Bergen County towns / Central Bergen
Lodi
Dense and affordable by Bergen standards, with Felician University at its centre and Route 17 along its edge.
Getting to Manhattan
Bus to Port Authority. Budget roughly 50 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
Lodi sits in Central Bergen, with roughly 8,900 households and a median around $470k. That places it among the more attainable parts 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 Lodi 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.