A new program for girls in Princeton will launch next week at Community Park Elementary School. “Girls In Gear”, a non-profit with chapters in multiple states, will bring their unique curriculum of ‘life skills through bike skills’ to young riders, aiming to “make sure every girl has the chance to grow into the biggest, boldest, and brightest version of themselves – on and off their bike”.
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Local non-profit ‘Sustainable Princeton’ is aiming to encourage residents to give their car a rest during the month of September. They are organizing a “Walk ’n Roll Challenge”, and the participants who log the most miles on foot or by bike will win prizes!
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Princeton Council has indefinitely postponed a proposed pilot program to run the town’s ‘Muni’ shuttle bus to the Princeton Dinky rail station. The matter came up with discussion of a resolution for funding the jitney program, at the Council meeting of July 28, 2025. Municipal staff had hoped to test whether a free transit option connecting to the rail station might be successful. A commuter route to the rail station was also recommended by a transit study commissioned by Council last year. But opposition from some local residents, who were unhappy with the proposed service change, persuaded Council members to abandon the plan for now.
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The first objections to Princeton’s ‘Fourth Round’ affordable housing plan have emerged, just weeks after Council gave it their approval (Report via ‘Town Topics’: “Affordable Housing Plan Gets Official Approval And Positive Feedback“). Although the plan was praised for its focus on protecting green space, and locating housing at walkable sites, not everybody is happy with it. In particular, William Shields, the former Chief of the Princeton Fire Department, appeared at the Princeton Council meeting on July 14 to express his dismay at plans to convert the old firehouse on Chestnut Street into affordable housing.
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Princeton Arts Council and Sustainable Princeton are among the sponsors of a community block party taking place on Sunday, June 22 on Walnut Lane. The event is called ‘Ciclovia’, the Spanish term for when streets are opened on a temporary for cyclists and pedestrians (Wikipedia: Ciclovía.) The first Ciclovias were held in Columbia, and spread to Canada in the 1970s and eventually all around the world. Princeton previously held Ciclovia events on Quaker Road in the mid-2010s. The 2025 Princeton Ciclovia is happening in a more central location: on Walnut Lane and Franklin Lane next to Princeton Middle School (map). This location is also next to a redevelopment area, the old Westminster Choir College site, and the town will be using the event to get input about what to do with this land.
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The town of Princeton has completed a new Housing Plan to identify where state-mandated affordable housing will be built in the 10-year period from 2025 – 2035. Along with hundreds of other towns in New Jersey, Princeton has been racing to get a plan ready ahead of a June 30 deadline defined in state law. Towns that do not provide a plan risk losing control of their ability to control local construction. Whereas other towns are proposing to build affordable housing on farms, Princeton’s plan has a focus on placing new housing in parts of town that are already developed. None of the housing would be built on fields or open spaces. This ‘Smart Growth’ approach ensures that most of the new housing will be in highly-walkable locations, with easy access to stores, jobs and parks.
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Princeton Council took a step toward a more bike-friendly town at their meeting on Monday night by approving a proposal for bike lanes on North Harrison Street near the Princeton Shopping Center (map). The project will also bring safety improvements for pedestrians. It is conceived as a trial, and the town will be studying the effects on traffic before making permanent improvements at a future date.
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This summer, beer is returning to the central courtyard at the Princeton Shopping Center! (map) Triumph Brewpub is opening a ‘pop-up beer garden’ on Friday evenings from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. from June 6 through August 8. That’s just ten nights, and we’ve already missed one of them, so get on down there!
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The New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the rules for a design contest to find a possible replacement for the information kiosk that currently stands outside the ‘Garden Theater’ at 160 Nassau Street (map). There are currently two ‘kiosks’ on Nassau Street that serve as information noticeboards. They will be removed as part of an upcoming engineering project to make improvements to the street and sidewalks. At their meeting last week, Princeton Council endorsed the new design contest, which was conceived by local architect Joshua Zinder. Ideas that come out of the competition may be used to install a new, improved information kiosk at the intersection next to the Garden Theater, and potentially at other locations around the town, depending on future decisions by Council.
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The Princeton School Board heard a presentation on Tuesday night from Dan Schittone, a representative of FVHD architects, who are developing the plans for major improvements planned at Princeton Public Schools in the coming years. The improvements are funded by a $90 million bond referendum approved by Princeton voters earlier this year, and builds on previous plans released last year (Report: First Look: Preliminary Site Plans for Additions And Expanded Parking at Three Princeton Public Schools).
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