Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of New Jersey, the county seat of Mercer County, and
an anchor city for the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. It is sometimes
considered the southernmost city of the New York metropolitan area. The city
and its immediate suburbs are often lumped together and referred to as
"Greater Trenton" by locals. As of the United States 2000 Census, the City
of Trenton had a population of 85,403; the median household income is
$31,074, and the median family income is $36,681.
The city was a major manufacturing center in the early 1900s; one relic of
that era is the slogan "Trenton Makes, The World Takes" displayed on the
Lower Free Bridge (the "Trenton Makes Bridge"), just north of the
Trenton-Morrisville Toll Bridge, which one can see as they enter the city.
The city adopted the slogan in the 1920s to represent Trenton's then-leading
role as a major manufacturing center for steel, rubber, wire, rope, linoleum
and ceramics.
Trenton is the home of the Trenton Thunder Eastern League AA minor league
baseball team, which is affiliated with the New York Yankees and plays in
Mercer County Waterfront Park, and the Trenton Titans (an ECHL minor league
hockey affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers) which plays in the Sovereign
Bank Arena.
Public transportation within and beyond the city is mostly provided by New
Jersey Transit, including commuter train service northward from the Trenton
Rail Station to Newark and New York along the Northeast Corridor. SEPTA
provides commuter train service southward from the Trenton Station to
Philadelphia, and Amtrak trains provide long distance service along the
Northeast Corridor. The city is served by the Trenton-Mercer Airport in
Ewing and the international airports in Newark (reachable by direct New
Jersey Transit or Amtrak rail link) and Philadelphia.
