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class="vector-toc-link" href="#2010_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>2010 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Economy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Top_employers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Top_employers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Top employers</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Theater_and_music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Theater and music</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theater_and_music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Music_festivals_and_concert_series" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music_festivals_and_concert_series"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2</span> <span>Music festivals and concert series</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music_festivals_and_concert_series-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Museums_and_zoos" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Museums_and_zoos"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Museums and zoos</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Museums_and_zoos-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Historic_districts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historic_districts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Historic districts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historic_districts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuisine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuisine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Cuisine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuisine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parks_and_recreation" class="vector-toc-list-item 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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Higher_education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Higher education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Higher_education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public_education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.2</span> <span>Public education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Charter_schools" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Charter_schools"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.3</span> <span>Charter schools</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Charter_schools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Private_education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Private_education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.4</span> <span>Private education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Private_education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Media</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Media-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Media subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Radio" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Radio</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newspapers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newspapers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Newspapers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newspapers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3</span> <span>Television</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Movies_filmed_in_Bridgeport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Movies_filmed_in_Bridgeport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.4</span> <span>Movies filmed in Bridgeport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Movies_filmed_in_Bridgeport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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Available in 90 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-90" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">90 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_(%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA)" title="بريدجبورت (كونيتيكت) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بريدجبورت (كونيتيكت)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricport_(Konnektikut)" title="Bricport (Konnektikut) – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Bricport (Konnektikut)" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA" title="بریدجپورت، کانتیکت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بریدجپورت، کانتیکت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F,_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F" title="ব্রিজপোর্ট, কানেটিকাট – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ব্রিজপোর্ট, কানেটিকাট" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Брыджпарт (Канектыкут) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Брыджпарт (Канектыкут)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82" title="Бриджпорт – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Бриджпорт" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(lungsod_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, Connecticut) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Bridgeport (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ch mw-list-item"><a href="https://ch.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Chamorro" lang="ch" hreflang="ch" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Chamoru" data-language-local-name="Chamorro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chamoru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B6%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%84_(%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84)" title="Μπρίτζπορτ (Κονέκτικατ) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μπρίτζπορτ (Κονέκτικατ)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Konektikuto)" title="Bridgeport (Konektikuto) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Bridgeport (Konektikuto)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA" title="بریجپورت، کنتیکت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بریجپورت، کنتیکت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%BE%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AA_(%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A9%D8%AA)" title="بريجپؤرت (کنتيکت) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="بريجپؤرت (کنتيکت)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%A7%80%ED%8F%AC%ED%8A%B8" title="브리지포트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="브리지포트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%BB%D6%83%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A9_(%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF)" title="Բրիջփորթ (Կոնեկտիկուտ) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բրիջփորթ (Կոնեկտիկուտ)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%92%27%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98" title="ברידג'פורט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ברידג'פורט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brid%C5%BEporta" title="Bridžporta – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bridžporta" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brid%C5%BEportas_(Konektikutas)" title="Bridžportas (Konektikutas) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bridžportas (Konektikutas)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D" title="ബ്രിഡ്ജ്പോർട്ട് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബ്രിഡ്ജ്പോർട്ട്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_(%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%9F)" title="ब्रिजपोर्ट (कनेटिकट) – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="ब्रिजपोर्ट (कनेटिकट)" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_(%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA)" title="بريدجبورت (كونيتيكت) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بريدجبورت (كونيتيكت)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_(%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA)" title="بریجپورت (کنتیکت) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="بریجپورت (کنتیکت)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F,_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%9F" title="ब्रिजपोर्ट, कनेक्टिकट – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="ब्रिजपोर्ट, कनेक्टिकट" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88_(%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%81%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E5%B7%9E)" title="ブリッジポート (コネチカット州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ブリッジポート (コネチカット州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC%D9%BE%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%AA" title="بریجپۆرت – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="بریجپۆرت" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%9F%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82)" title="Бриџпорт (Конектикат) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Бриџпорт (Конектикат)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport" title="Bridgeport – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Bridgeport" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D2%97%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриҗпорт (Коннектикут) – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Бриҗпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Бриджпорт (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%B9%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9" title="برج پورٹ، کنیکٹیکٹ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="برج پورٹ، کنیکٹیکٹ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Bridgeport, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_(Connecticut)" title="Bridgeport (Connecticut) – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Bridgeport (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Bridgeport, 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title="Official seal of Bridgeport"><img alt="Official seal of Bridgeport" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/100px-Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/150px-Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/200px-Seal_of_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png 2x" data-file-width="869" data-file-height="869" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Seal</div></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport,_Connecticut.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Official logo of Bridgeport"><img alt="Official logo of Bridgeport" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/100px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/150px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png/200px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.png 2x" data-file-width="495" data-file-height="102" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link"></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Nicknames: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname">The Park City, BPT<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Mottoes: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i>Industria Crecimus</i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>)</li> <li>"By industry we thrive" (English)</li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><div><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bridgeport's location within Fairfield County and Connecticut" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg/230px-Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg.png" decoding="async" width="230" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg/345px-Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg/460px-Fairfield_County_Connecticut_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="835" data-file-height="741" /></a></span><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none" data-switcher-default=""> <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield County</a> and Connecticut</span></div><div><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Greater_Bridgeport_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bridgeport's location within the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region and the state of Connecticut" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Greater_Bridgeport_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg/250px-Greater_Bridgeport_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Greater_Bridgeport_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg/375px-Greater_Bridgeport_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Bridgeport_highlighted.svg.png 1.5x, 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srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,3,40.712777777778,-74.006111111111,280x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut&revid=1257175228&groups=_f55aee70e656c3c1fb3b84f7d41bd04d959adf18 2x" alt="Map" /></a><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show the United States</span></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&params=41_11_11_N_73_11_44_W_region:US-CT_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°11′11″N</span> <span class="longitude">73°11′44″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.18639°N 73.19556°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.18639; -73.19556</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut">CT Metropolitan</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Metropolitan statistical area">MSA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Combined_statistical_area" title="Combined statistical area">CSA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (town)</th><td class="infobox-data">1821</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (city)</th><td class="infobox-data">1836</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">A drawbridge over the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mayor-council" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor-council">Mayor-council</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Ganim" title="Joe Ganim">Joseph P. Ganim</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Connecticut" title="List of municipalities in Connecticut">City</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">19.4 sq mi (50.2 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">16.0 sq mi (41.4 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">3.4 sq mi (8.8 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Urban<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">397.29 sq mi (1,029.0 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">3 