,
Waterfront Park, Route 29, Trenton, 609-393-7300. www.katmandutrenton.com. 15 minute
back-to-back sets. Interested musicians can E-mail Lance Reichert at [email protected]. Free. 7 to 11 p.m.
Copacetic, John & Peter’s, 96
South Main Street, New Hope,
215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Schools
Parent and Student Program,
Princeton Education Network,
High School South, West Windsor, 609-275-9880. www.princetoned.com. What is the difference
between the SAT and the ACT?
presented by Barbara Kalmus.
Register. Free. 7 p.m.
2106 Rte. 206
Belle Mead, NJ 08502
Global Cuisine: Asian cuisine master chef and
author Sue K. Choo of Princeton will demonstrate
the preparation of several Korean dishes at
Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center on Wednesday, October 21. Register at 888-897-8979.
Pictured: Members of the Women’s Club of the Korean Community
Center of Greater Princeton Sookyoung Chon, left, Janelle Baik, Jennifer Lee, master chef Sue Choo, Sooha Lee, Julie Oh, and Alice Yi.
Singles
Professional and Business Singles Network, Friday’s, MarketFair, 3535 Route 1 South, West
Windsor, 610-348-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. After work social.
$12. Cash bar. Ages 40 to 65.
5:30 to 9 p.m.
Thursday
October 22
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
The Other Clear Liquid
Vodka Tasting, On the Bone,
4355 Route 1 South, Monmouth
Junction, 609-514-2663. Samples of premium vodka and reduced-price martinis. 5 to 8 p.m.
Classical Music
Grand Opening
Afternoon Concert, Princeton
University Chapel, Washington
Road, 609-258-3654. Free. 12:30
to 1 p.m.
Rutgers Symphony Band, Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Nicholas Music Center, 85
George Street, New Brunswick,
732-932-7511. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Darryl Bott,
conductor. Free. 8 p.m.
Art
Authentic Japanese Sushi & Cooking
Late Thursdays, Princeton University Art Museum, Campus,
609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Extended
hours to explore the special exhibitions and collections. Many
evenings feature film screenings,
musical performances, and activities. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
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about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. Through November
1. $20 to $55. Pride night. 7:30
p.m.
$78. 8 p.m.
As You Like It, Princeton Shakespeare Company, Whitman College Theater. www.princeton.edu/psc. $10. For information Email [email protected]. 8 p.m.
$54. 8 p.m.
Halloween Play Festival, West
Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 609-799-0462. “Dollhouse
Blues,” “Bloody Massie,” and
“The Most Absolutely Amazing
Halloween Party Ever,” all written
and directed by Michael Kerr, the
library’s reference librarian. 8
p.m.
Film
Jane Austen on Screen,
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922. www.mcl.org. Refreshments. Register.
Free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Alaska on Film, Princeton University Art Museum, McCormick
101, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Screening
of “Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner.”
Reception in the museum from 9
to 10 p.m. 7 and 10 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa Dancing, HotSalsaHot,
Princeton YWCA, 69 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6517070. www.hotsalsahot.com.
Three levels of class instruction
plus social practice, $20. Only social practice, $7. 6:30 p.m.
Dancing by Peddie Lake, 112
Etra Road, Hightstown, 609-4438990. www.dance.homestead.com. Five-week dance class offering instruction by Candace
Woodward-Clough in swing, foxtrot, waltz and Latin dancing. Beginners at 7:30 p.m.; intermediates at 8:30 p.m. Register. $70
per person. 7:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes
followed by guided practice. $10.
8 p.m.
Literati
Princeton Reads, Princeton
Public Library, Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. The role of
tea in Asian culture presented by
Judith Krall Russo. 7 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Gallagher, The Record Collector
Store, 358 Farnsworth Avenue,
Bordentown. www.the-record-collector.com. $25 to $30. 7:30 p.m.
Faith
Parish Mission: Get Real, St.
Paul’s Roman Catholic Church,
609-924-1743. www.stpaulsprinceton.org. “Lighten Up: A
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Christian Sense of Humor” and
“Blessed Among Women: Mary
Tender and Tough.” 12:10 and
7:30 p.m.
and directed by Michael Kerr, a
research librarian at the library.
Recommended for age 8 and up.
Doors open 20 minutes before
show time. Free. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Vodka Tasting, On the Bone,
4355 Route 1 South, Monmouth
Junction, 609-514-2663. Samples of premium vodka and reduced-price martinis. 5 to 8 p.m.
Wine Tasting and Appreciation,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Register. $35.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Inspirational Reading and
Hands-On Healings, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-581-3539. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Register with Susan Pie. 10 a.m.
Mindful Lunch, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland
Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Medication, guided mindful
eating, and mindful eating skills.
Bring your own lunch. Register.
$15. Noon. to 1 p.m.
Sugar Blues Workshop, Lululemon Athletica, 36 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 877-263-9300.
Change your relationship to sugar. Healthy treats. Register. Free.
6:30 p.m.
For Families
Tiger Hall Play Zone, 53 State
Road, Princeton, 609-356-0018.
www.tigerhallkids.com. For ages
to 8. Register. $10. 9:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
Family Theater
Halloween Plays, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. “Dollhouse
Lectures
Good Causes
Breakfast Seminar, Princeton
Greenacres Country Club, Lawrenceville, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. “What Story Does Your
990 Tell?” presented by Nancy W.
Kieling, president, Princeton Area
Community Foundation. Register.
Free. 8 a.m.
Quick Books Class, Joseph
Gormley, Mercerville Fire Company, 2711 Nottingham Way,
Hamilton, 609-936-9336. www.joegormleycpa.com. Advanced.
Register. $149. 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m.
www.ptsem.edu. “The Comfort
and Challenge of Love: John
Calvin and Soren Kierkegaard,”
of Notre Dame. Free. 12:45 p.m.
Windows & Launch Party, Technician X, 1340 Route 206, Skillman, 609-681-1120. www.technicianx.com. Experience the
new operating system on computers built in-house. Giveaways,
prizes, and refreshments. 6 p.m.
First Time Home Buyers’ Seminar, Hamilton Library, 1 Justice
Samuel Alito Jr. Way, 609-9896858. Information about the mortgage process. 6:30 p.m.
www.ptsem.edu. “Hoping for All
Others: Fearing for Myself: John
Calvin and Julian of Norwich,”
of Notre Dame. Free. 7 p.m.
Green Gathering, Whole Earth
Center, 360 Nassau Street,
Celebrating Literacy, Literacy
Programs of New Jersey,
Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick,
732-432-8000. Benefit to give
adults the opportunity to acquire
basic reading skills. Honoree is
Jean A. Holtz, vice president,
communications and operations,
New Brunswick Development
Corporation. Cocktails, dinner,
live music, silent auciton .Register. $125. 6 p.m.
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green cleaning methods. 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
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Bucks County resident
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Wine for Beginners,
Wednesday, October
21, Crossing Vineyards and Winery,
1853 Wrightstown
Road, Washington
Crossing, PA. Register
at 215-493-6500,
extension 19.
Live Music
Karen Rodriguez, Salt Creek
Grille, One Rockingham Row,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 6 to 9 p.m.
Singer Songwriter Showcase,
Triumph Brewing Company,
609-924-7855. www.triumph-
Singles
brew.com. Hosted by Frank
Thewes. 9 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Princeton Junior
School, 90 Fackler Road,
Lawrenceville, 609-942-8126. PreK thru 5. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Divorce Support Group,
Hopewell Presbyterian Church,
Hopewell, 609-213-9509. Register. 7:30 p.m.
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Architecture, Betts Auditorium,
Princeton, 609-258-3741. soa.princeton.edu. Two-day conference begins with “Brainwork” presented by Michael Osman, UCLA.
Continues Saturday, October 24,
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Halloween
Costumes, the Real Deal
Costume, Prop, and Furniture
Sale, Shakespeare Theater of
New Jersey, Madison Municipal
Building, 205 Madison Avenue,
Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Preview
evening. Period style dresses,
masks, and decorative items.
Benefit for the theater’s educational and artistic programs. Continues Saturday, October 24, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. $5. 5 p.m.
Classical Music
Best of Tchaikovsky, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Patriots Theater, War Memorial, Trenton, 800-ALLEGRO. www.njsymphony.org. Selections from symphonies, concertos, operas, and
ballets. $17 to $55. Register separately for optional light supper in
the ballroom at 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Folk Music
Brooks Williams and Unsung
Heroes, Folk Project, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21
Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. $7. 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Paul Anka, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick,
732-246-7469. www.statetheatrenj.org. $45 to $125. 8 p.m.
Art
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. “Art and Life
in Africa” presented by Chika
Okeke-Agulu, curator of the exhibit, “Life Objects: Rites of Passage in African Art.” 12:30 p.m.
Gallery Exhibit, Peddie School,
Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown,
609-490-7550. www.peddie.org.
Opening reception for “Succession: Photographs from 2004 to
2006,” an exhibit of works by
Jonathan Wayne, who gives a
talk at 7 p.m. Gallery hours are
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Architecture
Infrastructure’s Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-Bureaucratic Systems,
Princeton University School of
American Repertory Ballet, Raritan Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908-7253420. www.rvccarts.edu. Choreography by Kirk Peterson, Twyla
Tharp, and Graham Lustig. $15
and $20. 2 p.m.
DanceLab, Princeton YWCA, 59
Paul Robeson Place, Princeton,
609-497-2100. www.ywcaprinceton.org. An evening of experimental and risk-taking dance featuring
area choreographers, dancers,
dance students, and dance enthusiasts to present works of ballet,
modern, hip hop, jazz, Spanish,
and salsa. $5. 8 p.m.
Dracula, Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral, 801 West State
Street, Trenton, 609-392-3805.
Roxey Ballet production of love,
lust, and redemption. $25. 8 and
midnight.
Drama
A Nice Family Gathering, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
The Addams Family Murder
Mystery, Peddler’s Village,
Routes and 202 and 263, Lahaska, PA, 215-794-4000. Interactive
show by Without a Cue Productions. $47.95. 7:15 p.m.
Mike Super, Berlind at McCarter
Theater, 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Interactive magic
and illusion show by Super, the
winner of NBC’s “Phenomenon.”
He promises to make it snow with
his bare hands and levitate an audience member four-and-a-half
feet off the ground. $45. 7:30 p.m.
Rocky Horror Show, Bucks
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Friday and Saturday,
through October 31. $25. 8 and
midnight.
$78. 8 p.m.
Bus Stop, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Drama with Yardley
Players. $14. 8 p.m.
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An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin, New Jersey Performing Arts
Center, Prudential Hall, Newark,
888-466-5722. www.njpac.org.
$23 to $92. 8 p.m.
Happy Days, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau
Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/arts. Samuel Beckett’s drama. $10. 8 p.m.
$54. 8 p.m.
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Film
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.nickelodeonnights.org. Screening of “Cheri,”
2009. $5. 7 and 8:45 p.m.
Dancing
Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000.
advanced beginners. $15. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $15. 8
to 11 p.m.
Comedy
Chris Rich, Keith Anthony, and
Steve Trevelise, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018.
A Palette from Post-Katrina New Orleans:
‘Check Cashing Business, New Orleans, LA,’
2005, by Jonathan Wayne, from 'Succession:
Photographs from 2004 to 2006,' a solo show
opening with a reception on Friday, October 23,
6:30 to 8 p.m., Mariboe Gallery, Peddie School,
Hightstown. 609-490-7550.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Chris
Rich is an actress, singer, cabaret
performer, and mother of six.
Reservation. $20. 8 p.m.
Jeff Dunham, Sovereign Bank
Arena, Hamilton Avenue at Route
129, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. “Comedy Central
Tour” presented by Dunham and
his sidekicks in conjunction with
“The Jeff Dunham Show,” a new
half-hour sketch show on Comedy Central. Dunham’s autobiography, “All By My Selves,” will be
published in November. $45.50. 8
p.m. See story page 43.
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. Architectural, literary, and historical sites and
events through the town. Register. $10. 6 p.m.
Gothic Evening, Mercer Museum, Pine and Ashland streets,
Doylestown, 215-348-9461.
www.mercermuseum.org. Tour
Fonthill to learn about Henry Mercer’s love of detective and Gothic
literature followed by a dramatic
performance of Poe’s “The TellTale Heart” performed by Grover
Silcox. Register. $15. 6:30 p.m.
Faith
For Families
Cafe, Turning Point Church, 15
South Broad Street, Trenton, 609393-9574. The musical stylings of
“In Need of Grace.” 7 p.m.
Not So Scary Halloween, Fernbrook Farms, 142 Bordentown
Georgetown Road, Chesterfield,
609-298-4028. www.fernbrookfarms.com. Hayrides, campfire,
games, hikes, and stories for kids
under eight. Register. $10. 6:30
to 9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Harvest Winemaker’s Dinner,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery,
1853 Wrightstown Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com. Fivecourse dinner with award-winning
wines from the 2009 season. “The
Highs and Lows of the Growing
Season and What We Can Expect
From the Wines” presented by Tom
Carroll Jr., vintner. Register. $89.
7:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Perfect Women, Onsen For All,
4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609924-4800. www.onsenforall.com.
Register. $15. Noon.
Restorative Yoga, Four Winds
Yoga, 114 West Franklin Avenue,
Pennington, 609-818-9888.
www.fourwindsyoga.com. $17.
5:45 to 6:45 p.m.
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
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Review: ‘She Stoops to Conquer’
O
liver
Goldsmith’s
“She Stoops to Conquer” is most
often called “a restoration comedy.” The reality is more complicated. The play was written in 1773,
more than a century after the
restoration of the monarchy in
Britain (1660). And secondly, the
bulk of the comedies written at the
time fall into a category scholars
refer to as “sentimental comedies.”
But Goldsmith and fellow writer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (who
wrote “The School for Scandal”
and “The Rivals” in 1775) rejected
sentiment and offered what was
called “the laughing comedies.”
These works tried to shum romantic love, instead preferring nimble
wit and social skills, and “She
Stoops to Conquer falls within
these guidelines. It remains a popular play to this day and McCarter
Theater is currently staging a most
welcome revival — faithful to the
period, yet surprisingly modern,
fast-paced, colorful, and verbally
delicious.
The plot is a thicket of mistaken
identities, tumbling at times into
full farce. A wealthy country
squire, Mr. Hardcastle (played
with a sly sense of pomposity by
veteran actor Paxton Whitehead),
arranges for his daughter, Kate
(Jessica Stone, complete with a
mischievous understanding of
what is needed to attract the male
of the species), to meet Charles
Marlow (Jon Patrick Walker), son
of a wealthy aristocrat. The obvious plan is that the pair will fall in
love and marry. Marlow, however,
has an affliction — intense nervousness when confronted with upper-class ladies; the complete op-
posite when meeting lower-class
women. Kate, naturally enough,
figures all this out and “stoops below her position,” posing as a barmaid, to entice the young man.
Now that you have the concept
of the title of the work, add a subplot. Hardcastle’s second wife
(Kristine Nielsen, in a portrayal
that can be handled to excess, but
here is played just to the lip without
ever flowing over) is determined
McCarter Theater is
currently staging a
most welcome revival
— faithful to the
period, yet surprisingly modern, fastpaced, colorful, and
verbally delicious.
that her not-too-brilliant son, Tony
Lumpkin (Brooks Ashmanskas, in
a role that sometimes is played in
drag and here is nicely handled as a
bumptious but teachable lad —
with joy and gusto), shall marry her
niece, Constance Neville (Rebecca
Brooksher). Meanwhile, Constance is planning to elope with a
fine young gentleman, George
Hastings (Jeremy Webb).
A
s is usual in plays of this era,
things get much more complicated,
expecially when Marlow and Hastings confuse the Hardcastle home
with a country inn and are surprised then infuriated by the welcome they receive. In the process
Tony manages to steal his mother’s
jewels, hoping to speed the elopement of his rival. We should remember that the original title of
Goldsmith’s play was “Mistakes of
the Night.”
Nicholas Martin has directed at
a sprightly pace, as indeed he must,
lest the audience be permitted too
much time to catch up with the
twists and turns of the tale. Surprisingly, the evening never seems
rushed and the actors clearly have
great fun with their eccentricities,
especially the characters of Tony
Lumpkin and Mrs. Hardcastle.
And control is never tossed aside
so that the performance never sags.
David Korins’ set is both functional and extremely intricate, with
plenty of nooks and crannies, a
large stairway to the second floor,
and enough doors so that one might
expect farce to rear its head. Ben
Stanton has lit it with care and
Gabriel Berry has supplied costumes of the period, some with
considerable flair.
Goldsmith’s attempt to avoid
sentimental comedy was not always followed by later playwrights
and eventually on both sides of the
Atlantic, we dissolved into melodrama. But this production is a rare
opportunity to see a rather unique
work, toasted to a fine veneer and
presented in real style.
— Stu Duncan
“She Stoops to Conquer”, McCarter Theater, 91 University
Place, Princeton. Through Sunday,
November 1. Comedy about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. $20 to $55. 609-258-2787
or www.mccarter.org.
Putting Up Appearances: Kristine Nielsen and
Jeremy Webb (in the background: Rebecca
Brooksher). Photo: T. Charles Erickson
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October 23
Lectures on Public Policy
Series, Institute for Advanced
Study, Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein
Drive, Princeton, 609-734-8175.
www.ias.edu. “Torture and Accountability in the War on Terror:
What Should Be Done” presented
by David Cole, Georgetown University and Center for Constitutional Rights. Free. 5:30 p.m.
Meeting, Toastmasters Club,
Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, 609306-0515. http://ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Build speaking,
leadership, and communication
skills. Guests are welcome. 7:30
p.m.
Science Lectures
Activities Night, American
Chemical Society, Princeton,
Frick Laboratory, Washington
Road and William Street, Princeton, 609-258-2937. www.princeton.edu. “Chemistry Is Elemental”
includes demonstrations and
hands-on activities for ages five
and up. Register at [email protected]. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Live Music
Vinnie Rome, Limelight, 812
DJ Spoltore, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Music from the 1960s
and ‘70s. 6:45 p.m.
Franklin-Alison Jazz Combo, BT
Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South,
Jazz, blue, swing, and funk. 7
p.m.
Eric Mintel, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7
to 10 p.m.
Concert and Sing Along, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton,
613 Ridge Road, Monmouth
Junction, 732-274-2410. www.iyiprinceton.com. Diamond Earth
present adult contemporary music with a spiritual message. Audience participation is encouraged.
Covers, originals, and Sanskrit
chants from their new CD, “Joy Is
Everywhere.” $12. 7:30 p.m.
Vince Martell from Vanilla Fudge
and the John Bushnell Band,
The Record Collector Store,
358 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.the-record-collector.com. $17. 7:30 p.m.
Bob Egan, Bowman’s Tavern,
1600 River Road, New Hope, PA,
215-862-2972. www.bowmanstavernrestaurant.com. Open mic
and piano. 8 p.m.
Aberdeen Alert, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 p.m.
Marco Benevento, Chris Harford
with Band of Changes, Daddy
Green Jeans, and Dapp, Joe’s
Mill Hill Saloon, 300 South
Broad Street, Trenton, 609-3947222. $20. 8 p.m.
John Bianculli Trio with Jackie
Jones, Christopher’s, Heldrich
Hotel, 10 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-214-2200. www.theheldrich.com. 8:30 p.m.
Karaoke Night, Hillbilly Hall Tavern and Restaurant, 203
Hopewell-Wertsville Road,
Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. DJ Mike. 9:30
p.m.
Soir du Femme, John & Peter’s,
96 South Main Street, New Hope,
Successful Fridays, The
Phoenix, 120 South Warren
$10 to $20. 10 p.m.
Choice Society, Tre Piani, 120
Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-452-1515.
www.choicesociety.ning.com. Hip
hop, reggae, and pop music.
Drink specials, hors d’oeuvres. $5
admission. 10 to 2 a.m.
On the Catwalk: The annual Palmer Square
fashion show to benefit Dress for Success takes
place Sunday, October 25, Nassau Inn. Register
at 609-921-2853. Above: Paola Medina in a dress
from Zoe at last year’s show.
Outdoor Action
Scrabble
Family Fun Maze, Corner Copia
Farm Market, 299 PrincetonHightstown Road, East Windsor,
609-426-8884. Challenging 10acre corn maze includes more
than two miles of potential pathways depicting a barn and farm
animals. $9.99. Bring a flashlight.
7 to 11 p.m.
Classics Used and Rare Books,
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. 6:30 p.m.
Retail Therapy
Book Sale, Mary Jacobs Library,
64 Washington Street, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7073. Benefit for Friends
of the library and Rocky Hill Community Group. $10. 4 to 7 p.m.
Cooking Demonstrations, Liberty Village Outlets, 1 Church
Street, Flemington, 908-7828550. www.premiumoutlets.com.
Cookware, menu, guest chefs at
Le Creuset. Samples at Harry &
David. 5 to 7 p.m.
Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Preview
evening. Period style dresses,
masks, and decorative items.
Benefit for the theater’s educational and artistic programs. Continues Saturday, October 24, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. $5. 5 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, One South Rustic
Grill, 4095 Route 1 South, South
Brunswick, 732-355-1030. Happy
hours for singles 35 and up. DJ by
Music Express begins at 10 p.m.
Free food. No cover. 4 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. Support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Professional and Business Singles Network, Brookside Manor,
50 Bustleton Pike, Trevose, PA,
610-384-5544. www.PBSNinfo.com. Halloween dance and social. Costumes optional. Cash
bar. Ages 40 to 65. $15. 8 p.m.
Halloween Dance, Yardley Singles, Yardley Country Club, 1010
Reading Avenue, Yardley, 215736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. $13. Costume party. 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Mercer County Widows and
Widowers, Knights of Columbus,
1451 Klockner Road, Hamilton,
609-585-3453. Dance social. $8.
7:30 p.m.
Saturday
October 24
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Bow Wow, I’m a Witch
Pet Masquerade, Animal Alliance,
Ely Field, North Main Street, Lambertville. www.animalalliancenj.org. Parade and contest for costumed pets. Register. $12 per dog.
Benefits adoption, rescue, rehabilitation, and low cost spay and
neuter clinic. Food, vendors, and
prizes. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Classical Music
20th Anniversary Concert, Newtown Chamber Orchestra,
Bucks County College, 275
Swamp Road, Newtown, 215968-2005. www.newtownchamberorchestra.org. Purcell’s “The
Gordian Knot Untied” plus three
original pieces. Russell Hoffmann
conducts. $25. 7:30 p.m.
Opera Arias and Duets, Opera
Project, Saint Andrew’s Church,
50 York Street, Lambertville, 609397-2425. Benefit for Doctors
Without Borders. $18. 8 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2585000. www.princeton.edu/utickets. Program of Prokofiev,
Mozart, Ravel, and Shostakovich.
Soloists include Martha Elliott,
‘82, soprano; and Jennifer Chu,
‘06, piano. Michael Pratt conducts. $18. 8 p.m.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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33
Clarence Clemons: The Accidental Saxophonist
Big Man and the Boss:
Clarence Clemons and Bruce
Springsteen in concert.
by Susan Van Dongen
Y
Clemons says. “But it’s a sign of growth.
These are some historic shows for us,
though, because they are the last ones (at
ou can picture Frank Sinatra hav- these venues).”
ing a private audience with the Pope, cavort“Big Man” is a breezy page-turner, and
ing in Las Vegas and Palm Springs, or selling you can almost hear Clemons sitting next to
out Madison Square Garden. But you proba- you telling these stories in his deep, gentlebly can’t imagine Sinatra poring over the giant voice and easy laugh. The book has its
dictionary.
origins in the tales the guys in the band told to
Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life each other over the years — on the road, far
tenor saxophone player with Bruce Spring- from home, waiting in airports, or stuck on
steen’s E-Street Band, relates that Old Blue the highway. “I’ve spent more time in traffic
Eyes did in fact break out his Webster’s to look than Steve Winwood,” Clemons writes.
up “hemi-powered drone.” Sinatra was plan- (Winwood is a founding member of the
ning to record “Born to Run,” but he was flum- group Traffic.)
moxed by the lyrics. Springsteen is singing
“I feel like I’ve been writing this book all
about a muscle car with a powerful engine, be- my life, talking and telling stories, so one day
ing driven by “drones,” young men who aren’t Don (Reo) said, ‘let’s put it down on paper,’
thinking, just grooving on their rides.
and I just kept talking,” Clemons says. “I
In his new book, “Big Man: Real Life and didn’t want to just tell stories about my life,
Tall Tales” (Grand Central Publishing,
so it’s not a true autobiog$26.99, released Wednesraphy. I wanted it to be
day,
October
21),
entertaining, so we ac‘I’m very happy that
Clemons and co-author
complished this by mixDon Reo write about conI have been able to
ing the tall tales with the
versing with Sinatra in a
true stories.”
do
this,
because
chapter titled “The LegFrom playing pool
some people never
end of the Big Man Meetwith Fidel Castro and the
ing the Chairman.” Over
realize what their
late “gonzo” author
early morning drinks in
Hunter Thompson, to
true
purpose
is,’
Miami Beach, Sinatra anfishing with author Norsays Clemons.
nounces that he’d like to
man Mailer, or going to a
record “Born to Run” —
Red Sox game with
his way — and asks
singer Annie Lennox (from the ‘80s duo Eu“What the (heck) is a hemi-powered drone? rythmics), almost every chapter has a “did he
Why a drone? That word is very specific.”
really do that?” feeling to it. For example,
The surrealistic incident gives the reader a did Groucho Marx randomly answer a pay
sense of the characters who have crossed phone Clemons called by mistake? “That
Clemons’ path. “I had to include my meeting was hilarious,” Clemons says. “His wife was
with Sinatra, since he’s a Jersey boy. But can shopping and he was standing outside the
you imagine Sinatra singing ‘Born to Run’in store, the phone rang and he picked it up.
that Sinatra style?” he says in a phone inter- That’s the way he was, so spontaneous.
view from his hotel room in Manhattan, just
“It helps to exaggerate some of the stories,
hours before a Springsteen concert at Giants makes them come alive more,” he continues.
