Bloomfield, NJ | Midtown Direct, Parks and Value
Essex County's Two-Station Commuter Town
Bloomfield Real Estate | Two Midtown Direct Stations and Room to Grow
Bloomfield is the Essex County township where New York commuters get two Midtown Direct train stations, two Olmsted-designed county parks and a town green laid out in the 1790s, at a price well below its famous neighbors. Houses for sale in Bloomfield NJ sold at a median of $668,000 over the three months ending August 2026, up 6.9 percent year over year, and the typical home closed about 10 percent over asking, which makes this one of the most competitive sub-$700,000 markets in the county.
The housing stock rewards buyers who like options. Brookdale, at the township's north end, reads like neighboring Montclair: colonials, Tudors and renovated capes on quiet streets around a 121-acre Olmsted park. The center of town mixes Victorians and classic two-family houses, popular with buyers planning to offset the mortgage with a rental unit, alongside a growing layer of newer condos and transit-oriented apartments. South of the center, the Watsessing section offers the township's most attainable single-family entry point, steps from its own Midtown Direct station.
What separates Bloomfield from comparable towns is momentum. The township grew from 47,315 residents in 2010 to 53,105 in 2020, and a decade of downtown redevelopment around Bloomfield Center has delivered buildings like Avalon Bloomfield Station and The Green at Bloomfield beside the train, with newer projects filling in around the Watsessing Avenue station. Buyers priced out of Glen Ridge and Montclair find the same Olmsted parks and the same one-seat ride here, with change left over.
The Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group at Compass serves Bloomfield as part of its core Essex County coverage, bringing 25+ years of combined experience, more than 500 five-star client reviews and pricing built on street-level comparable sales. In a market where the average sale runs about 10 percent over list, knowing how to structure an offer, or price a listing, is the whole game, and the team can show you how specific blocks have actually traded before you commit.
What to Love About Bloomfield
Two Midtown Direct Stations in One Town
Bloomfield Station in the town center and the 1912 Watsessing Avenue Station at the south end both sit on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line, with weekday Midtown Direct trains reaching New York Penn Station in as little as about 30 minutes, plus the Newark Light Rail terminus at Grove Street and Garden State Parkway exits inside the township.
Olmsted Parks at Both Ends
The Olmsted Brothers designed 121-acre Brookdale Park on the Montclair border, with its rose garden and a stretch of the 36-mile Lenape Trail, and 69-acre Watsessing Park in the south, giving the township two signature county parks.
A Green Older Than the Township
The 4-acre Bloomfield Green anchors a 100-acre National Register historic district, where construction of the Presbyterian Church on the Green began in 1797 and the surrounding blocks still carry the town's oldest architecture.
A Downtown That Keeps Adding
A decade of redevelopment around Bloomfield Center has brought Avalon Bloomfield Station and The Green at Bloomfield beside the train, new storefronts along Broad Street and Bloomfield Avenue, and more projects in the pipeline near both stations.
Essex County Value With Momentum
The $668,000 median sale price sits well below Glen Ridge and Montclair, yet the market moved up 6.9 percent year over year, with the township's population growing 12 percent between the 2010 and 2020 censuses.
Housing for Every Chapter
Brookdale colonials and Tudors, center-of-town Victorians and two-families, Watsessing starter homes, garden condos from the $200,000s and newer townhouses near the train give buyers a ladder they can climb without leaving Bloomfield.
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Ask the teamBloomfield Neighborhoods and Property Types | A Buyer's Guide
Bloomfield runs about three miles north to south, and price, housing age and commute logistics shift noticeably along the way. Here is how buyers comparing Bloomfield NJ houses for sale should read the map.
Brookdale
Brookdale is the township's north end and its most Montclair-like pocket, built around Brookdale Park, Brookdale Elementary School and the Broad Street corridor toward the Clifton line. Colonials, Tudors and expanded capes from the early and mid 20th century dominate, and demand for Brookdale Bloomfield NJ homes for sale tracks the park: based on 2026 closed sales, most homes here trade between the low $500,000s and the mid $800,000s, with standouts higher, including an $858,000 sale on Benson Street in October 2026 that closed 28 percent over its list price.
Bloomfield Center and the Green
The middle of town pairs the township's oldest blocks with its newest buildings. Victorians and two-family houses ring the historic Green, while the blocks beside Bloomfield Station have filled in with transit-oriented buildings over the past decade. Single-family sales here generally run from the mid $500,000s into the low $700,000s, and the area adds housing types the rest of town lacks: newer townhouses, like a 2-bedroom on Farrand Street that sold for $701,000 in October 2026, and elevator-building condos.