ft (1 m)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-wwwcensusgov_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wwwcensusgov-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2020_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2020-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Connecticut" title="List of municipalities in Connecticut">City</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">148,654</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">US: <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population" title="List of United States cities by population">172nd</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">9,290.875/sq mi (3,587.228/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-urban_area_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-urban_area-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">916,408 (US: <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas" title="List of United States urban areas">51st</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Urban density</th><td class="infobox-data">2,306.6/sq mi (890.6/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">939,904 (US: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas">57th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bridgeporter</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">GDP<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Bridgeport (MSA)</th><td class="infobox-data">$104.368 billion (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Standard Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%924" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−4">UTC−4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Standard Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">06601–06602, 06604–06608, 06610, 06650, 06673, 06699<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_203_and_475" title="Area codes 203 and 475">203/475</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards" title="Federal Information Processing Standards">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">09-08000</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:205720">205720</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Airport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Sikorsky Memorial Airport</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major highways</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 95 in Connecticut"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/I-95.svg/25px-I-95.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/I-95.svg/38px-I-95.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/I-95.svg/50px-I-95.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_8" title="Connecticut Route 8"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Connecticut_Highway_8.svg/25px-Connecticut_Highway_8.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Connecticut_Highway_8.svg/38px-Connecticut_Highway_8.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Connecticut_Highway_8.svg/50px-Connecticut_Highway_8.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_25" title="Connecticut Route 25"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Connecticut_Highway_25.svg/25px-Connecticut_Highway_25.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Connecticut_Highway_25.svg/38px-Connecticut_Highway_25.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Connecticut_Highway_25.svg/50px-Connecticut_Highway_25.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commuter rail</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/25px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/38px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/50px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="672" data-file-height="280" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_Haven_Line" title="New Haven Line"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/MTA_NYC_logo.svg/25px-MTA_NYC_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/MTA_NYC_logo.svg/38px-MTA_NYC_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/MTA_NYC_logo.svg/50px-MTA_NYC_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="563" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Shore_Line_East" title="Shore Line East"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Hartford_Line_logo.svg/25px-Hartford_Line_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Hartford_Line_logo.svg/38px-Hartford_Line_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Hartford_Line_logo.svg/50px-Hartford_Line_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="230" data-file-height="220" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bridgeportct.gov/">bridgeportct<wbr />.gov</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bridgeport</b> is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Connecticut" title="List of municipalities in Connecticut">most populous city</a> in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_in_New_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities by population in New England">fifth-most populous city</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>, with a population of 148,654 in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2020_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2020-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Located in eastern <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield County</a> at the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a> on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a>, it is a port city 60 miles (97 km) from <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> and 40 miles (64 km) from <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a>. It borders the towns of <a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a> to the west, and <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a> to the east. Bridgeport and other towns in Fairfield County make up the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut">Greater Bridgeport Planning Region</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area</a>, the second largest <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Metropolitan statistical area">metropolitan area</a> in Connecticut. The Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolis forms part of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York metropolitan area</a>. </p><p>Inhabited by the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Hill_Paugussett_Indian_Nation" title="Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation">Paugussett</a> Native American tribe until English settlement in the 1600s, Bridgeport was incorporated in 1821 as a town, and as a city in 1836. Showman <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P. T. Barnum</a> was a resident of the city and served as the town's mayor (1871).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barnum built four houses in Bridgeport and housed his <a href="/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus" title="Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus">circus</a> in town during winter. The city in the early 20th century saw an <a href="/wiki/Economic_miracle" title="Economic miracle">economic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Population_growth" title="Population growth">population</a> boom, becoming by all measures Connecticut's chief <a href="/wiki/Industrial_city" title="Industrial city">manufacturing city</a> by 1905.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport was the site of the world's first <a href="/wiki/Telephone_exchange" title="Telephone exchange">mutual telephone exchange</a> (1877),<sup id="cite_ref-Popular_Science_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popular_Science-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first <a href="/wiki/Dental_hygienist" title="Dental hygienist">dental hygiene</a> <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">school</a> (1949),<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first <a href="/wiki/Telephone_banking" title="Telephone banking">bank telephone</a> <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Financial" title="People's United Financial">bill service in the US</a> (1981).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inventor <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Hubbell" title="Harvey Hubbell">Harvey Hubbell</a> II invented the <a href="/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets" title="AC power plugs and sockets">electric plug outlet</a> in Bridgeport in 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Frisbie_Pie_Company" title="Frisbie Pie Company">Frisbie Pie Company</a> was founded and operated in Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The world's first <a href="/wiki/Subway_(restaurant)" title="Subway (restaurant)">Subway</a> restaurant opened in the city's North End in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economic_restructuring" title="Economic restructuring">industrial restructuring</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suburbanization" title="Suburbanization">suburbanization</a> caused the loss of many large companies and affluent residents, leaving Bridgeport struggling with issues of poverty and violent crime.<sup id="cite_ref-auto4_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto4-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the beginning of the 21st century, Bridgeport has begun extensive <a href="/wiki/Redevelopment" title="Redevelopment">redevelopment</a> of its downtown and other neighborhoods. Bridgeport's crime rate started going down significantly around 2010; by 2018, it had been reduced by almost 50 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport is home to <a href="/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Connecticut" title="List of museums in Connecticut">three museums</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">University of Bridgeport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Community College">Housatonic Community College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paier_College" title="Paier College">Paier College</a>, and part of <a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_University" title="Sacred Heart University">Sacred Heart University</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut%27s_Beardsley_Zoo" title="Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo">state's only zoo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport is officially nicknamed "Park City", due to its 35 <a href="/wiki/Park" title="Park">public parks</a> taking up 1,300 acres, including two large ones. Although none are headquartered within the city itself, more than a dozen <a href="/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500">Fortune 500</a> companies are based in its <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">metropolitan area</a>, which it shares with <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a>. Bridgeport by various sites has been consistently ranked as among the 25 most ethnically and culturally diverse <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> cities.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="History of Bridgeport, Connecticut">History of Bridgeport, Connecticut</a></div> <p>Bridgeport was inhabited by the <a href="/wiki/Paugussett" class="mw-redirect" title="Paugussett">Paugussett</a> <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">native American</a> <a href="/wiki/Native_American_tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American tribes">tribe</a> during the start of <a href="/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="European colonization of the Americas">European colonization</a>. The earliest European communal settlement was in the <a href="/wiki/Stratfield_Historic_District" title="Stratfield Historic District">historical Stratfield district</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along US <a href="/wiki/Boston_Post_Road" title="Boston Post Road">Route 1</a>, known in colonial times as the King's Highway. Close by, <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Grove_Cemetery,_Bridgeport" title="Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport">Mount Grove Cemetery</a> was laid out on what was a native village that extended past the 1650s.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also an ancient <a href="/wiki/Paugusett" class="mw-redirect" title="Paugusett">Paugusett</a> burial ground. </p><p>The burgeoning farming community grew and became a center of trade, shipbuilding, and whaling. The town was incorporated to subsidize the <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Railroad" title="Housatonic Railroad">Housatonic Railroad</a> and rapidly industrialized following the rail line's connection to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_Haven_Railroad" title="New York and New Haven Railroad">New York and New Haven</a> railroad. The town was given its name because of the need for bridges over the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a> that provided a navigable port at the mouth of the river. Manufacturing was the mainstay of the local economy until the 1970s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonial_history">Colonial history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Colonial history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first documented <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">European</a> settlement within the present city limits of Bridgeport took place in 1644, centered at <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_Harbor" title="Black Rock Harbor">Black Rock Harbor</a> and along North Avenue between Park and Briarwood Avenues. The place was called <b>Pequonnock</b><sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Quiripi_language" title="Quiripi language">Quiripi</a> for "Cleared Land"), after a band of the <a href="/wiki/Paugussett" class="mw-redirect" title="Paugussett">Paugussett</a>, an Algonquian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> people who occupied this area. One of their sacred sites was Golden Hill, which overlooked the harbor and was the location of natural springs and their planting fields. (It has since been blasted through for construction of an <a href="/wiki/List_of_Interstate_Highways_in_Connecticut" title="List of Interstate Highways in Connecticut">expressway</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a14–16_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a14–16-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Americana_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Americana-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Golden Hill Indians were granted a <a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">reservation</a> here by the <a href="/wiki/English_overseas_possessions" title="English overseas possessions">Colony</a> of <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Colony" title="Connecticut Colony">Connecticut</a> in 1639; it lasted until 1802. (One of the tribes acquired land for a small reservation in the late 19th century that was recognized by the state. It is retained in the Town of <a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a>.) </p><p>In 1639, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ludlow" title="Roger Ludlow">Roger Ludlow</a>, deputy governor of the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Colony" title="Connecticut Colony">Connecticut Colony</a> was ordered by the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_General_Assembly" title="Connecticut General Assembly">colony's General Assembly</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a> to establish two plantations, one at Cupheg the mouth of the Housatonic River (today Stratford), and one at the harbor at the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a>, today's <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Harbor" title="Bridgeport Harbor">Bridgeport Harbor</a>. Ludlow disobeyed orders and instead established a settlement in Unconway (today's <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a>), probably due to fears of the large <a href="/wiki/Golden_Hill_Paugussett_Indian_Nation" title="Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation">Paugussett</a> settlement at Golden Hill, which was a sacred site of theirs, so it is believed that they perhaps instead settled in sparsely populated land surrounding the village.