Bergen County towns / Central Bergen
Fair Lawn
Fair Lawn is large by Bergen County standards: thirty-five thousand people, three train stations, and inside it, Radburn: a 1929 planned community whose superblocks and pedestrian underpasses are still studied by planners.
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Three stations, a large school district, and Radburn, the 1929 planned neighbourhood that is still one of the most studied experiments in American suburban design.
What you are buying
Genuinely varied. Radburn's clustered homes face interior greens rather than streets, with pedestrian underpasses connecting them. Elsewhere the borough runs post-war capes, colonials and splits on regular lots, plus garden apartments and townhouse complexes.
Getting to Manhattan
Broadway, Radburn and Plauderville stations all serve the Main and Bergen County lines. Radburn is the most useful for most of the borough. Peak trips to Hoboken run around forty-five minutes.
Schools
Fair Lawn Public Schools runs the borough's elementary and middle schools and Fair Lawn High School, a large district by Bergen County standards, with a correspondingly wide programme range.
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Where people actually go
Radburn's greens and the Plaza building are worth walking even if you do not live in them. Memorial Pool is the summer centre. Broadway and River Road carry the retail, including a long-established kosher corridor serving the borough's substantial Orthodox community.
Who Fair Lawn suits
Buyers who want three stations to choose from, a big district with room for specialisation, and, if they can find one, a house in Radburn.