Stadium.
“But hey, they’re all true.”
The Sinatra tale is just one in a series of
bizarre conversations and encounters Clemons and Reo share in “Big Man,” the first
orn in January, 1942, in Norfolk, Virbook of its kind to be written by a member of ginia, Clemons is the son of Clarence Sr., who
the E-Street Band. (Drummer Max Weinberg owned a fish market, and Thelma, a homewrote a book about drumming, according to maker. He was originally immersed in gospel
Clemons).
music, since at least one relative was a South“Big Man” is not your typical memoir, ei- ern Baptist preacher. Clemons first started
ther. It has a mythic, funny, and outrageous playing music at age nine, when his parents
quality to it and is filled with true, unknown gave him an alto sax for Christmas. Influenced
stories from the E-Street Band. It also cap- by King Curtis and the Coasters, he eventually
tures Clemons’ larger-than-life storyteller switched to tenor sax. He won two scholarpersona in a series of hybrid fact-and-fiction ships to Maryland State College (music and
stories. The Big Man himself will be at football) and played well enough to get some
Barnes and Noble in West Windsor, October attention from the Cleveland Browns. Howev27, to sign the book. Clemons will just be er, a car accident ended any hopes for a career
coming off a string of Springsteen concerts in sports, and he turned his attention to music,
bidding farewell to, first, Giants Stadium, joining the Vibratones in the early ’60s. While
then the venerable Spectrum in Philadelphia. still with the band, he moved north to Newark
“The wrecking ball is on its way and it’s so to play and record. Between 1962 and 1970, he
sad to see the destruction of all these old also worked as a counselor for emotionally
places, because there’s so much history,”
B
disturbed young men at the Jamesburg Training School for Boys.
Clemons met Springsteen in 1971 when
he stopped into a club in Asbury Park to
“hear this guy everyone was talking about.”
It was literally a dark and stormy night and
when Clemons opened the door, the wind
blew it off the hinges. They played together
for the first time that night, performing an
early version of “Spirit in the Night.”
After their initial meeting, Springsteen
and Clemons met up occasionally through
music, and Springsteen would sometimes sit
in with Norman Seldin and the Joyful Noyze,
the band Clemons played in before he joined
Springsteen’s band. In the summer of 1972
Springsteen was recording his first album,
“Greetings from Asbury Park,” and decided
to have Clemons play sax on a couple of
songs. Clemons knew this was the band for
him.
The Big Man has been married five times
and has four children, and lives primarily in
West Palm Beach, Florida.
The book is not all whoppers and
grandiosity. Clemons writes thoughtfully
about the disappointments in his youth —
particularly with women — his physical pain
(he has had multiple knee replacement surgeries, most recently in October, 2008), and
his lifelong spiritual journey.
Meeting Springsteen was part of that spiritual growth, he believes, because it enabled
him to make a living doing something that he
passionately loves. Clemons also reflects
that Springsteen is one of those rare friends
he immediately connected with. “The night
that we first played together, we looked in
each others’ eyes and it was like, ‘wow, I
found what I was looking for all my life,’”
Clemons says.
While working on the song “Freeway of
Love” with Aretha Franklin in the early
1980s, Clemons was introduced to spiritual
advisor and guru Sri Chinmoy by drummer/
producer Narada Michael Walden. Chinmoy
told the sax player that his purpose in life was
to bring joy and light to the world.
“This is what I do, what my music does, and
I’m very happy that I have been able to do this,
because some people never realize what their
true purpose is,” he says. “People have said to
me, ‘your music opened a light to my heart,’
and this is so rewarding to me because I put
everything into my music, my whole soul.”
The joy of playing music also supersedes
the pain Clemons endures. A coterie of physical therapists and helpers get him prepared for
the lengthy Springsteen shows, but then the
music keeps him going.
“I love my job, and there’s so much pleasure getting out there,” Clemons says. “When I
walk on the stage, I call it the healing floor.
When Bruce counts out ‘one, two, three, four,’
all the pain goes away. And that’s why I can do
what I do for as long as I have to do it. The
mind is the strongest thing, stronger than any
pain, but you have to believe and you have to
be sincere. I am sincere when I go out on the
stage, and I truly believe in what I’m doing.”
Author Event, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, 3535 US Route 1 South, West Winsor.
Tuesday, October 27, 7 p.m. (The line starts at
5 p.m.) Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, author
of “Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales,” a memoir by Bruce Springsteen’s saxophonist.
609-716-1570.
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area
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private school made it
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“The Real 100”?
Discover
Waldorf
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Open House
Oct. 24 at 10 a.m.
www.princetonwaldorf.com
The Art of Photography: Moth Generator: Magnetic Moth,’ above left, by
Christine Chin, Princeton Class of 1997, from an alumni exhibition honoring
photographer and visual arts professor Emmet Gowin opening on Saturday,
October 24, 2 p.m., Rockefeller College Common Room, Princeton University,
running concurrently with ‘Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait,’ opening the
same day at Princeton Art Museum (‘Emmet Gowin,’ above right, by Sam
Fentressca, 1982, gelatin silver print). 609-865-5644.
October 24
Concert for Organ and Orchestra, St. Charles Borromeo
Catholic Church, 47 Skillman
Road, Skillman, 609-466-0300.
www.borromeo.org. Time Keyes
Consort performs on the recently
installed 27 rank pipe organ. $10.
8 p.m.
Folk Music
Susan Cowsill and Anthony da
Costa, Concerts at the Crossing, Unitarian Church at Washington Crossing, Titusville, 609510-6278. www.concertsatthecrossing.com. Susan Cowsill was
a member of the Cowsills, the
1960s family pop group when she
was only eight. The group served
as the real-life inspiration for the
“Partridge Family” television
show. She will perform with her
band, which includes her husband Ross Broussard. $23. 8
p.m.
Pop Music
Rita Moreno, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Chase
Room, Newark, 888-466-5722.
www.njpac.org. “An Evening with
Rita Moreno.” $48 and $68. 7 and
9:30 p.m.
Andrea Marcovicci, Berlind Theater at the McCarter, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. “I’ll Be
Seeing You: Love Songs of World
War II.” $48 and up. Sold out.
7:30 p.m.
World Music
Orquestra de Sao Paulo, State
Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue,
statetheatrenj.org. Evelyn Glennie
is the soloist for a new work written for her by Brazilian composer
Marlos Nobre. Kazem Abdullah
conducts. $32 to $67. 8 p.m.
Art
Art for Families, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. “Where
in Africa Is It?” in conjunction with
“Life Objects: Rites of Passage in
African Art.” 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
Annual Juried Exhibition,
Phillips Mill, 2619 River Road,
New Hope, 215-862-0582. www.phillipsmill.org. Annual fall juried
exhibition featuring artists of the
Delaware Valley. Through Sunday, October 31. $3. 1 to 5 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Princeton University
Art Museum, Princeton campus,
609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Opening of
“Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait.” On view to December 18.
Gowin discusses his career in
photography and teaching at
Princeton University at 6 p.m.,
McCosh 10. Reception in the museum at 7 p.m. 2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gratz Gallery, 68
South Main Street, Doylestown,
PA, 215-348-2500. www.gratzgallery.com. Opening reception
for “Pennsylvania Painters,” an
exhibit featuring Pennsylvania impressionist artists include William
Lathrop, Arthur Meltzer, George
Sotter, and Walter Baum. On view
to December 31. 6 to 9 p.m.
Architecture
Infrastructure’s Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-Bureaucratic Systems,
Princeton University School of
Architecture, Betts Auditorium,
Princeton, 609-258-3741. soa.princeton.edu. Day two of conference. Register. 9:30 a.m.
Dance
Dracula, Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral, 801 West State
Roxey Ballet production of love,
lust, and redemption. $25 and
$30. 4 and 8 p.m.
American Repertory Ballet, Raritan Valley Community College,
Route 28, North Branch, 908725-3420. www.rvccarts.edu.
Choreography by Kirk Peterson,
Twyla Tharp, and Graham Lustig.
$25 and $30. 8 p.m.
Drama
The Trial of the Century, Famous Trials Theater, Hunterdon
County Courthouse, 75 Main
Street, Flemington, 908-5954849. www.famoustrials.com.
Dramatic reenactment of the
1935 Lindbergh baby kidnapping
trial. $28. 2 and 8 p.m.
$78. 2 and 8 p.m.
Making an Impression: 'A Bowl of Posies,'
oil on canvas, by Cora Smalley Brooks, from
'Pennsylvania Painters,' featuring impressionist
artists, opening with a reception on Saturday,
October 24, 6 to 9 p.m., Gratz Gallery, 68 South
Main Street, Doylestown. 215-348-2500.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
$54. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. $20 to $55. Opencaptioned performance. 3 and 8
p.m.
Rocky Horror Show, Bucks
Main Street, New Hope, 215-8622041. www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. Through October 31.
$25. 4 and 8 p.m.
A Nice Family Gathering, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
The Addams Family Murder
Mystery, Peddler’s Village,
Routes and 202 and 263, Lahaska, PA, 215-794-4000. Interactive
show by Without a Cue Productions. $47.95. 7:15 p.m.
p.m.
Film
Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.nickelodeonnights.org. Screening of “Cheri,”
2009. $5. 7 and 8:45 p.m.
Smart Kids, New Jersey Film
Festival, Scott Hall 123, College
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732932-8482. www.njfilmfest.com.
“Everything Is Ordinary,” 2009;
“Schrodinger’s Cat,” 2008; and
“Children of Invention,” 2009.
$10. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Classes and Workshops,
Web of Compassion, Suzanne
Patterson Center, 45 Stockton
www.webofcompassion.org.
Dance and yoga classes. Call for
schedule. 2:30 to 6:20 p.m.
Rum & Onions, Princeton Country Dancers, Lawrence Intermediate School, 66 Eggerts Crossing Road, 609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Annual Halloween dance. Afternoon
and evening dances with a
potluck supper at 6 p.m. Basics
workshops at 2:30 and 7 p.m.
Costume parade at 7:30 p.m.
Dessert contributions also welcome. $20 for full day. 3 p.m.
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian
Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road, 609945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Swing workshop with
Carol Feldman followed by open
dancing. No partner needed. $12.
7:30 p.m.
11 p.m.
Literati
609-497-1600. www.labyrinth-
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Live at Salt Creek: Gina Fox performs
jazz, blues, and roots music on Wednesday,
October 21, 6 to 9 p.m., Salt Creek Grille,
Forrestal Village. 609-419-4200.
books.com. Rebecca Stead, author of “When You Reach Me,”
reads from her new novel. The
fictional work is aimed at fourth to
eighth grade students. 11 a.m.
Book Fair, New Jersey Romance
Writers, Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel, Iselin. www.njromancewriters.or. In conjunction
with Put Your Heart in a Book
Conference. Shirley Hailstock of
Plainsboro, a multi-published author with Harlequin, is one of the
three finalists for the Golden Leaf
contest, in the long contemporary
category, for her book, “The Right
Wedding Gown.” A portion of the
proceeds from the fair will be donated to Literacy Volunteers of
America, New Jersey. 4 to 5:30
p.m.
Good Causes
Car Wash, Pennington Ewing
Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000.
www.peachealthfitness.com. Marine Corps members washing
cars to raise fund toward Toys for
Tots program. Donations invited.
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Pet Masquerade, Animal Alliance, Ely Field, North Main
Street, Lambertville. www.animalalliancenj.org. Parade and contest for costumed pets. Register.
$12 per dog. Benefits adoption,
rescue, rehabilitation, and low
cost spay and neuter clinic. Food,
vendors, and prizes. 11:30 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Dining by Design: Block Party,
Arts Council of Princeton, Atrium, 23 Orchard Road, Skillman,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Cocktail reception followed by dinner parties
featuring artistic presentations at
select area private homes. Benefit for programs that benefit at-risk
youth. The theme, inspired by the abstract
geometric paintings of
Piet Mondrian, features
decor enhanced by students in community arts
programs. Silent auction
features custom designed
dining experiences. Register. $175. 5:30 p.m.
A Capital Affair Gala,
Capital Health, Hyatt
Carnegie Center, West
Windsor, 609-815-7200.
www.capitalhealth.org.
Program, dinner, entertainment by Melanie Rice.
Benefit for plans for expansion and growth. Register. $300. 6 p.m.
Central Asia Institute
Fundraiser, Central
Asia Institute, Hyatt Regency, 2
Albany Street, New Brunswick.
www.ikat.org. Benefit dinner with
Greg Mortenson, author of “Three
Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission
to Promote Peace, One School At
A Time.” Register by E-mail at [email protected]. $125 to $250. 6
p.m.
Tricky Tray Basket Auction, The
Giving Network, Manville VFW,
600 Washington Road, Manville,
908-927-0601. www.givingnetwork.bravehost.com. Benefit to
provide basic household items to
needy people. Register. $15. 6:30
p.m.
Opera Arias and Duets, Opera
Project, Saint Andrew’s Church,
50 York Street, Lambertville, 609397-2425. Benefit for Doctors
Without Borders. $18. 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Chris Rich, Keith Anthony, and
Steve Trevelise, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, 609-987-8018. www.-
catcharisingstar.com. Chris Rich
is an actress, singer, cabaret performer, and mother of six. Reservation. $20. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30
p.m.
Pub Crawl
Witches, Wenches, and Vixens
Pub Crawl, New Hope Chamber
of Commerce, Stephen House,
28 West Bridge Street, New
Hope, PA, 908-752-1174. www.newhopechamber.com. Refreshments, drum circle, costume contest. $30. 6 p.m.
Fairs
Fall Foliage Weekend, Woodsedge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne
Station Road, Stockton, 609-3972212. www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.co. Bring your own container and create holiday decorations
with natural materials. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
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Oktoberfest, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Dance
to songs by Philadelphia German
Band. Beer and German dishes
available. Rescheduled from Saturday, October 17, due to rain.
Noon to 4 p.m.
Fine Rugs
Princeton Rug Society, Lawrence Nature Center, Dexter
Woods, Lawrence, 609-8836116. “Monsters in Your Closet
and Under Your Bed,” a talk and
discussion about moths and other
insect pests. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Farmers Market, Montgomery
Friends of Open Space, Village
Shopping Center, Routes 206
and 518, 908-359-9665. www.Montgomeryfriends.org. Organic
vegetables, breads, flowers, popcorn, honey, and pasture-fed beef
and pork. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
West Windsor Community
Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive
Parking Lot, Princeton Junction
Train Station, 609-577-5113.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Chuck Schaeffer
presents folk, bluegrass, country,
country rock, and Americana music. A member of Bucks County
Folk Song Society and Philadelphia Folksong Society, he has
been performing solo for close to
four years. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
18th Century Foodways, Johnson Ferry House, Washington
Crossing State Park, New Jersey,
609-737-2515. Food historian Susan McLellan Plaisted presents a
harvest meal. Colonial toys,
games, corn shucking, and activities. Hot and cold cider. Donations invited. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 344
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com. 2
to 5 p.m.
Premiere Vintner’s Dinner,
Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46
Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Sergio and Violetta
Neri release their 2006 Chardonnay. Register. $55. 7 to 9 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Reiki Level 1 Training, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. Register. $150. 9 a.m.
Caring for the Caregiver, Robert
Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609-584-5900. www.rwjhamilton.org. “Spiritual Aspects of Caregiving” presented by
Ted Taylor, director of pastoral
care, RWJ Hamilton Hospital;
“Taking Time to Care for Yourself”
presented by Barbara DeAngelis,
Alzheimer’s Association; “Helping
Your Loved One Cross the Rainbow Bridge” presented by Carolyn Fortenberry, bereavement
counselor, Samaritan Hospice.
Register. Free. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wellness Expo, Cha Cha Gifts
and Wellness Center, 1300 Livingstone Avenue, North
Brunswick, 732-249-1821. www.chachagift.com. Tarot card reading, psychic reading, channeling,
aura reading, crystal healing, and
more. Healings, $35; readings,
$25. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tinnitus Self-Help Group, First
Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch
Road, Ewing, 609-883-0203. Discuss Dr. Richard Salvi’s research
about fluctuating tinnitis, auditory
causes, regeneration, and treatment. 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Kabbalah and the Yoga Teachings, Integral Yoga of Princeton, 613 Ridge Road, Monmouth
Junction, 732-274-2410. www.integralyogaprinceton.org. Mini
retreat presented by Prahaladan
(Philip David) Mandelkorn. A former U.S. Navy Seal team platoon
commander, Time Magazine correspondent, and speechwriter for
Robert Kennedy, he has collaborated on books, “To Know Your
Self,” “The Living Gita,” and
“Fragments of a Future Scroll.”
Free, donations invited. 1 to 6
p.m.
Interactive Workshop, In Balance Center for Living, 230
South Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-4949. www.inbalancecenter.com. “Restoring
Balance to Body, Mind, and Spirit
Through Traditional Chinese
Medicine” presented by Dr. J.K.
Kuan includes acupuncture, chiropractic care, herbal medicine,
nutrition, and Tai Chi. $10. 1:30 to
3:30 p.m.
Agama Yoga, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland
Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Intermediate series with Andrew Reece. Register. $35. 2
p.m.
Vacation Meditation, Princeton
Center for Yoga & Health, 50
Vreeland Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Andrea
Brachfeld presents a program
featuring a combination of meditation, music, and storytelling to
access a peaceful state of mind at
any time and any place. Guided
meditation using flute music, storytelling accompanied by music,
and a solo flute concert. Register.
$20. 7 p.m.
History
Learning Seeds, New Jersey
Museum of Agriculture, College
Farm Road and Route 1, North
Brunswick, 732-249-2077. www.agriculturemuseum.org. New exhibit depicts the story of GrossBreesen, an agricultural training
farm for youth that was established on the German and Poland
border before the outbreak of
World War II. The exhibit created
by Steve Strauss, a New York City
photographer, focuses on the early individuals who took Curt
Bondy’s teachings on the farm out
into the world. Several of them will
be at the opening festivities. 1 to
3 p.m.
Cemetery Tour, Lawrence Historical Society, Brearley House,
Meadow Lane, Lawrenceville,
‘The Last Chance Texaco’: Singer-songwriter
Ricky Lee Jones performs on Tuesday, October
27, at McCarter Theater. 609-258-2787.
609-895-1728. www.thelhs.org.
Guided tour of five cemeteries in
town. $10 includes bus transportation, refreshments, house
tours, and ghost stories. Register.
2 p.m.
Behind the Scenes Tour, Mercer
Museum, Pine and Ashland
streets, Doylestown, 215-3489461. www.mercermuseum.org.
One-hour tour that travels up the
tower and through back passages. Not recommended for children under six. Must be able to
climb steep stairs. Register. $15.
6:30 p.m.
Halloween Dinner Party, Historic
Morrisville Society, Summerseat, Hillcrest and Legion avenues, Morrisville, PA, 215-2953645. “Ghosts of Gettysburg” presented by Pat Peters, civil war reenactor, who tells about the Colonial-era spies tried at Sum-
merseat and housed in the basement prior to their hanging. $20
includes dinner; $25 for dinner in
the Crypt Cafe (haunted basement). Costumes encouraged. 7
to 10 p.m.
Ghost Tour, Princeton Tour
Company, Starbucks, 98 Nassau
www.princetontourcompany.com.
Listen to chilling ghost stories and
walk through creepy walkways
while holding a lantern. Register.
$10. 8 p.m.
For Families
Fall Family Fun, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, 609924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Pick your own apples, pumpkins, and raspberries.
Free admission. Rain or shine.
Music by Mountain Heritage. 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Bart Does the Bard:
Actor Rick Miller performs his one-man
show ‘MacHomer,’ an
adaptation of ‘MacBeth’ featuring more
than 50 voices of charactors from ‘The Simpsons,’ Tuesday through
Friday, October 27 to
30, Crossroads Theater, New Brunswick.
732-246-7469.
Open House, Black Bear Lake
Day Camp, 457 Stage Coach
Road, Clarksburg, 609-259-1777.
www.blackbearlake.com. 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
Spooktacular Halloween Contest, Parade, and Party, Princeton Shopping Center, North
Harrison Street, 609-921-6234.
www.princetonshoppingcenter.com. The annual kids parade and
costume contest. In lieu of instore trick-or-treating, every child
receives a goodie bag. Also,
scarecrow and mask making, and
pumpkin painting. Rain or shine.
Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open House, Fox Run Apartments, Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, 800-960-6043. Community
and fire safety information with
area firefighters and police. Tours
of available apartments. Refreshments. Free. Noon.
Planetarium Shows, New Jersey
State Museum, 205 West State
www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “One World, One Sky” at 1
and 3 p.m. “Extreme Planets” at 2
and 4 p.m. $5. 1 p.m.
Halloween Parade, West Windsor Recreation and Parks, Maurice Hawk School, Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7996141. www.wwparks-recreation.com. Parade route goes to the
West Windsor Senior Center.
Participants receive a goodie
bag. In the event of rain meet at
the senior center. 2:45 p.m.
Haunted Tonight, Plainsboro
Historical Society, Wicoff
House, Plainsboro Municipal
Complex, 609-799-0909. www.plainsboro.com/historical/. Annual Halloween event in the library,
municipal complex, and historic
Wicoff House. Costume parade
(weather-permitting) followed by
scary tales with Garden State Storytellers League, gentle stories
for the very young, “Magic and
Monsters” show by Bob Conrad,
“Creatures of the Night” animal
show by the Eyes of the Wild and
Wallaby Tales; activities by the
New Jersey Audubon Society, a
scavenger hunt, family hayrides,
haunted dungeon, games, and
crafts. Park at Enterprise Business Center. 6 p.m.
Not So Scary Halloween, Fernbrook Farms, 142 Bordentown
Georgetown Road, Chesterfield,
609-298-4028. www.fernbrookfarms.com. Hayrides, campfire,
games, hikes, and stories for kids
under eight. Register. $10. 6:30
to 9 p.m.
For Parents
Mothers’ Market, Central Jersey
Mothers of Multiples, Reynolds
Middle School, Hamilton. www.cjmom.org. Sale of gently used
children’s items. Free admission
8 a.m. to noon.
Family Theater
Hansel and Gretel, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main
Street, New Hope, 215-862-2041.
www.buckscountyplayhouse.com. $8. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
609-799-0462. “Dollhouse
Lectures
Ghosts of World War II, East
Brunswick Library, Jean
Walling Civic Center, 732-3906767. www.ebpl.org. Richard
Kimmel, author of “WWII Ghosts:
Artifacts Can Talk,” presents a
talk about artifacts and haunting
stories. Free. 2 to 3 p.m.
Bear Education and Resource
Group, Rutgers University,
Ruth Adams Building, 131
George Street, New Brunswick.
“Bear in Mind,” an interdisciplinary conference. E-mail [email protected] for information. Free. 2 p.m.
Wills, Probate, and Elder Law,
East Brunswick High School,
Cranbury Road, 732-613-6989.
www.centraljerseyelderlaw.com.
Kenneth Vercammen, author of
“NJ Elder Law & Probate,” talks
about trusts, power of attorney,
living will, estate administration,
and inheritance tax. Register.
$29. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Country and Bluegrass Music
Show, WDVR-FM, Women’s
Club, 43 Park Avenue, Flemington, 609-397-1620. www.wdvrfm.org. Heartlands Hayride
Band. $10. Food available. 6 to 8
p.m.
Cafe Improv, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.cafeimprov.com. Music, poetry, and
comedy. Register to perform. $2.