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1659, the general court in Hartford established the official borders of the Paugussett Reservation.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bridgeport's early years were marked by residents' reliance on <a href="/wiki/Fishing" title="Fishing">fishing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Farming" class="mw-redirect" title="Farming">farming</a>. This was similar to the economy of the Paugussett, who had cultivated <a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">corn</a>, beans, and squash; and fished and gathered shellfish from both the river and sound. A village called <b>Newfield</b> began to develop around the corner of State and Water streets in the 1760s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area officially became known as <b>Stratfield</b> in 1695<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 1701, due to its location between the already existing towns of <i>Strat</i>ford and Fair<i>field</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a470–474_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a470–474-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>, Newfield Harbor was a center of <a href="/wiki/Privateering" class="mw-redirect" title="Privateering">privateering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Americana_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Americana-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River,_by_Whitney,_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg/220px-East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg/330px-East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg/440px-East_Bridgeport_Bridge_over_Pequannock_River%2C_by_Whitney%2C_Beckwith_%26_Paradice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1124" data-file-height="1102" /></a><figcaption>East Bridgeport Bridge over Pequannock River, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1850</span></figcaption></figure> <p>By the time of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a> of <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>'s ratification of the <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> in 1781, many of the local farmers held shares in vessels trading at Newfield Harbor or had begun trading in their own name. Newfield initially expanded around the coasting trade with <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> and the international trade with the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a222–225_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a222–225-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The commercial activity of the village was clustered around the wharves on the west bank of the Pequonnock, while the churches were erected inland on Broad Street. In 1787, the Fairfield County Court ordered the laying out and widening of what is now State Street and Main Street in downtown Bridgeport, along the Pequannock River then Newfield. It was assumed before the Revolution that this land would grow into a city.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886aendpaper_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886aendpaper-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Bridgeport grew up without a plan, or in spite of one".</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Samuel Orcutt, <i>A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport</i> (1886), Chapter XIX</cite></div></blockquote> <p>In 1800, the village became the <a href="/wiki/Borough_(Connecticut)" title="Borough (Connecticut)">Borough</a> of Bridgeport,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first so <a href="/wiki/Incorporation_(business)" title="Incorporation (business)">incorporated</a> in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a588_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a588-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was named for the Newfield or Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, connecting the wharves on its east and west banks.<sup id="cite_ref-puslastac_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-puslastac-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport Bank was established in 1806.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a597_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a597-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1821, the <a href="/wiki/Townships_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Townships in the United States">township</a> of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1878_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1878-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Bridgeport,_1824.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg/220px-Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg/330px-Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg/440px-Map_of_Bridgeport%2C_1824.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2370" data-file-height="1918" /></a><figcaption>Map of Bridgeport, 1824</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1821, a small community of remaining <a href="/wiki/Golden_Hill_Paugussett_Indian_Nation" title="Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation">Golden Hill Pauguasett</a> Natives, along with <a href="/wiki/Free_Negro" title="Free Negro">free blacks</a> and runaway slaves was established in the South End along Main Street known as <a href="/wiki/Mary_and_Eliza_Freeman_Houses" title="Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses">Little Liberia</a>, with its own churches, schools and hotels, and served as a stop in the underground railroad. Many remaining <a href="/wiki/Golden_Hill_Paugussett_Indian_Nation" title="Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation">Paugusset Indians</a> also lived there.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The West India trade died down around 1840,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by that time the Bridgeport <a href="/wiki/History_of_steamship_lines" title="History of steamship lines">Steamship</a> Company (1824)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a610_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a610-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Bridgeport <a href="/wiki/History_of_whaling" title="History of whaling">Whaling</a> Company (1833) had been incorporated<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886a609-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Railroad" title="Housatonic Railroad">Housatonic Railroad</a> chartered (1836).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b695_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b695-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-choochoo_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-choochoo-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The HRRC ran upstate along the <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_River" title="Housatonic River">Housatonic Valley</a>, connecting with <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Berkshire Railroad">Berkshire Railroad</a> at the state line. Bridgeport was chartered as Connecticut's <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Connecticut">fifth city</a> in 1836<sup id="cite_ref-EB1878_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1878-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a37–38_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a37–38-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in order to enable the town council to secure funding (ultimately <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">$</a>150,000) to provide to the HRRC and ensure that it would terminate in Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b696_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b696-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_Railroad" title="Naugatuck Railroad">Naugatuck Railroad</a>—connecting Bridgeport to <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Winsted,_Connecticut" title="Winsted, Connecticut">Winsted</a> along the <a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_River" title="Naugatuck River">Naugatuck River</a>—was chartered in 1845 and began operation four years later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b698–699_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b698–699-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gochoochoo_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gochoochoo-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_Haven_Railroad" title="New York and New Haven Railroad">New York and New Haven Railroad</a> began operation,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b703_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrcutt1886b703-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> connecting Bridgeport to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> and the other towns along the north shore of the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a>. Now a major junction, the city began to industrialize. </p><p>The city's first immigrants were Irish Catholics who settled in the <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Hill_Historic_District_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="Sterling Hill Historic District (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">Sterling Hill</a> section of the <a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">Hollow</a>. Having come to the US to escape the <a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">famine</a>, they arrived in town during the 1830s to build the railroad. They mostly lived in wooden four to six family <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenements</a>, often subdivided homes. </p><p>In 1842, showman P.T. Barnum spent a night in Bridgeport, and there met <a href="/wiki/General_Tom_Thumb" title="General Tom Thumb">Charles Stratton</a>, a local <a href="/wiki/Midget" title="Midget">dwarf</a>. He soon became part of Barnum's act and a star under the name "<a href="/wiki/General_Tom_Thumb" title="General Tom Thumb">General Tom Thumb</a>". Barnum moved to Bridgeport and built four houses in the city over the course of his life, the first being <a href="/wiki/Iranistan" title="Iranistan">Iranistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iranistan,_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum,_1848.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg/220px-Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg/330px-Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg/440px-Iranistan%2C_Residence_of_P.T._Barnum%2C_1848.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3629" data-file-height="2567" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Iranistan" title="Iranistan">Iranistan</a>, the residence of <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P. T. Barnum</a>, in 1848</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1852, Barnum began an endeavor with <a href="/wiki/William_H._Noble" title="William H. Noble">William Noble</a> to develop the land (inherited by Noble) on the other side of the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a>, across the river from Bridgeport to be known as "<a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">East Bridgeport</a>" with Washington Park at the center.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new neighborhood had homes, commerce, and factories, centered around <a href="/wiki/East_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="East Main Street Historic District (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">East Main Street</a>. The neighborhood eventually became the East Side of Bridgeport (occasionally spelled "Eastside"). </p><p>In 1863, during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, the <i>Bridgeport Standard</i> ran a series of articles encouraging the creation of a public park in the city. This led wealthy residents <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P.T. Barnum</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_H._Noble" title="William H. Noble">William Noble</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Wheeler" title="Nathaniel Wheeler">Nathaniel Wheeler</a> to purchase the land on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> and donating the land to the city in 1864. The land on the shore became <a href="/wiki/Seaside_Park_(Connecticut)" title="Seaside Park (Connecticut)">Seaside Park</a>. A second park was built near East Main Street, when in 1878, James Beardsley donated more than 100 acres (40 ha) to the city along the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock</a> River under the condition that the land be "kept the same forever as a public park". Both parks were designed by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a>, known for creating <a href="/wiki/Central_Park" title="Central Park">Central Park</a>. These two large public parks gave Bridgeport the nickname "The Park City".