The Borough of Carteret has changed a lot over the past 20 years, cleaning up from an industrial past that left much of its waterfront along the Arthur Kill “a wasteland,” in the words of Mayor Daniel J. Reiman. Beyond the oil refinery tanks at the edge of town, there’s the huge Amazon Fulfillment Center on Industrial Highway that opened in 2017 that provides hundreds of cleaner jobs and a steady stream of truck traffic down Industrial Highway. Downtown, there’s the glitzy Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center that opened in 2021 and anchors the borough’s arts district, with over 1,000 new …