New Brunswick, NJ is a great college town overflowing with people of every description, cheap and expensive restaurants, bars, pizzerias, coffee shops, etc. But it is also a local hub of entertainment and dining for the non-student communities that live and work in town and in central Jersey. The downtown area of New Brunswick is very crowded on Friday and Saturday nights with people eating out, going to comedy clubs, checking out a local band, or attending performances at one of several theaters on George St. and Livingston Avenue.

Transportation options, too, are varied. Students living in New Brunswick walk, ride the bus, ride a bike, or drive a car to get where they need to go. For travel between campuses, Rutgers provides free bus service.

New Brunswick is well-served by mass transit for travel to New York City (less than an hour by train), Philadelphia, and Princeton (another central New Jersey town with a nice downtown, although substantially smaller than New Brunswick’s).

Graduate students take advantage of the wide variety of housing options available at the university and off-campus. Rutgers provides graduate student housing including apartments, married student housing, and family housing. The off-campus housing stock includes everything from shared 100-year-old townhouses to highrise luxury apartments. Most students live in New Brunswick or in the nearby towns of Piscataway (on-campus) or Highland Park (off-campus).

Following is an eclectic collection of links to get you started on exploring New Brunswick and the Rutgers community as a place to live.

Housing

• Rutgers housing
• Rutgers off-campus housing

Transportation

• Train service:  NJ Transit – trains on the Northeast Corridor Line to New York City, Princeton, and Philadelphia (change at Trenton).
• Bus service: Suburban Transit, stops downtown, goes to Port Authority bus station in NYC.
  

Recreation/Entertainment

• For a list of restaurants and other attractions downtown, see NewBrunswick.com
• The New Jersey State Theatre
  
• George St. Playhouse
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
  
• The Court Tavern (live music)
• Every Rutgers campus has a gym: here is a list
  
• The Rutgers Football team is lately quite popular.
• Doll's Place (restaurant/bar)
• Donaldson Park (in the nearby borough of Highland Park) and Johnson Park (Highland Park/Piscataway) and Buccleuch Park (New Brunswick)
  
• New Brunswick Parks 
• The Grease Trucks (a Rutgers tradition, and home of Maxim Magazine's pick for Best Sandwich in the Nation)