<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">county's</a> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> seat, <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_Cathedral_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="St. Augustine Cathedral (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">St. Augustine Cathedral</a> was finished in 1869, built by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholics" title="Irish Catholics">Irish</a> who had arrived 30 year earlier. <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_Cathedral_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="St. Augustine Cathedral (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">Saint James Church</a>, predating the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Hartford" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford">Archdiocese of Hartford</a>, was the first Catholic congregation in Fairfield County, starting with 250 members in 1842. The congregation gave rise to St Augustine's in <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Hill_Historic_District_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="Sterling Hill Historic District (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">Sterling Hill</a>, the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Bridgeport" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport">Diocese of Bridgeport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, the town held several <a href="/wiki/Iron_founding" class="mw-redirect" title="Iron founding">iron foundries</a> and factories manufacturing <a href="/wiki/Firearm_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Firearm industry">firearms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Metallic_cartridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Metallic cartridge">metallic cartridges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horse_harness" title="Horse harness">horse harnesses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lock_(security_device)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lock (security device)">locks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Blinds" class="mw-redirect" title="Blinds">blinds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1878_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1878-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Wheeler_%26_Wilson" title="Wheeler & Wilson">Wheeler & Wilson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sewing_machine" title="Sewing machine">sewing machines</a> were exported throughout the world. Bridgeport absorbed the West End and the village of <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_(Bridgeport)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Rock (Bridgeport)">Black Rock</a> and its busy <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_Harbor" title="Black Rock Harbor">harbor</a> in 1870.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1875, <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P. T. Barnum</a> was elected mayor of the town, which afterwards served as the winter headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Barnum_and_Bailey%27s_Circus" class="mw-redirect" title="Barnum and Bailey's Circus">Barnum and Bailey's Circus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bill%27s_Wild_West_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show">Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barnum also helped establish <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Hospital" title="Bridgeport Hospital">Fairfield County's first hospital</a> (Conn.'s 3rd) and the <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_%26_Port_Jefferson_Ferry" title="Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry">Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry</a>, connecting the town to <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Hubbell" title="Harvey Hubbell">Harvey Hubbell</a> founded <a href="/wiki/Hubbell_Incorporated" title="Hubbell Incorporated">Hubbell Incorporated</a> in Bridgeport in 1888. The Holmes & Edwards Silver Co. was founded in 1882, its wares sold nationally, and the company became part of the <a href="/wiki/International_Silver_Company" title="International Silver Company">International Silver Company</a> in 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The H&E brand continued well into the 1950s and was advertised in national magazines such as <i>LIFE</i> and <i>Ladies' Home Journal</i>.)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Americans" title="Hungarian Americans">Hungarian</a> immigrants began to arrive, which led to the Ráckόczi Hungarian Aid Association in Bridgeport in 1887 and the American Hungarian Immigrant Aid Society in 1892.<sup id="cite_ref-auto8_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto8-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They established themselves in the West End. In 1894, Bridgeport's Slavic immigrants played a major role in the development of the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_in_America" title="Orthodox Church in America">Orthodox Christian faith in America</a> when they met with Fr <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Toth" title="Alexis Toth">Alexis Toth</a> (now Saint Alexis) and founded Holy Ghost Russian Orthodox Church in the city's Eastside. This parish became the mother church of all <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Churches</a> in New England. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1870 to 1910, Bridgeport became the largest industrial center in Connecticut; its population rose from around 25,000 to over 100,000, including thousands of <a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans" title="Irish Americans">Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovak_Americans" title="Slovak Americans">Slovaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Americans" title="Hungarian Americans">Hungarians</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Americans" title="German Americans">Germans</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_Americans" title="English Americans">English</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans" title="Italian Americans">Italian immigrants</a>. <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">Jewish</a> migration to the city began in the 1881, with an influx of <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland" title="History of the Jews in Poland">Polish</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia" title="History of the Jews in Russia">Russian</a>, and especially <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Hungary" title="History of the Jews in Hungary">Hungarian Jews</a> calling Bridgeport home. Bridgeport Jew <a href="/wiki/Edwin_H._Land" title="Edwin H. Land">Edwin Land</a> grew up to invent the <a href="/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation" title="Polaroid Corporation">Polaroid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waterfront_-2,_Bridgeport,_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Waterfront_-2%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_LCCN2007662016.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4542" data-file-height="708" /></a><figcaption>Bridgeport in 1913, today's downtown, before the city's first high rises</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1905, Bridgeport was already "the largest industrial center in the state, $49,381,348 was invested in <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing" title="Manufacturing">manufacturing</a> and the products being valued at $44,586,519." The city was a <a href="/wiki/Port_of_entry" title="Port of entry">port of entry</a> with its imports being valued at around $656,271 in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Singer_Manufacturing_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Singer Manufacturing Company">Singer</a> factory joined Wheeler & Wilson in producing sewing machines<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Locomobile_Company_of_America" title="Locomobile Company of America">Locomobile Company of America</a> was a prominent early <a href="/wiki/Automobile_manufacturer" class="mw-redirect" title="Automobile manufacturer">automobile manufacturer</a>, producing a prototype of the <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Steamer" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanley Steamer">Stanley Steamer</a> and various <a href="/wiki/Luxury_car" title="Luxury car">luxury cars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town was also the center of America's <a href="/wiki/Corset" title="Corset">corset</a> production, responsible for 19.9% of the national total,<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and became the headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Remington_Arms" title="Remington Arms">Remington Arms</a> following its 1912 merger with the <a href="/wiki/Union_Metallic_Cartridge_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Union Metallic Cartridge Co.">Union Metallic Cartridge Co.</a> Around the time of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, Bridgeport was also producing steam-fitting and heating apparatuses, brass goods, <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">phonographs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Typewriter" title="Typewriter">typewriters</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> milling machines, <a href="/wiki/Bra" title="Bra">brassieres</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saddle" title="Saddle">saddles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg/220px-PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg/330px-PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg/440px-PostcardBridgeportCTMainSt1912.jpg 2x" data-file-width="969" data-file-height="635" /></a><figcaption>1912 postcard showing Main Street in downtown Bridgeport</figcaption></figure> <p>Brideport's Italian immigrants settled in the "<a href="/wiki/Little_Italy_(Bridgeport)" title="Little Italy (Bridgeport)">Central End</a>", today's Little Italy, and the city was the 3rd most Italian in the state by 1910. Their newspapers were the weekly <i>La Tribuna de Connecticut</i> (1906–1908) and later <i>La Sentinella</i> (1920–1948)<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto7_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto7-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The West End along Wordin Avenue, known as "Hunktown", grew into one of the largest <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Americans" title="Hungarian Americans">Hungarian</a> communities in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-auto8_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto8-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was visited by Hungarian republicans trying to take down the <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a> monarchy, in order to garner support. The West Side nearby was home to <a href="/wiki/Slovene_Americans" title="Slovene Americans">Slovenians</a>, <a href="/wiki/French-Canadian_Americans" title="French-Canadian Americans">French-Canadians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Americans" title="Swedish Americans">Swedish immigrants</a>. By 1910 Bridgeport had grown into second largest city in Connecticut at 102,052, behind <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1910 and 1920, during World War I, the city's population exploded from 102,054 to 143,555, due to the city's role in the First World War.<sup id="cite_ref-auto6_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto6-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport had the largest factory in the world at the time, the new <a href="/wiki/Remington_Arms" title="Remington Arms">Remington Arms</a> plant on Boston Avenue (on the East Side). Built in 1915, it had 13 separate buildings, each of them 5 stories, connected by a long corridor half a mile long. The purpose of the building was to fulfil a company order from the <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Russian tzar</a> for a million rifles and 100 million rounds of ammunition. The construction site was protected by the <a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)" title="National Guard (United States)">National Guard</a> to prevent <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevik</a> arson. The factory by 1916 employed 16,000 people and led to the construction of "<a href="/wiki/Remington_City_Historic_District" title="Remington City Historic District">Remington City</a>" in the Mill Hill neighborhood, and "<a href="/wiki/Remington_Village_Historic_District" title="Remington Village Historic District">Remington Village</a>" in the East End, by <a href="/wiki/Remington_Arms" title="Remington Arms">Remington Arms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto6_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto6-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:General_Electric_Buildings,_Bridgeport,_Conn_(68450).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg/220px-General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg/330px-General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg/440px-General_Electric_Buildings%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2868450%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3298" data-file-height="2080" /></a><figcaption>The Remington Arms plant, bought by General Electric after the war</figcaption></figure> <p>In the summer of 1915, a series of <a href="/wiki/Labor_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor strike">strikes</a> imposed the <a href="/wiki/Eight-hour_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Eight-hour day">eight-hour day</a> on the town's factories; rather than moving business elsewhere, the success spread the eight-hour day throughout the <a href="/wiki/Northeast_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast United States">Northeast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to housing shortages in many US cities during World War I, the federal government created the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Housing_Corporation" title="United States Housing Corporation">US Housing Corporation</a>. This resulted in 7 USHC housing developments being built in Bridgeport, notably <a href="/wiki/Seaside_Village_Historic_District" title="Seaside Village Historic District">Seaside Village</a> in the South End and <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_Gardens_Historic_District" title="Black Rock Gardens Historic District">Black Rock Gardens</a> in <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock,_Bridgeport" title="Black Rock, Bridgeport">Black Rock</a>. By this point, <a href="/wiki/Remington_Arms" title="Remington Arms">Remington Arms</a> was producing 50% of America's cartridges during the war, with 17,000 employees, and homes for new workers were needed. The factory became a <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> plant after the war.