How do you get to Manhattan from Bergen County’s Northern Valley?

By bus. NJ TRANSIT runs buses from the Northern Valley to two Port Authority terminals in Manhattan — the Midtown Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station at 178th Street. No NJ TRANSIT rail line stops in the Northern Valley itself; the nearest trains are the Pascack Valley Line, which runs to Hoboken with a connection at Secaucus Junction for New York, and the Main/Bergen County Line. By car the two road crossings are the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel.

Everything below comes from the operators’ own pages, read on the date at the foot of this page. Routes, stops and service days change; the links in the table go to the operator’s current file for each route.

Which bus routes run from the Northern Valley to Manhattan?

On its Bus Point-to-Point page NJ TRANSIT describes each New York route by the towns it serves and by its Manhattan end: “New York (Midtown - PA Bus Terminal at 8th Avenue & 41st Street)” or “New York (Uptown - GW Bridge Bus Station at Broadway & 178th Street)”. The table lists, for each town this site covers, the NJ TRANSIT routes whose description or timetable cover names the town, and the terminal each reaches. A town not named by NJ TRANSIT may still have a stop at its edge; the table records only what the operator says. The descriptions are published as data at /data/commute-routes.json.

Two details matter. NJ TRANSIT describes routes 153 and 177 as “WEEKDAYS - PEAK HOURS ONLY”. The 157/167/177 timetable cover, issued July 1, 2026, lists “CLOSTER (167, 177)”, “HARRINGTON PARK (167, 177)” and “HAWORTH (167, 177)” with “NEW YORK CITY (157, 167, 177) Port Authority Bus Terminal”; the 166 timetable cover, issued September 5, 2026, lists Cresskill, Dumont, Bergenfield, Tenafly and Englewood. Coach USA’s Rockland Coaches also publishes a route list naming several of the same towns, among them Alpine, Demarest and Norwood, which no NJ TRANSIT New York route names; that page carries a posting date of November 4, 2019, so confirm any Rockland route on the operator’s current schedule. The same page lists its Route 14 as “NO SERVICE until further notice”.

Does the Northern Valley have NJ TRANSIT rail?

No. None of the eleven Northern Valley towns in the table appears on NJ TRANSIT’s Pascack Valley Line or Main/Bergen County Line timetables. The Pascack Valley Line weekday timetable as of August 30, 2026 is headed “TO HOBOKEN” and lists, in New Jersey, Montvale, Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, Westwood, Emerson, Oradell, River Edge, New Bridge Landing, Anderson Street, Essex Street, Teterboro and Wood-Ridge, then Secaucus Junction — where its “NEW YORK” column shows the connecting train — and Hoboken. The Main/Bergen County Line weekday timetable, also as of August 30, 2026, is headed “TO HOBOKEN/NEW YORK” and lists Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Radburn and Broadway in Bergen County.

NJ TRANSIT’s station pages for Montvale, Park Ridge, Hillsdale, Westwood, Emerson, Oradell, River Edge, New Bridge Landing and Ridgewood list each station’s address and its parking lots, with the lot’s owner and whether non-residents may park; read the lot rules on the station page, because several of the lots are municipal permit lots. This page gives no distance or travel time from any Northern Valley town to a station, because the operators publish none.

What are the road crossings, and is there a ferry?

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey describes the George Washington Bridge as “connecting Northern Manhattan and Fort Lee, NJ” and the Lincoln Tunnel as “connecting midtown Manhattan and Weehawken, NJ”; the tunnel page adds that it “was the first to introduce an Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL)”. The Port Authority’s alternate travel options page places the Midtown Bus Terminal on “Eighth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets” and the GWB Bus Station on “Broadway between 178th and 179th Streets”, and its Midtown Bus Terminal page lists NJ TRANSIT and “Rockland Red & Tan (Coach USA)” among the carriers ticketed there.

Ferries serve the river towns, not the Northern Valley. NJ TRANSIT’s description of route 158 names “Edgewater (NY Waterway Ferry Terminal-Edgewater Marina, Edgewater Commons Mall)” and “Weehawken (Port Imperial - HBLR Port Imperial Station, NY Waterway Ferry Terminal, Lincoln Harbor)” among its stops, and the Port Authority lists “NY Waterway Ferry – Pier 79 located at Twelfth Avenue and West 39th Street” among the alternatives to its terminals. NY Waterway, the operator, publishes its own schedule; this page states no ferry route, landing or timetable of its own.

Does a New Jersey resident working in New York pay tax twice?

The New Jersey Division of Taxation’s page on the credit for taxes paid to other jurisdictions says: “New Jersey requires you to pay tax on all of your income, regardless of where it is earned. The credit reduces your New Jersey Income Tax liability so that you don’t pay taxes twice on the same income. This is not a refund of the taxes you paid to another state or city.” The credit is claimed on Schedule NJ-COJ. Questions about an individual’s tax treatment belong with an accountant.

What this means for a purchase

The route number a property sits near is a fact to verify on the operator’s timetable before an offer, not a description to accept from a listing. NJ TRANSIT reissues bus timetables during the year, some routes run only on weekdays at peak hours, and a stop shown on a map may belong to a branch the operator marks “limited service” or “peak hours only”. The check is short: open the route’s current PDF from the links above, find the stop by its street names, and read the columns for the days and hours that matter. For a train, the same check applies to the Pascack Valley Line station pages and the parking rules printed on them.

B&Co. Realty works as a New Jersey transaction broker. The Real Estate Commission’s own definition, printed in the Consumer Information Statement that N.J.A.C. 11:5-6.9 requires licensees to supply to buyers and sellers, is that “A TRANSACTION BROKER DOES NOT PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF ONE PARTY OVER THOSE OF THE OTHER PARTY TO THE TRANSACTION,” and that such a broker “primarily serves as a manager of the transaction, communicating information between the parties to assist them in arriving at a mutually acceptable agreement and in closing the transaction, but cannot advise or counsel either party on how to gain an advantage at the expense of the other party.” On getting to Manhattan, that means the firm points to the operator’s page and the timetable date and leaves the choice of route, terminal or crossing to the people who will use it.

Related: the State’s property-tax figures for the same towns are in property tax rates in the Northern Valley; how a purchase is priced is in how a home is valued. Sources reviewed September 14, 2026.