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Pennington, New Jersey
Borough
Borough of Pennington
First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Location of Pennington in Mercer County. Inset: Location of Mercer County in the state of New Jersey.
Location of Pennington in Mercer County. Inset: Location of Mercer County in the state of New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of Pennington, New Jersey
Census Bureau map of Pennington, New Jersey
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyMercer
IncorporatedJanuary 31, 1890
Government
[4]
 • TypeBorough
 • BodyBorough Council
 • MayorAnthony Persichilli (D, term ends December 31, 2019)[1][2]
 • AdministratorTim Matheny[3]
 • ClerkElizabeth Sterling[3]
Area
[5]
 • Total
0.958 sq mi (2.481 km2)
 • Land0.956 sq mi (2.476 km2)
 • Water0.002 sq mi (0.005 km2)  0.22%
 • Rank506th of 565 in state
11th of 12 in county[5]
Elevation
[6]
210 ft (60 m)
Population
 (2010 Census)[7][8][9]
 • Total
2,585
 • Estimate 
(2014)[10]
2,584
 • Rank465th of 565 in state
11th of 12 in county[11]
 • Density2,703.9/sq mi (1,044.0/km2)
  • Rank230st of 565 in state
4th of 12 in county[11]
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP code
08534[12][13]
Area code609[14]
FIPS code3402157600[5][15][16]
GNIS feature ID885347[17]
Websitewww.penningtonboro.org

Pennington is a borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 2,585,[7][8][9] reflecting a decline of 111 (-4.1%) from the 2,696 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 159 (+6.3%) from the 2,537 counted in the 1990 Census.[19]

History

According to an 1883 history, "the first name of the village was Queenstown, which was given it in honor of Queen Anne. Later it was by some, in derision of its comparative insignificance, Pennytown, and as early as 1747 it began to be called Pennington."[20][21][22] The name "Penington" was already known in the area, as Edward Penington (1667-1701), son of the British Quaker leader Isaac Penington, was appointed by his kinsman William Penn as Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. His father-in-law was a longtime leader, including as Governor, of the province of West Jersey, where Edward married.[23] Henry Gannett attributes the borough's name to colonial governors from the Pennington family.[24]

Pennington was established as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 31, 1890, from portions of Hopewell Township, based on the results of a referendum held on January 21, 1890.[25] It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold.[26][27]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 0.958 square miles (2.481 km2), including 0.956 square miles (2.476 km2) of land and 0.002 square miles (0.005 km2) of water (0.22%).[5][18]

The borough is an independent municipality surrounded by Hopewell Township.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1880723[citation needed]—
1890588−18.7%
190073324.7%
1910722−1.5%
19201,33584.9%
19301,3350.0%
19401,49211.8%
19501,68212.7%
19602,06322.7%
19702,1514.3%
19802,109−2.0%
19902,53720.3%
20002,6966.3%
20102,585−4.1%
2014 (est.)2,584[10][28]0.0%
Population sources: 1890-1920[29]
1890-1910[30] 1910-1930[31]
1930-1990[32] 2000[33][34] 2010[7][8][9]

Census 2010

Template:USCensusDemographics

The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $107,250 (with a margin of error of +/- $18,509) and the median family income was $156,923 (+/- $18,294). Males had a median income of $106,250 (+/- $20,859) versus $76,477 (+/- $25,432) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $56,962 (+/- $6,372). About 6.2% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.2% of those under age 18 and 2.9% of those age 65 or over.[35]

Census 2000

As of the 2000 United States Census[15] there were 2,696 people, 1,013 households, and 761 families residing in the borough. The population density was 2,801.0 people per square mile (1,084.3/km2). There were 1,040 housing units at an average density of 1,080.5 per square mile (418.3/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 94.96% White, 2.63% African American, 1.00% Asian, 0.41% from other races, and 1.00% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.19% of the population.[33][34]

There were 1,013 households out of which 40.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.2% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families. 22.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.14.[33][34]

In the borough the population was spread out with 28.7% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.0 males.[33][34]

The median income for a household in the borough was $90,366, and the median income for a family was $107,089. Males had a median income of $84,912 versus $43,068 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $45,843. About 0.7% of families and 2.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.4% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over.[33][34]

Arts and culture

United Methodist Church

Pennington Day, typically in the middle of May, is an annual event where local organizations and businesses set up booths in a street-fair style on Main Street. The event, with origins back to 1980, features local music and a parade early in the day and festivities continuing into the afternoon.[36]

Government

Intersection of Main Street and Delaware Avenue

Local government

Pennington is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The governing body consists of a Mayor and a Borough Council comprising six council members, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle.[4] The Borough form of government used by Pennington, the most common system used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council.[37][38]

In a Borough, the Council may appoint an administrator and delegate all or a portion the executive responsibilities to the administrator. The Council may also adopt an administrative code which describes how the Council performs its duties.[39]

