
Reader suggests ; Interesting article in yesterday’s Record about Millennial interest in living in cities. Suburbs like Ridgewood fit the need with transportation and walkable downtown.
Dave Sheingold , Staff WriterPublished 6:00 a.m. ET June 22, 2017
They want the bustle. They want the convenience. They want the diversity.
In short, they want the city and not the suburbs – even after their children start school.
In a trend that is starting to chip away at the bedrock of suburban North Jersey, a surge of families with young children is gravitating toward New York City, reversing a path worn by generations before them.
Recently released demographic data shows the number of married couples with school-age children rose 10 to 20 percent across middle- and upper-income neighborhoods of New York City just in the first half of this decade, accelerating a trend that began in the mid-2000s. Similar increases were found in urban areas of Hudson County in New Jersey.