Short answers, pulled from the story.
New Brunswick, New Jersey incorporated as a city on the 1st of September 1784. The town received its name from George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg who later became King George I of Great Britain.
Colonel John Neilson stood atop a table outside a tavern to read the Declaration of Independence aloud on the 9th of July 1776. This event took place in front of townspeople gathered near what is now Monument Square where a bronze statue dedicated on the 9th of July 2017 marks the exact spot today.
A curfew adopted by the Common Council in 1824 restricted free people of color from being out after ten pm on Saturday nights. By 1810 census records listed 53 free Blacks and 164 slaves within the city limits while local newspapers advertised private sales of enslaved people with an average age of twenty years old.
By 1915 over five thousand Hungarians lived in New Brunswick representing nearly twenty percent of total population. Camp Kilmer processed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution between November 1956 and May 1957.
The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center opened the 4th of September 2019 hosting four hundred fifty guests at its inaugural event. Crossroads Theatre won the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1999 becoming the first African American theater honored.