If you prefer the peaceful area to the busy city life, but yet need to reach the city quickly, Insider Monkey have made a new research again about NJ towns with direct train to NYC and best schools. So without a further ado let’s check this interesting top eleven list!
There may be many of you who much prefer living in a small place and there are those who do need the neighbourhood of a metropolis. Therefore it’s a pretty good solution to move next to a big city so that you can reach the busy city life whenever you want to. If you dwell next to a metropolis you can enjoy the advantages of a small town such as less crowding, more parking spaces, peace and quietness and also have benifit of the city like excellents schools for your children, great medical services etc. If we compare the cost of living in NJ and NY, you can find it is almost the same, as both of them are pretty expensive.
Now let’s check the 11 NJ towns with direct train to NYC and best schools Insider Monkey have investigated for us. Perhaps you will find some excellent ideas where to move and bring up your children.

11. Glen Rock
Glen Rock was ranked one of the best places to live in New Jersey for its good schools, low crime rate and close vicinity to New York City, therefore it’s really a great place to raise children.

10. River Edge

9. New Providence
New Providence is a borough on the northwest of Union County, New Jersey, it’s not a big town (with only 12,000 inhabitants), but if you want to enjoy a happy and comfortable family life it’s a good place to live. It’s a historical town with its beginning in 1664 and it serves students with excellent education.


7. Chatham
Chatham is a town where it’s costly to live, but there are only 10,000 inhabitants so you can be sure that life is peaceful and pleasant here. We highly recommend this kind small town for you.

6. Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge has a population over 7,600 so it’s a really quiet town to live with your family. It also serves direct rains to New York City which gets a high rank to Glen Ridge among the best places in NJ. It offers very good public schools for your children.

5. Tenafly
There are some really excellent schools here so no wonder this town got the 5th place on Insider Monkey’s list. If you have children and you search a peaceful place, don’t be in two minds about choosing the town of Tenafly.

4. Summit

3. Ridgewood

2. Short Hills

1. Montclair
Montclair has got the first place on Insider Monkey’s list of NJ towns with direct train to NYC and best schools since it was voted a town with the best public schools in 2018. Additionally many people highly recommended this nice town, who chose it and settled down here.