7 p.m.
Starfish, East Brunswick
Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, 732-390-6767. www.ebpl.org.
Family-friendly rock concert. 7
p.m.
Karen Rodriguez, Salt Creek
Peter Tork, Blue Suede Blues,
and Peter Stampfel, The
Record Collector Store, 358
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown.
www.the-record-collector.com.
$20. 7:30 p.m.
O’Neil and Martin, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 PrincetonHightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Country music. 8
p.m.
Charles Laurita, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 p.m.
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Princeton Professional Park
601 Ewing Street
Suite C-18 • Princeton
609-924-1331
October 24
DJ Darius, BT Bistro, 3499 Route
1 South, West Windsor, 609-9199403. www.btbistro.com. Sounds
of the 1980s through current hits.
9 p.m.
Cynics Haven, Sotto 128
Restaurant and Lounge, 128
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-7555. www.sotto128.com.
Acoustic music from the 1970s to
the present. 9 p.m.
Gravity Hill, Hillbilly Hall Tavern
and Restaurant, 203 HopewellWertsville Road, Hopewell, 609466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com.
Classic rock. 9:30 p.m.
Chris Harford & the Band of
Changes, John & Peter’s, 96
Outdoor Action
Canal Walk 2009, Friends of the
Delaware Canal, Bowman’s Hill
Wildflower Preserve, Yardley,
215-862-2021. www.fodc.org.
Bring a light lunch and beverage.
Transportation back to the starting point will be arranged through
carpooling. Register. Free. 10
mile walk. 9 a.m.
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Mountain Hike, Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed, Sourland
Mountain Preserve, Somerset,
609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Family-friendly hike.
Register. $5. 10 a.m.
Corn Maze, Howell Living History Farm, Valley Road, off Route
29, Titusville, 609-737-3299.
www.howellfarm.org. $8. Noon to
4 p.m.
Haunted Bucks County, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve,
River Road, New Hope, 215-8622924. www.bhwp.org. Ghosts,
apparitions, and other things that
go bump in the night. Register.
$7. 1 to 2 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church Cooperative
Nursery School, 154 South Mill
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999490. For ages 2 1/2 to 4. 9:30 to
11:30 a.m.
Open House, Waldorf School,
1062 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton,
609-466-1970. www.princetonwaldorf.org. Nursery through
eighth grade. Register. 10 a.m. to
noon.
Retail Therapy
of the library and Rocky Hill Community Group. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Madison, 973-408-5600. www.shakespearenj.org. Period style
dresses, masks, and decorative
items. Benefit for the theater’s educational and artistic programs.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Singles, Canal Walk
parking lot, Route 27, Kingston,
609-896-1170. A moderately
paced walk or run along canal,
followed by optional lunch. Register. 10 a.m.
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
www.dinnermates.com. Ages 30s
to early 50s. Call for reservation
and location. $20 plus dinner and
drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Dance Party, Steppin’ Out Singles, Woodbridge Hilton, 120
Wood Avenue South, Iselin, 732656-1801. www.steppinoutsingles.com. Ages 40 plus. $15.
8:30 p.m.
Socials
Knit n Stitch, Classics Used and
Rare Books, 117 South Warren
Street, Trenton, 609-394-8400. All
skill levels welcome. Ages 8 and
up. Noon.
Fellowship Luncheon, Southern
Belles Society of New Jersey,
Rocky Hill Inn, 817-732-8940. For
women from the south to share
culture with same. Register.
12:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Encore Music Series, PHS Senior Living Foundation, Stonebridge, Skillman, 609-720-7304.
Inna Gilmore, flutist. Register.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Sports for Causes
First Child in the Woods, The
Lewis School, Mercer County
Park, West Windsor, 609-9248120. www.lewisschool.org. Second annual walk-a-thon features
a five-mile walk and a soccer
tournament for ages 7 and up.
Benefit for the school’s annual
fund is in memory of William
Gaynor Dovey, school founder
Marsha Lewis’ brother, and a tribute to Richard Louv, author of
“Last Child in the Woods.” Register. $10. 8:30 a.m.
Open House Show, Rerun, Reindeer Farm, 31 Archertown Road,
New Egypt, 609-301-8772. www.rerun.org. Visit the horses, food,
Best of Tchaikovsky:
The New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra
performs selections
from symphonies,
concertos, operas,
and ballets, Friday,
October 23, Patriots
Theater, Trenton.
800-ALLEGRO.
music, auctions, children’s activities, and demonstrations. Raindate is Sunday, October 25. 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday
October 25
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Worried
About Swine Flu?
Basic Energy Medicine Workshop, Energy for Healing, 4446
Route 27, Kingston, 609-9377682. www.energyforhealing.com. Strengthen your immune
system and boost your energy
level. Learn the Eden Energy
Medicine 10-minute daily routine
and more. Taught by Certified
Eden Energy Medicine Practitioners. Workshop intensive. Class
size strictly limited. Call for information and registration. 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Guild for Early Music, Grounds
For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
Road, Hamilton, 609-689-1089.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Fifth annual festival features both
vocal and instrumental music
from the Renaissance and
Baroque eras presented by regional performance groups. Visitors may try out some of the unusual instruments that have been
played. Strolling minstrels and
tours throughout the grounds.
Free with $10 park admission.
Noon to 5:30 p.m.
Stretched Strings Workshop
and Concert, Community Conservatory, Puck, Printer’s Alley,
www.communityconservatory.org. Tim Farrell and Jacques
Stotzem present workshop and
concert in fingerstyle guitar. Register. $20. 1 p.m.
Concert, Community Conservatory, Delaware Valley College,
700 East Butler Avenue,
www.communityconservatory.org. “Afternoon of Song” features
vocal performances by Joy Keener, Dena Condron, Kate Cohen,
and Barbara Weikamp. Free. 3
p.m.
Duo D’Esterhazy, Kontzergild,
Hopewell United Methodist
Church, 20 Blackwell Avenue,
Hopewell, 215-297-8099. www.alexandredjokic.com. Alexandre
Djokic on violin and Robert Gajdos on piano present a program
with a salute to the Mendelssohn
bicentennial. The concert con-
OCTOBER 21, 2009
cludes with the East coast premiere of “Klezmer Rhapsody” by
Ilya Levinson. $20. 3 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2585000. www.princeton.edu/utickets. Program of Prokofiev,
Mozart, Ravel, and Shostakovich.
Soloists include Martha Elliott,
‘82, soprano; and Jennifer Chu,
‘06, piano. Michael Pratt conducts. $18. 3 p.m.
Organ Spectacular II, St. Paul
Church, 214 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-524-0507. www.spsprinceton.org. Thomas Sheehan, a senior at Westminster
Choir College, presents an organ
recital featuring works by J.S.
Bach, Dupre, Lemare, and Liszt.
Refreshments follow. Free. 3 p.m.
Nassau at Four Student Showcase, Nassau Presbyterian
Church, 61 Nassau Street, 609924-0103. www.nassauchurch.org. Free recital featuring Westminster Choir College students
Richard Woo, piano; Megan Ainsley Callahan, soprano; and Heitor
Caballero, piano. 4 p.m.
Sunday Evensong Series, Christ
Church, 5 Paterson Street, New
Brunswick, 732-545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org.
Thomas Spacht, organist. Vespers and concert. Free. 4 p.m.
World Music
Sharim V’Sharot, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. “Yiddish
Music in America” presented by a
Jewish ensemble. Free. 2 p.m.
Open Rehearsal, Makhelat
Hamercaz, Highland Park, 732985-2778. www.mercazchoir.org.
Explore a choral experience with
a wide repertoire of Jewish music.
Call for location. 7 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Rider University,
Bart Luedeke Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
609-896-5033. “A Painter’s Journey: Paintings by Howard Gold-
stein.” A native of the Bronx, Goldstein settled in central New Jersey almost 50 years ago to launch
a lengthy career at the College of
New Jersey and became chair of
the college’s art department. On
view through Sunday, October 25.
Noon. to 4 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-9240580. Reception for “Israel 2009:
Traditions in Stone,” a collection
of images by Maia Rein. On view
to November 28. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Highlights Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2
p.m.
Also, Gallery Talk, Princeton
University Art Museum. Highlights of the collections, new acquisitions, and special exhibitions. Free. 3 p.m.
Drama
The Trial of the Century, Famous
Trials Theater, Hunterdon County Courthouse, 75 Main Street,
Flemington, 908-595-4849.
www.famoustrials.com. Dramatic
reenactment of the 1935 Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial. $28.
2 p.m.
$78. 2 and 7 p.m.
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Architectural Analysis: Susan Solomon
speaks on her new book, right, on Tuesday,
October 27, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau
Street. 609-497-1600.
about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. $20 to $55. Post
performance discussion. 2 and
7:30 p.m.
p.m.
$54. 7:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Film
Out of Synch, New Jersey Film
Festival, Scott Hall 123, College
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732932-8482. www.njfilmfest.com.
“Deja Vu,” 2009; “Mildred
Richards,” 2008; and “Unremembered,” 2009. $10. 7 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
869 Route 1 South, North
Brunswick, 732-545-7860. www.bn.com. Michelle Cameron, author of “The Fruit of Her Hands:
The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz.”
1 p.m.
Good Causes
Fashion Show, Palmer Square,
Nassau Inn Ballroom, Princeton,
609-921-2853. www.palmersquare.com. Career, weekend,
and evening trends hit the runway. In store trunk shows and
promotions. $25 benefits Dress
for Success Mercer
County. 12:30 p.m.
Golden Ticket Chocolate
Factory Tour, Hadassah
Princeton Chapter,
David Bradley, 92 North
Main Street, Windsor.
www.hadassahprinceton.org. Willy Wonka family afternoon. Tours
every 20 minutes. Find
one of the three golden
tickets for a prize. Benefit
for cancer and genetic research projects. Register.
$20 per family. 2 to 5
p.m.
Dance 4 Good, Web of
Compassion, Suzanne
Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-497-4598. www.webofcompassion.org. Salsa
workshops and social dance to
benefit victims of natural disasters
in Southeast Asia. Workshop,
$20; two workshops, $35; workshop and social, $40; social only,
$10. 2:45 to 9 p.m.
Fairs
Fall Foliage Weekend, Woodsedge Wools Farm, 78 Bowne
Station Road, Stockton, 609-3972212. www.alpacasllamaswoodsedge.co. Bring your own container and create holiday decorations
with natural materials. 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Fall Festival, Mercer County
Park Commission, Mercer
County Equestrian Center, Federal City Road, Pennington, 609730-9059. www.mercercounty.org. Hayrides, scarecrow contest,
costume contests for kids and
horses, apple cider pressing,
scavenger hunt, games, prizes.
Food and refreshments available.
Tour the educational gardens.
Register to enter the scarecrow or
horse costume contests or to
show your horse in parade of
breeds. Admission is free. 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
Faith
Hall of Fame Roast, Har Sinai
Temple, 2441 Pennington Road,
Pennington, 609-730-8100.
www.harsinai.org. Bagel brunch
roasts past president Ron Perl of
Pennington. Young leadership
award to Karen Jimenez. Janis
Kind and Arthur and Roberta
Frank will be inducted as the first
hall of fame honorees. Register.
$18. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Theology on Tap, Princeton Theological Seminary, Fridays, MarketFair, West Windsor. Discussion of the crossroads between
life and theology led by Josh
Scott. Geared to young adults. Email [email protected] for
information. 7 p.m.
THANK YOU!
TO OUR 2009 SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS FOR MAKING THE
10TH CARNEGIE CENTER 5K & FUN RUN THE BEST EVER.
WE HAD OVER 650 RUNNERS AND RAISED OVER $70,000.
PNC Foundation
First Choice Bank
Boston Properties • GE Healthcare • Residence Inn by Marriott-Princeton at Carnegie Center
NRG Energy, Inc • Palumbo Associates, Inc • Tyco International
URS
• Akros Pharma, Inc
• BTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc
• The Covance Charitable
Foundation
• Kyowa Hakko Kirin America, Inc
• All Clean Building Services, Inc
• Americorp
• The Bank of Princeton
• Borden Perlman Insurance
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• The Brickman Group, Ltd
• CURE Auto Insurance
• The Gift Connection
• Herrick, Feinstein, LLP
• Lawrence Shopping Center, LLC
• Miele, Inc
• Sandoz
• Eurest Dining Service
• FASTSIGNS-Lawrenceville
• Kaplan EduNeering
• Land Design by ADP, Inc
• Lewis Scheller Printing
• NJ PURE Medical Malpractice Insurance
• OM Solutions, Inc
• PJ's Pancake House
• Herb Tuchman
• Wendy's Boutique By JR Resources
Atlantic Vending • Richard Carlson, Massage Therapist • Hyatt Regency-Princeton • Onsen for All • Rita's-Nassau Park
Thank you also to Mark Hockenjos, Race Director, and his team at Boston Properties
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October 25
Food & Dining
Kosher Tailgating, Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road,
East Windsor, 609-443-4454.
Marshall Alter presentation includes supplies and culinary
treats. Register. $10. 10 to 11:30
a.m.
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960
Spruce Street, Lawrence, 609695-2998. www.thetrentonfarmersmarket.com. Farm vendors,
food producers, wineries, cooking
demonstrations, and musical entertainment. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pairing Wine and Cheese,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. Wine and cheese
tasting and learning materials.
Register. $35. 2 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Chinese Accupressure
& Professional Massage
c Herbal
Foot Medicine
rub, Foot Rub
c Foot Massage, Reflexology
c Deep Tissue Technique
c Truly Relieves Pain and Fatigue
c Back
Gift
Certificates
Available
for the
Holidays!
164 Nassau St., 2nd floor, Princeton, NJ
609-252-9900 • cell 718-813-3827
Open 7 days a week 10am - 10pm - No appointment needed!
Blood Drive, New Jersey Blood
Services, Princeton United
Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer
Avenue, Princeton, 800-9332566. www.nybloodcenter.org.
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Basic Energy Medicine Workshop, Energy for Healing, 4446
Route 27, Kingston, 609-9377682. www.energyforhealing.com. Worried about swine flu?
Strengthen your immune system
and boost your energy level.
Learn the Eden Energy Medicine
10-minute daily routine and more.
Taught by Certified Eden Energy
Medicine Practitioners. Workshop
intensive. Class size strictly limited. Call for information and registration. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Annual Conference, Obsessive
Compulsive Foundation, Doubletree Hotel, Somerset, 732828-0099. www.njocf.org. “Body
Dysmorphic Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Hoarding, and other OCD
Spectrum Disorders: Comparing
and Contrasting Treatments with
OCD” presented by Dr. Fugen
Neziroglu; “Living with OCD panel
discussion; brunch. Register.
$90. 10 a.m.
History
Cider Making and Smoking
Meats, Pennsbury Manor, 400
Pennsbury Memorial Road,
Morrisville, PA, 215-946-0400.
www.pennsbudymanor.org. $5;
children, $3. 1 to 4 p.m.
All That Remains, Mercer Museum, Pine and Ashland streets,
www.mercermuseum.org.
“Gravestone Art and Evolution,” a
slide presentation focusing on the
history of graveyards and funeral
customs from ancient Egypt to
the modern funeral home, pre-
sented by Bruce Stocking. Register. $10. 1:30 p.m.
From Revolution to Relativity,
Historical Society of Princeton,
Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
www.princetonhistory.org. Classic walking tour of downtown
Princeton and Princeton University includes stops at Nassau Hall,
University Chapel, Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s residence. Register by phone or Email [email protected]. $7. 2 p.m.
Spirits From the Past Tours, Historic Fallsington, 4 Yardley Avenue, Fallsington, PA, 215-2956565. Lantern-led tours features
village spirits from the 18th century. For all ages. Register. $5. 6 to
8:30 p.m.
For Families
Halloween Story Time, East
Brunswick Public Library, Two
Jean Walling Civic Center, 732390-6767. www.ebpl.org. Costumes invited. Free. 1:30 a.m.
Fall Family Fun, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, 609924-2310. www.terhuneorchards.com. Pick your own apples, pumpkins, and raspberries. Free admission. Rain or shine. Music by Borderline. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Planetarium Shows, New Jersey
State Museum, 205 West State
www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “One World, One Sky” at 1
and 3 p.m. “Extreme Planets” at 2
and 4 p.m. $5. 1 p.m.
The Skies over Hogwarts, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium,
College Center, North Branch,
908-526-1200. www.raritanval.edu. Witches and wizards guide
visitors through a Harry Potter
themed tour of the night sky to
see how J.K. Rowling uses astronomy as the inspiration for
some of her character’s names.
$6. 2 and 4 p.m.
Family Night Out, Hillbilly Hall
Tavern and Restaurant, 203
Hopewell-Wertsville Road, Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. DJ Ron. Free shirt for
kids who sing. Food and beverages available. 5 to 9 p.m.
Family Theater
609-799-0462. “Dollhouse
Lectures
Genealogy, Hickory Corner Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road,
East Windsor, 609-448-1330.
It’s Magic: Mike Super, winner of NBC’s
‘Phenomenon,’ promises to make it snow
with his bare hands
and other remarkable
feats, Friday, October
23, McCarter Theater. 609-258-2787.
“Using Google to Research your
Family History” presented by
Cathy Zahn, Central Jersey Genealogical Society. Register. 2 to
4 p.m.
Guardianship and Kids Protection Seminar, Little Gym, 217
Clarksville Road, West Windsor,
609-818-0068. www.tlgwestwindsornj.com. Workshop for parents of minor children presented
by law firm Medina, Martinez, and
Castroll. Register. Playtime for
children. Register. Free. 5 to 6:30
p.m.
Live Music
Jerry Topinka, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Jazz brunch. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tom Glover, Triumph Brewing
Company, 400 Union Square,
New Hope, 215-862-8300. www.triumphbrew.com. Irish and cover
tunes. 1 to 4 p.m.
Peter Tork and Erin Hill, The
Record Collector Store, 358
Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown.
www.the-record-collector.com.
Tickets from original date of July 9
will be honored. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Post No Bills, John & Peter’s, 96
Outdoor Action
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Corn Maze, Howell Living History Farm, Valley Road, off Route
29, Titusville, 609-737-3299.
www.howellfarm.org. $8. Noon to
4 p.m.
Fall Foliage Hike, Washington
Crossing State Park, Visitor
Center, Titusville, 609-737-0609.
Three to five-mile hike for ages
nine and up. Register. Free. Bring
drinking water, a snack, and a
pair of binoculars. 1:30 to 4:30
p.m.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
The Altmans Leave Opera NJ
W
ell, the weather will certainly be better. Opera New Jersey
founder Scott Altman has accepted
the position of general director of
Arizona Opera. Altman, his wife,
Lisa, and their two young children
will relocate. Both husband and
wife will continue working with
Opera New Jersey through the end
of the current calendar year to facilitate a smooth transition for the
organization.
“The Trustees are extremely
proud that the artistic accomplishments of Opera New Jersey have
been recognized on a national level
with Scott’s appointment at Arizona,” board chairman Salapatas
says. "Scott’s appointment is a major step in his career, comparable to
the opportunities afforded to past
performers at Opera New Jersey.
Opera New Jersey is poised to
make a smooth transition from a
founding company to institutionalizing the company’s growth and development throughout the state.”
According to a press statement,
Opera New Jersey is not only the
Garden State’s most prolific opera
Schools
Open House, Princeton Latin
Academy, Route 518, Rambling
Pines, Hopewell, 609-924-2206.
www.princetonlatinacademy.com.
Noon to 1 p.m.
How to Get into the Perfect College, Princeton Review, College
of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington
Road, Ewing, 800-2review. www.princetonreview.com. Seminar.
Register. Free. Noon to 2 p.m.
Open House, Drum & Dance
Learning Center, 4110 Quakerbridge Road, Lawrenceville, 609324-7383. www.drumdancecenter.com. New studio presents
free classes and performances.
Belly dance class at 12:15 and 2
p.m.; Zumba Latin dance workout
class at 1:15. Belly dance performance at 12:45 and 2:30 p.m.;
drum performance at 1:45 p.m.
Free. 12:15 p.m.
Retail Therapy
of the library and Rocky Hill Community Group. Noon to 4 p.m.
Singles
Etz Chaim Sociable Single Seniors, Monroe Township Jewish
Center, 11 Cornell Avenue, 609655-5137. Discussions, socializing, and refreshments. $5. 1 to 4
p.m.
Chess
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. For
advanced adult players. 1 to 5
p.m.
For Seniors
company but also provides extensive education and outreach programs. The company produces
four fully-staged performances
over the winter and the summer
seasons. In addition, Opera New
Jersey’s artists-in-residence and
educational programs reach thousands of children and adults
throughout the state.
Arizona Opera was founded in
1971 and annually produces five
major productions each season
throughout the state with a budget
three times the size of Opera New
Jersey’s.
All major programming and
artists have been set for the 2010
seasons. The winter season performances of “Carmen” starring
Denyce Graves have been scheduled for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark; State
Theatre, New Brunswick; McCarter Theatre, Princeton; and the
Lyric Opera House in Baltimore,
Maryland. Preparations are also
completed for the summer season
2010 productions of “Don Giovanni,” “Faust,” and “Don Pasquale.”
Opera New Jersey achieved several major milestones in 2009.
Summer 2009 saw the successful
initiation of an artistic collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra that raises the quality
and consistency of the pit orchestra. During a season that saw the
contraction of many arts organizations, Opera New Jersey increased
both attendance and ticket revenue.
The board of trustees of Opera
New Jersey is initiating a national
search for new executive-level administrative and artistic leadership. The goal is to have a new
team in place in approximately
four months.
“The organization has grown
and flourished beyond our highest
expectations,” said Scott and Lisa
Altman, Co-Founders of Opera
New Jersey, “we are thrilled to see
Opera New Jersey mature from a
founder-led company to the exciting artistic institution it has become; we can’t wait to see what it
can accomplish next.”
For more information visit
www.Opera-NJ.org.
Monday
October 26
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Art Outside the Box
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer
County College, Communications Center, 609-586-4800, ext.
3589. www.mccc.edu/community_gallery. Gallery talk in
conjunction with “Connect,” an
exhibit curated by Movis, an
eight-person artist group. Sixteen
works on display include sound
installations, interactive video stations, sculpture, photography,
prints , and multi-media sculptures. Concert by Stop Correcting
Me, a multi-instrumental improv
duo, on Thursday, November 5, at
7:30 p.m. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Architecture
Down the Garden Path Lecture
Series, Princeton University
School of Architecture, Betts
Auditorium, Princeton, 609-2583741. “Representation, Narration,
and Iconoclasm in the Zen Garden,” Allen Weiss, NYU’s Tisch
School. Free. 6 p.m.
Drama
Encore Music Series, PHS Senior Living Foundation, Stonebridge, Skillman, 609-720-7304.
Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
I’m Not Rapaport, Center Playhouse, 35 South Street, Freehold, 732-462-9093. www.centerplayers.org. Staged reading and
discussion of drama by Herb
Gardner inspired by two elderly
men. Free. 8 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Literati
Get Fit for CASA, CASA, RWJ
Hamilton Center for Health &
Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge
Road, Mercerville, 609-434-0050.
www.casamercer.org. Cycle or
Zumba classes, $10. Participants
encouraged to use pledge form to
collect donations from family and
friends. Children attend Fit Kids
class. Benefit for Court Appointed
Special Advocates, a non-profit
organization committed to speaking up in court for the best interests of abused and neglected
children who have been removed
from their homes. Register. Noon
to 3 p.m.
Plainsboro Literary Group,
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Nibbles, conversation, and readings.
6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Grace St. Paul’s Church,
3715 East State Street, Mercerville, 800-448-3543. www.pleasegiveblood.org. 2 to 8 p.m.
Yoga, Center for Relaxation and
Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road,
Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609-7507432. relaxationandhealing.com.
Beginners at 4:15 p.m.; mixed
level at 5:30 p.m. $15. 4:15 p.m.
‘Lonely Boy’: Paul
Anka appears on
Friday, October 23,
at the State Theater,
New Brunswick.
732-246-7469.
Cancer Transitions: Moving Beyond Treatment, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, 732235-8522. www.cinjfoundation.org. Exercise component, educational topic, and support group.
Register. Free. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Mixed Level Hatha Yoga, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Ryah
Dekis presents. $15. 5:30 to 6:45
p.m.
For Families
Community Drum Circle, In Balance Center for Living, 230
South Branch Road, Hillsborough, 908-369-4949. www.inbalancecenter.com. $15; $25 for
family. No experience required.
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Lectures
Hopewell Public Library, 13 East
Broad Street, Hopewell, 609-4661625. “Getting Comfortable with
the Computer, the Internet, and
the World Wide Web” presented
by Arnold Lesnever, a library
technology expert. 1 p.m.
