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If you are looking for a 'urban' area with good running/biking path, you might consider any of the towns close to the Saddle River County Park system, which includes a bike path which runs from Rochelle Park to Ridgewood with branches to Glen Rock and Fair Lawn.
It is completely safe to run/bike here, except that you cannot keep your car parked in any of the county owned lots after the park closes (1/2 hour after sunset). Cops may chase you out of the park completely after it is closed, but you won't get a ticket if your car isn't there.
The towns close to the park are:
Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus, Ridgewood.
Surely more expensive than Newark area, but as the other post said 'why on Earth would you want to live in/near Newark?'
Newark is not safe to run even during the day, let alone at night.
If you are really looking for URBAN, try Manhattan. If you can afford something near Central Park (between 5th and 8th ave, 59th st to 110 st), you can run on the major park roads pretty much any time, although I still wouldn't run there at night.
This said, you are going to PAY PAY PAY to live in Manhattan.
If you are looking for a 'urban' area with good running/biking path, you might consider any of the towns close to the Saddle River County Park system, which includes a bike path which runs from Rochelle Park to Ridgewood with branches to Glen Rock and Fair Lawn.
It is completely safe to run/bike here, except that you cannot keep your car parked in any of the county owned lots after the park closes (1/2 hour after sunset). Cops may chase you out of the park completely after it is closed, but you won't get a ticket if your car isn't there.
The towns close to the park are:
Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus, Ridgewood.
Surely more expensive than Newark area, but as the other post said 'why on Earth would you want to live in/near Newark?'
Newark is not safe to run even during the day, let alone at night.
If you are really looking for URBAN, try Manhattan. If you can afford something near Central Park (between 5th and 8th ave, 59th st to 110 st), you can run on the major park roads pretty much any time, although I still wouldn't run there at night.
This said, you are going to PAY PAY PAY to live in Manhattan.
FW
In case you didn't know the 'Newark area' includes areas such as South Orange, Maplewood, Livingston, Millburn...
People run around the track at Branch Brook Park but granted, it isn't everyone's cup of tea, HOWEVER, there are plenty of surrounding suburbs (not terribly far from Newark Penn or Manhattan. A with bike trails (such as South Mountain) that do not share Newark's mostly urban-lifestyle or crime rate
Jersey City and New Brunswick are good picks IMO
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