Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Carteret, NJ

Carteret is a borough in northeastern Middlesex County, New Jersey, fronting the Arthur Kill across from Staten Island, New York.

Carteret had a population of 25,326 in the 2020 census, its highest decennial count ever, up from 22,844 in 2010 and 20,709 in 2000.

The borough was incorporated on April 11, 1906, under the name Roosevelt, and was renamed Carteret on November 7, 1922.

Carteret is named after George Carteret and his son Philip Carteret, two of the early proprietors of colonial New Jersey.

The borough covers 4.96 square miles, of which about 11.5 percent is water, with the Rahway River forming its northern boundary and the Arthur Kill its eastern boundary.

Joseph Medwick Park is a greenway of parkland along the banks of the Rahway River in Carteret.

Unincorporated localities within the borough include Chrome and West Chrome in the southeast, East Rahway, Lamar and West Carteret.

Carteret's waterfront once housed what was described as the largest mahogany plant in the world, operated by Ichabod T. Williams & Sons on 70 acres with 1,300 feet of frontage on the Arthur Kill.

For more than 100 years Carteret's industrial waterfront had no public access, but Waterfront Park now offers a fishing pier, a mini golf course and a 185-slip marina, with nearly two miles of public shoreline access.

The borough is building a multimodal ferry terminal on a former DuPont brownfield site to restore ferry service to New York City for the first time since the 1950s.