Montclair, Glen Ridge, and Bloomfield are suburban havens.
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Friends lived in the section of Bloomfield where the Parkway crosses over Bloomfield Ave; they’d bought a HUD home, and sold it as soon as the 5 years required of them to live there were up. While their home and block were nice, they were just a couple of blocks from the spread of Newark; you couldn’t go out at night.
The north end of Bloomfield is very nice!