Maywood, N.J.: A Close-Knit Community With a Quaint Downtown
With its walkable streets and proximity to Manhattan, the borough is an appealing place to live. But good luck finding a house for sale this spring.
By Jill P. Capuzzo
March 10, 2021
Beata Piszczek has had some lucky breaks, starting in 1994 when she won Poland’s green card lottery, providing the ticket for her family to come to the United States, and again last year, when she landed her dream house in Maywood, N.J., just a block from the borough’s downtown.
Winning the visa lottery something Ms. Piszczek’s cousin advised her to apply for, though he didn’t manage to secure a slot for himself may have been pure luck, but getting the right house took a bit of doing. The work started in 2016, when Ms. Piszczek and her husband, Mirek, moved from their condo in Queens to a ranch house in Maywood, which they bought for $290,000. They spent four years renovating it before selling it last March for $625,000 and mov