Alice Paul Celebration, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. “Remembering Alice Paul: The Invisible Egalitarian,” a lecture and discussion presented by Jean Baker.
Free. 7 p.m.
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Photographic A rt
Friends
and Family
John Blackford
Mel - John Blackford
In the Small Gallery:
A Most
Haunted Place:
Ghostly Images
Carl Geisler
Pumpkins - David H. Miller
609-333-8511
14 Mercer Street
Hopewell, NJ
Saturday & Sunday • 12 - 5
www.photogallery14.com
October 16 - November 15
Opening Reception
October 16, 6-9 PM
Meet the Photographers,
Sunday, October 18, 1-3 PM
October 26
HandsOn Helpers). Register.
Free. 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Live Music
Forum, VolunteerConnect, Rider
University, 2083 Lawrenceville
Road, 609-921-8893. http://volunteerconnectnj.org/events. “The
Future of Volunteerism in Central
New Jersey,” presented by Nancy
Kieling, Princeton Area Community Foundation. Panelists include
Kieling, Craig E. Lafferty, United
Way of Greater Mercer County;
Wayne Meisel, Bonner Foundation; and Adrienne Rubin, VolunteerConnect (formerly known as
Open Mic with Justin, John &
Peter’s, 96 South Main Street,
New Hope, 215-862-5981. www.johnandpeters.com. 9:30 p.m.
Politics
Public Debate, West Windsor
Retirees’ Group and Village
Grande Civic Association,
Room A, West Windsor Municipal
Building, Clarksville Road, 609452-2046. Mercer County Freeholders candidates Shirley
Guerieri, Russell Wojtenko Jr.,
Cindy Randazzo, and Ann Cannon, Pasquale Colavita Jr., and
Daniel Benson will debate from
10 a.m. to noon. 10 a.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups,
wraps, gelato, and tea, coffee,
desserts, or espresso. Register at
www.meetup.com/PrincetonArea-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8
p.m.
For Seniors
Encore Lecture Series, PHS Senior Living Foundation, Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, 609-7207304. The story of Marian Anderson, singer and musician. Register. Free. 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday
October 27
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Just Breathe
Transformational Breathing,
Masimo Carrara and Aspasia
Dassios, 13 Elm Street, Hopewell, 609-309-5147. www.transformationalbreathing.com. Group
session. Register. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Composers Ensemble of Princeton, Princeton University Concerts, Taplin Auditorium, 609258-5000. www.princeton.edu/utickets. “Voices and Fiddles”
with Celestial Mechanics, Daniel
Trueman, and Brittany Haas;
works by graduate students MR
Daniel, Lainie Fefferman, Anne
Hege, and Jascha Narveson.
Free. 8 p.m.
Music from Brazil:
Percussionist Evelyn
Glennie solos with
with the Orquestra de
Sao Paulo, Saturday,
October 24, State
Theater, New Brunswick. 732-246-7469.
Pop Music
Ricky Lee Jones, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Singer-songwriter. Her new
album, “Balm in Gilead,” will be released this fall. $30 to $40. 8 p.m.
Art
Art History Lecture Series, Michener Art Museum, 138 South
Pine Street, Doylestown, 215-3409800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. “A Teachable Moment: Education and Research Using the Michener Art Museum Collections” in
conjunction with “An Evolving
Legacy: Twenty Years of Collecting at the Michener Art Museum.”
Register. $20. 1 to 2 p.m.
Drama
$54. 7:30 p.m.
$78. 8 p.m.
MacHomer, State Theater, at
Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7469. www.statetheatrenj.org. Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
performed by Rick Miller features
more than 50 voices of charactors
from “The Simpsons.” $32. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Country Line Dancing, Hillbilly
Hall Tavern and Restaurant,
203 Hopewell-Wertsville Road,
Hopewell, 609-466-9856. www.hillbillyhall.com. Instruction
throughout the evening. 7 p.m.
Tuesday Night Folk Dance
Group, Riverside School, Princeton, 609-655-0758. Instruction
and dancing. No partner needed.
$3. 7 to 9 p.m.
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The Comedian Who Defies Demographics
by David McDonough
C
omedy is a highly selective thing. One man’s banana
peel is another man’s insurance
settlement. Mel Brooks once said,
“Tragedy is if I cut my finger.
Comedy is if you walk into an open
manhole and die.”
So it is probably not surprising
that of the three most popular comedians working today, two —
Dane Cook and Larry the Cable
Guy — are among the most polarizing. Larry the Cable Guy, who
appeared at the Sovereign Bank
Arena on October 2, gets (or
should we say “gits,” in honor of
his most famous catch phrase, “Git
‘er done!”) the blue collar crowd.
Dane Cook is the favorite of high
school and college age audiences,
mostly male.
That brings us to the third member of this unholy trio, Jeff Dunham, who brings his “Spark of Insanity” show to Sovereign Bank
Arena on Friday, October 23. He is
the most unusual of the three; a
ventriloquist who has broken out
of the Vegas clubs and Shriners
conventions to nationwide acclaim. His audience, too, is the
toughest to pin down. One thing is
for sure — he and his dummy
friends have a huge following.
It has been a long time since a
ventriloquist displayed such popular appeal — in fact, it’s happened
only once in American popular culture, and that was over 50 years
ago. The only other ventriloquist to
resound so clearly with his audience was Edgar Bergen in the
1930s. So well-received was
Bergen, with his wooden sidekick,
Charlie McCarthy, that in addition
to several film appearances, the
duo had a hit radio show from 1937
to 1956. There were some other
well-known acts throughout the
late 20th century — Paul Winchell;
Jimmy Nelson; and Willie Tyler,
the first African-American ventriloquist to attract a following — but
their appeal was primarily limited
to children, and none of them ever
became big stars on the level of
Bergen and now, Dunham.
Dunham, a 47-year-old Texas
native, began throwing his voice
around when he was only eight. He
graduated from Baylor University
in Waco in 1986, but he already had
been working in clubs since he was
12, and by the time he graduated
from college he had appeared with
Mickey Rooney on Broadway in
“Sugar Babies,” a hit pastiche of
burlesque routines. He moved to
Los Angeles and was building a
strong fan base in comedy clubs,
but Dunham wanted more. “I felt
like I was under the ice and couldn’t break through,” Dunham told
Forbes magazine in June, 2009. “I
knew the audience was there if we
could just get to them.”
The breakthrough, as is almost
always the case with comedy, was
television. In the ‘90s Dunham
started to become a familiar face on
TV, making it to the Tonight Show,
Ellen, Hollywood Squares, and
Blue Collar TV (which starred Larry the Cable Guy). And his DVDs,
some of them self-financed, began
to sell. To date, he has moved over
four million copies.
The entertainment industry really stood up and took notice when
Dunham started to appear on Comedy Central. His 2008 show, “Jeff
Dunham’s Very Christmas Special,” garnered the highest ratings of
any show in Comedy Central history. The network has rewarded him
by giving him his own series, which
will debut the night before his Sovereign Bank Arena appearance.
It’s been all uphill since then.
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Pollstar lists Dunham as the highest-grossing stand-up of 2008, following Cook in 2007 and Larry the
Cable Guy in 2006. His “Achmed
the Dead Terrorist” clip is the
fourth most watched Internet video
of all time, with over 196 million
hits worldwide. His CD album,
“Don’t Come Home for Christmas,” went to #1 on the iTunes CD
sales chart and was in the Top 10 on
Billboard’s independent chart.
He’ll publish his memoir later this
year, and embarks on his first U.K.
tour in the spring.
Achmed is one of Dunham’s latest inventions, an inept, unimposing, skeletal figure who fancies
himself as a really bad dude, an image that is hard to sustain when
your legs keep falling off. He managed to blow himself up without
harming anyone else, and his constant shrieks of “Silence! I keeelll
you” has audiences howling in
laughter rather than fear. He is ac-
Jeff Dunham’s
‘Achmed the Dead
Terrorist’ clip is the
fourth most watched
Internet video of all
time, with over
196 million hits
worldwide.
tually, if such a thing is possible,
rather sweet.
Dunham’s other recurring
characters include Walter, a
grumpy old man, Bubba J, a
cretinous redneck, Sweet Daddy
Dee, a pimp, and Jose Jalapeno on
a Stick, who is pretty much what he
sounds like. By far the most popular with children is Peanut, an
amorphous, shock-headed, hyperactive, naughty Muppet type.
Dunham has also created a cottage industry in dolls based on his
characters. “People want a piece of
the show,” he told Forbes. And
children line up to buy mini-Peanuts.
So who is coming to these
shows in such huge numbers? Judi
Brown-Marmel, Dunham’s manager, told Slate.com that she’s never seen a comedian who plays to so
many different demographics. And
Dunham was quoted by Forbes as
saying, “When you come out to my
show, you can’t put a finger on who
the demographic is — there’s old
people, young people, professionals, blue collars, teenagers.”
No Dummy: Jeff
Dunham and Peanut.
He hasn’t been without controversy. His shows include a number
of gay jokes. Acerbic Walter (think
an R-rated version of Oscar the
Grouch) offends everyone in sight.
Jose Jalapeno on a Stick and Sweet
Daddy Dee are something of racial
stereotypes — during one of the
Comedy Central specials, the camera wanders through the crowd,
desperately trying to find an
African-American face laughing at
Sweet Daddy. It’s an elusive
search.
And then there’s poor Achmed.
Dunham must have been well
aware that there would be complaints from the Muslim community about a comedy terrorist. Dunham told Fox News, “Achmed
makes it clear in my act that he is
not a Muslim...I’ve skewered
whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays,
straights, rednecks, addicts, the
elderly, and my wife.” His wife
may not have gotten the joke; they
are divorcing.
Dunham teeters on the edge of
hipness. He will make an appearance on NBC’s “30 Rock,” a show
that wins awards despite low ratings, a sure sign of hip. And on October 13, he appeared at the National Press Club luncheon, raising
the possibility that he is now being
viewed as something of a trendsetter.
So the question remains: If Dane
Cook appeals to young men, and
Larry the Cable Guy to men who
have never grown up, who is Jeff
Dunham’s crowd? Is Achmed political satire or does he appeal to
our worst feelings about the Muslim world? Is Walter a man who
says what we are all thinking or is
he just the angry old man two houses down from you who hates everyone? Is Sweet Daddy an homage to
Willie Tyler’s Lester, or a ridiculous stereotype from a Sixties blaxplotation flick? And what the hell is
Peanut?
Jeff Dunham, Sovereign Bank
Arena, Hamilton Avenue at Route
129. Friday, October 23, 8 p.m.
“Comedy Central Tour” presented
by Dunham and his sidekicks in
conjunction with “The Jeff Dunham
Show,” a half-hour sketch show.
Dunham’s autobiography, “All by
My Selves,” will be published in
November. $45.50. 800-298-4200
or www.comcasttix.com.
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Progressive Americana: Susan Cowsill, a
member of the Cowsills, the 1960s family pop
group who served as the real-life inspiration for
the ‘Partridge Family,’ performs with her band ,
Saturday, October 24, Concerts at the Crossing,
Unitarian Church, Titusville. 609-510-6278.
October 27
Literati
This I Believe Program, Princeton Public Library, Quiet Room,
first floor, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Keith Wheelock hosts program based on the
show created by his father, Ward
Wheelock, William Paley, and Edward R. Murrow. Designed for
ages 55 and older, participants
will hear recordings of contemporary and past essays and be encouraged to share their feelings.
609-497-1600. www.labyrinthbooks.com. Susan Solomon, author of “Louis Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the
Midcentury American Synagogue.” 5:30 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-
716-1570. Clarence “Big Man”
Clemons, author of “Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales,” a memoir
by Bruce Springsteen’s saxophonist and onstage foil. 7 p.m.
Mark Twain’s Wonderful Worlds,
Hamilton Public Library, Municipal Drive, Hamilton, 609-5814060. Mark Twain, who wrote 28
books and numerous short stories, letters, and sketches, will be
brought to life by actors. Refreshments. Free. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Centennial Awards, Princeton
YMCA, Greenacres Country
Club, Lawrenceville, 609-4979622. www.princetonymca.org.
Cocktail reception, “Green and on
the Scene,” honors environmental leaders Peter Abrams, Modern
Metalwork; Richard Goldman,
D&R Greenway Land Trust;
Eleanor Horne and Becky Taylor,
Lawrence Hopewell Trail; Wendy
Kaczerski, Princeton Environmental Commission; and Jim
Waltman, Stony Brook-Millstone
Watershed Association. Register.
$100. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Faith
Talmud Class, Chabad of the
Windsors, East Windsor Library,
138 Hickory Corner Road, 609448-9369. www.chabadwindsor.com. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Princeton Farmers Market, Pine
and Nassau streets, Princeton,
609-924-8431. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Produce,
poultry, eggs, cheese, breads,
baked goods, flowers, and chef
cooking demonstrations. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Business Networking, One
South Rustic Grill, 4095 Route 1
South, South Brunswick, 732355-1030. Meet other professionals in a social gathering. Free
food. Cash bar. 4 p.m.
Wine Dinner, Mediterra, 29 Hulfish Street, Princeton, 609-2529680. www.terramomo.com.
Five-course dinner with wine pairing with winemaker Marimar Torres, Torres Family Vineyards and
chefs Christopher Albrecht and
Luis Bollo. Register. $75. 6 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Open House, Sunny Health Center, 16 Seminary Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-1227. Free
15-minute massage. Register. 10
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Forever Young, Pennington Ewing Athletic Club, 1440 Lower
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-8832000. www.peachealthfitness.com. “Medicare 101” presented
by Patricia Kaciuba, New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior
Services. 10:30 a.m.
Home, Cailen Ascher Designs,
118 Worman Road, Stockton,
908-581-8191. Lifestyle, function,
and design. Register. $25. 7 to 8
p.m.
Transformational Breathing,
Masimo Carrara and Aspasia
Dassios, 13 Elm Street,
Hopewell, 609-309-5147. www.transformationalbreathing.com.
Group session. Register. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Bioidentical Hormones, Onsen
For All, 4451 Route 27, Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. “Fact or Fiction” presented by Kathleen Thomsen.
Register. $39. 7 p.m.
For Families
Tiger Hall Play Zone, 53 State
www.tigerhallkids.com. For ages
to 8. Register. $10. 9:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
For Teens
Drop-In Gaming, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3294000. www.sbpl.info. For grades
6 to 12. Free. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Opportunities
Good Causes
Fantastic Sam’s is donating a
percentage of every service performed through Saturday, October
24, to Cancer Institute of New Jersey for breast cancer research.
2235 Route 1, North Brunswick.
732-951-1313.
First Presbyterian Church of
Cranbury seeks non-perishable
food for its annual holiday food
drive. Items may be left in the collection boxes inside the church
through Friday, November 20.
Main Street, Cranbury. 609-3950897.
New Hope Arts is collecting
used or new adults-sized 100 percent cotton t-shirts for Pantaluna,
the eco-friendly clothing company
in Rosemont. Pantaluna will pay
New Hope Arts 20 cents per shirt
and recycle the shirts into art wear
clothing. Bring clothing to 2 Stockton Avenue, New Hope. Call 215862-9606.
Peac Health and Fitness is collecting bicycles for the benefit of
the Boys and Girls Club of Trenton
and Mercer County. Bikes will be
reconditioned by Bike Exchange
volunteers and sold. For every
$1,000 collected, an area child receives after school care for an entire year. Bikes will be collected on
Saturdays, October 24, November
7, 14, and 21. Contact Laura Geltch
at 609-883-2000 or E-mail
[email protected].
1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing.
mail [email protected] or
visit www.mccc.edu.
Marriage or Divorce
Bristol Riverside Theater offers the chance to renew wedding
vows on Wednesday, November 11
following the 2 p.m. matinee of “I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now
Change.” Anyone who holds a divorce party during the run of the
show gets a free subscription to the
singles night series. Call Rayna at
215-785-6664 to register.
Dance
Pennington Dance offers a
chance to observe classes in
progress during Monday to Saturday, November 16 to 21. Call 609737-7596 to make an appointment.
www.penningtondance.com
Call for Entries
Design Within Reach invites
you to submit pumpkins for display in windows Thursday and Friday, October 29 and 30. Awards
will be distributed during a Halloween party on Saturday, October
31. 30 Nassau Street, Princeton.
609-921-0899.
Dance Auditions
For Kids
Socials
Drama
Distinguished Lecture Series,
Mercer College, West Windsor,
Communications 109, 609-5703324. www.mccc.edu. “Don’t
Take This Wrong, But You Are Really Good for a Girl and Other Stories About Being a Woman in Science” presented by Dr. Joan W.
Bennett, professor of plant biology and pathology and associate
vice president at Rutgers University. Free. Noon.
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
“Understanding Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder.” 7:30 p.m.
After Hours Soiree, Women Interested in Networking, Mercadien Group, 3625 Quakerbridge
Road, Mercerville, 609-890-4054.
www.whoscoming.com/WIN.
Register. Free. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
about mistaken identities by Oliver Goldsmith. Directed by
Nicholas Martin. Through November 1. $20 to $55. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
George Sinkler, Limelight, 812
Monster Mash, John & Peter’s,
96 South Main Street, New Hope,
Politics
Meeting, Republican Women of
Mercer County, Nassau Club,
Princeton. rwomc.org. 6 p.m.
Singles
Princeton Singles, Charlie
Browns, Kingston, 609-392-1786.
Lunch for ages 55-plus. Register.
Noon.
Meet and Greet, Singles Get Togethers, East Grand Buffet, 6
Edgeboro Road, East Brunswick,
732-605-0958. Dinner. Register.
$25. 6 p.m.
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
West Windsor Senior Center,
609-799-9068. “Benefits and
Myths of the Flu and Pneumonia
Vaccines” presented by Giovanna
Guarraggi. Register. Free. 1 p.m.
Sports
Backpacking 201, Blue Ridge
Mountain Sports, Princeton
Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton, 609-9216078. www.brmsstore.com. “Trip
Planning and Navigation.” Register. 7 p.m.
Wednesday
October 28
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: It’s Contagious: Word of Mouth
People Are the Killer App, NJ
Communications Advertising
and Marketing Association, Arts
Council of Princeton, Witherspoon Street, 609-275-4123.
www.njcama.com. “Lessons
Learned in Building Word of
Mouth Movement” presented by
Geno Church, Brains on Fire. Reception, cash bar, and presentation. Register. $25. 6 to 9 p.m.
St. Lawrence
Rehabilitation Center
2381 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-2024
fax 609-844-0648
www.slrc.org
Nominations Invited
Lectures
For Seniors
• 166-bed facility dedicated
solely to physical
rehabilitation
• Acute, Subacute and Brain
Injury rehabilitation located
within one facility
• Board certified physiatrists,
physicians specializing
in physical medicine
and rehabilitation, direct
all rehabilitation programs
• State-of-the-art 23,000 sq. ft.
Outpatient Health Center
Jewish Family & Children’s
Service of Greater Mercer County presents “One Couple, Two
Faiths” on Tuesdays, November
10, 17, 24, and December 1, 7 to
8:30 p.m., Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road,
Lawrenceville. $36 per couple.
Register by Monday, November 2.
Call Linda Kanner at 609-9878100 or [email protected].
Mercer College offers copies of
“Kelsey Review 2009,” a collection of poems, short fiction, and
drawings featuring works of 17
writers and artists who live, work,
or study in Mercer County. The
deadline for submissions for the
2010 edition is Sunday, May 9. E-
Literature
St. Lawrence Rehabilitation
Center is a comprehensive
physical rehabilitation hospital
that offers all the therapies and
specialty medical programs
you need to help you to return
to a full and active life.
Faith
McCarter Theater is holding
auditions for “A Christmas Carol”
on Monday, October 26, at 9 a.m. at
Chelsea Studios, 151 West 26th
Street, Studio 602, New York City.
Be warmed up and ready to dance
at 10 a.m. Prepare a song and bring
sheet music, a headshot, and a resume. Dancers and singers of all
ethnicities, male and female, in
their 20s and Charlotte Fezziwig, a
dancer who sings. Must be non-equity. Do not call or write.
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to a Full & Active Life
Peac Health and Fitness offers
a two day babysitting class on
Thursday and Friday, November 5
and 6, for ages 11 to 16. Register.
$23. 609-883-2000 or www.peachealthfitness.com.
New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association invites nominations for the 15th annual animal
hall of fame. Nearly 80 animals including dogs, cats, birds, horses,
and even a turtle, have been honored by the organization. www.njvma.org/hall.
Mercer County offers residents free firewood every other
Saturday beginning October 31,
behind the ranger headquarters in
Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Firewood in manageable
pieces will be distributed up to
half-cord per vehicle. Must show
driver’s license to ensure residency.
Hope Fire Company offers
pumpkin pies to benefit the ladies
auxiliary. $10. Order by Monday,
November 23. 609-259-3505. 82
Route 526, Allentown. Pies must
be picked up on Wednesday, November 25, between 3 and 6 p.m.
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October 28
$54. 7:30 p.m.
$78. 8 p.m.
MacHomer, State Theater,
Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston
Avenue, New Brunswick, 732246-7469. www.statetheatrenj.org. Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
performed by Rick Miller features
more than 50 voices of characters
from “The Simpsons.” $32. 8 p.m.
Art
Exhibition and Sale, Princeton
15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Exhibition and sale featuring works
of Princeton artist Thomas
George including brush and ink
drawings, abstract oil paintings,
watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond
series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m.
Art Exhibit, College of New Jersey, Art Gallery, Holman Hall, Ewing, 609-771-2198. www.tcnj.edu/~tcag. Opening reception for
The History of Women’s Rights in New Jersey:
Scholar Jean Baker presents ‘Remembering Alice
Paul: The Invisible Egalitarian,’ a lecture and
discussion. Monday, October 26, Princeton Public
Library. 609-924-9529.
“Distortions: Contemporary Media
Art from Mexico,” an exhibit featuring six Latin American artists.
Experimental music performance
and a panel discussion with
artists Ivan Abreu, Marcela Armas, Ale de La Puente, Gilberto
Esparza, Gerardo Gardia de la
Garza, and Ivan Puig. On view to
December 2. 5 p.m.
Film
Screening of “Who Does She
Think She Is?” about women
artists, self-expression, and motherhood. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Party, American Ballroom, 569 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. For
newcomers. $10. 7 to 9 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction and
dance. $7. 7:40 to 10:30 p.m.
11 p.m.
Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000.
beginners. $15. 8 to 9:30 p.m.
Literati
Science and Math Night,
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau
www.labyrinthbooks.com. William
Dunham, author of “The Calculus
Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesque;” Michael Huber,
author of “Mythematics: Solving
the Twelve Labors of Hercules;”
and Paul Pasles, author of “Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers.” 6 p.m.
Good Causes
Communities of Light, Womanspace, Drumthwacket, Princeton,
609-394-0136. www.womanspace.org. Launch event for the
annual lighting of luminary candles to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault with a reception, program,
and ceremonial lighting. Join honorary chair Governor Jon S.
Corzine and event chairs Kristin
Marvin Keller and Christine Clayton. Rain or shine. Luminary kits
are available for $10. Lighting is
Sunday, December 13, at dusk.
Register. Free. 5:30 p.m.
Fairs
Wednesdays on Warren, Trenton Downtown Association,
South Warren Street, Trenton,
609-393-8998. www.wednesdaysonwarren.com. Music, arts, and food. Holiday cookie
bake-off. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Faith
A Taste of Judaism: Are You Curious?, Har Sinai Temple, 2441
Pennington Road, Pennington,
609-730-8100. www.harsinai.org.
Rabbi Stuart Pollack presents a
modern, Jewish perspective on
living in today’s complicated
world. Register. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Living the Questions, Prince of
Peace Lutheran Church, 177
www.popnj.org. Discussion of issues in modern theology. 7:30
p.m. to 9 p.m.
Food & Dining
Autumn in Rhone, One 53, 153
Washington Street, Rocky Hill,
609-921-0153. Wine tasting and
hors d’oeuvres. Register. $65.
6:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
Let’s Walk, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
609-924-7108. Weekly stroll to
enjoy fall foliages.10:30 a.m.
Prostate Cancer Support Group,
Princeton HealthCare System,
731 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. Open discussion facilitated by Lois Glasser, oncology
social worker with Cancer Care;
and Karen Rust, University Medical Center at Princeton Cancer
outreach coordinator. Free. Noon
to 1:30 p.m.
Exhibit Your Art in Princeton’s
largest corporate gallery.
U.S. 1 is preparing its annual wall calender highlighting
events and venues throughout central New Jersey.
We are inviting artists who live or work
in the greater Princeton area to submit original
artworks for publication in U.S. 1’s annual calendar,
to be distributed Tuesday, December 22,
to 4,000 + offices in the U.S. 1 distribution area.
