New Brunswick is a diversified commercial and retail city located on the Raritan River in the mid-eastern portion of New Jersey. Headquarters to Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick is also notable for being the home of Rutgers University, the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer, author of the widely quoted "Trees," was born in New Brunswick. It is the county seat of Middlesex County, which has appeared more than once among the top 10 on Money magazine's list of the best places to live in America.