A blog for The Bedroom Communities of New York City: Maplewood, South Orange, Millburn/Short Hills and Montclair, etc. for Area Residents, for future residents and for home buyers and sellers in New Jersey. Provides information on housing trends, tips for sellers and buyers, mortgage information events and happenings around town and the regional area. Local contributions are welcomed!
HOME-CATION here you come, own a home that is part of the Shongum Lake Association. This home does it all from providing maximum comfort and efficiency--with four beds and 3 full baths--to offering a great open kitchen to cook & entertain. This property is like owning your own private resort as It sits on 1.35 acres offering tremendous privacy with heated IN-GROUND POOL. There are 11 rooms to spread out in, work from home in, relax & rejuvenate in. There is also an incredibly unique situation with both a 2-car built-in garage with electric car charger as well as a separate 2-car detached garage. Brand new roof and Solar system. There is plenty of land to grow your own vegetables and a few newly planted apple trees, Shongum lake just down the road, so you can enjoy a sandy beach, a lake to swim and more.
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
Price: $600,000
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4 beds, large kitchen, 2.1 baths. Needs a fair amount of TLC
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
Price: $750,000
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This ranch is in primo condition with updates all around. Gorgeous curb appeal with front porch and partial stone clad exterior set the tone for this wonderful home. Inside, find a renovated kitchen with custom cabinets & the latest in appliances. There are 3 bedrooms with an updated hall bath and en suite primary bedroom that are complemented by the living room and dining room, with central air to keep you cool on hot nights. The lower level has an incredible recreation room, wet bar and space for your office. There is also a luscious laundry room with newer equipment. Step outside onto the paver patio and yard. Need more space to throw a frisbee? This property backs up to the huge school field. And all the benefits one might expect with a Dead end street, close to train station
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Price: $389,000
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Welcome to this finished four level Storybook home with so much to offer starting with a living room appointed with a beautiful decorative fireplace that opens to the dining room which then opens to a Renovated Kitchen w/ granite counters, wood cabinets & desk. Rounding out the first floor is a full bath and a family room that overlooks the backyard patio and putting green.The 2nd floor offers 3 cozy bedrooms complimented by an updated full bath. The uppermost level includes two spaces, one being a 4th bedroom the other an office space.Step down into the basement to find a recreation room with bar area, a laundry room and plenty of storage.Pass through the driveway arch and find a 2-car garage, patio and putting green to round out your enchanting backyard. 2/10s of a mile to the jitney stop
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 2
Price: $650,000
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Street names are often
quite creative, telling you a story of their original inhabitants. You'll find streets named after everything from
trees to birds to gemstones, name’s that appear to be referencing other towns
or cities, like “Springfield,” or people’s loved ones, developer’s children’s’
names, and the names of geographical landmarks.
What is
more consistent are the categories they fall into. There is some rhyme and
reason behind street classification, and it matters a great deal to city
planners and map makers. In Essex County, NJ, it’s especially common for
streets to be named after colleges and in the case of one neighborhood in
Maplewood, NJ, there is a section known as College Hill.The street names include, Yale, Bowdoin, Colgate
Amherst, Harvard, Rutgers, Wellesley and Oberlin; ironically, a street named Princeton
lies across from this neighborhood-and is found in the Hilton neighborhood, I’m
not sure what the planners at the time had against Princeton.
Here are some of the
differences between a street and an avenue, although over time, the lines are
clearly blurred, and it just might help you find your next appointment.
Roads:
A road is simply a track that connects two distant points. Merriam-Webster
defines a road as “an open way for vehicles, persons, and animals especially:
one lying outside of an urban district: HIGHWAY.”Further, roads are supposed to be the link
between towns and cities. This rule isn’t too strictly followed — cities are
often connected by interstates and contain roads within them. If the strip of
pavement doesn't fall into one of the other classifications, just call it a
road and you'll be OK.
Streets:
Sticking with the guidelines, streets are supposed to be
roads within cities and towns, with buildings lining the way. Merriam-Webster’s
definition:
a: a thoroughfare
especially in a city, town, or village that is wider than an alley or lane and
that usually includes sidewalks
b: the part of a
street reserved for vehicles
c: a thoroughfare with abutting
property
They are supported with sidewalks and are often main
business areas — such as Main Street or the High Street.
Avenues:
Avenues are distinct from streets because of the direction
they run. Technically, they are supposed to be perpendicular to the streets.
They can be meeting spots, like streets, or be more residential areas with
shrubbery and landscaping.
Boulevards
Boulevards are wide streets, often with a median. Famous
examples are Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards in Los Angeles. Boulevards are
major areas with lots of space and traffic, but they can be commercial with
bars, restaurants, stores, and famous landmarks, or they can be more parklike
with greenery lining the boulevard.
Alley:
According to Merriam-Webster,
an alley is a garden or park walk bordered by trees or bushes.
Route:
Merriam-Webster calls a “route”
a traveled way : HIGHWAY
The Rest of the Roads,
Lanes, Ways, Drives, Circles:
Lanes are much more low key. They are narrow roads or
streets, usually with no median or shoulder.