As of 2015, the mayor of Pennington is Democrat Anthony J. Persichilli, whose term of office ends December 31, 2015. Members of the Borough Council are Council President Council President Joseph L. Lawver (D, 2018), Catherine "Kit" Chandler (D, 2017), James Davy (D, 2016), Glen Griffiths (D, 2017), Deborah L. Gnatt (D, 2018) and Charles Marciante (D, 2016).[2][40][41][42][43]

Mayor Persichilli, a Democrat, was first elected on November 7, 2006, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of James Loper. Returned to office at that same election were Democratic council members Joseph Lawver and Eileen Heinzel.[44] James Loper, the previous elected Mayor, had resigned from office effective February 1, 2006. The Pennington Republican Committee nominated three candidates to take his place and the Council selected James Benton from the three candidates to fill the vacancy.[45] That same procedure was repeated on December 4, 2006, when the Borough Council to select Diane Zompa would fill the unexpired term left by Persichilli.[46]

Federal, state and county representation

Pennington is located in the 12th Congressional District[47] and is part of New Jersey's 15th state legislative district.[8][48][49]

For the 118th United States Congress, New Jersey's 12th congressional district is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, Ewing Township).[50][51] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027) and Andy Kim (Moorestown, term ends 2031).[52][53]

For the 2024-2025 session, the 15th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Shirley Turner (D, Lawrence Township) and in the General Assembly by Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D, Trenton) and Anthony Verrelli (D, Hopewell Township).[54] Template:NJ Governor

Mercer County is governed by a County Executive who oversees the day-to-day operations of the county and by a seven-member Board of County Commissioners that acts in a legislative capacity, setting policy. All officials are chosen at-large in partisan elections, with the executive serving a four-year term of office while the commissioners serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year as part of the November general election.[55] As of 2025, the County Executive is Daniel R. Benson (D, Hamilton Township) whose term of office ends December 31, 2027.[56] Mercer County's Commissioners are:

Lucylle R. S. Walter (D, Ewing Township, 2026),[57] Chair John A. Cimino (D, Hamilton Township, 2026),[58] Samuel T. Frisby Sr. (D, Trenton, 2027),[59] Cathleen M. Lewis (D, Lawrence Township, 2025),[60] Vice Chair Kristin L. McLaughlin (D, Hopewell Township, 2027),[61] Nina D. Melker (D, Hamilton Township, 2025)[62] and Terrance Stokes (D, Ewing Township, 2027).[63][64][65]

Mercer County's constitutional officers are: Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello (D, Lawrence Township, 2025),[66][67] Sheriff John A. Kemler (D, Hamilton Township, 2026)[68][69] and Surrogate Diane Gerofsky (D, Lawrence Township, 2026).[70][71][72]

Politics

As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 2,017 registered voters in Pennington, of which 828 (41.1%) were registered as Democrats, 467 (23.2%) were registered as Republicans and 720 (35.7%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 2 voters registered to other parties.[73]

In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 66.0% of the vote (985 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 32.7% (488 votes), and other candidates with 1.3% (19 votes), among the 1,653 ballots cast by the borough's 2,115 registered voters (161 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 78.2%.[74][75] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 66.9% of the vote (1,090 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 31.0% (506 votes) and other candidates with 1.1% (18 votes), among the 1,630 ballots cast by the borough's 2,088 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.1%.[76] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 61.7% of the vote (999 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 35.9% (581 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (11 votes), among the 1,619 ballots cast by the borough's 2,022 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 80.1.[77]

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 49.6% of the vote (496 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 48.7% (487 votes), and other candidates with 1.6% (16 votes), among the 1,015 ballots cast by the borough's 2,067 registered voters (16 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 49.1%.[78][79] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 53.8% of the vote (640 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 35.7% (425 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 9.3% (111 votes) and other candidates with 0.3% (3 votes), among the 1,190 ballots cast by the borough's 2,057 registered voters, yielding a 57.9% turnout.[80]

Education

Toll Gate Grammar School

Public school students in Kindergarten through twelfth grades attend the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, a comprehensive regional public school district formed in 1965 serving students from Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough.[81][82]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,797 students and 329.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.51:1.[83] Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[84]) include four elementary schools — Bear Tavern Elementary School[85] (grades PreK-5; 429 students), Hopewell Elementary School[86] (PreK-5; 474), Stony Brook Elementary School[87] (K-5; 418) and Toll Gate Grammar School[88] (K-5; 300) — Timberlane Middle School[89] with 951 students in grades 6-8 and Hopewell Valley Central High School[90] with an enrollment of 1,225 students in grades 9 - 12.[91][92]

The Pennington School serves students in sixth through twelfth grades, having been founded in 1838 with a single teacher and three students.[93]

Transportation

Roads and highways

As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 12.34 miles (19.86 km) of roadways, of which 8.57 miles (13.79 km) were maintained by the municipality, 3.17 miles (5.10 km) by Mercer County and 0.60 miles (0.97 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[94]

Route 31 passes through Pennington, providing access to Interstate 95 at Exit 4.[95] Additionally, Exit 3B along I-95 connects to Scotch Road North, which provides access to all of the surrounding Hopewell Township area.

