Short answers, pulled from the story.
The name Piscataway may derive from a Lenape word meaning "great deer," from words meaning "dark night" and "place of," or from the Piscataqua River on the New Hampshire-Maine border, which itself comes from Algonquian words for "branch" and "tidal river." Early settlers from the Piscataqua River area brought the name with them when they founded the township in 1666.
Piscataway Township was formed on the 17th of December 1666 and officially incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature on the 21st of February 1798, as part of the state's initial group of 104 townships. It is the fifth-oldest municipality in New Jersey.
Camp Kilmer was activated in June 1942 on 1,500 acres in Piscataway and Edison as a United States Army staging area and part of the New York Port of Embarkation. It became the largest processing center for troops heading overseas and returning from World War II, processing over 2.5 million soldiers. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the camp was reactivated to process 30,000 Hungarian refugees before closing in 2009.
According to the 2020 United States Census, Piscataway had a population of 60,804, an increase from 56,044 in 2010 and 50,482 in 2000.
SHI Stadium, home of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, was built in 1994 with 41,500 seats and expanded to 52,454 seats after a $100 million expansion in 2009. Jersey Mike's Arena, originally the Rutgers Athletic Center, seats 9,000 and served as home court for the New Jersey Nets from 1977 to 1981. Yurcak Field is a 5,000-seat soccer and lacrosse stadium named for 1965 All-American Rutgers lacrosse player Ronald N. Yurcak.
The section of Piscataway now known as New Market was originally called Quibbletown because settlers of different religious denominations argued over whether the Sabbath should be observed on Saturday or on Sunday. The name reflected the persistent nature of that religious dispute among the early colonial community.