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> had continued the city's expansion so that, on the eve of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, there were more than 500 factories in Bridgeport, including <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a>' primary <a href="/wiki/Record_press" title="Record press">pressing</a> plant and a Singer Sewing Machine factory.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1920s saw the city's population stabilize at 143,555 after the war.<sup id="cite_ref-Earliest_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earliest-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Roaring Twenties</a> brought more leisure and entertainment. In 1919, the city of Bridgeport bought <a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Beach" title="Pleasure Beach">Pleaseure Beach</a> (also known as Steepchase Island) for $220,000. Pleasure Beach was an <a href="/wiki/Amusement_park" title="Amusement park">amusement</a> park and <a href="/wiki/Beach" title="Beach">beach</a> on an island in the East End next to <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1920, the city parks commissioner began the process of creating a <a href="/wiki/Beardsley_Zoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Beardsley Zoo">zoo in Beardsley Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport a stop became for performances with around 20 theatres. 1922 was the year the elegantly designed <a href="/wiki/Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters" title="Palace and Majestic Theaters">Majestic and Poli Palace theatres</a>, were built downtown, along with the Savoy Hotel. The Poli Palace theatre (built by <a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Z._Poli" title="Sylvester Z. Poli">Sylvester Poli</a>) was the largest theatre in the state of Connecticut, with gilded hand-carved moldings and vaulted ceilings.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ritz_Ballroom,_Bridgeport" title="Ritz Ballroom, Bridgeport">Ritz Ballroom</a> was opened in 1923. In 1928, the city bought an 800-acre (320 ha) racetrack and landing field in <a href="/wiki/Lordship,_Connecticut" title="Lordship, Connecticut">Lordship</a> to construct <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Bridgeport Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spanish immigration in 1920 and 1921 brought hundreds of migrants from Spain, particularly from <a href="/wiki/Pedreguer" title="Pedreguer">Pedreguer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valencia" title="Valencia">Valencia</a>, where "practically the entire town migrated" to Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Birdseye_view_Main_Street,_Bridgeport,_Conn_(86165).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg/220px-Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg/330px-Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg/440px-Birdseye_view_Main_Street%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2886165%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3293" data-file-height="2085" /></a><figcaption>Birdseye view of Main Street</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street,_showing_Stratfield_Hotel,_Bridgeport,_Conn_(63193).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg/220px-Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg/330px-Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg/440px-Main_Street_and_Golden_Hill_Street%2C_showing_Stratfield_Hotel%2C_Bridgeport%2C_Conn_%2863193%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3275" data-file-height="2091" /></a><figcaption>Main Street and Golden Hill Street, showing Stratfield Hotel</figcaption></figure> <p>During the Great Depression the city elected <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America" title="Socialist Party of America">Socialist party</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Jasper_McLevy" title="Jasper McLevy">Jasper McLevy</a> as mayor in 1933. McLevy's election made headlines as a <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> city had a socialist mayor. Known for cutting costs, he would serve as mayor for 12 terms, finally losing in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a> led southern <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African-Americans</a> to Bridgeport around the 1930s (thanks to railroads)<sup id="cite_ref-auto5_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto5-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with black foreigners (such as <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Americans" title="Cape Verdean Americans">Cape Verdean</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-auto5_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto5-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1930, Bridgeport had the third largest percentage of African Americans in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans" title="Italian Americans">Italian</a> population by 1930 had more than doubled, now the city's largest ethnic group.<sup id="cite_ref-auto7_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto7-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The build-up to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> helped the city's recovery in the late 1930s. </p><p>Suburban development made its expansion into the undeveloped North End neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Park Avenue in 1962 the <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Museum_and_Planetarium" title="Discovery Museum and Planetarium">Museam of Art, Science and Industry</a> (MASI) was opened to the public, today's <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Museum_and_Planetarium" title="Discovery Museum and Planetarium">Discovery Museam and Planetarium</a>. Known for the newly developed approach of hands on-exhibits, the Museam became science oriented later on.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Continued development of new <a href="/wiki/Suburbanization" title="Suburbanization">suburban</a> housing outside of Bridgeport in the city's adjacent suburbs such as <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attracted middle and upper-class residents, leaving the city with a higher proportion of poor. By the 1960s, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans" title="Puerto Ricans">Puerto Ricans</a> had begun to immigrate to settle to Bridgeport in large numbers, and by about 1970 had made up 10% of the city's population, or 15,000 people, the largest Puerto Rican population in Connecticut, and they would continue to grow.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Groups such as the local <a href="/wiki/Young_Lords" title="Young Lords">Young Lords</a> branch organized themselves on <a href="/wiki/East_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="East Main Street Historic District (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">East Main Street</a>, leading to activism to advance the Puerto Rican community with increased access to health care, better housing, food and an end to poverty and police brutality. </p><p>As cities across the country were renovating their central business district after the war, Bridgeport attempted its own <a href="/wiki/Urban_renewal" title="Urban renewal">urban renewal</a> projects in its old <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_South_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown South Historic District">downtown</a> in the early 1960s during the construction of the highways. Hunktown, with a population of 15,000 and the Irish neighborhood in the South End were demolished and replaced with highways and an industrial park. The <a href="/wiki/Westfield_Trumbull" class="mw-redirect" title="Westfield Trumbull">Trumbull Shopping Park</a> was built just outside Bridgeport city limits in Trumbull in 1965, Connecticut's first fully enclosed shopping mall.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport under <a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Tedesco" title="Samuel J. Tedesco">Mayor Tedesco</a> went under the 52-acre (21 ha) State Street redevelopment project,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> demolishing 52 acres of State Street, clearing the land for development. Replaced with modern high-rise office buildings, parking, the Route 8/25 expressway towards <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a>, and a shopping mall at its core.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Large parts of Main Street were demolished in what was called the Congress Street Renewal project, nothing was built on the land. Constructed with federal funding, on Lafayette Boulevard and Broad Street, the 450,000 acre, 2 story (with basement) Lafayette Shopping Plaza was erected, a downtown <a href="/wiki/Shopping_mall" title="Shopping mall">shopping mall</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Sears" title="Sears">Sears</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Gimbels" title="Gimbels">Gimbels</a> department store as anchors connected to it.Military contracts during the 1950s and 1960s enabled the Bridgeport-Lycoming division of <a href="/wiki/Avco" title="Avco">AVCO</a>, founded 1951, to employ at times more than 12,000 people, building tanks, helicopters, and other military hardware. Decreased demand led to layoffs, and then closure in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-auto9_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto9-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other examples of urban development include two city landmarks, the 12-story 855 Main Street (People's Savings Bank building), and 18-floor <a href="/wiki/Park_City_Plaza" title="Park City Plaza">Park City Plaza</a>, (State National Bank building) built 1972. The plan for three identical towers never materialized, due to the <a href="/wiki/1973_oil_crisis" title="1973 oil crisis">Oil Crisis</a> and corporate vacancies. </p><p> Bridgeport was largely bypassed by the New York City companies fleeing Manhattan for suburban Fairfield County locations for various reasons; the city developed a reputation for having an industrial character thanks to the factories located right along both sides of Interstate 95, and the city's lack of urban amities and its reputation as a "blue collar" city simply wasn't the image these companies wanted to identify with in order to attract top executives, Bridgeport was being farther from New York City than <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a> or <a href="/wiki/White_Plains,_New_York" title="White Plains, New York">White Plains</a> with no immediate benefits, and the trend of establishing headquarters outside of major cities in suburban campuses all played a factor.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As such, most skyscraper construction models for downtown Bridgeport from the 70s were never built, unlike <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a> (a city already home to major insurance companies) or <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a>. Much of <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_North_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown North Historic District">north</a> downtown Bridgeport would end up abandoned, neglected and boarded up as <a href="/wiki/Department_store" title="Department store">department</a> and <a href="/wiki/Discount_store" title="Discount store">discount</a> stores closed, leaving only federal and municipal buildings along now empty lots.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_Station._Bridgeport,_Fairfield_Co.,_CT._Sec._9108,_MP_55.69._-_Northeast_Railroad_Corridor,_Amtrak_Route_between_New_York-Connecticut_and_Connecticut-Rhode_Island_HAER_CONN,5-NEWHA,37-40.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Bridgeport_Station._Bridgeport%2C_Fairfield_Co.%2C_CT._Sec._9108%2C_MP_55.69._-_Northeast_Railroad_Corridor%2C_Amtrak_Route_between_New_York-Connecticut_and_Connecticut-Rhode_Island_HAER_CONN%2C5-NEWHA%2C37-40.tif/lossy-page1-220px-thumbnail.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Bridgeport_Station._Bridgeport%2C_Fairfield_Co.%2C_CT._Sec._9108%2C_MP_55.69._-_Northeast_Railroad_Corridor%2C_Amtrak_Route_between_New_York-Connecticut_and_Connecticut-Rhode_Island_HAER_CONN%2C5-NEWHA%2C37-40.tif/lossy-page1-330px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Bridgeport_Station._Bridgeport%2C_Fairfield_Co.%2C_CT._Sec._9108%2C_MP_55.69._-_Northeast_Railroad_Corridor%2C_Amtrak_Route_between_New_York-Connecticut_and_Connecticut-Rhode_Island_HAER_CONN%2C5-NEWHA%2C37-40.tif/lossy-page1-440px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="3895" /></a><figcaption>The downtown Bridgeport area around 1977, facing the train station (which burned down the next year)</figcaption></figure> <p>Restructuring of heavy industry starting after the mid-20th century caused the loss of thousands of jobs and residents. Like other urban centers in Connecticut, Bridgeport suffered during the <a href="/wiki/Deindustrialization" title="Deindustrialization">deindustrialization</a> of the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pleasure Beach was sold 5 years after a rollercoaster caught fire. A year later the park closed for good.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The old Bridgeport station caught fire in 1978. </p><p>In September 1978, Bridgeport teachers went on a 19-day strike due to deadlocked contract negotiations. A court order, as well as a state law that made strikes by public workers illegal in Connecticut, resulted in 274 teachers being arrested and jailed.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 1978, a wave of arson passed through the city's <a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">East side</a>, with the fire chief calling it as a microcosm of "<a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">the Bronx</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city suffered from overall mismanagement, for which several city officials were convicted, contributing to the economic and social decline.