Paintings or drawings in any medium that capture
the changing seasons of the region
are especially encouraged.
Works will be reproduced in full color.
Artists’ biographies and contact information
will be included in the calendar
and a modest honorarium will be awarded.
Submit E-files to [email protected]
or mail photos or prints to U.S. 1 Calendar,
12 Roszel Road, Princeton 08540.
Deadline: Friday, November 20.
ATTENTION: PRINCETON AREA EVENT PLANNERS
The 2010 U.S. 1 Wall Calendar will be distributed along with our last issue of 2009.
Now is the time to inform us of your events for the coming year. They will be posted online in
the Events directory at www.princetoninfo.com. Send to [email protected]
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Movies
Confirm titles with theaters.
All the Best. Hindi comedy.
Multiplex, Regal.
Amelia. Drama about the life of
Amelia Earhart. Opens Thursday,
October 22. AMC.
Amreeka. Drama about a single
mother and her son. Montgomery.
Astro Boy. Animated family
film. Opens Thursday, October 22.
AMC.
Blue. Drama with John Bryant
Davila. Multiplex, Regal.
The Boys are Back. Drama
about a new widower with three
sons. Montgomery.
Bright Star. Romantic drama
about poet John Keats. Montgomery, Multiplex.
Capitalism: A Love Story.
Documentary by Michael Moore.
AMC, Garden, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. Suspense with
John C. Reilly. Opens Thursday,
October 22. AMC.
Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs. Animated film based
on children’s book by Ron and Judi
Barrett. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Coco Before Chanel. Biopic
about Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
stars Audrey Tatou. Montgomery.
Couples Retreat. Comedy
about four couples. AMC, Destinta, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
Fame. Remake of 1980 film
about performing arts high school.
AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex.
Good Hair. Chris Rock documentary about hair. Regal.
Halloween II. Sci-fi horror directed by Rob Zombie. Destinta.
I Hope They Serve Beer in
Hell. Comedy. Multiplex.
The Informant. Comedy with
Matt Damon and Scott Bakula.
AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex.
Inglourious Basterds. Brad
Pitt killing Nazis. Directed by
Quentin Tarantino. AMC.
The Invention of Lying. Comedy with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer
Garner. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Jennifer’s Body. Violent film
with Megan Fox and Amanda
Seyfried. Destinta.
Law Abiding Citizen. Thriller
with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Mixed Level Hatha Yoga, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Ryah
Dekis presents. $15. 5:25 to 6:35
p.m.
Caregiver Support Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond
www.alz.org. Light dinner provided. 5:30 p.m.
Escape Through Meditation,
East Brunswick Library, Jean
Walling Civic Center, 732-3906767. www.ebpl.org. Volunteerled meditation session. Free.
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Rediscover the Heart of Healing,
Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-581-3539.
www.relaxationandhealing.com.
“Deepen Your Relationship to
Spirit.” Register with Susan Pie. 7
p.m.
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and Discussion, Children
and Adults with Attention-Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, Riverside
School, 58 Riverside Drive, Prince-
Love Happens. Romantic comedy with Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston. Multiplex.
Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna.
Comedy. Multiplex, Regal.
Michael Jackson’s This is It.
Documentary of Jackson’s last
days. Opens Tuesday, October 27.
AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
New York, I Love You. Romantic comedy. AMC, Montgomery.
Opa. Romantic comedy with
Matthew Modine. AMC.
Paranormal Activity. Sci-fi
thriller. AMC, Regal.
Paris. Drama with Romain
Duris. Montgomery.
Race Across the Sky. Crime
drama. Opens Thursday, October
22. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Saw VI. Thriller with Tobin
Bell. Opens Thursday, October 22.
AMC, Regal.
The Stepfather. Thriller with
Sela Ward and Dylan Walsh. AMC,
Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
Surrogates. Sci-fi with Bruce
Willis. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex.
Toy Story in 3D Sci-fi animation. AMC, Regal.
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All
by Myself. Comedy directed by
Perry. AMC, Destinta.
Wake Up Sid. Comedy. Regal.
Where the Wild Thing Are.
Family film based on Maurice
Sendak’s book. AMC, Destinta,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Whip It. Drew Barrymore directs comedy about roller blading.
AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex.
Zombieland. Comedy thriller
with Woody Harrelson. AMC, Destinta, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325
Sloan Avenue , I-295 Exit 65-A, 609890-8307.
ton, 609-683-8787. “What is the
first step in the treatment of
AD/HD: Pill or Skills?” presented
by Dr. William Pelham (DVD presentation). Facilitated group discussions follow. 7 to 9 p.m.
Introduction to Raja Yoga, Onsen For All, 4451 Route 27,
Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. Presented by
Wendy Young. Register. $15. 7
p.m.
History
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens. Tea before or
after tour. Register. $15. 11:15
a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Pajama Story Time and Craft,
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. All ages. Free. 7 p.m.
A Designer Is Born:
Audrey Tatou as a
young Coco Chanel
in ‘Coco Before
Chanel,’ now playing.
Destinta, Independence Plaza,
264 South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-888-4500.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South,
Montgomery Center Theater,
Routes 206 and 518, Rocky Hill,
609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center
Plaza, 319 Route 130 North, East
Windsor, 609-371-8472.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South,
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October 28
“Easements, An Under-Utilized
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Historic Resources” presented by
a five-person panel of experts
who will alert attendees to currently available tax and land-saving opportunities, particularly for
historic properties. Register. $25
includes lunch. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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“Lessons Learned in Building
Word of Mouth Movement” presented by Geno Church, Brains
on Fire. Reception, cash bar, and
presentation. $25. 6 to 9 p.m.
Prejudice Reduction, Rider University, Bart Luedeke Center,
Lawrenceville, 609-896-5521.
www.rider.edu. “Prejudice Among
the Well-Intentioned” presented
by Samuel Gaertner, director of
social psychology, University of
Delaware. 7 p.m.
Camera Club, South Brunswick
Arts Commission, South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732329-4000. “You Can Take Better
Pictures” presented by John Seinstadt, New Jersey Federation of
Camera Clubs. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
West Windsor Library, 333 North
Post Road, 609-799-0462. “How
to Protect and Keep Your Computer and Children Safe on the Internet” presented by Robin
Kessler, Internet Associates. 7 to
9 p.m.
Screening of “Who Does She
Think She Is?” a documentary of
five women artists. 7:30 p.m.
For Families
Family Boo Bounce, Bounce U,
410 Princeton-Hightstown Road,
www.bounceu.com. $9.95. 6 p.m.
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125-year-old stone church, 15
South Main Street, New
Hope. Also open to couples.
No costumes required but
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come dressed in your sexiest
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The party begins at 8:30
p.m. at the first level bar, then
moves upstairs to the sexy and
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person; $120 per couple, includes an open bar and Creole
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PREVIEW
Excuse Me, But Is That a Krumhorn You’re Playing?
by Elaine Strauss
S
ackbut, vielle, violone,
krumhorn, cornetto, lute, hurdygurdy — all are musical instruments no longer in common use.
But they thrive among lovers of
early western music. The Guild for
Early Music, a consortium of ensembles in the Princeton area,
brings a phalanx of such instruments to Grounds For Sculpture in
Hamilton for its fifth annual marathon program. The program runs
from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday,
October 25, and includes music
from the 12th through 18th centuries. Three vocal ensembles join
seven instrumental ensembles for
performances indoors. Strolling
singers from the Rutgers University Collegium Musicum perform
outdoors. Audience members will
be able not only to hear music played on vintage instruments but also
to try them out themselves at what
the Guild calls “a petting zoo” at 5
p.m.
The theme of the extravaganza
is “In Love and War.” Grounds For
Sculpture enhances the musical
events by offering sculpture tours
featuring works on the theme during the afternoon.
The Mercer County College radio station WWFM, the Classical
Network, which nourishes strong
ties with its community of listeners, is a media sponsor. Allan Kelly,
host of WWFM’s “Distant Mirror,”
which broadcasts medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, will be
on hand. WWFM program director
Alice Weiss provides an hour-long
on-air preview, including interviews with musicians, beginning at
10 a.m.
Bliss Michelson, WWFM production manager and host of its 7 to
10 a.m. morning program, will
serve as master of ceremonies, introducing each group as it plays for
its allotted half-hour segment. Invited by John Burkhalter, recorder
player, and a leader among early
music performers in the area,
Michelson happily signed on as
host for the Early Music Festival’s
first gig at Grounds For Sculpture
in 2005. He has been with the annual festival as master of ceremonies
ever since.
“Burkhalter asked me, and I did
it for the fun of it,” Michelson says
in a telephone interview from his
WWFM office at Mercer County
Community College.
This year Michelson is involved, both as host and as a performer, playing hurdy-gurdy with
the Engelchor Consort, a Princeton-based medieval music group.
The instrument was first depicted
in the 12th century. The sound is
made by a wooden wheel, driven
by a crank, moving against the
tuned strings of the instrument,
which is somewhat larger than a
modern viola.
Michelson, whose primary instrument is the double bass, claims
no musical credentials for his appearance with Engelchor. “I’ll just
turn the crank, and a drone will
come out,” he says. “They’ll de-
cide the music for me. They’ll program it.”
The festival has refined its operations since its inception, Michelson says. “It was feeling its way
along at first. Now it’s well-organized.” Roughly 100 people attended the first festival four years ago.
The fourth festival, last year, attracted an audience of more than
500, with some listeners dropping
by for a few minutes and others remaining in place for the full five
hours.
“The ‘petting zoo’ started two
years ago,” says Michelson. “People handle the instruments under
the supervision of the musicians
themselves. So nobody can break
or damage anything.
‘G
rounds For Sculpture is
taking more of a hand in the festival,” Michelson continues. “At
first, Grounds For Sculpture was
merely a venue. They’ve come to
realize that the two organizations
can work together and be consistent about following the same
theme. The left hand now knows
what the right hand is doing.”
WWFM is now an official participant in the festival for the second time. “Being involved with the
Festival has become a station function.” Michelson says. “At first it
was just me. The station became
officially involved in 2008, when it
became a media sponsor of the
event. It gives station people a
chance to mix with the public.
We’re here to listen to folks and respond to their concerns.
“We’re public radio,” Michelson says. “Everything depends on
public support. Being responsive
to the community’s needs is essential. We want public support and
we want to support the public’s
needs.”
Peter Fretwell, WWFM general
manager since 2007, confirms the
station’s commitment to its listeners. “I started to listen to WWFM
online in Spokane, Washington,”
he says, “and got the impression of
highly-skilled, passionate, classical music professionals who cared
about doing radio the way I think it
should be done, that is, with local
and community involvement. I
made the transition from commercial to non-commercial radio because commercial radio had lost its
sense of community service and localism. That used to be the norm.
Now, it’s the exception.”
“Classical music professional”:
the phrase is an accurate description of Early Music Festival host
Michelson,
borrowed
from
WWFM for the afternoon. His instrument is the double bass. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in Music from Chicago Musical College
of Roosevelt University in 1971.
Michelson, 60, was born in West
Chicago, Illinois, 30 miles west of
Chicago. His mother, a home economics teacher, played piano and
flute. Her father played trumpet and
cornet. Michelson’s father worked
for the Northern Illinois Gas Company in finance until he retired in
1972. “He’s 95 and lives with my
sister,” Michelson says. “He’s doing well. He’s a grumpy old Swede
who broke his hip two years ago.”
In high school, Michelson
played flute. “I hated it,” he says. “I
thought of it as a girl’s instrument
and didn’t feel an affinity for it. At
13, I started bass. My teacher, Henry Howard, needed somebody tall
and skinny who could hold up the
instrument and reach around it.”
As a high school graduate in
1967, Michelson followed teacher
Howard’s example and studied at
Chicago Musical College. Having
earned a bachelor’s degree, he
joined the U.S. Army.
In 1971 the Army sent him to
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. “We
called it ‘Fort Lost in the Woods’
because it was in the middle of
nowhere,” Michelson says. “It was
a 125-mile drive to St. Louis for
culture. I played bass tuba and
sousaphone in the Army band. I
had played both in high school. I
was also a supply clerk. A big river
ran through the camp. The fishing
was good. Life was pleasant there.
“I had a car,” Michelson says. “I
drove to St. Louis to study double
bass with Henry Loewe, who was
The Earlier the Better:
Mostly Motets, above
left; Engelchor Consort and Delaware
River Consort, above;
and Bliss Michelson
of WWFM, right.
on the faculty at Washington University. That got me into the San
Antonio Symphony.”
Michelson was a member of San
Antonio’s double bass section
from the time he left the Army in
1974 until 1987. “I got into broadcasting because the San Antonio
orchestra had a short season — 36
weeks. In the summer I stayed
home staring at the four walls. My
wife heard station KRTU [the radio
station at San Antonio’s Trinity
University] asking for volunteer
announcers. They took me. It was a
great way to spend the summers.”
Michelson worked at San Antonio’s National Public Radio 24hour classical station KPAC-FM
beginning in 1982. In 1987 he became a full-time announcer/producer with NPR’s classical station
WNED-FM in Buffalo, New York.
In 1992 he came to WWFM.
M
ichelson continues to freelance as a double bassist in orchestras in New Jersey and neighboring
areas in Pennsylvania and New
York State. Primarily, he plays an
acoustic bass. But he also plays an
electronic instrument. “I have a
Fender bass at home,” he says. “As
a free-lance bassist I’m called on to
use it occasionally.”
Asked to compare hosting a radio show or an early musical festival with performing, Michelson
says, “There’s an overlap in the
sense that I have a good background in music theory and history,
a knowledge of musical instruments and a good grasp of foreign
languages. I can handle just about
anything pronunciation-wise.”
As for the appeal of the double
bass, Michelson says, “Partly, it’s
Last year the Guild for Early Music Festival at Grounds For Sculpture attracted an audience of more than 500, with some listeners dropping by
for a few minutes and others remaining in place for the full five hours.
the enjoyment of playing in a low
register. Partly, it’s fun to play such
a large instrument.”
But something else is at the root
of Michelson’s attraction to the
double bass. “It’s a power thing,”
he says. “The bass is the fundamental instrument of the orchestra. If
the basses are out of tune, everybody else is out of tune.” Maybe the
same statement applies to being the
production manager for WWFM.
As production manager his role is
seeing that what is meant to be
broadcast actually gets on the air.
Guild for Early Music, Grounds
For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton. Sunday, October 25,
Noon. to 5:30 p.m. Fifth annual festival with the theme “In Love and
War” features both vocal and instrumental music from the Renaissance
and Baroque eras presented by regional performance groups. Visitors
may try out some of the unusual instruments that have been played in
the instrument “petting zoo.”
Strolling minstrels and tours
throughout the grounds. Free with
$10 park admission. 609-689-1089
or www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Performing in the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts: John
Burkhalter for the Princeton Recorder Society, recorder; Delaware
River Consort,
vocal quartet;
Practitioners of Musick, Baroque
instrumental ensemble; Mostly
Motets, vocal ensemble; La Fiocco, Baroque instrumental ensemble; Engelchor Consort, Medieval
instrumental ensemble with voice;
Princeton Pro Musica Chamber
Group, vocal; Gloria Consort, Baroque trio sonatas; La Spirita, viola
da gamba ensemble with voice,
Renaissance; and Musica Dolce,
Baroque instrumental ensemble.
Performing outdoors and/or in the
Domestic Arts Building: Rutgers
University Collegium Musicum,
Renaissance.
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701 Carnegie
Matthew Kent, associate treasurer,
who reports to Carolyn Ainslie,
vice president for finance and
treasurer. Though the main bursar’s office will be on the first floor,
a mini bursar’s office will stay on
campus so students won’t have to
take a shuttle to pay a bill.
“For some people,” says Kent,
“the space is increasing. For some
it is slightly smaller, but it is more
efficient. There is so much wasted
space in New South.”
Just off the lobby is an office
where the university’s external auditors, from Deloitte, will be
housed for about half of each year.
(Compared to the rest of the building, this is a Plain Jane space, perhaps because no organization
wants its auditors to get too comfortable.)
On the first and fourth floors are
dedicated file rooms, says Brandon
Gaines, who was in charge of organizing all the finance and treasury files for the move. That’s a
mammoth amount of files — four
rooms’ worth — to be coordinated,
and it represents a paradigm shift
from keeping files within the department in a university-controlled
building to putting them in an off
campus building open to all.
Gaines introduced the concept
of “high density filing” (rolling
units that squeeze into smaller
spaces), standardized the labeling
systems, and required everyone to
decide which are “working files”
versus those that need to be locked
away separately under tight security. “Each department customized
its labels,” says Gaines, “so they
can get in and out of the file room
as quickly as possible.”
So what does the building look
like? It’s possible to get there via a
Transparency: Carolyn Ainslie, right, head of the
university’s finance department, will move her department, including Matthew Kent, left, and Brandon Gaines, into the new space in November.
sharp turn off Route 1 South, but
the best entrance is from Alexander
Road to Canal Pointe Boulevard.
Drive past 100 Overlook and the
Mormon church and turn into the
parking lot. The building’s exterior
is of ornamental metal and real
brick with insulated glass windows.
Inside, even on a gloomy day the
lobby is filled with light. Against
the paneled walls, four giant
etched-glass paintings depict university scenes and symbols. The
light shines down from a skylight
through the central stair, “an open,
light-filled connection that unifies
the building’s four floors and fulfills the desire for natural light
throughout the interior space,” according to Klimek. There is so
much glass that the stair seems to
float in space; light and movement
can be seen through it. At the base,
notes Klimek, the stair also has
stone finishes. “It appears to
emerge out of the ground floor,
bringing up with it a public, interactive space. The spacious stair
landings are designed to create opportunities for people to meet, stop
and chat with other people.”
D
eciding on, and then building Carnegie 701 was one of the
first big projects at Princeton for
Burstein, who came here five years
ago from Columbia University,
where real estate is measured vertically. It is not only the first building
that the university will occupy in
West Windsor, but will also be the
first LEED-designed building in
the township. The developer,
Boston Properties, will apply for
the certification.
Burstein is proud of the “firsts”
involved with this project and
points to a trend for institutions to
put more than one function in an
office building, Service functions,
like IT and finance, “are becoming
more sophisticated and more complex, and we need to make sure
their space really supports what
they do,” he says.
The “gleam in the eye” for
bringing some administrative
functions together started about
four years ago when the campus
planning process began. “We went
into the real estate market to decide
what would be the best way to do
that. We looked at new construction on campus, other existing
buildings, and other developers,”
says Burstein. “It’s a pretty large
building for us, and there aren’t
many square feet on campus. We
could have built it, but our expertise is developing research, undergraduate, and academic buildings,
which are unique in many ways.”
The consensus: Lease rather
than build. The normal allowance
for tenant fit-out would not have
covered everything; the university
would have had to pay an additional amount for the extras. According
to the Aegis Property Group website, the university signed a 15-year
lease.
“At a time when the university,
like other institutions, has taken a
significant hit to its endowment
and other capital funds, the question becomes how do you deploy
your relative resources,” says BP’s
Landis. “Do you want to put your
money in bricks and mortar or keep
your powder dry for needs that are
more relative to your business? It’s
the same decision that Novo
Nordisk had to make. They chose, I
think appropriately, to use their
capital to develop their business as
opposed to putting it in bricks and
mortar. I hope that they are not just
happy with the location but the
quality of the building itself.”
Even though 701 will be occupied by the university, the developer will have to pay real estate taxes
on it. Won’t that add additional expense to the lease? No one involved will reveal the dollar value
of the lease arrangement, but if you
think how Boston Properties did
not have to build to the same level
the university does (on a 50-year
plan, as if the building will never
ever be torn down) and that it also
achieved economies of scale in the
actual construction, you can imagine that the final cost will probably
be lower than if the university had
built on its own.
“We established a relationship
with a developer,” summarizes
Burstein. “It is not something we
do frequently, and maybe there will
be an opportunity again. We tested
ideas about using expertise to support us as an institution. It allowed
us to think about the functions that
are moving into the building in a
different way, and hopefully it will
benefit the employees as well as
the university in enhanced services
that they provide.”
Best of all, Carnegie 701 adds
West Windsor and Canal Pointe
Boulevard to the university’s mental map. “That can only be a good
thing,” says Burstein, noting that
the university and the seminary
have merged shuttle services, and
that Carnegie 701 has been added
to the shuttle that continues to MarketFair and seminary housing.
As 701 Carnegie nears completion, an opportunity for a first look
comes to IT’s Leydon, known for
her collaborative-style conferences. Her office at Nassau Hall
has a pillar in the middle of it, and
the conference table was designed
around that pillar. She seems delighted with the new conference
table in her corner office, with its
view of the D&R Canal to Cleveland Tower. Said Leydon: “It
makes you feel you can start fresh.”
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
Flex Space for Rent
Roebling Metro/TRW, 171 Jersey Street, Building 3-3A. Available
gross.
Nexus properties, Andrea Sussman, 609-396-6800. Owner: Nexus.
West Windsor
45 Everett Drive. Net rent $5.
Conditions: Plus operating expenses; $12/SF office.
609-520-0061. Other tenants: Laser
Tag, Leigh Photo. Close to Route 1,
I-95, I-295, Rt. 571, and Quakerbridge Road. Ceilings 20’. All units
have office space. Two units at 4,864
SF contiguous includes 1,500 SF of
office; two units at 5,643 SF contiguous; one unit at 9,586 SF includes
2,500 SF office.
Retail Space
East Windsor
521 Route 130 North. Available
$14,006, net.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonanni, 609-586-4300. Sales/lease/redevelopment of auto sales and service
facility with 250’ highway frontage.
Ewing
Parkside Plaza, Parkside Avenue and North Olden. Available
Net rent $17. Conditions: Plus utilities, insurance, maintenance, and
taxes. Approximate per-month cost:
$2,550, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Other tenants: Liquor store, Italian/pizza
restaurant, cell phones, nail salon.
Anchored by Shop Rite; 4,471
square foot space also available.
Serenity Plaza, 1400 Parkway
Avenue. Available square feet:
1,833. Net rent $19. Three-year minimum lease. Two months free rent for
tenant fit-out. Tenant pays heat and
cost: $2,902, net.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Can be combined with an 1,233 SF unit.
Serenity Plaza, 1400 Parkway
Avenue. Available square feet:
1,233. Net rent $19. Three-year minimum lease. Approximate per-month
cost: $1,952, net.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Can be combined with an 1,833 SF unit.
171-209 Scotch Road. Available
$1,000, gross.
Building owner: Linden Square Realty LLC. Three units in a single-story
masonry building with glass storefronts. Located in a neighborhood
shopping center. Each unit is 1,000
+/- SF. Located about 1 mile from a
full interchange of I-95 and the new
Merrill Lynch facility.
Hamilton
Kuser Plaza, Kuser Road at
Whitehorse-Mercerville. Available
Conditions: Plus utilities, taxes,
maintenance, insurance. Approximate per-month cost: $7,927, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Retail strip center.
Deer Path Pavilion, 691 Route
130. Available square feet: 4,000.
Net rent $27. Plus CAM charges,
taxes, insurance. $8.75 (estimate)
plus utilities for year one. Approximate per-month cost: $9,000, net.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Near large
Hamilton Marketplace complex. Divisible to two stores.
1855 Greenwood Avenue. Available square feet: 3,000. Net rent
$2,500, net.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Retail space
available for lease. Corner location.
Quakerbridge Shoppes, 3800
Quakerbridge Road. Available
$2,435, net.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Located in a
busy strip shopping center. NET
charges are $5/SF.
1469 Nottingham Way. Available
square feet: 1,200.
Building owner: Linden Square Realty. One unit in a single-story center.
Hightstown
105-119 Franklin Street. Available square feet: 1,000. Net rent
$2,500, net.
Building owner: Heightstown Village
Center LLC. Other tenants: Krauzer
Food, Famiglia Pizza, Dry Cleaners.
Montgomery
Montgomery Shopping Center,
Route 206 at Route 518. Available
1,007. Net rent $16.50. Conditions:
Plus utilities, taxes, insurance, and
maintenance. Approximate permonth cost: $1,385, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Other tenants: Rite Aid, restaurants, cell
phone, Massage Envy, framing,
liquor store, movie theater. Retail
strip center anchored by Shop Rite.
Pennington
7 Tree Farm Road. Available
Al Toto, 609-921-8844. Other tenants: Pennington Quilt Works, Wooly
Lamb, Artful Beads, Ideal Tile. 1533
to 4500 available Corner location retail, liquor license available
Princeton Borough
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Ideal
space for restaurant or shop.
Conditions: Plus utilities. Approximate per-month cost: $8,333, gross.
Near Washington Road intersection.
