Seventy towns. One of them is yours.
Bergen County is not a single market. It is seventy municipalities, each with its own schools, tax rate and relationship to the train. Choosing well here means choosing the town first and the house second.
Every municipality at its real coordinates, with the rail corridors and the city they run to. Select a town to open its guide.
Guides to the towns people ask about most
Written the way I answer the question in person: what you are actually buying, how the commute really works, and who each town suits.
Ridgewood
Ridgewood is the town other Bergen County towns get compared to, and it earns it in a specific way: you can live here without driving. The station sits at the bottom of a downtown with…
Tenafly
Tenafly does something unusual for the Northern Valley: it runs its own schools all the way through twelfth grade. Most of its neighbours send students to a shared regional high school.…
Glen Rock
Glen Rock is three square miles with two train stations on two different lines, which is an unusual amount of rail service for a town of its…
Alpine
Alpine has fewer than two thousand residents on six and a half square miles, much of it protected parkland along the Palisades. It is the quietest and most expensive address in New Jersey,…
Fort Lee
Fort Lee is the densest municipality in Bergen County and the only one where a significant share of the housing market is high-rise. It sits at the western foot of the George Washington…
Franklin Lakes
Franklin Lakes zones most of its residential land at one to two acres, which produces a town of nine and a half thousand people spread across nine square miles of Ramapo foothills. There is…
Westwood
Westwood is the Pascack Valley's downtown. The surrounding boroughs — Washington Township, River Vale, Hillsdale, Emerson — are largely residential, and when they need a restaurant, a…
Edgewater
Edgewater is a mile and a half of waterfront under the Palisades, and it has the fastest commute to Manhattan of any town in Bergen County. The NY Waterway ferry crosses to Midtown in about…
The commute decides more than people admit
Ten minutes each way is eighty hours a year. These are the shortest trips to Midtown in the county, and what gets you there.
- Edgewater 25 min NY Waterway ferry
- Fort Lee 30 min Bus; walk to the bridge
- Cliffside Park 35 min Bus; ferry from Edgewater
- Palisades Park 35 min Bus to Port Authority
- Rutherford 35 min Main / Bergen County Line
- North Arlington 35 min Pascack Valley Line
- Fairview 35 min Bus to Port Authority
- East Rutherford 35 min Bus; Meadowlands rail
- Ridgefield 35 min Bus to Port Authority
- Leonia 35 min Bus to Port Authority
Times are typical peak door-to-Midtown estimates including the connection at Secaucus or Hoboken, not scheduled rail times. Confirm against current NJ Transit and NY Waterway timetables before relying on them.
I sell in the county I grew up in
I have been working Bergen County long enough to know which streets flood, which blocks hear the Parkway, and which listings are priced to sit. That is most of the job.
The rest of it is being reachable. You will have my mobile number, and I answer it.
Tell me what you are looking for.
Buying, selling, or still deciding whether Bergen County is the right side of the river — start with a conversation.