<sup id="cite_ref-times_dc_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times_dc-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The once busy Lafayette Shopping Plaza began to lose customers after <a href="/wiki/Gimbels" title="Gimbels">Gimbel's</a> closed in 1984. Replaced with a <a href="/wiki/Read%27s_Department_Stores" title="Read's Department Stores">Read's store</a>, the mall was later bought by Hi-Ho Industries and renamed "Hi-Ho Mall", until it closed in 1993 and became <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Community College">Housatonic Community College</a> in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bridgeport remained the state's second city and as <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford's</a> population continued to shrink, Bridgeport became the largest city in Connecticut in 1974, with a population of 142,546.A 1981 <i>Times</i> article read; "Bridgeport... for years has suffered an image problem when compared with Hartford because of that city's role as state capital and as the site of a number of large corporations." Mayor <a href="/wiki/John_C._Mandanici" title="John C. Mandanici">Mandanici</a>'s response was "Hartford reported state sales taxes of $712.7 million, but Bridgeport yielded state sales taxes of $890.4 million. That's economic power, right?"<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1985, Bridgeport was still Connecticut's chief manufacturing center, its major industries including <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a>, Remington Shaver, <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Electric_Company" title="Bryant Electric Company">Bryant Electric</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Raybestos" title="Raybestos">Raybestos</a> plants. A <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times"><i>New York Times</i></a> in 1985 stated Bridgeport was the fifth largest banking center in New England, with five of the banks based Bridgeport having assets of more than $6 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-auto4_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto4-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest scissors, shear and surgical materials manufacturer in the world by 1946, Bridgeport-based <a href="/wiki/Acme_United_Corporation" title="Acme United Corporation">ACME Shear</a> closed its Bridgeport plant in 1996 due to mergers and acquisitions. The industrial operations relocated to <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_North_Carolina" title="Fremont, North Carolina">Fremont, North Carolina</a>. Between 1984 and 1989 the construction of the new $75 million headquarters for <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Financial" title="People's United Financial">People's United Bank</a>, the second largest bank in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>. The 10-story Connecticut National Bank building was demolished and replaced with the new 18-story <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Center" title="Bridgeport Center">Bridgeport Center</a> overlooking McLevy Square, and was designed by famous architect <a href="/wiki/Richard_Meier" title="Richard Meier">Richard Meier</a> and was meant to give the city a new icon<sup id="cite_ref-auto4_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto4-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bridgeport in 1989 had more homicides per capita than any Northeastern US city over 100,000 people. Bridgeport had a smaller police force than smaller cities like Hartford or New Haven, yet hiring due to city financial issues, having not recovered from the exodus of manufacturing companies, would result in even higher taxes for residents.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto9_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto9-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city in 1995 saw a serious reduction in violent crime, notably in its East Side, where crime rate fell by nearly half, homicides dropped, burglaries by 3/4s and stolen car thefts by more than half, among other stats, as the Phoenix Project led to barricading city streets, confusing out of town drug buyers, and preventing sellers to escape.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991, the city filed for <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a> protection but was declared solvent by a federal court.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that same year, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="List of mayors of Bridgeport, Connecticut">Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Mary_C._Moran" title="Mary C. Moran">Mary C. Moran</a> lost the election to <a href="/wiki/Joe_Ganim" title="Joe Ganim">Joseph Ganim</a>, at 33 years old, the youngest person to hold that office.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and under him the city was able to begin redevelopment with the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Total_Mortgage_Arena" title="Total Mortgage Arena">Arena at Harbor Yard</a> and the <a href="/wiki/The_Ballpark_at_Harbor_Yard" title="The Ballpark at Harbor Yard">Ballpark at Harbor Yard</a>. </p><p>Bridgeport made numerous efforts at revitalization. In a proposal in 1995, <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a> developer <a href="/wiki/Steve_Wynn" title="Steve Wynn">Steve Wynn</a> was to build a large <a href="/wiki/Casino" title="Casino">casino</a>, but that project failed due to traffic concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The project was opposed as rival <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> feared a Bridgeport casino would harm his <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City</a> properties and proposed to build a theme park and potential casino on the same site.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>New waves of migrants from places such as <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Americans" title="Brazilian Americans">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_Americans" title="Vietnamese Americans">Jamaica, Vietnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laotian_Americans" title="Laotian Americans">Laos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Americans" title="Mexican Americans">Cambodia, Mexico</a>, and other nations arrived in Bridgeport. Immigrants from Brazil, after the nation's inflation crisis, established themselves in the city due to the large <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Americans" title="Portuguese Americans">Portuguese</a> population already present, easing the language barrier. Bridgeport was a common second US destination for <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_Americans" title="Vietnamese Americans">Vietnamese</a> refugees "There's already an established community here, so that's why they come," from the New York Times in 1996. Along with them, <a href="/wiki/Thai_Americans" title="Thai Americans">Thai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korean_Americans" title="Korean Americans">Koreans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Americans" title="Chinese Americans">Chinese</a>, and especially <a href="/wiki/Laotian_Americans" title="Laotian Americans">Laotians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Americans" title="Cambodian Americans">Cambodians</a> established themselves in the city. Laotians refugees settled in the West End opening businesses <sup id="cite_ref-auto10_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto10-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport's <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Americans" title="Mexican Americans">Mexican</a> population grew gradually, from 24 people counted in 1970,<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 599 people in 1990, to 2,687 by the 2000 census, becoming at that point the second largest <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Latino</a> group in the city behind the city's <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans" title="Puerto Ricans">Puerto Ricans</a> (31,117 people), surpassing the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Americans" title="Cuban Americans">Cuban</a> population. Likewise, the population from other Central and South American nations continued to increase<sup id="cite_ref-:2_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the Cuban population continued to decrease.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "There has been a big shift in ethnic groups. Just look at the restaurants that have opened in the last few years—Mexican, Brazilian, Chilean and Jamaican." an interviewee, local chamber of council president Paul Timpanelli stated in 2000 according to the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Post" title="Connecticut Post">Connecticut Post</a>. </p><p>In 1999, city-owned <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Sikorsky Memorial Airport</a> ceased <a href="/wiki/Regional_airline" title="Regional airline">its commercial regional flight</a> offerings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg/220px-Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg/330px-Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg/440px-Bridgeport_101_0153small.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption>Street scene in downtown Bridgeport, intersection of State and Main St.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2003, Mayor Ganim was involved in a corruption scandal after being investigated by the FBI as he received gifts from developers in exchange for being allowed to build in Bridgeport. He was sentenced to federal prison, and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/John_M._Fabrizi" title="John M. Fabrizi">John Fabrizi</a>. </p><p>In the early 21st century, Bridgeport has taken steps toward redevelopment of its downtown and other neighborhoods. In 2004, artists' lofts were developed in the former <a href="/wiki/Read%27s_Department_Store" class="mw-redirect" title="Read's Department Store">Read's Department Store</a> on Broad Street. Several other rental conversions have been completed, including the 117-unit Citytrust bank building on Main Street. The <a href="/wiki/2008_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 recession">recession</a> halted, at least temporarily, two major mixed-use projects including a $1-billion waterfront development at Steel Point, but other redevelopment projects have proceeded, such as the condominium conversion project in Bijou Square.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the City Council under <a href="/wiki/Bill_Finch_(politician)" title="Bill Finch (politician)">Mayor Finch</a> approved a new master plan for development, designed both to promote redevelopment in selected areas and to protect existing residential neighborhoods.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan was updated in April 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, the Bridgeport Housing Authority and a local health center announced plans to build a $20 million medical and housing complex at Albion Street, making use of federal stimulus funds and designed to replace some of the housing lost with the demolition of <a href="/wiki/Father_Panik_Village" title="Father Panik Village">Father Panik Village</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Steel Point (or Steelpointe) project of Bridgeport's on the lower portion of the East Side finally led to the construction of a big box retailer in 2013, along with other stores, shops, and a lighthouse with a marina and oyster bar). The plan for high-end mixed use apartments is in place, although concerns about <a href="/wiki/Gentrification" title="Gentrification">gentrification</a> have been raised. A hotel is also in the works.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Barnum_station" title="Barnum station">new proposed train station</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">East Bridgeport</a>, meant to be completed in 2021, was postponed in 2019. </p><p>By 2013 the city and local business owners agreed that work needed to be done in the downtown area north of Fairfield Avenue, nicknamed <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_North_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown North Historic District">Downtown North</a>, above. Made up of old empty brick buildings which were neglected for years, the city and developers began their rehabilitation starting in 2015, most of which are now converted apartments or retail.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport's downtown renovation has resulted in various restaurants, the renovation of the <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Block-Bishop_Arcade" title="Sterling Block-Bishop Arcade">Bishop Arcade Mall</a>, a <a href="/wiki/The_Stress_Factory" title="The Stress Factory">comedy club</a>, and theatres. A 2022 plan to renovate <a href="/wiki/McLevy_Hall" title="McLevy Hall">McLevy Hall</a> is in place.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg/220px-BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg/330px-BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg/440px-BridgeportCT_SterlingBlockBishopArcade_Inside.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption>Sterling Block-Bishop Arcade, a Victorian-era <a href="/wiki/Arcade_(architecture)" title="Arcade (architecture)">shopping arcade</a>, Main St., downtown</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2017, <a href="/wiki/MGM_Resorts_International" title="MGM Resorts International">MGM</a> had announced plans to build a waterfront casino and shopping center in the city, awaiting approval by the state government. If built, the development would have created 2,000 permanent jobs and about 5,779 temporary jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a legal battle with the <a href="/wiki/Mohegan" title="Mohegan">Mohegan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pequots" title="Pequots">Pequot</a> tribes on the right to build a casino in Connecticut, the project "appears to be dead", and tenants such as Bridgeport Boatworks now occupy the proposed space.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The construction of Honey Locust Square began on the East End, which when complete will house a supermarket (something the neighborhood lacks), a public library, a health center, and a retail building.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_speeches">Notable speeches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notable speeches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On March 10, 1860, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> spoke in the city's Washington Hall, an auditorium at the old <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_City_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridgeport City Hall">Bridgeport City Hall</a> (now McLevy Hall), at the corner of State and Broad Streets. The largest room in the city was packed, and a crowd formed outside, as well. Lincoln received a standing ovation before taking the 9:07 pm train that night back to Manhattan.