15 Spring Street. Gross rent,
$35. Conditions: Plus utilities.
Al Toto, 609-921-8844.
Robbinsville
1239 Route 130. Available
Plus operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $5,998, net.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. Free
standing building for lease or sale.
Zoned highway commercial with
frontage on Route 130.
West Windsor
Princeton Arms, Old Trenton
Road and Dorchester Drive. Available square feet: 9,312, divisible to
1,312. Net rent 14. Conditions: Plus
utilities, insurance, maintenance,
and taxes. Approximate per-month
cost: $1,531, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Other tenants: Little Szechuan Restaurant, Kumon Learning Center, Mexico Lindo. Retail strip center.
Warehouse Space
Ewing
1405 Lower Ferry Road. Available square feet: 40,000. Net rent
$2.99. Conditions: NNN, 1-5 year
term. Approximate per-month cost:
$9,967, net.
James Voglesong, 772-3416822. Property manager on site.
$5,000 finder’s fee.
Enterprise Park, 370 Sullivan
Way. Available square feet: 29,000.
Net rent $5. Plus utilities, taxes,
maintenance, insurance. Approximate per-month cost: $12,083, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. Drive-in door and loading dock.
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Enterprise Park, 800 Silvia
Street, Building D. Available square
feet: 24,000, divisible to 5,000. Net
rent $9. Approximate per-month
cost: $3,750, net.
Brush, Mark Hill, 609-921-6060. New
warehouse/flex building.
4B Jane Street. Available square
feet: 6,000. Net rent $6. Conditions:
Plus all operating expenses. Approximate per-month cost: $3,000, net.
609-520-0061. 300 SF of office also
available for $9/SF. Convenient to I95, Route 1 and Route 31. Property
zoned IP3, includes one loading
dock, monitored sprinkler, 48 volts three phase, 2 baths and shower.
Princess Diana Lane Centre, 25
Princess Diana Lane. Net rent
$3.50. Conditions: Plus all operating
expenses.
609-520-0061. Other tenants:
Phoenix Enterprises, Boehm Porcelain. Property for sale or lease on
6.64 acre parcel. Single-story building, zoned IP2, 2,400 Amp power,
maximum ceiling height is 35’ high.
One unit at 13,000 SF of A/C warehouse; 1,260 SF of office ($10.50/SF
plus operating expenses); one unit of
10,000 SF warehouse.
802 Prospect. Gross rent, $3.5.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani,
609-586-4300. Warehouse with two
loading docks and five loading doors.
Fenced-in lot with high ceiling. Excellent condition.
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Premium Retail & Office Space
Carduner’s Center
Prime Location: Corner U.S. Highway 130
and Princeton-Hightstown Road
East Windsor, NJ
Office Space
Immediately Available
1150 +/- SF & 2 at 500 +/- SF • 2nd floor
Retail Space:
Immediately Available
1600 SF & 1640 SF
Call: Brian Carduner
908-670-7613 • Website: cardunercenter.com
OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE
MONTGOMERY KNOLL CONDO
Tamarack Circle - off Route 206
1900 sf - Will Subdivide
5 Large Offices + Reception + Baths
Available Furnished/Unfurnished
Ample Parking - Quiet Setting
Call 908.281.5374
Meadow Run Properties, LLC
Warehouses for Rent
Hamilton
Kuser Plaza, Kuser Road at
Whitehorse-Mercerville. Available
plus electric. Approximate permonth cost: $898, gross.
Warehouse/storage space.
Duck Island Terminal, 1463
Lamberton Road. Available square
feet: 5,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Two 830 SF
bays. $1,500/month gross. Includes
taxes, water, sewer, heat and electric. Available.
1009 South Olden Avenue.
Available square feet: 4,100.
Bonanni Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Store/showroom and warehouse located on active corner near 295/195.
3 Nami Lane. Available square
feet: 3,000. Net rent $7. Approximate per-month cost: $1,750, net.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Zoned light
industrial, flex space, utilities available. Ample parking spaces.
North Brunswick
827-832 Ridgewood Avenue,
Building 5. Net rent $5. Conditions:
Plus all operating expenses.
609-520-0061. Divisible with 1,250
SF office. $10.50/SF office. 26’ ceilings, two private offices, one drive-in
and two tailgates.
Pennington
27 Route 31 South. Available
19,320. Net rent $5. Approximate
4,000 feet of office, 1 drive-in door
and 3 tall boards; 14-foot clearance.
Space for Sale
Office Space
Bordentown
feet: 2,270. Price: $395,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Existing plans
for a new approved building with six
parking spaces. Zoned commercial.
Ewing
2000 Spruce Street. Available
Net rent $8. Price: $425,000.
Price recently reduced.
1450 Parkside Avenue. Available
Price: $585,000.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. Office
condo for sale. Built in 1993, move-in
condition, features two kitchens and
four bathrooms. Located minutes
from Route 1 and I-95/I-295.
790 River Road. Available square
feet: 3,000, divisible to 1,000. Price:
$495,000.
Building owner: Frank C. and Edward Sanpaolo. Bldg 1: single masonry with pitched roof. Divisible to
2,000 SF and 1,000 SF with commmon area, small kitchen, 2 halfbaths. Bldg 2: two one-bedroom
apartments. Current FAR is 10.5 percent. Ordinance allows up to 35.
Ewing Apartments, 90 Scotch
Road. Price: $699,000.
609-520-0061. 10-unit apartment
complex consists of two studio apartments and eight one-bedroom apartments, new roof and windows, good
location close to I-95.
Hamilton
34-44 W. Taylor Avenue. Available square feet: 4,000. Price:
$1,200,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Single-story
multiple-office building. Suitable for
medical use/professional office.
Lease: $650/month per office suite
(all inclusive of heat, electricity, water, sewer, and taxes) - three 510 SF
office suites and one 600 SF end cap
unit. Immediately available.
1245 Whitehorse-Mercerville
Road. Available square feet: 1,568.
Net rent $15. Conditions: Plus operating expenses. Price: $300,000.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. Medical/office condo for sale or lease.
First floor unit. Eight private
offices/exam rooms and a reception
area. Close to Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. Convenient to I-295,
Route 1 and Hamilton train station.
3673 Quakerbridge Road. Available square feet: 1,872. Net rent
$16. Conditions: NNN plus tenant
operating expenses. Price:
$595,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Zoned REO
4. Two-story brick building with partially finished 987 SF basement. Two
two-piece baths, wood and carpeted
floors, kitchenette, one-half finished
basement. Immediate occupancy.
72 Benson. Available square
feet: 1,750. Price: $295,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonanni, 609-586-4300. First-floor office
space available with two apartments
(rented) on the second floor.
2827 South Broad Street. Available square feet: 600. Price:
$81,500.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Suitable for
many office/retail uses. Zoned highway commercial.
Available square feet: 1,600. Gross
rent, 15. Price: $595,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. One block from
I-295. Potential for owner-occupied
unit plus rental units.
3620 Nottingham Way. Price:
$389,900.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. 2.5-story Victorian design building. Office, medical
or any professional use.
3673 Quakerbridge Road. Available square feet: 1,875. Net rent
$16. Price: $595,000.
Large signage on main road.
Lawrence
1175 Lawrence Road. Available
square feet: 2,576. Price: $499,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. First floor:
customer/office room; garage with
overhead doors. Second floor: threebedroom apartment, central air.
4060 Quakerbridge Road. Price:
$395,000.
Building owner: David Saltman. Twostory single-family residence considered a tear-down for valuation purposes. Permitted uses include daycare center, professional offices.
Lawrence Commons, 3371
Route 1. Net rent $22. Price:
$247,500.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Office
or professional condo, 1,100-foot
unit.
2659 Main Street. Price:
$1,595,000.
Building owner: Joseph & Anthony
Vitella. Four-star location in heart of
Lawrenceville. A one- and partial
three-story frame building. Eight
apartment units and three commercial rental units.
Montgomery
Montgomery Knoll, 100 Tamarack Circle. Price: $298,000.
Thompson Management, Cosmo Iacavazzi, 609-921-7655. Class
B office space.
182 Tamarack Circle. Available
square feet: 1,900. Gross rent, 20.
Price: $400,000.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Corner suite, immediate occupancy.
Plainsboro
501 Plainsboro Road, 501
Plainsboro Road. Price: $950,000.
Al Toto, 609-921-8844. 100 percent
occupied, good for owner/user.
Robbinsville
20 Main Street. Available square
feet: 1,884. Price: $495,000
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. 2.5-story colonial with approval for offices.
Trenton
1038-1040 Brunswick Avenue.
Price: $625,000.
Howco Management Company,
Howard Cohen, 609-896-0505. 12unit apartment building on Lawrence
border. Great cash flow.
1871 Pennington Road. Price:
$950,000.
Building owner: Gupta Properties
LLC. Two-story medical office building, elevator. Paved parking and
designated street parking for 20 +/-.
Currently occupied, but will be sold
vacant.
526 New York Avenue. Price:
$2,850,000.
609-520-0061. Industrial building for
sale situated on six acres. Good for
office, hotel use or building supply.
Can build up to 125,000 SF. Abundant parking. Directly on Route 1.
10 Rutgers Place. Price:
$425,000.
Thompson Management, Cosmo Iacavazzi, 609-921-7655. Class
C office space. Signage, onsite parking, expansion potential.
832 South Broad Street. Price:
$95,000.
Building owner: Homestretch Housing LLC. Three-story, 2,850 +/- SF.
Renovated interior with C of O.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
West Windsor
Retail
Trenton
191 Clarksville Road. Available
Price: $2,300,000.
William Barish, 609-921-8844. Freestanding contemporary building with
huge windows and great signage.
37 Station Drive. Conditions: tenant electric. Price: $2,500,000.
Two-story masonry, air-conditioned
building having 9,000 +/- square feet
and parking for 68 cars. There are
seven suites ranging in size from
400 +/- square feet to 3,000 +/square feet. Zoned ROM-2 research,
office and light manufacturing. Space
also available for lease.
Burlington
1042 Brunswick Avenue. Price:
$399,000.
Thompson Management, Cosmo Iacavazzi, 609-921-7655. Full
turnkey operation, profitable tavern
business.
Flex Space
40 West Route 130. Available
square feet: 15,480. Conditions: Former dealership/Redevelopment opportunity. Price: $3,699,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. 6.62 acres and
almost 700 feet of highway frontage.
Priced below recent appraisal.
East Windsor
521 Route 130 North. Available
Price: $2,295,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonanni, 609-586-4300. Sales/lease/redevelopment of auto sales and service
facility with 250’ highway frontage.
West Windsor
Village Square, . Available
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Business for
sale: A gourmet delicatessen, catering business, cafe, convenience
store in Village Square.
Ewing
1116 Nottingham Way. Available
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. $1,600/month
with one-year lease plus tenant operating expenses. Zoned general
commercial, two-stories. First floor:
8-9’ ceilings, 1/2 bath, built-in bar
area. Second floor: 650 SF office,
1/2 bath, conference area, private office. Building has two entrances.
1726 Genesee Street. Available
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Two-story
masonry building with three overhead doors and 1/2 bath on first
floor. Two-ton lift; zoned highway
commercial.
Olden Avenue. Price: $649,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. High-volume,
well-established restaurant with
apartment, at busy intersection.
Warehouse
Hamilton
216 Robbins Avenue. Price:
$395,000.
Building owner: Robert Dorisio Jr.
Single-story masonry building. Tile
floor over concrete and drop ceiling.
500 +/- SF for two offices. One drivein overhead door; two restrooms.
Princess Diana Lane Centre, 25
Princess Diana Lane. Net rent
$3.50. Conditions: Plus all operating
expenses. Price: $2,400,000.
609-520-0061. Property for sale or
lease on 6.64 acre parcel.
Trenton
13-15 Mifflin Street. Available
square feet: 2,500. Food-processing
facility. Price: $275,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Zoned Residential B (approved commercial
use). Has one-bedroom apt. $700/month. Tenent use of ovens
$700/month. Sale includes R.E., all
furniture, fixtures and equipment in
building. Rent $2,000/month.
Land
Bordentown
feet: 17,000. Conditions: sale or
lease. Price: $2,890,000.
Joseph R. Ridofi & Associates,
Joseph R. Ridolfi, 609-581-5511.
Zoned Highway Commercial. Sale 3 acres including building:
$2,890,000. Sale: 7 acres including
building: $3,640,000. Sale: 4 acres
at $250,000/acre, no building.
Lease; will build to suit to tenant requirements with flexible lease terms.
Ewing
146 Scotch Road. Price:
$625,000.
Al Toto, 609-921-8844. Land zoned
for professional, research, or office.
Hamilton
19 Black Forest Road. Price:
$750,000
609-520-0061. 4 acres available.
Commercial site for up to 30,000 SF
of industrial, flex or office space.
Public water and sewer. Utilities
available. Visible from I-95.
17 Black Forest Road. Price:
$475,000.
609-520-0061. 2.2 acres fully approved and ready to build. Site for up
to 20,000 SF of industrial or flex
space or 100 percent office building.
West Windsor
2030 Old Trenton Road. Price:
$1,152,000.
609-520-0061. 7.2 acres available.
Commercial zone ROM-3, flat land
site, no wetlands. Phase 1 traffic
study complete. Site plan and building design for a health and sports
club, office, medical or technology
facility.
Princeton Borough
Witherspoon Street. Price:
$3,500,000.
Hector Olaya, 609-924-3000.
Mixed-use building; three retail tenants. 100 percent leased with longterm tenants in place. $180,000 net
operating income. Principals only.
Nassau Street. Price:
$5,750,000.
Mixed-use building; three retail tenants. 20 parking spots. 100 percent
leased with long-term leases in
place. $250,000 net operating income. Principals only.
Witherspoon Street. Price:
$3,000,000.
Mixed-use building; two retail tenants, two residential tenants, one office tenant. 100 percent leased with
long-term leases in place. $190,000
NOI. Principals only.
COMMERCIAL
PROPERTIES
& BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SALE OR LEASE
692-698 South Broad Street.
Price: $690,000.
Three-story brick and masonry building containing three floors totaling
16,000 +/- square feet. The basement finished as retail. Elevator.
Hamilton
2907 East State Street. Price:
$395,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Beauty salon
with three-bedroom apartment on
second floor, all equipment included.
1170 Route 33. Price:
$8,800,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Former Patterson Chevrolet on almost 10 acres
with three road frontages; three possible pad sites and retail center.
53 Flock Road. Price:
$1,300,000.
Building owner: C 168 Associates
LLC. Site level and at road grade;
has 398 +/- feet fronting on Flock
Road with a depth of 214 +/- feet,
comprising a total of 1.9 +/- acres.
Public water, sewer, gas and electric
are available to the site. Sale price
includes site plan and engineering
for 15,163 +/- SF of retail.
Available square feet: 2,500. Price:
$975,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Zoned General Commercial. Single story
brick/masonry building. Former Buffstones Inn. Large paved parking lot.
Ground lease — 3 acres —
$225,000/year NNN.
1338 Hamilton Avenue. Price:
$149,900.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. Two apartments
with storefront.
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Hamilton Twp. Office & 2 apartments. “Your office is waiting.” Nice corner location with 1,200 SF of office w/2 BA.
Corner parking w/2 one-bedroom apts. Only $295,000.
Ewing
Hamilton
1605 Hamilton Avenue. Available square feet: 4,858. Net rent $4.
Conditions: Plus tenant heat and
electric. Price: $550,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. One-story
block building, heavy concrete
floors, one dock door, two overhead
drive-in doors, two bathrooms, 1012-foot ceilings, private office, conference room, 10-12 parking spaces.
34-44 West Taylor Avenue.
Available square feet: 2,600. Price:
$1,200,000.
Ridolfi, 609-581-4848. Zoned R-7,
1.14 AC, One-story cinder block
2,600 SF heated warehouse.
Trenton
47 Virginia Avenue. Price:
$389,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. 20’ ceilings in
main warehouse with 18’ access
door. 5,000 SF warehouse plus
1,100 SF office space.
130 Ward. Available square feet:
24,000. Price: $649,000.
Bonnani Realtors, David Bonnani, 609-586-4300. 21,000 SF +/and 3,000 SF +/- office/retail. 25’
ceilings with three 18’ access doors.
Trenton, 335 North Olden Avenue. Price: $150,000.
609-520-0061. 90,000 SF warehouse situated on 1.88 acres. Urban
enterprise zone.
Hamilton Twp. 4 Stores + 2 Two-Bedroom Apartments. Corner location 1 block from 295 interchange. Move your
business in and collect the rents to pay your mortgage. $595,000.
Bonanni Realtors 609-586-4300
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Plainsboro, New Jersey
Robbinsville
1239 Route 130. Available
Conditions: Plus operating expenses. Price: $120,000.
John Comp, 609-520-0061. Free
standing building for lease or sale.
Zoned highway commercial with
frontage on Route 130 and total
highway visibility, this space has adequate parking and is situated on
one+ acre. New roof in 2006. Convenient to I-295, I-195, I-95, Turnpike.
Suites of Approx. 800, 909, 1,818 (fully furnished) & 2,121 Sq. Ft.
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Available
Life in the Fast Lane
Warehouse-Recreation-Assembly
5000-17,500/SF, South Brunswick
William Barish - [email protected]
Sale or lease, Route 31, Pennington
4000-16,000/SF
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Al Toto - [email protected]
www.112Titusmill.com
West Windsor, 13,000 SF Sale or Lease
William Barish - [email protected]
For Lease - East Windsor Office
3200 SF. 399 Monmouth St.. Holiday Inn Conference
Center. On-site hotel, catering, meeting facilities.
im Lua, president of
Global Engineering and Materials,
or GEM, decided to move his company to Princeton for four reasons
— his wife Lily Tong’s job in informational technology at Pfizer had
been transferred to Bridgewater;
he was already having difficulty recruiting highly qualified individuals where he lived in East Lyme,
Connecticut; Princeton is closer
both to his funding agencies in the
District of Columbia; and the District of Columbia and New Jersey
offer more marketing opportunities than Connecticut.
So last summer he moved his
company to a small office in Forrestal Village, andthen in October relocated to Airport Place. His current 1,800-square-foot office
space, he says, will be large
enough to accommodate the additional three or four engineers and
scientists he expects to add in the
near future.
Because he had worked so hard
as a consultant for a big corporation and as a one-person company
when GEM was getting started,
Lua understood that stress is neither enjoyable nor productive. “If
you push too hard and people have
huge pressure, then creativity will
Fun vs. Failure: Jim Lua, front right, founded
GEM on the idea that work need not be hard labor. With Lua, Jay Shi; back row, left to right,
Navin Thammadi, Jason Wei, and LiGuo Chen.
drop,” he says. “If you build up
teamwork and create a fun environment, productivity will increase.”
When he hired employees for
his company, he was determined to
create a different kind of work
‘If you create place of
just working for a living, it won’t go anywhere, and people
will hate their jobs.’
space. “Normally people say
working for small companies is a
tough life,” says Lua. “That’s the
reason we sponsor lots of fun activities like outings, rafting, camping,
and home barbecues.”
When reading through training
materials his wife had brought
home about team building and people skills, he decided to implement
some ideas in his own company. In
Time for a Change?
Al Toto - [email protected]
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Available Immediately, Cranbury
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particular, he wanted to make work
fun and meet individuals’ career
objectives. “If you create a place of
just working for a living,” he says,
“it won’t go anywhere, and people
will hate their jobs.”
GEM has three business lines:
developing software tools used in
structure design and damage prediction; doing government-sponsored research and development
projects in areas like the analysis
and design of ship structures; and
industry consulting to develop
computational models that predict
the strength and potential for failure in advanced structures like
ramps, ship hulls, and the wings of
airplanes.
Right now GEM is transitioning
to more commercial business with
companies like Boeing, Air Bus,
Lockheed Martin Aero, and Bell
Helicopter that make commercial
and military aircraft. “We want to
provide them with a better design
and analysis tool that they can use
for cost-effective product design,
with a reduced number of tests,
both for components and for a full
structure,” says Lua.
Lua grew up in China, where his
retired parents still live; his father
was a high school teacher and his
mother an accountant. After Lua
got his bachelor’s in structural engineering from Tongji University
in Shanghai he wanted to continue
his studies in the United States; his
relatives from Hong Kong sponsored him for his first year. After
that he was able to support himself
with teaching and research assistantships from Rutgers and Columbia universities
Lua’s academic and subsequent
work life have focused on mechanics and materials science, areas
where the jargon and applied
physics might be daunting but have
practical applications. His bachelor’s degree focused on the design
of structure and infrastructure for
office buildings, high-rise apartments, stadiums, bridges, and
highways, although his 1986 master’s from Rutgers was more analytical and mathematical focusing
more narrowly on materials. He
analyzed the forces within a structure and those acting upon it to determine how to design these structures against failure.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Google CEO Gives $25M To Princeton University
I
f you want to know all the connections between
Princeton University and Google, you can start by,
well, Googling it. You will quickly find that Google
CEO Eric Schmidt is a 1976 graduate of the university, that he served as a trustee from 2004 to 2008,
and that the Princeton University Library is one of
the partners in the Google Books Search project,
aimed at putting more than a million public domain
books on the Internet.
Now add another item to the list: The Google
CEO and his wife, Wendy, have given a $25 million
technology innovation endowment to Princeton
University.
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative
Technology Fund, aimed at supporting the invention, development, and utilization of cutting-edge
technology developed through the university, will
be awarded through a campus-wide peer-reviewed
competition under the stewardship of dean for research A.J. Stewart Smith.
The Schmidt Fund will be used to support the invention or implementation of entirely new technologies that will allow researchers to acquire a
piece of equipment or an enabling technology that
will change the direction of research in a field.
Following the October 13 announcement, Smith
said that the endowment’s main purpose is to
“strengthen long-term basic research” by streamlining the access to money that is hard to come by
through private and government sources. Sometimes, he said, someone has a good idea but not the
right instrument with which to research it, and getting access to that instrument, or to the funds to pay
for it, is “a laborious proposal process with a very
low success probability.
The money will be used for practical applications. “We’re not interested in an explanation for the
birth of the universe,” Smith said. Rather, it will be
given to projects that are defined enough to be a
valuable avenue of research. Smith referred to the
endowment as “an enabling fund” that will not be
He received his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Columbia
in 1989. There his research expanded to the mechanics of how a
material breaks into two pieces,
starting with an initial defect in the
material and structure, causing a
crack that grows and eventually
causes the structure to break.
During a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern Lua developed special numerical techniques
to analyze the failure of structural
components.
In 1992 Lua got a job with Applied Research Associates, a small
research and engineering consulting company in Raleigh, North
Carolina, that specialized in government-sponsored research programs from NASA, the Department of Transportation, and the
U.S. Air Force.
Here he continued with structural mechanics, but also dealt in what
is called probabilistic mechanics.
This field takes into account the
uncertainty of material properties
and forces like wind load, which
varies based on weather conditions. In particular, he worked on
the pavement in airfields, on an engine component for space structures, and the structure of airplane
wings.
In 1994 he moved to Engineering Technology Center in Connecticut, where he worked on the
design and analysis of ship structures as part of a Navy contract. He
stayed there until 2001 when he left
to form GEM.
Having done his own marketing, run his own projects, and hired
and supported his own group at Engineering Technology Center, “I
did not see any risk or difference if
I opened my own company,” he
says.
He started the business with a
tiny project from the Air Force
through the small business innovative research program, or SBIR, in
partnership with Northwestern
University.
GEM developed a computational tool to predict damage and failure progression in lightweight,
composite materials used in structures like airplanes.
enough to carry a project through to the end, but
could be enough to “light the spark” and generate
outside interest.
“It’s not going to be just good for the person’s
own research,” he said. He cited the development of
the MRI, which started out decades ago as a Columbia University project to help scientists understand
and measure nuclei through magnetic moments.
The idea led to a Nobel prize for its inventor and has
become a standard medical tool. Smith said no one
is expecting that, but no one is ruling out that such a
breakthrough could happen.
“The money will change research in the field,”
Smith said.
According to the school, the fund will not need to
be spent evenly from year to year. An internal peer
review committee chaired Smith and composed of
Princeton scientists and engineers will vet all proposals, and one or more experts from outside the
university will review the Smith’s recommendations before they are sent to the president for approval. Smith’s office will have discretion to recommend that no grants be awarded in years when there
are no sufficiently compelling proposals, and “to
spend down principal as well as income in years
when there are many compelling ideas,” according
to a university press release.
Funding may be for one year or over multiple
years.
The endowment from Schmidt, a who earned a
bachelor’s in electrical engineering, could allow for
university research projects to enter the commercial
pipeline. The university has a long history of collaboration with the commercial sector that has led to
some successful companies, most notably Sensors
Unlimited, the near-infrared and shortwave infrared
imaging technologies company founded in Princeton by Greg Olsen in 1991, and Universal Display
Corp.in Ewing, which develops organic electronics.
