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  • Maplewood, Montclair, and Glen Ridge: Why these three suburban areas are tops for ex-New Yorkers

    06/28/2017 8:39:03 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 16 replies
    Brick Underground ^ | June 17, 2016 | Lucy Cohen Blatter
    If you live in New York City and are at a stage in your life when you're contemplating a move to the suburbs (or your friends have begun to leave the city en masse), you've probably heard of at least one of these towns in Essex County: Montclair, Maplewood, and Glen Ridge. That's because these three spots, all accessible via New Jersey Transit trains, are eternally popular among NYC expats looking for more space and a little more greenspace for their green. "We have a lot of people coming from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken," says Stacie Levy of...
  • Glen Ridge, N.J.: Neighborly and Close to Midtown

    06/07/2017 8:32:54 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 19 replies
    The New York Times ^ | November 16, 2016 | Dave Caldwell
    When Becky and David Middleton, both 41, needed more space for their family of four children, ages 6 to 11, they moved just 10 blocks, paying $840,000 last April for an 1887 Victorian farmhouse with five bedrooms in Glen Ridge, N.J. A kitchen and bathroom renovation is underway. They have lived for 16 years in the 1.5-square-mile Essex County borough of around 7,500 with vintage homes and gaslit streets, wedged between the busier suburbs of Montclair and Bloomfield, and bordering the city of East Orange to the south.