<sup id="cite_ref-burr_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burr-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A plaque marks the site where Lincoln spoke; later that year, he was elected president. </p><p>The Rev. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> spoke three times at the Klein Auditorium during the 1960s, as well as at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">University of Bridgeport</a> and the original Central High School (today Bridgeport City <a href="/wiki/Central_High_School_(Connecticut)" title="Central High School (Connecticut)">Hall</a>)., as well as in Bridgeport City Hall. Additionally, President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> spoke before a small group of Connecticut business people and officials at the Playhouse on the Green in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> also spoke at the Harbor Yard arena in 2010 to gain support for the campaign of Democratic Governor <a href="/wiki/Dan_Malloy" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Malloy">Dan Malloy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline_of_notable_first_and_inventions">Timeline of notable first and inventions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Timeline of notable first and inventions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1896 – The <a href="/wiki/Pull_switch" title="Pull switch">chain socket</a> was invented in Bridgeport</li> <li>1904 – The <a href="/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets" title="AC power plugs and sockets">AC plug outlet</a> was also invented in Bridgeport by <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Hubbell" title="Harvey Hubbell">Harvey Hubbell</a></li> <li>1877 – The world's first <a href="/wiki/Telephone_exchange" title="Telephone exchange">telephone exchange</a> was established in Bridgeport by the <a href="/wiki/Frontier_Communications_of_Connecticut" title="Frontier Communications of Connecticut">District Telephone Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first commercial phone exchange was opened in nearby <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> two years later.<sup id="cite_ref-Popular_Science_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popular_Science-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1903 – German immigrant <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead" title="Gustave Whitehead">Gustave Whitehead</a> claimed to have flown the first airplane in Bridgeport two years before the <a href="/wiki/Wright_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wright Brothers">Wright Brothers</a>, confirmed in the <i><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Post" title="Connecticut Post">Bridgeport Post</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1914 – <a href="/wiki/Caresse_Crosby" title="Caresse Crosby">Caresse Crosby</a>, the woman credited with inventing the modern bra, sold her patent to Bridgeport-based <a href="/wiki/Warnaco_Group" title="Warnaco Group">Warnaco</a> which mass-produced it for the first time. The alphabet <a href="/wiki/Bra_size" title="Bra size">bra sizing</a> system was invented, which we still use today, in 1937 by the Bridgeport company.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1949 – The first <a href="/wiki/Dental_school" title="Dental school">dental school</a> was founded in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">University of Bridgeport</a><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1920 – The <a href="/wiki/Frisbie_Pie_Company" title="Frisbie Pie Company">Frisbie Pie Company</a> was founded in Bridgeport in 1871.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_126-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1949 – The first daily <a href="/wiki/UHF_television_broadcasting" title="UHF television broadcasting">UHF</a> television station, <a href="/wiki/KC2XAK" title="KC2XAK">KC2XAK</a> aired in Bridgeport. It was a test conducted by <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> and was known as "<a href="/wiki/KC2XAK" title="KC2XAK">Operation Bridgeport</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-auto_126-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1965 – The first <a href="/wiki/Subway_(restaurant)" title="Subway (restaurant)">Subway</a> restaurant was founded in Bridgeport. Student <a href="/wiki/Fred_DeLuca" title="Fred DeLuca">Fred DeLuca</a> needed money to attend college, and with the help of <a href="/wiki/Peter_Buck_(restaurateur)" title="Peter Buck (restaurateur)">Peter Buck</a> started "Pete's Subs". Renamed Subway, the franchise grew into one of the largest fast food chains in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1981 – The first telephone banking service in the United States was provided by <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Financial" title="People's United Financial">People's Bank</a> to its clients.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Geography of Bridgeport, Connecticut">Geography of Bridgeport, Connecticut</a></div> <p>Bridgeport lies along <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> at the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neighborhoods">Neighborhoods</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Neighborhoods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood,_Bridgeport.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg/220px-North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg/330px-North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg/440px-North_Avenue_facing_south_towards_the_Hollow_neighborhood%2C_Bridgeport.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>The Hollow neighborhood of Bridgeport, Connecticut, along North Avenue</figcaption></figure> <p>Bridgeport has many distinct neighborhoods,<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> divided into five geographic areas: Downtown, the East Side, the North End, the South End, and the West Side.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png/220px-Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png/330px-Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png/440px-Bridgeport_neighborhood_map_with_labels.png 2x" data-file-width="1896" data-file-height="2374" /></a><figcaption>Neighborhoods of Bridgeport</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Downtown</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/McLevy_Hall" title="McLevy Hall">McLevy Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_South_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown South Historic District">Downtown South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_North_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown North Historic District">Downtown North</a></li></ul></li> <li><b>The Hollow</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">The Hollow</a></li> <li>Enterprise Zone</li></ul></li> <li><b>East Side</b> <ul><li>Steel Point</li> <li>Lower East Side/East Side</li> <li>Upper East Side/ North Bridgeport</li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>East End</b> </p> <ul><li><ul><li>Boston Avenue/Mill Hill</li> <li>East End</li> <li>Newfield</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Beach" title="Pleasure Beach">Pleasure Beach</a></li></ul></li> <li><b>North End</b> <ul><li>Lake Forest</li> <li>Lake Success</li> <li>Reservoir/Whiskey Hill</li> <li>Old Town Road</li></ul></li> <li><b>Brooklawn/St. Vincent</b> <ul><li>Central End/<a href="/wiki/Little_Italy_(Bridgeport)" title="Little Italy (Bridgeport)">Little Italy</a></li> <li>Brooklawn</li></ul></li> <li><b>South End</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seaside_Park_(Connecticut)" title="Seaside Park (Connecticut)">Seaside Park</a></li> <li>Soundgate</li></ul></li> <li><b>West Side</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Rock,_Bridgeport" title="Black Rock, Bridgeport">Black Rock</a></li> <li>West Side</li> <li>West End</li></ul></li> <li><b>Black Rock </b> <ul><li>St. Mary's by the Sea</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg/220px-Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg/330px-Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg/440px-Yellow_Mill_Bridge_Bridgeport_jeh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3753" data-file-height="2110" /></a><figcaption>Yellow Mill Bridge</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>, Bridgeport straddles the <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<i>Cfa</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Humid_continental_climate" title="Humid continental climate">humid continental climate</a> (<i>Dfa</i>) zones with long, hot summers, and cool to cold winters, with precipitation spread fairly evenly throughout the year. Bridgeport, like the rest of coastal Connecticut, lies in the broad transition zone between the colder continental climates of the northern United States and southern Canada to the north, and the warmer temperate and subtropical climates of the middle and <a href="/wiki/South_Atlantic_states" title="South Atlantic states">south Atlantic states</a> to the south. </p><p>The warm/hot season in Bridgeport is from mid-April through early November. Late day thundershowers are common in the hottest months (June, July, August, September), despite the mostly sunny skies. The cool/cold season is from late November though mid March. Winter weather is far more variable than summer weather along the Connecticut coast, ranging from sunny days with higher temperatures to cold and blustery conditions with occasional snow. Like much of the Connecticut coast and nearby Long Island, NY, most of the winter precipitation is rain or a mix and rain and wet snow in Bridgeport. Bridgeport averages about 29 inches (75 cm) of snow annually, compared to inland areas like <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany</a> which average 45–60 inches (110–150 cm) of snow annually. </p><p>Although infrequent, <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclones" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical cyclones">tropical cyclones</a> (hurricanes/tropical storms) have struck Connecticut and the Bridgeport metropolitan area. Hurricane landfalls have occurred along the Connecticut coast in 1903, 1938, 1944, 1954 (Carol), 1960 (Donna), <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Gloria" title="Hurricane Gloria">Hurricane Gloria</a> in 1985, and <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy" title="Hurricane Sandy">Hurricane Sandy</a> in 2012. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monthly_Climate_Normals_(1991-2020)_-_Bridgeport_Area,_CT(ThreadEx).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg/220px-Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg/330px-Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg/440px-Monthly_Climate_Normals_%281991-2020%29_-_Bridgeport_Area%2C_CT%28ThreadEx%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="558" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption>Climate chart for Bridgeport</figcaption></figure> <p>Bridgeport lies in <a href="/wiki/USDA" class="mw-redirect" title="USDA">USDA</a> garden <a href="/wiki/Hardiness_zone" title="Hardiness zone">hardiness zone</a> 7a, averaging about 92 days annually with freeze. The coastal location of Bridgeport allows it to be milder than locations well south but inland. For example, the record coldest low temperature at <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> is -8 F, while the record coldest at Bridgeport is -7 F. Coastal Connecticut is the broad transition zone where so-called "subtropical indicator" plants such as <a href="/wiki/List_of_cold_hardy_palms" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cold hardy palms">cold hardy palms</a> and other broadleaf evergreens can successfully be cultivated. As such, Southern Magnolias, <a href="/wiki/Needle_Palm" class="mw-redirect" title="Needle Palm">Needle Palms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windmill_palm" class="mw-redirect" title="Windmill palm">Windmill palm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loblolly_Pine" class="mw-redirect" title="Loblolly Pine">Loblolly Pines</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Crape_Myrtle" class="mw-redirect" title="Crape Myrtle">Crape Myrtles</a> are grown in private and public gardens. Like much of coastal Connecticut, <a href="/wiki/Long_Island,_NY" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Island, NY">Long Island, NY</a>, and coastal <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, the growing season is rather long in Bridgeport—averaging 210 days from April<span class="nowrap"> </span>8 to November<span class="nowrap"> </span>5 according to the National Weather Service in Bridgeport. </p><p>The average monthly temperature ranges from 31.4 °F (−0.3 °C) in January to 75.7 °F (24.3 °C) in July. The record low is −7 °F (−22 °C), set on January 22, 1984, while the record high is 103 °F (39 °C), set on July 22 in 1957 and 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Precipitation averages 44.9 inches (1,140 mm) annually, and is somewhat evenly distributed throughout the year, with March and April the wettest months. Annual snowfall averages 33.6 inches (85 cm), falling almost entirely from December to March. As is typical of coastal Connecticut, snow cover does not usually last long, with an average of 33 days per winter with snow cover of at least 1 inch (2.5 cm). </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Bridgeport, Connecticut (<a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Sikorsky Airport</a>), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1948–present </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69<br />(21) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68<br />(20) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF3A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91<br />(33) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FF1100; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">103<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">99<br />(37) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FF1100; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">103<br />(39) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFBF80; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.7<br />(13.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.3<br />(12.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFA042; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.8<br />(18.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.4<br />(24.