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NJ college towns brace for economic blow: 'I’ll do anything to keep my business'

Tango Two

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Aug 21, 2001
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If the bars, restaurants and stores thought business was bad in the spring when Rutgers and Princeton universities closed, the fall could be even worse.

The small businesses around the campuses in New Brunswick and Princeton say they have lost about half their business because of the absence of students, faculty and support workers.


 
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