Bergen County towns / Hudson Waterfront
Leonia
A leafy, arts-leaning borough on the Palisades ridge that has spent decades resisting bridge traffic cutting through it.
Getting to Manhattan
Bus to Port Authority. Budget roughly 35 minutes door to Midtown at peak — confirm against the current timetable, and test the trip yourself before you commit to a town on the strength of its commute.
The market here
Leonia sits in Hudson Waterfront, with roughly 3,200 households and a median around $680k. That places it in the middle of the county. What a number like that hides is the spread — in a borough this size, the street matters more than the median.
A fuller guide is coming
I am writing these one town at a time. If Leonia is on your list now, call me and I will give you the long version over the phone — schools, taxes, which blocks I would and would not buy on.