Bergen County towns / Pascack Valley
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 hardware store or a farmers market, they come here.
All data is aggregated from within the past year.
The Pascack Valley's downtown. Westwood Avenue has the restaurants, the hardware store and the farmers market the surrounding boroughs drive to.
What you are buying
A wide range for a borough of eleven thousand: capes and colonials on small lots near the centre, larger properties toward the Emerson and Washington Township lines, plus a growing stock of downtown apartments and townhomes. It is one of the more attainable walkable towns in north Bergen County.
Getting to Manhattan
Westwood station sits on the Pascack Valley Line, running to Hoboken with a PATH or ferry connection, or to Secaucus for Penn Station. Peak trips are around an hour and ten minutes. Service is less frequent than the Main Line, so schedules matter.
Schools
The Westwood Regional School District is unusual in that it serves both Westwood and Washington Township as a single district from elementary through high school, rather than the send-receive arrangements common elsewhere in the Pascack Valley.
District arrangements change. Confirm current boundaries, send-receive relationships and performance with the district itself and the New Jersey School Performance Reports before making a decision on them.
Where people actually go
Westwood Avenue carries the restaurant density, with more per capita than anywhere else in the Pascack Valley. The Saturday farmers market runs from the veterans park. The Pascack Brook County Park has trails and playing fields at the northern edge.
Who Westwood suits
Buyers who want a walkable centre and rail access without Ridgewood pricing, and downsizers looking for a downtown apartment in a suburban town.