Annie (pictured) and I took a half day on Friday to take advantage of the Indian summer afternoon.
We had no plans — we just wanted some sun and a nice place to wander, nothing extravagant or too far. We ended up in Plainsboro, at the village center area, a built-from-scratch pseudo downtown that features some shops and professional offices, with some high-end housing at its outskirts.
It's a nice place, especially the coffee bar — It's a Grind — which has tasty brew and nice atmosphere.
And yet, as with Plainsboro's other attempt at downtown creation -o the failed Forrestal Village — there is something a bit off about the place, as if this new business district was just a movie set.
The goal, I suppose, was to create Princeton's Nassau Street or Cranbury's Main Street in what was formerly an open field.
I'd consider it a moderate success — better than Forrestal, but not quite Cranbury or Hopewell.
But the, it may need time to develop a personality, a character of its own.
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Hank Kalet 