Public transportation

New Jersey Transit provides bus service between the borough and Trenton on the 602 route.[96] The borough is home to a newly designated NJ Transit bus stop at the corner of South Main Street and West Delaware Avenue.

Points of interest

Notable people

See also: Category:People from Pennington, New Jersey

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Pennington include:

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  101. ^ Biography, Kwame Anthony Appiah. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Kwame Anthony Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine."
  102. ^ Hawtree, Christopher. "Peter Benchley: He was fascinated by the sea, but his bestselling novel tapped into a primeval fear of the deep", The Guardian, February 14, 2006. Accessed August 18, 2008. "In 1971, he was asked by Tom Congdon, an editor at the publishers Doubleday, if he had anything in mind for a book, and he pitched this as a "long story"; he produced a hundred pages, and, with a $1000 advance, he reworked it steadily, holing up to do so, during the winter, in a room above the Pennington Furnace Supply Co in Pennington, New Jersey, and, by summer, in an old turkey coop at Stonnington, Connecticut."
  103. ^ Gomes, Jay. NJ pair sign with Seton Hall, NJHoops.com, November 14, 2002. Accessed September 16, 2007.
  104. ^ a b Bell, Jack. "Soccer; Father-and-Son Quality Time Comes to the MetroStars", The New York Times, April 14, 2004. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Michael lives with his family in Pennington, N.J., but goes to workouts with Eddie Gaven, another promising young midfielder, behind the wheel."
  105. ^ DePalma, Anthony. "TRANSPORTATION: IT'S DECISION TIME", The New York Times, November 22, 1981. Accessed March 29, 2016. "A resident of Pennington, she sometimes bicycles to her office in Trenton, a distance of four and a half miles."
  106. ^ Clerkin, Bridget. "Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey Bishop George Councell to retire", The Times (Trenton), March 26, 2013. Accessed October 31, 2013. "The diocese also runs a school in Burlington, Doane Academy, where attendance has been consistently growing, said Councell, a Pennington resident."
  107. ^ a b Lucille Day, Office of the Governor of New Jersey, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 2, 2008. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Commissioner Davy is married to James M. Davy. They live in Pennington with their two sons, James and Andrew."
  108. ^ Staff. "Tony DeNicola: Obituary", The Times (Trenton), September 4, 2006. Accessed September 17, 2015. "Tony DeNicola, 79, died Saturday in the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Born in Pennington, he had resided in Lawrenceville for 40 years."
  109. ^ Strauss, Elaine. "A Concert to Honor Volunteers for the Homeless", U.S. 1 Newspaper, January 26, 2005. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Olga Gorelli is a Pennington-based composer and leader in New Jersey's musical life; her compositions experiment with both words and music."
  110. ^ "Himes Reaches Out to War-Weary Republicans", Jim Himes for Congress. Accessed February 15, 2011. "He was raised by "a working single mom" in the small town of Pennington, N.J., and attended 'a decent public school.' When he brought home an A minus, his mother would ask, 'What went wrong?'"
  111. ^ Kenneth G. Miller, Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Accessed November 27, 2013. "A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and still owns a house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he watches the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 16 ft above Barnegat Bay."
  112. ^ Davis, Mike. "Elizabeth Maher Muoio sworn in as new assemblywoman in 15th District", The Times (Trenton), February 5, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015. "Muoio, a Pennington resident, was sworn into office on Thursday by Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson) two weeks after Mercer and Hunterdon County Democrats convened and appointed her to the seat.... Muoio served on the Pennington Borough Council in the late 1990s before winning election to the Mercer County freeholder board."
  113. ^ via Associated Press. "As New York prepares for Bush, protests gather pace", Taipei Times, August 30, 2004. Accessed February 16, 2011. "Sue Niederer of Pennington, New Jersey, who lost her son Seth Dvorin in Iraq earlier this year, grieves at a memorial yesterday, in Central Park in New York."
  114. ^ "Corzine appoints new members to the state ethics commission" Office of the Governor, February 23, 2006. Accessed March 12, 2008.
  115. ^ Sullivan, Joseph F. "Assembly Races: Lots of Footwork; Assembly Hopefuls Running a Rugged Foot Race", The New York Times, October 21, 1979. Accessed February 15, 2011. "The district has one Democrat in the Assembly, Barbara W. McConnell of Flemington, and one Republican, Karl Weidel of Pennington."
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