Get to Know Montclair

Montclair is the Jersey suburb for people who don’t want to live in a Jersey suburb: The town is a smaller version of Brooklyn transported across the Hudson River, but with bigger houses and bigger backyards. Montclair is urbane, cultured, and proud of it — tons of writers, filmmakers, and other creatives all choose to make Montclair home. The city’s most famous resident is probably late-night host Stephen Colbert, who has lent his star power to the annual Montclair Film Festival, hosting the likes of Martin Scorsese and Meryl Streep on stage. The Film Festival is proof of Montclair’s outsized cultural influence, considering that this relatively small town has a population of just over 40,000. And if the big city beckons, Montclair has one of the easiest commutes, with seven NJ Transit stations and approximately a 40-minute ride into New York City’s Penn Station.

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Living in Northern New Jersey

Northern New Jersey is often thought of as a series of New York City suburbs, but in true Jersey spirit, the region has a definite personality of its own. Many of the villages here — or rather, townships and boroughs as they are known in Jersey parlance — offer a mix of small-town charm and big-city culture. These are places where there’s still a village green in the middle of town and walkable downtowns with family-owned businesses. Here, you’ll find a pharmacy with an old-fashioned ice cream counter that can make an egg cream on the spot and a diner inside a railroad car. But Northern New Jersey is also home to much of New York City’s commuting creative class, which means excellent bookstores, a world-class film festival, and a tiny newspaper — the Montclair Local — whose board is packed with top editors from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.