A
square mile sized town in Middlesex county, NJ. Sometimes referred to as D-Block or 'Nellen. Bordered by Piscataway and Plainfield.
Dunellen was settled in the 1800'
s when the train stopped here; at this
time Dunellen was hailed as a NICE town, but is now reduced to homes surrounding a sobering downtown where new small businesses are lucky to stay in business for more than 2 years.
The public schools are riddled with corruption (like buying an apartment for a high school football
player to keep him on the football team) and the teachers don'
t teach. Some families in Dunellen have financial problems but few are actually under the poverty line.
Among the kids, drinking is more prevalent than smoking pot.
It isn'
t ghetto by far, but shootings, heroin, and prostitution are just a few miles away in Plainfield.
Crime from Plainfield is coming into Dunellen; the occasional robbery of a small store and rare shootings do happen here.
The only thing which Dunellen has to claim is that the first Quik Chek was established here.
There isn'
t much to do besides eat and walk around.
The Dunellen police,
bored in a small town, take every call they get seriously, which is annoying.
In total the town isn'
t too bad; it just looks like a shit hole.
Dunellen:
84.9%
White-10% Hispanic-
4%
Black-2%
Asian-.01% other (Pacific Islander, Native American, etc.)
