Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first European settlement at the site of New Brunswick was made in 1681, initially called Prigmore's Swamp. The settlement was given the name New Brunswick in 1714, incorporated as a town in 1736, and chartered as a city on the 1st of September, 1784.
New Brunswick is known as the Healthcare City because of its concentration of major medical institutions, including Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Saint Peter's University Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. The city is also home to the world headquarters of Johnson and Johnson.
Hungarian immigrants began arriving in New Brunswick as early as 1888, drawn by employment at Johnson and Johnson factories. By 1915, they made up nearly 20 percent of the city's population. The community was revived during the Cold War when tens of thousands of refugees from the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution were processed at Camp Kilmer in nearby Edison.
Classes at Queen's College, now Rutgers University, began in 1771 at a tavern called the Sign of the Red Lion on the corner of Albany and Neilson Streets. There was one instructor, one sophomore named Matthew Leydt, and several freshmen. Leydt became the university's first graduate in 1774.
New Brunswick served as a vital hub for New Jersey's Underground Railroad. Strategically located on the Raritan River, the city was a favorable route for runaway slaves heading to New York and Canada, though its position also made it a place where slave hunters actively enforced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
New Brunswick's music scene produced Looking Glass, whose song Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, as well as Bon Jovi and The Smithereens. The independent label Don Giovanni Records was established in 2003 to document the city's basement music scene.