Sales are surging and prices are rising in the New York suburbs

Clockwise from bottom left: 224 Bay Ave in Glen Ridge New Jersey, 43 Stanford Place in Glen Ridge New Jersey, 50 Half Moon Bay Drive in Croton-on-Hudson and 79 North Mountain Drive in Dobbs Ferry The 'burbs are back. Buyers in upstate New York and New Jersey are engaging in biddings wars to come away with suburban homes with easy access to Manhattan.