Metuchen, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Metuchen Station on NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line, at Main St. and Woodbridge Ave., two blocks east of Route 27. NJ Transit lists it as an accessible station with parking lots run by the Metuchen Parking Authority and ticket machines but no ticket agents. Trains run toward New York Penn Station and Trenton Transit Center. Amtrak stopped here only from 1971 to 1975 and now passes through without stopping. Bus: NJ Transit local routes 810, 813 and 819 are listed as serving the borough. Roads: Route 27 and County Route 531 meet in the center of the borough, and Interstate 287 runs along its southern border. The New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) is nearby in surrounding Edison, and the Garden State Parkway is nearby in Woodbridge Township.

Downtown Metuchen, run by the Metuchen Downtown Alliance and winner of the 2023 Great American Main Street Award; it hosts events such as the Metuchen Pops Art Festival; Metuchen Station, moved to its current site in 1888 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, with a wooden depot on the northbound side; Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Avenue (Colonial Revival building from 1937); Middlesex Avenue–Woodwild Park Historic District (89 acres; listed on the National Register of Historic Places July 31, 2017); Old Franklin Schoolhouse, 491 Middlesex Avenue (one-room school from about 1807, Greek Revival, now a community music venue); St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 17 Oak Avenue (completed 1869, Carpenter Gothic); Ayers–Allen House, 16 Durham Avenue (built about 1740 and thought to be the oldest building in the borough; National Register 1985); Mary Wilkins Freeman House, 207 Lake Avenue (National Register 2020), home of the author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Metuchen Municipal Building (Borough Hall), 500 Main Street, dedicated 2005; Forum Theatre, which the borough bought in July 2019. It is currently inactive and is planned as the centerpiece of a Metuchen Arts District.; Centennial Park (13 acres; home to Beacon Hill, the borough's highest point); Woodwild Park (3.5 acres of undeveloped woods off Middlesex Avenue); Middlesex Greenway, a 3.5-mile paved walking and biking trail between Metuchen and Woodbridge that is part of the East Coast Greenway; Tommy's Pond; Oakland Park (tennis courts); Metuchen Municipal Pool; Charles Field, Myrtle Field and Edgar Field (borough recreation fields); Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve (the Dismal Swamp): 784 acres in total, of which 48 are in Metuchen. The Metuchen trailhead is the Blue (Opalanie) Trail off Durham Avenue..

Metuchen School District (PreK–12) runs four schools: Moss School (Mildred B. Moss Elementary; preschool and kindergarten), Campbell Elementary School (grades 1–4), Edgar Middle School (grades 5–8) and Metuchen High School (grades 9–12). Private schools: Saint Francis Cathedral School (Pre-K–8, Diocese of Metuchen) and St. Joseph High School, an all-boys Catholic college-prep school for grades 9–12 at 145 Plainfield Road, run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart on a 70-acre campus.

Metuchen was incorporated as a borough on March 20, 1900, from parts of Raritan Township (now Edison). The name comes from a Native American chief whose name was spelled Matouchin or Matochshegan, and it first appears in records in 1688/1689. The artists, writers and intellectuals who settled here in the late 1800s earned it the nickname "the Brainy Boro" (or "Brainy Borough"). One of its two post offices is still called Brainy Boro Station.