Bergen County towns / Pascack Valley
Montvale
The county's northern corner — corporate headquarters along the Garden State Parkway and a rebuilt downtown at the station.
Getting to Manhattan
Pascack Valley Line. Budget roughly 65 minutes door to Midtown at peak — confirm against the current timetable, and test the trip yourself before you commit to a town on the strength of its commute.
The market here
Montvale sits in Pascack Valley, with roughly 3,200 households and a median around $850k. That places it in the middle of the county. What a number like that hides is the spread — in a borough this size, the street matters more than the median.
A fuller guide is coming
I am writing these one town at a time. If Montvale is on your list now, call me and I will give you the long version over the phone — schools, taxes, which blocks I would and would not buy on.