Downtown
Downtown new brunswick is home to a plethora of restaurants and bars. for entertainment, there are clubs such as club platinum for dancing and the stress factory for comedy. new brunswick's nightlife is excellent for a city its size. the court tavern is the best place to catch up and coming local bands, helping make famous such acts as the smithereens, ween and deftime. johnson and johnson's, the makers of the band-aid and johnson's baby shampoo, has their headquarters here.
Bucceleuch Park
Located up college avenue from the train station, past the college campus. a revolutionary war mansion is the centerpiece of this park.
Chabad House
Hillel house, the old churches, the theological seminary, and congregation poile zedek: new brunswick's colorful religious institutions. those are located both on college ave. and downtown.
Rutgers University
(http://www.rutgers.edu). located in northeast new brunswick, rutgers university is a major aspect of the city. the college avenue campus is home to several dorms and lecture halls, with frathouses nearby. the zimmerli art museum, geology museum, the rutgers student center, and old queens as a historic centerpiece are places of attraction. the college avenue gym is also the site of the first ever intercollegiate football game, in which rutgers defeated princeton by a score of six to four in 1869, commemorated by a plaque on the outside of the gym and a statue outside rutgers stadium on the university's busch campus. in the spring, in recent years, there have been the colorful and dynamic tent state university protests as well.
George St/Monument Square
George st./monument square is home to the performing arts of new brunswick as well as an art gallery and urban planning school. the state theater, where big name acts are constantly booked, is here. at the george st playhouse, right next to it, you can catch a variety of plays.
Hospitals
While not exactly attractions, both robert wood johnson and st. peter's medical center are located in new brunswick, giving it the title of the health center of new jersey.