Ewing Nj — Mayor

“Crime is down,” he says flatly. “The data is on our website.”

His first year was a trial by fire. Covid-19 shut down town hall. Tax revenues wobbled. And the GM site, after a developer’s bankruptcy, fell back into the township’s lap.

For decades, this 170-acre stretch along the Delaware River was a symbol of Ewing’s industrial might. After the plant closed in 1998, it became a symbol of rust-belt decay—a fenced-off, contaminated ghost town in the heart of Mercer County. For nearly 25 years, every mayor promised to fix it. But it is Steinmann, a low-key Democrat first elected in 2020, who finally has a wrecking ball on site. ewing nj mayor

As the sun sets over the Delaware, Steinmann walks the perimeter of the GM site. In the distance, you can see the lights of TCNJ’s stadium and, further out, the gold dome of the Statehouse in Trenton.

Steinmann’s response is classic him: he requested a state police analysis, hired two additional traffic officers, and installed automated license plate readers at the township’s entrances. The theft rate dropped 34% in six months. “Crime is down,” he says flatly

“I thought I’d be doing budgets and zoning hearings until I retired,” Steinmann admits. “Suddenly, I was the face of the town during a pandemic.”

Steinmann doesn’t pound a gavel. Instead, he pulls out a whiteboard and draws a pie chart showing the cost of a sharpshooter program versus a contraceptive dart program. He cites data from Rutgers. Tax revenues wobbled

By 9 p.m., there’s no resolution, but the room has calmed down.