A Way is similar to a lane.
Then there is aCircle:
A circle generally defined by a geometric reference to its shape and most often
returning to its originating access road or street.
A Drive was mostly a private or residential road, often with
limited access and possibly with no outlet.Often we now find Drives adjacent to Streets of the same name as likely
to have been an additional development at a later time.
High Speed Routes:
And
while we are on the topic of Roads, what about high-speed routes like Highways,
Freeways, Speedways, Inter States, Parkways and Expressways.They are long, multilane roads designed for
long-distance, high-speed traffic. The differences between them aren’t exactly
clear, but certain geographical regions have preferences. In New Jersey, the
Garden State Parkway prohibits trucks.Synonyms for Highway (Merriam-Webster)
include: arterial, artery, avenue, boulevard, carriageway, drag, drive, expressway,
freeway, highroad, pass, pike, road, roadway, route, row, street, thoroughfare,
thruway, trace, turnpike and way
Mark Slade
Keller Williams
917.797.5059
Good Homes
Selling a Maplewood/South Orange/West Orange area home involves many steps and having an experienced Maplewood New Jersey Real Estate Agent and Realtor®, specializing in the Bedroom Communities of New York City in Essex/Union County— Millburn, Short Hills, Montclair, West Orange, South Orange, Livingston, Maplewood, Springfield, Summit, Madison, Chatham, Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Cranford and Westfield--by your side will make the transaction run a lot smoother. I would love to be your Maplewood/South Orange New Jersey Area Real Estate Professional! I assist both buyers and sellers in the Bedroom Communities of New York City, mostly served by NJ Transit’s Mid-Town Direct Train Lines, offering commutes of 45minute or less to NY Penn Station, with either the purchase and or sale of residential real estate.
As an Accredited Buyer’s Agent (ABR), I have received special training to guide and educate you through the entire home buying process. From start to finish, I listen to your needs and desires in what you would like and take the information you give me to find you home. My GO-TO team can provide you the best in Real Estate advice with regard to attorney choices, Home Inspectors and Mortgage Loan Officers
I am also a Luxury specialist (CLHMS), I have received special training to guide and educate you through the entire home buying and selling process. Not only does this extra training help me better understand this upper echelon in real estate, its benefit include a special luxury website: www.njluxhomes.com and a corresponding worldwide luxury network that helps to put luxury buyers and sellers together.
As your Maplewood/South Orange/ West Orange New Jersey listing agent I am well versed on as your local expert in all things in the West Orange, Maplewood and South Orange area Real Estate Market. You can expect personalized service that includes a detailed consultation on how to best position your Mid-Town Direct home to be competitive in today’s market with training to provide my clients with an in-depth Advanced Comparative Market analysis, and advice on staging. As my office’s technology officer as well as both a Zillow Platinum Premier and Trulia Premier agent, I use the latest and most up-to-date marketing methods to get your home in front of as many buyers as possible. Being your New Jersey Real Estate Agent and Realtor ® not only involves just finding the home or selling the home, but being your guide, negotiator, advisor and advocate and making sure that your needs and goals are met. Being your New Jersey Essex/Union County area Realtor® (with a little bit of Morris County thrown in for good measure) is one of my truest passions, and “Helping You Find Your Dream Home” is my number one priority.
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A picturesque town in Essex County, Maplewood is located on the East Branch of the Rahway River. Originally consisting of farms, mills and orchards, Maplewood is now a great mix of residential and commercial areas, culminating in the jewel of a downtown village and coming together to create a charming, tight-knit and diversified community. Maplewood has predominantly Colonial and Tudor style homes with sprawling porches and ample greenery, but you can also find some Victorians and a range of more modern style construction on its beautiful tree lined streets.
Maplewood is a diverse town with 6 elementary schools and prominent municipal building designed by famous architects, Guilbert and Betelle. In the center of town, famed landscape architects, the Olmstead Brothers, created the breathtaking Memorial Park; not to be overlooked is Ricalton Square, nestled between the train station and the downtown shopping; this area is frequently used for events including a Halloween Parade with hayrides and petting zoos, as well as featuring replica homes during the Winter Holiday Season. The town offers many activities to its residents from camps in the summer, arts and crafts classes, a public pool (with 4 pools ranging from a “baby” pool to toddler pool to large lap pool and a diving tank) and a farmers market when in season. There is even an annual musicalpalooza--Maplewoodstock—featuring a variety of bands and musical styles, showcasing local and national bands with booths for local businesses to set up.
The Village, also known as Maplewood Center, is a quaint, downtown shopping district with everything from restaurants with foods from all over the world, bakeries, dance studios, gyms, bookstores, a movie theater and bookstores. With its large variety of cuisines to choose from, Maplewood recently started a yearly town-wide Restaurant Week with over 30 eateries participating.
Easily accessible by its throughways and the New Jersey Transit, it's no surprise Maplewood has been ranked several times as one of the most desirable places to live in America by a number of surveys.
