the rix mix

Constructed in a matter of months at the start of WWII, Camp Kilmer was a huge processing & embarkation center sprawling across Piscataway & Edison & into South Plainfield. By the late Sixties it was a ghostly city of boarded up buildings & roads & railroad spurs to nowhere, popular with local teenagers & Rutgers students. It was many more years before government got serious about security at abandoned installations like Camp Kilmer, Sandy Hook, & the old Nike Missile bases. Rutgers has used much of the Kilmer property for campus expansion.