The first competition for proposals will be announced later this fall.
— Scott Morgan
GEM has also developed a tool
for Navy ships to predict fatigue
and fracture of ship components as
well as one to predict the progress
of fire and fire-induced damage in
a ship compartment. “If there is a
fire, the Navy wants to know how
long the structure can last before it
will collapse and the optimal fire
protection system to maximize escape time,” explains Lua.
Lua started his business alone in
2001 and added a partner, Jay Shi,
in 2006. Today GEM has six fulltime and two part-time employees,
and five consultants who work on
an hourly basis, as needed. The
company has an office in Baltimore, headed by Shi, and a Connecticut office, directed by Dehua
Chen, which is GEM’s financial
and human resources center.
GEM will probably add two
more full-time people by the middle of next year. Lua also is reaching out to Princeton and Rutgers
students interested in engineering
work to give him a call.
Lua shared three slogans that
capture what his company is about:
Work for fun; work for knowledge
enrichment; and work for personal
growth. “A well-balanced professional and family life is the key to
enhance our creativity and productivity,” he said. “GEM will do more
in the future to invest our resources
in employee training and team
building.” — Michele Alperin
Global Engineering & Materials Inc., 1 Airport Place, Suite
1, Princeton 08540; 860-3985620; fax, 609-924-3999. Jim
Lua, senior principal scientist. Home page: www.gemconsultant.com.
Acquisitions
Wyeth (WYE), 865 Ridge
Road, CN 8000, Princeton
08540-8000; 732-329-2300;
fax, 732-274-4205. Terry
Schiarello, human resources.
After a nine-month courtship,
New York-based mega-pharma
Pfizer has closed a $68 billion deal
to acquire Wyeth.
The deal, finalized on October
15, was announced in February and
turns the flagging Pfizer into the
healthcare industry’s 1,000-pound
gorilla. The acquisition not only
saves Pfizer from suffering the
consequences of its abundance of
drugs about to lose their patent protections — its 13 billion a year cholesterol drug Lippitor will face
generic competition in about two
years — it adds a diverse line of
healthcare products including
biotech drugs, vaccines, animal
products, and consumer products.
The deal also gives Pfizer rights to
Wyeth’s antidepressant Effexor.
Madison-based Wyeth also
owns such blockbusters as arthritis
medicine Enbrel, Centrum vitamins, Advil, and Prevnar, the children’s pneumococcal vaccine that
happens to be the top selling vaccine in history
According to the Associated
Press, the cost of the combined
company could be a loss of 20,000
jobs. Pfizer has already cut thousands of workers over this year, including more than 300 of its core
scientists. Pfizer, however, is expected to keep most of its management.
Wyeth will operate as a wholly
owned subsidiary of Pfizer. Pfizer
spokeswoman Joan Campion said
Monday that the fate of Wyeth’s
425-person Ridge Road facility
has yet to be determined. She said
Pfizer will make annoncement
wthin a few weeks.
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Contracts Awarded
Orchid Cellmark Inc. (ORCH),
4390 Route 1 North, Princeton 08540; 609-750-2200;
fax, 609-750-6405. Thomas
A. Bologna, CEO. Home
page: www.orchid.com.
The identity DNA testing services has granted a worldwide license to San Diego-based genetics
research firm Illumina for the commercial development of Orchid’s
single-base nucleotide extension
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technology for the diagnostic and
forensic fields.
Under the terms of the deal, Illumina will pay Orchid $850,000 up
front and another $150,000 in contingent milestone payments, conditional to the success of the technology. Orchid will also collect
royalties received by Illumina
through
any
subcontracting
arrangements.
The agreement also makes Orchid the preferred buyer of Illumina products that use the patents,
and grants Orchid the right to use
the licensed patents for all fields of
use.
Mikros
Systems
Corp.
(MKRS), 707 Alexander
Road, Building 2, Suite 208,
Box 7189, Princeton 08543;
609-987-1513; fax, 609-9878114. Thomas J. Meaney,
president. Home page:
www.mikros.us.
Ocean Power Technologies
(OPTT), 1590 Reed Road,
Building A, Suite 1, Pennington 08534; 609-730-0400;
fax, 609-730-0404. George
W. Taylor, CEO. Home
p a g e : w w w. o c e a n p o w ertechnologies.com.
Computer and technology R&D
company Mikros on October 13
announced a $275,000 contract as
part of the Navy’s new Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program, and plans
to subcontract to Ocean Power
Technologies of Pennington.
The prime contract, for a one
year period, is the initial award under a proposed four-year project to
develop a vessel detection system
(VDS) deployment off the New
Jersey coast. According to Mikros,
VDS will enhance the Navy’s anti-
terrorism efforts by providing an
at-sea platform based on OPT’s
PowerBuoy technology to support
sensors for maritime surveillance.
According to OPT, the PowerBuoy is an offshore wave energy
converter. A piston-like structure
moves with the rise and fall of the
waves to produce electricity that is
sent to the shore by an underwater
cable.
Mikros will provide system engineering and design services to
OPT for the VDS development.
Pharma News
Soligenix (SNGX), 29 Emmons Drive, Suite C-10,
Princeton 08540; 609-5388200; fax, 609-538-8205.
Christopher J. Schaber, president and CEO. Home page:
www.soligenix.com.
The late-stage biotech firm formerly known as DOR BioPharma,
has received $1 million as it enters
Phase III clinical trials for gastrointestinal medicine orBec.
The trial, also referred to as the
SUPPORTS protocol (Sparing Unnecessary Prednisone Phase 3 orBec
Randomized Treatment
Study), will enroll an estimated
166 patients to confirm the clinically meaningful endpoints observed in previous Phase 2 and
Phase 3 clinical studies and be conducted with Sigma Tau Pharmaceuticals of STATE.
The data from the trials is expected in the first half of 2011.
The award comes barely a
month after DOR BioPharma won
a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health, to support the conduct of a clinical trial
evaluating a time-release oral preventative medicine for acute radiation enteritis.
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function.” And to achieve it takes a
combination of engaging our
brains, bodies, and lifestyles.
Eat, drink, sleep, play. There
are many puzzle books, games, and
activities aimed straight at the senior set’s brains. And these are good.
Puzzles keep our brains engaged,
problem solving helps us reason,
and game that pit us against a ticking clock — say, Yahoo’s Text
Twist, which asks you to descramble words while time stomps mercilessly toward zero — activate exactly the areas that we tend to let
lapse as we age.
It is a curious, not fully understood fact that as we age, we shy
away from games and activities
that involve a timer, Green says.
The skills those games work, however — decision making, speed of
recognition, coordination — are
exactly the ones we need to engage
the older we get. As mental exercise goes, these are among the best
types of activities to keep our
brains fresh and vibrant.
But brain health is more than
just an ability to think through a
challenge. Overall brain health requires some cross training, namely
physical exercise. A growing body
of research suggests that it is exercise rather than puzzles that will
keep our brains healthy and vibrant. But the brain needs both,
Green says.
What needs understanding is the
difference between brain health
and memory fitness. “I could go
out and run every day, and that’s
great for overall brain health,” she
says. But a healthy brain does not
always mean peak memory fitness.
Just as your body can get worn
down from overuse, your memory
fitness can suffer the consequences
of sleep deprivation, too much alcohol, or too much caffeine,
among other dietary factors.
Many times, Green says, what
people think is a deterioration in
memory turns out to be simply unfit, distracted, or otherwise engaged.
Where the heck is my car?
Without a doubt, Green says, the
number one problem with memory
is attention. With work, kids,
school, exercise regimes, family
illnesses, side jobs, and so many
other things cloying for our attention, our brains are simply unable
to keep up.
What this translates into for
people is that while they’re parking
their cars and talking on a cell
phone at the same time, they’re not
noticing where the car is. Or where
they’ve put their keys.
The trick, beyond removing as
many distractions as is practical, is
to organize better. “Put your keys
in the same place all the time,”
Green says. The action is so rote,
we hardly pay attention now, only
to send ourselves scrambling for
the lost item later. “People who organize well are going to remember
well,” she says. If you’re not thinking about where your keys are anyway, you can at least put them in
the place you found them the last
time you lost them.
Help is out there. Green has
written three books on memory
and brain health (all of which she
will be signing and selling at the
October 24 conference). Her first
and latest are geared toward engaging the brain and strategizing to
keep it running smoothly.
There also are an increasing
number of software programs that
not only pit us against the tyranny
of the clock, but evaluate how well
we’ve navigated the game’s challenges and make it ever harder for
us to play it again. Websites, such
as Yahoo.com
or AddictingGames.com, offer free games
Keep In Mind: Cynthia Green says we
are not forgetting as
much as we are not
getting information.
that challenge and provoke our
brains as well. And all these are
good to try, Green says, so long as
you don’t just sit there for six
straight hours at a time. Remember
to also get up and go for a walk, cut
back on the junk food, and lessen
your intake of caffeine and alcohol.
Green left North Carolina to
study psychology in Massachusetts (where her family originally
is from), with a plan on working in
gerontology. She earned her bachelor’s from Smith College in 1983,
then a Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from New York University in
1990.
She started as an assistant with
the American Jewish Committee in
New York and did an internship at
Beth Isreal Hospital in its neurobehavior division. In 1990 she joined
the faculty of Mount Sainai School
of Medicine, where she serves as
an assistant clinical professor of
psychiatry.
Green started her own firm,
Memory
Arts
(www.memoryarts.com) in Montclair in 2000, through which she
does consulting, teaching, and lecturing.
The key to keeping the brain
sharp and the memory taut, Green
says, is to take care of your mind as
well as the organ itself. Remember,
dementia is not inevitable, so long
as you practice some prevention.
— Scott Morgan
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Girls Can’t Do
Science, Can They?
W
hile growing up, Joan
Bennett never thought about a career as a scientist. “I was going to
be a teacher,” she says. “In those
days teaching was one of the few
careers open to women.”
But destiny and a series of female mentors helped her expand
her horizons, and today the noted
geneticist is also known for her efforts to promote the advancement
of women in scientific fields. Bennett is a professor in the department of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers, where she is also associate vice president for academic
affairs, charged with developing a
campus-wide effort to support
women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Bennett will speak about her experiences as a woman in the sciences and the often unconscious
gender bias and stereotypes that
persist in the scientific community
when she presents “Don’t Take
This Wrong, But You are Really
Good for a Girl, and Other Stories
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about Being a Woman in Science”
on Tuesday, October 27, at noon at
Mercer County Community College. The lecture is free. Visit
www.mccc.edu to register.
Bennett, a specialist in mold
toxins, grew up in Brooklyn and
New Jersey, the daughter of
Finnish immigrants. “For them
college was a poorly understood
but laudable objective,” she says.
“They wanted me to become a
teacher. I liked to please my parents, so that is what I wanted too. I
spent my childhood planning to become a fifth grade teacher, work
for a few years, marry Mr. Right,
and then stay home to raise a family.”
Girl Scouts was her first introduction to the world of biology. “I
got hooked on earning the nature
badges,” she says, but admits she
would have been mortified if her
friends had known about her
“geeky” interests. In high school
an introduction to the wonders of
life as seen in a microscope by a female biology teacher not only continued her interest in science but
helped her to see it as a potential
career for a woman.
Female mentors. Bennett attended Upsala College in East Orange. “It was the 1960s and most
science departments at major research universities had all-male
faculties. Professional women
were often shunted into teaching
jobs at colleges away from the centers of research,” she says. But she
benefited by again seeing female
professors teaching science courses.
“Years later, after my consciousness had been raised, my good fortune registered,” she says. “My
scout leader, my high school biolo-
gy teacher, and my most important
undergraduate professors were all
women. They were committed
teachers with exacting standards
and a passion for their work. They
had tacitly demonstrated that marriage and family didn’t have to be
divorced from work and science.”
The summer between her junior
and senior years of college, Bennett worked in a National Science
Foundation program for undergraduates, in the plant breeding department at Cornell, where a professor suggested that she consider
graduate school. She received her
undergraduate degree in biology
and history in 1963 from Upsala,
and then obtained her Ph.D. in
botany from the University of
Chicago in 1967.
Bennett remembers entering her
first genetics class at the University of Chicago to find she was the
only woman in the class — a fact
Men in science often
don’t seem to understand how much of a
problem childcare
still is for women.
that is often still prevalent today.
“It’s still common for there to be
only two or three girls in science
and engineering classes. They often feel isolated and alone,” she
says.
By the time Bennett received
her Ph.D. she was married, and
“did what many young brides do —
I followed my husband to the place
where he had found a good job. In
our case, New Orleans.”
First woman in her department. She was hired by the Agricultural Research Service there to
Plenty of Room:
Joan Bennett says
there are many opportunities in science
for talented women.
develop a genetic system to study a
mold that made a carcinogenic toxin, aflatoxin. After two years there,
along with two pregnancies, she
was hired by the Tulane University
biology department — the first
woman to be given a tenure track
position there. “I had two children
in diapers and a fulltime job,” she
says. “It was exhausting and exciting.”
Bennett stayed at Tulane until
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans
in 2005. She and her husband evacuated to New Jersey, where he had
family, and in 2006 she was offered
the position at Rutgers.
While she is proud of how far
women have come in the years
since she began her career, Bennett
also sees how far there still is to go.
“It was about 10 years after they
hired me that the second woman in
the department was hired, and
when I left, there were still only
three of us,” she says.
Life at Rutgers. Bennett heads
the Rutgers Office for the Promotion of Women in Science. “We
have incredibly ambitious goals,”
she says. While many of the programs focus on Rutgers students
and faculty, the office also has a
number of outreach programs.
The department recently received a $3.76 million grant from
the National Science Foundation.
Money from the program will be
used for a variety of programs, including improving communication
on campus and increasing the number of women, particularly minori-
for children of all ages and at all
price points, from summer camps,
including Rutgers’ own science
camp for girls held each summer,
to the Girl Scouts.
Bennett also wants to encourage
women to learn about the wide variety of science careers that are
available. “In science, one size
doesn’t fit all. There are careers in
health fields, biology, math, in
academe, and in industry,” she
says. No matter what area of interest she has, there is a place for
every women in the sciences.
— Karen Hodges Miller
ty women, in science programs.
“There are many excellent minority women out there in science studies, but they are just not making it
into the system,” she says.
Her department’s website,
http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/,
includes a page with stories by
women faculty on how they became interested in science as a career.
Problems of caregiving. One of
the biggest problems for younger
women in the sciences, whether in
academe or industry, is still childcare, according to Bennett. “People in the system often don’t seem
to understand how much of a problem this is for women,” she says,
pointing out that Rutgers still only
has one childcare center. Its second, in Newark, will open in about
a year.
Encouraging younger women.
Interest in the sciences must begin
at an early age, Bennett says. It is
important for parents and teachers
to encourage children’s interest in a
variety of science-related topics.
Luckily, she says, there are
many excellent programs available
Business Meetings
6 p.m.: FDU-Rothman Institute,
“Women & Leadership,” Linda
Trignano, HR Performance Solutions, free. Florham Park campus.
973-507-9700.
6:30 p.m.: Association of Women
In Science, “Planning for 2010,”
cost of meal. Sunny Garden
Restaurant, Farber Road. 609683-9248.
6:45 p.m.: SCORE Princeton,
“Business Entity Formation,” free
seminar by Cary Kvitka. Princeton
Public Library. 908-507-9530.
7 p.m.: Financial Literacy Productions, “Money Consciousness and
Your Temperament,” free.
Kingston Wellness Associates,
Route 27. 917-439-7143.
Thursday, October 22
8 a.m.: NJ Technology Council,
“Cloud Computing and Sales &
Marketing,” $50. DeVry, North
Brunswick. 856-787-9800.
8 a.m.: Trenton Small Business
Week, Various workshops, seminars, and networking events. 609689-9960.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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$395,000
307 Deer Run Ct. Brandon Farms, 3 BR, 2 1/2
B End unit TH. Anderson doors, Granite
CT, upgraded kitchen & Trek deck! Directions:
Federal City To Denow To Amberleigh To Deer
Run. Pennington Office 609-737-9100
Allentown
$700,000
Beautiful federal style home abounds with old
world charm. Many modern upgrades in this 6
BR, 2.5 bath Col. Beautiful modern kit. large
library & DR. Princeton Junction Office
609-750-2020
Dayton
$334,900
Lowest price in Four Seasons-move right into
this immaculate 2 bedroom ranch with a great
location overlooking the fountains! Magnificent clubhouse. South Brunswick Office
732-398-2600
Edgewater Park Twp
$229,500
Welcoming covered front porch leads to both
formal & casual rooms in this split level within
walking distance to light rail train service.
Pennington Office 609-737-9100
Ewing Twp
$149,500
Expanded cape with huge fam rm, 4BD, 1B
needs your creativity, energy & tools; your
chance to make this home shine again at a
very competitive price! Pennington Office
609-737-9100
Monmouth Junction
$1,299,900
No expense spared for this brand new 5 BR
home filled with elegance and taste throughout. Amazing designer kitchen, mahogany
floors, 4-car garage. South Brunswick Office
732-398-2600
Monroe
$470,000
This 3BR, 3BA adult community home illustrates living at its best. Decorated with neutral
decor & fabulous floorplan for entertaining &
relaxing. Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Montgomery
$529,900
Enjoy your own piece of paradise this summer!
The moment you step inside this beautifully
built and lovingly maintained home you'll fall
in love. Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Pennington
$650,000
Charming expanded 5BR, 2.5B cape on quiet
cul de sac in the Boro. Wide plank floors,
beamed ceilings, double sided fplc & custom shelving & cabinetry. Princeton Office
609-921-2600
Pennington
$240,000
3BR, 1.5BA home with sun porch, fplc in LR,
hdwd flrs in LR, DR & 2nd flr. Full fin. attic with
built in bookcases & partially finished bsmt.
Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Plainsboro
$575,000
Stunning former model home backing to the
golf course! Features four bedrooms and 2.5
baths. A must see! Princeton Junction Office
609-750-2020
Princeton
$599,000
Natural Light Abounds. 3BR, 3.5BA home w/ 2story bkfst area, 1st flr master, loft space & fin.
bsmt. Chef's kit, hdwd flrs, 2nd fl Jack & Jill
BRs. Princeton Office 609-921-2600
Princeton
$510,000
Rare opportunity in Campbell Woods development to own this nice 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath
home in Princeton. Princeton Junction Office
609-750-2020
Princeton
$229,900
3BR, 2.5BA 3rd Fl. Arbor model condo with
balcony. View of woods & canal paths. New
HW heater. WWP schools. Princeton Office
609-921-2600
Robbinsville
$739,000
JUST REDUCED! Expanded Stanford model in
Canterbury Ridge featuring 5 BR's, 3.5 bath
brick front colonial on 2 beautiful acres in a
country setting. Princeton Junction Office
609-750-2020
West Windsor
$1,100,000
This secluded cul-de-sac of custom built
homes w/trees & privacy. Estate home offers
5 BR's, 4.5BA, 1st flr library and luxury
appointments. Princeton Junction Office
609-750-2020
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COMMERCIAL
PROPERTIES
& BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SALE OR LEASE
Just Listed! Long Beach Island. New restaurant + 4-BR/3-BR apartment. Main blvd. location/ocean block.This is
your chance to own a brand new facility on LBI into which the owner has put $1.3 mil. The bank has approved a sale
price of $750,000.
U.S. 1 Classifieds
HOW TO ORDER
Phone, Fax, E-Mail: That’s all it takes
to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Call 609452-7000, or fax your ad to 609-4520033, or use our E-Mail address:
[email protected]. We will
confirm your insertion and the price. It
won’t be much: Our classifieds are just
50 cents a word, with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40
cents per word, and if your ad runs for 16
consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents
per word. (There is a $3 service charge if
we send out a bill.) Box service is available. Questions? Call us.
OFFICE RENTALS
1st Month FREE on select offices:
Princeton Route 1. Single Offices, Office
Suites, Virtual Offices, 50MB High
Speed Internet, Great Reception Team,
Instant Activation, Flexible Terms. Call
609-514-5100 or visit www.princeton-office.com
Lambertville. Office/retail/medical store front space for lease. Mt. Airy Shopping Village. 650 SF to 3,533 SF divisible. Attractive Lease Rate!
2300 sq. ft. Princeton address in
South Brunswick: Ideal for doctors,
dentists, chiros, accountants, lawyers
and other businesses/professionals.
(Near Princeton Medical Center and
RWJ Hospital): $3200/month. Re/Max
of Princeton 609-452-1887/609-9020709 (Ali).
2nd Floor Office Condo in Montgomery Knoll: 500 sq. ft. 2 offices with
reception area. Call 609-924-9214.
COMMERCIAL
PROPERTIES
& BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SALE OR LEASE
Just Listed - Hamilton Twp. - 4,100 Sq. ft. store/showroom & warehouse. Located on active corner near
295/195. Now being used for home improvement business/construction. Single-family home also available
w/extra commercial lot. Priced right: $539,900.
JUST
LISTED!
Just Listed - Center of Robbinsville - Route 526/Main St. - 2½-story colonial in prime location w/use
approval for professional offices. Excellent for small office use or in-home office. Priced right: $495,000.
JUST LISTED - HAMILTON TWP. BEAUTY SALON - Prime location. Right off 295 w/large corner parking lot & large
3-BR apt. on 2nd flr. Priced right: $395,000 w/all equipment included. Modern/perfect condition.
For details on space
and rates, contact
www.WeidelCommercial.com
vidual signage, conference rooms, copier, Verizon FIOS available, call 609-7373322 or e-mail [email protected]
www.straubecenter.com
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected]
Princeton - Psychotherapy Office:
Available Mondays. Large office (20 x
15), elegantly furnished, in prof office
building at 1000 Herrontown Road.
$250/month. Contact: Dr. Washton,
[email protected], 917-699-7882.
Class A office space (1650 square
feet) available immediately for sublease in Alexander Park, Princeton.
Please contact Audi at 732-619-7631 for
details.
Princeton Prof. Office Park, off
Route One. 600 sq. ft. Fully furnished
and equipped. Perfect for professional
organizations, shared use considered,
$995. Call 732-329-1601 for details.
Downsizing? Expanding? Montgomery Knoll: Route 206, Skillman.
1500 sq. ft., newly painted, new carpet,
move-in condition. 7 offices plus ample
secretarial space, kitchen, copy room,
(2) half baths, great parking, principals
only. Call 212-223-0404.
Princeton/Montgomery Office for
rent. Ideal for psychotherapist, nutritionist, small business owner. Has a shared
waiting room. Highly professional setting. Call 732-925-3164 for more information.
Pennington - Hopewell: Straube
Center offices from virtual office, 25 to
300 square feet and office suites, 500 to
2,400 square feet. From $100 per month,
short and long term. Storage space, indi-
8 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs, “Practitioners’ Update,” Paul Sanchez,
$175. Crowne Plaza Monroe.
973-226-4494.
8:30 a.m.: FDU-Rothman Institute,
“The Next Generation: 8 Biggest
Challenges,” Greg McCann, free.
Madison. 973-443-8842.
10 a.m.: State Chamber, “Everything Jersey Business”, $59. Garden State Exhibit Center, Somerset. 609-989-7888.
6 p.m.: Executive Women of NJ,
Graduate Merit Awards, Amy
Mansue, Children’s Specialized
Hospital, keynote. $75. Palace,
Somerset. 609-581-8244.
6 p.m.: 4Best Solar, “Residential
Solar,” Tom Rust, free. Robbinsville Town Center. 609-3570400.
7 p.m.: State Bar Foundation,
“Boomer 101,” Lawrence A.
Friedman of Friedman Law, free.
NJ Law Center, New Brunswick.
800-FREE-LAW.
Friday, October 23
JUST
LISTED!
Princeton, Trenton, Hamilton, Hopewell, Montgomery,
Ewing, Hightstown, Lawrenceville and other Mercer,
Somerset & Middlesex Communities. Class A, B and
C Space Available.
194 Nassau Street, 953 sq. ft. office
for lease. Reception area, three offices,
kitchen, storage, private restroom, single parking space included. Please call
609-921-6060 for details.
Hamilton: Single Offices & Suites
available, near hospital, 12.90SF. Call
Pat Conte, 732-567-5600.
8 a.m.: Hunterdon Chamber,
“Growth Board” program, free.
Liberty Village, Flemington. 908782-7115.
8 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs,
“Fraud Detection for the Forensic
Accountant,” $50. MCCC, West
Windsor. 973-226-4494.
10 a.m.: VANJ, “Fall Entrepreneurs Expo & Elevator Pitch
Olympics,” $100. Marriott Hotel,
Whippany. 973-267-4200.