Watsessing and the South End
Watsessing is Bloomfield's value story and arguably its best-connected corner: the 1912 Watsessing Avenue Station, listed on the state historic register, puts the south end on the same Midtown Direct line, with Watsessing Park's 69 Olmsted-designed acres alongside. Housing skews toward compact colonials, capes and two-families, and many 2026 sales have landed between the mid $400,000s and the low $600,000s. Developers noticed before buyers did; projects like Parkway Lofts and The Grove at One92 converted the area's old industrial land into hundreds of apartments.
Condos, Townhomes and New Rentals
Bloomfield NJ condos for sale cover an unusually wide band. Garden-complex one-bedrooms still trade in the high $200,000s, like a Hoover Avenue unit that sold for $280,000 in September 2026, two-bedroom co-ops and condos run through the $300,000s, and newer construction near the center reaches into the $500,000s. Renters and not-yet-buyers have the transit-oriented buildings, led by Avalon Bloomfield Station next to the train, which makes Bloomfield one of the few towns in the group where a household can rent, buy a condo and trade up to a Brookdale colonial without changing ZIP codes.
Houses for Sale in Bloomfield NJ
Homes the Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group has listed and sold in Bloomfield.
Living in Bloomfield | Dining, Shopping and Things to Do
Dining
Bloomfield's food scene runs on Broad Street. Stamna Taverna has been the town's Greek standard-bearer since 2008, known for grilled octopus and generous spreads, while Fanny's pours wine beside refined red-sauce Italian at the Brookdale end of the street. Holsten's, the ice cream parlor and candy shop operating since 1939, serves milkshakes in red vinyl booths and is known far beyond town as the setting of the final scene of The Sopranos.
Anthony's Cheesecake & Restaurant on Washington Street doubles as bakery and bistro, Town Pub pours and serves thin-crust pizza in a building dating to the late 1800s, the Nevada Diner holds down the classic Jersey diner role on Bloomfield Avenue, and Exquisito covers Latin American plates on Broad Street. The avenues add real range beyond that, from Filipino family-style at Max's Restaurant to Vietnamese at Binh Duong.
Shopping
Everyday retail concentrates in Bloomfield Center, where the blocks around Broad Street and Bloomfield Avenue mix longtime storefronts with newer ground-floor retail under the transit-oriented buildings, and along the Broad Street corridor through Brookdale, home to neighborhood bakeries like Gencarelli's. Downtown Montclair's boutique and restaurant row starts one town over, and Glen Ridge's small Ridgewood Avenue strip is minutes away, so most residents treat the three downtowns as one extended main street.
Outdoor Recreation and Things to Do
Two Olmsted Brothers parks bookend the township. Brookdale Park's 121 acres, 78 of them in Bloomfield, hold a formal rose garden, a running track, tennis courts, a dog park and a segment of the 36-mile Lenape Trail that links 18 Essex County parks. Watsessing Park's 69 acres follow the Second River through the south end with ballfields, a track and its own dog park. Between them, the Bloomfield Green has anchored civic life since the 1790s, with the Presbyterian Church on the Green, begun in 1797, presiding over a 100-acre National Register historic district.
The town's calendar runs through those spaces: county SummerMusic concerts and community events at Watsessing, conservancy plantings and track meets at Brookdale, and seasonal gatherings on the Green. For everything bigger, Manhattan is a direct train away and downtown Montclair's theaters and museums are next door.
Bloomfield Schools
Every Bloomfield address feeds the township-wide Bloomfield School District, which serves about 6,400 students across an early childhood center, eight K-to-6 elementary schools, Bloomfield Middle School for grades 7 and 8, and Bloomfield High School.
Public schools. The K-to-6 structure means children stay in neighborhood elementaries longer than in most districts, and the two north-side schools rate strongest with third parties: Oak View Elementary carries a 9 out of 10 GreatSchools rating and a past National Blue Ribbon recognition, and Brookdale Elementary rates 8 out of 10, with Demarest at 7. Bloomfield High School enrolls about 2,000 students with AP courses, a Gifted and Talented program and the Project Lead The Way engineering curriculum; it rates 4 out of 10 on GreatSchools and B+ on Niche, a spread worth reading alongside a visit rather than in place of one.
Nearby independent and higher education. Montclair Kimberley Academy, a PreK-to-12 independent school across three campuses, sits one town over in Montclair, and Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, part of the university since their 2023 merger, keeps its 12-acre quad on the blocks just north of the Green.
Bloomfield on the Map
- Within
- Essex County
- ZIP code
- 07003
Landmarks on the map
- Bloomfield College of Montclair State University
- Bloomfield Green
- Bloomfield High School
- Brookdale Park
- Presbyterian Church on the Green
- Watsessing Park
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Allison Ziefert Real Estate Group at Compass. Co-principals Allison Ziefert (NJ License 0999509) and Sarah "Ginge" Calhoun (NJ License 1650080)
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