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Quite a street you're living on. Einstein used to sail his dinghy on the lake a few blocks away, your neighborhood park abuts on a warehouse renowned architect/designer Michael Graves has transformed into a residence, and half a block from the same park is the rambling house Saul Bellow, John Berryman, and R.P. Blackmur all lived in at various times. You pass Scott Fitzgerald's eating club on your way to the campus, and your neighbor gives piano lessons to Stalin's granddaughter.
When Princeton's most famous resident, Albert Einstein, was away from his home on Mercer Street, he wrote almost daily letters to his second wife Elsa and to her daughter Margot. He wrote about listening to boring lectures, and about delivering them. He wrote about playing music with friends, and about his efforts to give up smoking.
It's hard to imagine the world's most famous physicist without his signature pipe.
Einstein's letters home are among a batch that have just come into the public domain, unsealed on July 10 in Jerusalem after being kept closed for the last 20 years at the behest of his stepdaughter, Margot Einstein, who willed them to the Hebrew University with the stipulation that they remain sealed for twenty years after her death, which occured in July 1986.
As a worried daughter whose father has been jailed in a Taiwanese prison for more than 50 days, Rosalyne Shieh is clearly shaken, but remains calm. It's all for the sake of family, she said.
"My mom is a wreck," said Ms. Shieh, who is entering her final semester as a graduate student at the Princeton University School of Architecture. After what at first seemed to be a routine questioning, Ms. Shieh's father, Dr. Ching Shieh, has since had his financial records seized, and warrants to search his secretary's home and his driver's residence have been issued.
Since commercial activity ceased on the Delaware & Raritan Canal in 1932, almost a century after it first opened, the canal has served Princeton as a source of recreation. The towpath presents a natural resource for wildlife, as well as for walkers, birdwatchers, cyclists, naturalists, and Sunday strollers. In the heat of summer, the waterway itself presents an attractive prospect for canoeists and kayakers.
When Saladworks disappeared from its 84 Nassau Street location last week, the sign on the door indicated that the store was closed due to "equipment failure."
According to the landlord of the building that housed Saladworks, however, the real problem lay with the tenant's failure to pay the rent.
An advisory wing of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton offered the green light to a Princeton University proposal that will raze five dorms composing the school's residential Butler College for a slightly larger series of new dorms, all to be located on the dormitory's footprint.
A budding school in Princeton Borough is about to make the move to a more accommodating space in Princeton Township.
The Wilberforce School, which serves kindergarten through third grade and specializes in Christian education, has been operating in the basement of the Lutheran Church on Nassau Street near Cedar Lane in the Borough since opening last fall. The school, however, has quickly outgrown its current spot, and on Thursday, it received approval from the Regional Planning Board of Princeton to relocate to classrooms at the Princeton Church of Christ, near the corner of River Road and Princeton-Kingston Road in the Township.