OFFICE RENTALS
AREA OFFICE RENTALS
Princeton Junction: Prof. Office
space in highly visible spot near trains.
All utilities/maintenance included in rent,
except electric. Units from $450 to
$2330 per month. Call Ali at Re/max of
Princeton 609-452-1887 or cell 609902-0709.
JUST
LISTED!
OFFICE RENTALS
Single-room ground floor office in
Princeton, Nassau Street, for sublease
by primary lessee. 13x8 feet overall,
partially furnished if desired by renter.
Available October 3, 2009. $425/month.
Ralph at 609-529-9027.
BUSINESSES
FOR SALE
PRINCETON
PREMIER
Art/Photo/Frame Shop, turn-key, highvolume, ideal location. Financing. Dixie
Curtice, Broker/Sale Associates, Weidel
Realtors, 609-737-1500 ext. 259. Cell:
215-499-4629.
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’,
and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Hamilton Flex/WH: Need great
space at CHEAP pricing? Ready-to-occupy space with high ceilings and
docks/drive-ins. 1,800 to 15,000 sf Flex
units at UNDER MARKET rents. Must
see! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected].
Hamilton Office Space - 1,0002,200 SF units in both new and rehabbed NY-style loft mill building. Move
in now, must see, great locations, low
rents! Brian @ 609-731-0378 or [email protected].
Lambertville Office & Retail: Canal
studios. Attractive, creative exec offices
with tons of style in NY Style Mill Bldg @
low prices. Several bright spaces available from 300-6,600 sf. Perfect for atty,
studio, prof, couns, web, massage, spa,
bakery, wellness. MUST SEE! Brian @
609-731-0378
or
[email protected]
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
[email protected]
6 p.m.: Trenton Small Business
Week, Trenton Renaissance Ball,
$175. Trenton Marriott. 609-6899960.
Saturday, October 24
8:15 a.m.: NJ Society of CPAs,
“NJ Law and Ethics,” $179. Holiday Inn, Somerset, . 973-2264494.
8:30 a.m.: Princeton Senior Resource Center, “Healthy Brain,
Healthy Memory,” Cynthia Green,
free. Stockton Street. 609-9247108.
9 a.m.: Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare, “Caring for the
Caregiver Conference,” Ted Taylor, RWJ, free. RWJ Hamilton
Center, Quakerbridge Road, [email protected]. 609-5845900.
9 a.m.: NJICLE, “Hot Topics In
Medical Malpractice,” Abbot
Brown, $179. NJ Law Center,
New Brunswick. 732-214-8500.
Monday, October 26
9 a.m.: SkillPath Seminars, “Managing Multiple Projects and Deadlines,” $179. Clarion Hotel at
Palmer Inn, [email protected].
800-873-7545.
10:30 a.m.: Get Hired Today!,
Weekly meeting for unemployed
professionals, $5. Center for Relaxation, 635 Plainsboro Road.
609-750-7432.
2:30 p.m.: VolunteerConnect,
“The Future of Volunteerismin
NJ,” Nancy Kieling, PACF, free.
Rider University. 609-921-8893.
Tuesday, October 27
7 a.m.: LeTip Networking Group,
free breakfast. Clarion Hotel at
Palmer Inn. 609-243-7860.
8:30 a.m.: NJ Technology Council,
“Business Valuation,” $70. Pepper Hamilton, 301 Carnegie Center. 856-787-9800.
9 a.m.: Strategy Dynamix, “TwoDay Corporate Retreat,” $895.
Courtyard Princeton, [email protected].
866-407-9326.
Noon: MCCC, “ Stories About Being a Woman In Science,” Joan
Bennett, Rutgers, free. West
Windsor campus. 609-570-3324.
5:30 p.m.: Women Interested In
Networking, free. Mercadien,
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton.
609-890-4054.
6 p.m.: NJ SBDC, “Doing Business with Mercer County — Products and Services,” free. Ewing
Township Library. 609-771-2947.
6 p.m.: Mercer Chamber, Evening
networking with the Metropolitan
Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce, $15. Sam’s
Club, 301 Nassau Park Boulevard. 609-689-9960.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, Networking, free. Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. 609-924-2277.
8 a.m.: Fred Pryor Seminars, “Exceptional Customer Service,”
$143. Holiday Inn. 800-780-8469.
10 a.m.: NJ SBDC, “Start a New
Business Q&AWorkshop,” $20.
TCNJ. 609-771-2947.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
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Employment Exchange
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
JOBS WANTED
Aerotek is currently hiring for
associates to gift wrap and package seasonal household items
for a specialty housewares company in the Cranbury, NJ area.
Full-time
work
starts
at
$9.50/hour including benefits.
Job fair to be held on Saturday,
October 24, 2009 from 10am 2pm at 371 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ. Walk-ins welcomed or
for more info please call 732447-1206. EOE
PSO’s role, presence, and importance as one of the region’s major
cultural resources and a leader
within the orchestra industry. The
PSO, now in its 30th season, is a
professional orchestra performing a 7-concert series at Richardson Auditorium and multiple other
concerts, including chamber music and extensive education programs. Responsibilities include
securing coverage in traditional
and new media outlets, as well as
utilizing web resources for the full
range of PSO activities. Also responsible for style, consistency,
and clarity for all written materials
produced to communicate about
the PSO. Some project and event
management
responsibilities.
This is a senior-level, full-time position with some evening and
weekends. Excellent writing, editing, and public speaking skills.
Experience in Classical Music or
performing arts organizations a
plus. Salary commensurate with
experience. Benefits provided.
For more information about the
PSO, visit www.princetonsymphony.org. Email resume and
cover letter to: [email protected] or mail to PO Box
250, Princeton, NJ 08542. No
phone calls.
Real Estate Sales: No Experience Needed, Free Training, License Info Available. Weidel Realtors.
[email protected],
800-288-7653 x260, www.weidel.com.
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a full-time position, we
will run a reasonably worded
classified ad for you at no
charge. We reserve the right to
edit the ads and to limit the number of times they run. Mail or Fax
your ad to U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted,
12 Roszel Road, Princeton, NJ
08540. You must include your
name, address, and phone number (for our records only).
Bookkeepers: Detail oriented. Organized. Comfortable with
emails and internet. Please send
resume
to
[email protected]
Loan Originators Needed:
$3,000-$5,000/Month potential
income. No experience needed full training provided. No license
required - earn while you learn.
Work toward ownership - part
time/full time. Call today 1-800789-7943.
Manager, Communications
and Public Relations, The
Princeton Symphony Orchestra: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) seeks a skilled
Communications and Public Relations professional. He/she will
develop and implement a comprehensive communications and
institutional marketing plan to
broaden public recognition of
Property Inspectors: Parttime $30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will train. Call Tom,
609-731-3333.
STUDIO SPACE
Studio space for classes, workshops, etc. 19 ft x 19 ft., high ceiling, lots
of natural light. $30 per hour. Kingston.
Call 609-468-1286.
HOUSING FOR SALE
Must, Must Sell! Roosevelt: Very
special home on 1/2-acre. 4 bedrooms,
3 baths, eat-in kitchen, dining room, living room, den, huge family room,
garage, in-ground pool. Spotless
palace! Many amenities and extras.
$439,900. All reasonable offers will be
considered. Levinson Associates Realtors. 609-655-5535. Marketed by Mel
Adlerman. 609-655-7788.
Plainsboro: 3-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom house with full basement and
walk-up attic. Excellent location near
top-ranked WWP-North High School,
Princeton Junction train station, and
Princeton University. 1.5 miles from new
Princeton Medical Center under construction. House in good condition. For
appointments call 609-683-1515 or 908229-9056. $330,000. Pictures at
Craigslist.org.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Princeton’s Western section 7,000SF, stunning, contemporary
home 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, library, gym, and guest apartment. Large,
very private lot, yet five minutes to center of Princeton. Furnished/unfurnished.
Sales, Account Executives:
Ambitious and results driven. Excellent phone manners. Comfortable with emails and internet.
Organized. Huge potential.
Please
send
resume
to
[email protected]
Sales/Customer Service Music: Busy music lesson studio looking for person to handle
scheduling and sales, M-Th, 28pm, Sat. 10am-4pm. $9 per
hour. Farrington’s Music. 609924-8282.
Web Designers, e-commerce
architect, and programmers: All
levels, all areas. Please send resume and samples of finished
web sites to [email protected]
CAREER SERVICES
Job Worries? Let Dr. Sandra
Grundfest, licensed psychologist
and certified career counselor,
help you with your career goals
and job search skills. Call 609921-8401 or 732-873-1212 (License #2855)
HELP WANTED
Companion/Home
health
aide/housekeeper with over 20
years experience and excellent
references seeking employment. Please call 609-610-6048.
Executive/office assistant,
customer service is available
for a permanent position with
part-time schedule. Topnotch,
college grad., 10+ years experience. Heavy legal, commercial,
and light medical background.
Computer literate, dictating machine, liaison, corporate appearance.
Please
contact:
[email protected].
Retired police officer seeks
full or part-time position: Available for security, driver, all types
of home maintenance - painting,
siding, power washing, lawn
care, carpentry. Also am a carpenter and can house-sit. Call
609-937-9456
or
e-mail
[email protected].
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HOUSING FOR RENT
CLEANIGN SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
TRAVEL
Shares possibly considered, pets possibly considered. $5,400/month. 609-9249201 or 609-937-8833.
Leave message for Barbara, 609-3945934 or cell 609-933-6701.
worldwide. Reports typed, transcription,
E-mails, calendar mgmt, concierge
services & more. www.executivesonthego.com
[email protected] 800-745-1166
el.com/camclark or call me at 609-7214157.
Web-based PBX phone systems:
Be sure that your phones are always professionally answered. Be sure that you
got all of your messages. Direct calls to
your office, home or cell. Get a free 15
day account. For information call 866768-6689. www.simmonsservice.com.
Introductory Massage Special $60: at the Ariel Center for Wellbeing. Integrative, Swedish, Spiritual Mind Treatment. 609-454-0102.
VACATION RENTALS
Two-bedroom, Two-bathroom Luxury Waterfront Florida Condo: 24hour doorman and valet, spectacular
views, waterfront restaurant and bar,
world-class spa, tennis, pools, all
amenities. Large condo, ideal for one or
two couples. Call Ron, 609-655-0757, or
cell, 609-558-2803.
INVESTMENT
PROPERTY
Investment/Vacation Property for
Sale: Vermont condo with spectacular
views of Stratton and surrounding
mountains in the year-round resort area
of Manchester. 3 bedrooms+ loft. Low
taxes, fully furnished, a great get-away!
$290,000. [email protected].
CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
CLEANING SERVICES
Barbara’s Cleaners: Commercial
and residential houses, Princeton, W.
Windsor, Plainsboro, Hopewell, and
Flemington area. Quality work, reasonable prices, references. Free estimates.
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
3BR, 2.5 baths. Cool, creative & very
unique home in mature Nelson Ridge
Community, off Cherry Valley & Carter.
Wrapped in trees, stone drive, new 4BR
septic, new 20 year hardy-plank siding,
windows, recent roof. Both sides w/brick
& beam exterior. Home conveys barn-like
impression, 2-car garage. Interior w/brick
& beam/2 sides, wide plank HW floors
throughout. 2-story LR w/floor to ceiling
glass wall, open plan main floor, 2 story
brick FP, 2nd FP in great room. Bluestone
patio, yard filled w/ varied plantings,
2nd natural stone & boulder patio area.
Clearly not a typical home, ideal for
couple, creative singles/pairs or more.
Wonderful neighborhood w/children, quiet
street, great access to P-ton & surrounds.
Flexible terms: Sale, Lease, Lease-purchase,
Home-sale contingency OK, flexible occupancy, Brokers protected, owner is licensed
realtor. Asking $575,000 or $2500/month.
Patty’s Cleaning Service: Serving
Plainsboro,
the
Windsors,
the
Brunswicks, and Brandon Farms since
1978. Thorough, honest, and reliable.
Free estimate. 609-397-2533.
Quality Commercial Cleaning: We
offer great office cleaning, good rates
and most of all, good quality of work. We
are insured and bonded. For a free estimate, please call Lidia, 609-989-7799.
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
HOME MAINTENANCE
Handyman: Electrical, plumbing, any
projects around the house. 609-2756631.
Man With A Van Service: Pick-up
and delivery service, small local moves,
and light hauling. Serving Mercer County and nearby areas 7 days a week. Reliable, courteous and professional service at reasonable rates. Call: 609-5127248.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Unique Virtual Assistance: We offer
services to streamline your business
chaos, virtually. www.uniquevirtualassistance.com. 1-877-472-8817.
Virtual Assistant assisting clients
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
Home for Sale - Princeton address
Your Perfect Corporate Image:
Princeton Route 1. Virtual Offices, Offices, Receptionist, Business Address
Service, Telephone Answering Service,
Conference Rooms, Instant Activation,
Flexible Terms. Call 609-514-5100 or
visit www.princeton-office.com
INFORMATION
SERVICES
New wireless company expanding.
Create monthly residual income from
cell phone bills. Nation’s largest networks. Infoline: 877-876-7786.
COMPUTER SERVICES
Any problems with computer, network, Internet? Repair, install, on-site
services. Call 732-710-7416 any time.
Computer Service: Computer repair,
computer training (offer senior discount), data recovery, free estimate.
Cell: 609-213-8271.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bookkeeping Services for Your
Bottom Line: QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
Call Joan today at Kaspin Associates,
609-490-0888.
Need a business loan: As little as
seven day approval. 90% approval rate.
Flexible pay back terms. For information
call 866-768-6689. www.bankcardempire.com/jhs355219.
TAX SERVICES
Tax Preparation and Accounting
Services: For individuals and small
businesses. Notary, computerized tax
preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response, free consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald
Hecker, 609-448-4284.
TRAVEL
Contact [email protected] or 609-731-6076
Glory Days Travel: Travel packages,
cruises, hotels, airline tickets, car
rentals. Visit my website at www.ytbtrav-
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Massage and Reflexology: The
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place, etc. Gift certificates, flexible
hours. Call Marilyn 609-403-8403.
Massage Therapy: Upscale, classy
est. staff. Enjoy our hot pack service, an
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deep tissue and healing touch of our
friendly, certified massage therapists.
Call: 609-520-0050. (Princeton off
Route 1 Behind “Pep Boys Auto.”)
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609-683-7808.
Psychotherapy, Using a Counseling Approach: that can rapidly promote
self-acceptance and a sense of well-being; effective with depression, anxiety,
trauma, school issues, among others.
Work with children, adults, families. Dr.
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609-937-0987.
INSTRUCTION
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and American expressions. Experienced ESL Professor. Excellent references. 609-658-6914.
Flute and Piano Lessons. Professional instructor, M.A. All ages and levels welcome. Plainsboro studio 609936-9811.
Guitar and Bass Lessons in your
home or my Princeton location. 5 years
teaching experience, all levels welcome. Contact Mike: 609-943-8634,
[email protected].
Handwriting with nature Experienced Occupational Therapist reveals
simple, effective way to teach handwriting to kids at home or school. 24-hr.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
INSTRUCTION
ENTERTAINMENT
MERCHANDISE MART
msg. Free info. Call Now: 609-7211456.”
tainment services for corporate, formal
and family events. Please contact us at
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www.ambientdj.com.
Dell Laptop with Windows XP:
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Lessons in Your Home: Music lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet, saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
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initial consultation. Call Bruce 609-3710950.
Music Lessons - Farrington’s Music: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin. $28 half
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Princeton 609-924-8282. Princeton
Junction 609-897-0032. Hightstown
6 0 9 - 4 4 8 - 7 1 7 0 .
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Taught by college professor. 17 years
experience. Recipient of two national
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ENTERTAINMENT
Disc Jockey. Ambient DJ Service
provides customized music and enter-
Graphic artist-caricaturist. Live
caricatures - funny profiles. The best attraction for parties, meetings, seminars,
etc. Princeton, Lawrenceville, W. Windsor area. For details call Richard, 609532-3676.
New Jersey Band Hall of Mirrors
will Be Performing: Sunday, November 1 at John and Peter’s, 96 South
Main Street, New Hope, Pa. The group
will play from 3 pm to 6 pm. The show
will feature original material primarily influenced by classic and progressive
rock. Hall of Mirrors has opened for Spiraling (featuring Tom Brislin of Yes, Debbie Harry’s solo band, Camel and Meatloaf). Admission is free. Please call the
club at 215-862-5981 for more information.
One Man Band: Keyboardist for your
wedding or party. Perfect entertainment.
You’ll love the variety. Duos available.
Call Ed at 609-424-0660.
SPORTS
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and accessories visit our website at
www.maycogolfsupplies.com.
Fax:
609-860-5260.
BILLBOARD
New Jersey Band Hall of Mirrors
will Be Performing: Sunday, November
1 at John and Peter’s, 96 South Main
Street, New Hope, Pa. The group will
play from 3 pm to 6 pm. The show will
feature original material primarily influenced by classic and progressive rock.
Hall of Mirrors has opened for Spiraling
(featuring Tom Brislin of Yes, Debbie
Harry’s solo band, Camel and Meatloaf).
Admission is free. Please call the club at
215-862-5981 for more information.
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MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609457-5501.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
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or by appointment.
Wanted - Baseball Cards/Memorabilia: Football, basketball, hockey.
Cards, bats, balls, photographs, programs, autographs. Highest prices paid.
908-596-0976.
OPPORTUNITIES
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U.S. 1
Richard K. Rein
Our editor, determined to do some face-to-face
networking, has been following the muse —
and the music. If he had a Twitter account
he would have told you about his recent trips
to Trenton High School and Steinert High
to hear the Princeton High School Pep Band.
Next stop: West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School South to hear
the Glenn Miller Band on Thursday, October 29.
It’s Time!
Power Wash & Repaint
Exterior Before Winter
Interior & Exterior Painting
Owner-operated, highest quality work
for over 40 years in the Princeton area.
Julius H. Gross, Inc.
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
Immediate Occupancy
VanNest Office Park
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, NJ
For Lease ■ 33,000 SF ■ Divisible to 2,000 SF
Attractive Corporate Setting
Overlooking the VanNest Forest Reserve
Minutes from Hamilton Train Station (Northeast Corridor Line)
Close Proximity to Robert Wood Johnson,
Capital Health and Other Area Hospitals
Office
353 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
Office building for Lease ■ 7,000 SF: 3,500 SF on 1st Floor
& 3,500 SF on 2nd Floor ■ Passenger Elevator 15 Parking
Spaces ■ Kitchenette Area on Each Floor High Quality
Interior Finishes ■ Walking Distance
to All Amenities ■ Prestigious Downtown Princeton Location
Near Harrison St. ■ Train to Princeton Jct.
Industrial
Hightstown, NJ
For Sale or Lease ■ 15,000 SF Building for Sale
11,000 SF for Lease ■ Building Remodeled Over Last
Four Years ■ New Parking Lot, 15 Parking Spaces
Loading: 2 Tailgates ■ 3 Drive-ins ■ Ceiling Height: 20’
Clear ■ Close Proximity to Rt. 130 & NJ Turnpike
Retail
1239 Route 130, Robbinsville, NJ
5,900 SF ■ 1 Acre ■ Retail/Commercial Zoning
Adequate Parking ■ For Sale or Lease
Highway Visibility - Close Proximity to I-295,
I-195 & the NJ Turnpike
Great Location for Your Business!!
Medical/Office
330 Carter Road, Hopewell, NJ
239 Prospect Plains Rd., Monroe, NJ
3,200 SF Divisible to 581 SF
2nd Floor Unit ■ Exceptional Finishes
Shared Kitchen in Building ■ 2 Mins. from NJ Tpke. Exit 8A
Immediately Available ■ Elevator Serviced
Constitution Center - 2650 Rt. 130, Cranbury, NJ
2,150 SF on 1st Floor; 1,275 SF on 2nd Floor
Immediately Available ■ T-1 Wired Office Space
111 Parking Spaces ■ Drive-Thru Bank Branch on Site
Convenient to NJ Turnpike Exit 8A
Good for Office/Medical Space
YOUR
NAME
220,000 SF ■ Will divide to 5,000 SF
Approved Expansion for 470,000 SF
“The Mansion”: 25,000 SF For Sale/Lease
Class A Office/Research/Education
Dual Power Feeds/Back-up Generator
2 Miles from Route 1 and I-95, 3 Miles to PA
25 Princess Diana Lane, Ewing, NJ
847 Roebling Avenue, Trenton, NJ
Industrial Warehouse For Sale or Lease
Total SF: 85,930 ■ Single Story Building
Maximum Height: 35’ ■ Outside Storage Space Available
6.64 Acres ■ Zoning: IP2 ■ $3.50 NNN
Available Units for Lease: 18,000 SF and 10,000 SF
Call for Sale Price & More Details!!
Office, Medical or Retail for Lease
16,000 SF Available
1 Story building with ample parking for 80 cars
1 Drive-in Door ■ Lower level has 500 SF of storage with lift
Close Proximity to St. Francis Hospital,
Trenton Train Station & Route 29
Office Condos
1060 State Road, Princeton, NJ
45 Everett Dr., West Windsor, NJ
3,500 SF Available ■ Parking: 4 cars per 1000 SF
Located adjacent to Princeton Airport
with visibility from Route 206
Easy access to Route 1, I-95 and downtown Princeton.
For Lease - Office/Warehouse ■ 2 units at 4,875 SF Contiguous
Incl. 1,500 SF of Office & 1 Drive-In ■ 2 Units at 5,675 SF
Contiguous Incl. 2 Loading Docks & 2 Drive-Ins, 20’ Clear
1 Unit at 9,586 SF Incl. 2,500 SF of Office
& 1 Loading Dock ■ Convenient to Route 1, I-95, I-295
& the Princeton Jct. Train Station
1 Union Street, Washington Town Center
Washington Township, NJ
200 Whitehead Road, Hamilton, NJ
Sports and Entertainment Factory
5 Nami Lane, Hamilton, NJ
For Sale or Lease, Office or Flex Space
Newly Constructed 27,000 SF Available
Will Divide to 3,500 SF
Minutes to Route 1, I-295 & the Hamilton Train Station
Design Your Own Office Space!! PRICE REDUCED!
HERE
2997 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ
Office Condominiums for Sale or Lease ■ 7,500 SF
Office/Medical ■ Will Divide ■ Located in Lawrenceville’s
Medical District ■ Covered Parking ■ Medical Build-Out Available
Close Proximity to Route 1, I-95 & I-295
Put Your Name on the Building ■ Create Your Own Identity!
Newly constructed along Washington Town Center Lake
72,000 SF ■ Divisible to 2,600 SF
Easy access to Routes 33, 130
and NJ Turnpike Exits 7A and 8
westlakeofficevideo.com
Flex
Office Subleases
101 College Road East , Princeton, NJ
Available: 5,292 SF on the 1st Floor ■ Class “A” Atrium
Office Furniture & Phones Available ■ Lease Term expires
January 2014 ■ Located in Princeton Forrestal Center;
Close Proximity to Route 1
42,000 SF Available ■ For Lease
Range from 410 SF and Up 14’ to 32’ Clear
Zoned for Industrial, Office, Warehouse
or Sports/Entertainment Use
Convenient to US Hwy. 1 and Interstate 295
Newly Renovated ■ Clear Span Space
Riverwalk, Lambertville, NJ
For Lease ■ 8,300 SF ■ Will Divide ■ Historic Brick Building
Picturesque Setting Overlooking the Riverfront
Plenty of Parking ■ Minutes to Route 202 and Route 29
Located ¼ Mile from Downtown Lambertville
Restaurants and Shopping within Walking Distance
1245 Whitehorse-M
Mercerville Road, Hamilton, NJ
Medical/Office Condo for Sale or Lease
1,568 SF ■ 1st Floor Unit ■ 8 Private Offices/Exam Rooms
and Reception Area ■ Close Proximity to Robert Wood Johnson
Hospital at Hamilton ■ Convenient to Route 295,
Route 1 & The Hamilton Train Station
Investment Property
9-1
15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, NJ
Ewing Township, NJ
Unit 1: 3,750 SF Office/Flex
Unit 2: 7,500 SF Office divisible to 1,875 SF
Unit 3: 5,000 SF Office/Flex
Drive-in Doors ■ Will Divide ■ For Lease
Located at Intersection of I-295 & Princeton Pike
Office/Warehouse/Medical Use
Apartment Complex for Sale
10 Units – Fully Leased ■ Sale Price: $699,000
Good location – Great Investment!!
www.fennelly.com
Ibis Plaza
3525 Quakerbridge Road
Hamilton, NJ 08619
609-520-0061

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