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85.1<br />(29.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF3D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">90.7<br />(32.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF3100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93.8<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91.5<br />(33.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.2<br />(30.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78.1<br />(25.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF942A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.9<br />(19.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.7<br />(15.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF2B00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">95.4<br />(35.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38.4<br />(3.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFFDFC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.5<br />(4.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.4<br />(8.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFB973; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.3<br />(14.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.4<br />(20.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.7<br />(25.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83.4<br />(28.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF5F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.9<br />(27.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75.4<br />(24.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.4<br />(18.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.6<br />(12.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFF0E2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.8<br />(6.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFAE5D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">61.1<br />(16.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #E5E5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.4<br />(−0.3) </td> <td style="background: #E9E9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.1<br />(0.6) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.3<br />(4.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.0<br />(10.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.0<br />(15.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69.6<br />(20.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF7600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75.7<br />(24.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.5<br />(23.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF952C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.6<br />(19.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFC081; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.4<br />(13.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.0<br />(7.8) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.0<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC99; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">53.4<br />(11.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #D0D0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.4<br />(−4.2) </td> <td style="background: #D3D3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.7<br />(−3.5) </td> <td style="background: #E7E7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.3<br />(0.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFF8F2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.7<br />(5.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.7<br />(10.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.5<br />(16.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF942A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.9<br />(19.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.0<br />(19.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.8<br />(15.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.3<br />(9.1) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38.4<br />(3.6) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.2<br />(−1.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE9D4; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">45.7<br />(7.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #9A9AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(−14.1) </td> <td style="background: #A4A4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9<br />(−12.3) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.6<br />(−8.0) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.4<br />(−0.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFFCF9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.8<br />(4.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.8<br />(9.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.1<br />(15.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFBE7E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.9<br />(13.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE7D0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.2<br />(7.9) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.2<br />(1.2) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.9<br />(−4.5) </td> <td style="background: #B5B5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.6<br />(−9.1) </td> <td style="background: #9494FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">4.6<br />(−15.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #6F6FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−7<br />(−22) </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6<br />(−21) </td> <td style="background: #9090FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4<br />(−16) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18<br />(−8) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(−1) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(−3) </td> <td style="background: #ABABFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13<br />(−11) </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4<br />(−20) </td> <td style="background: #6F6FFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−7<br />(−22) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #86FF86; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.18<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #7DFF7D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.12<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #64FF64; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.09<br />(104) </td> <td style="background: #5BFF5B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.16<br />(106) </td> <td style="background: #77FF77; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.58<br />(91) </td> <td style="background: #6BFF6B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.77<br />(96) </td> <td style="background: #81FF81; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.32<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #68FF68; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.98<br />(101) </td> <td style="background: #63FF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.96<br />(101) </td> <td style="background: #6CFF6C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.84<br />(98) </td> <td style="background: #85FF85; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.11<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #68FF68; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.98<br />(101) </td> <td style="background: #71FF71; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">44.09<br />(1,120) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall inches (cm) </th> <td style="background: #0000B6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">8.5<br />(22) </td> <td style="background: #000044; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">10.7<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #0000F1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">7.0<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(2.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(0.25) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(2.3) </td> <td style="background: #2E2EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">5.5<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #9393FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">33.6<br />(85) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.01 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #7272FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4 </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #6D6DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.4 </td> <td style="background: #6969FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1 </td> <td style="background: #7070FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #9191FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.9 </td> <td style="background: #8D8DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.2 </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.2 </td> <td style="background: #8484FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9 </td> <td style="background: #8787FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.4 </td> <td style="background: #7171FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5 </td> <td style="background: #7C7CFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">124.7 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.1 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #C7C7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.5 </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.2 </td> <td style="background: #DEDEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6 </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1 </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4 </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.9 </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.8 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0202FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">66.1 </td> <td style="background: #0303FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65.8 </td> <td style="background: #0202FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65.9 </td> <td style="background: #0A0AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">63.9 </td> <td style="background: #0000F1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70.2 </td> <td style="background: #0000E4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000E6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73.0 </td> <td style="background: #0000E3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73.9 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.1 </td> <td style="background: #0000F1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70.3 </td> <td style="background: #0000F1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70.2 </td> <td style="background: #0000F3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">69.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000F3; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">69.7 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Dew_point" title="Dew point">dew point</a> °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #BCBCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.0<br />(−7.8) </td> <td style="background: #BEBEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.7<br />(−7.4) </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.4<br />(−3.1) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.3<br />(1.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE5CC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.8<br />(8.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC7A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.4<br />(14.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.1<br />(17.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.5<br />(17.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.2<br />(14.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.9<br />(7.7) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.0<br />(2.2) </td> <td style="background: #D0D0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.6<br />(−4.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">41.0<br />(5.0) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: NOAA<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_133-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_KBDR_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA_KBDR-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-noaahumidity_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahumidity-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Notice plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width:100%;margin:0;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><small>See or edit <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/data:Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/Bridgeport,_Connecticut.tab" class="extiw" title="commons:data:Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/Bridgeport, Connecticut.tab">raw graph data</a>.</small> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Connecticut locations by per capita income">List of Connecticut locations by per capita income</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1810_United_States_census" title="1810 United States census">1810</a></th><td>1,089</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1820_United_States_census" title="1820 United States census">1820</a></th><td>1,500</td><td></td><td>37.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1830_United_States_census" title="1830 United States census">1830</a></th><td>2,800</td><td></td><td>86.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1840_United_States_census" title="1840 United States census">1840</a></th><td>3,294</td><td></td><td>17.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>7,560</td><td></td><td>129.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>13,299</td><td></td><td>75.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>18,969</td><td></td><td>42.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>27,643</td><td></td><td>45.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>48,866</td><td></td><td>76.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>70,996</td><td></td><td>45.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>102,054</td><td></td><td>43.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>143,555</td><td></td><td>40.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>146,716</td><td></td><td>2.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>147,121</td><td></td><td>0.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>158,709</td><td></td><td>7.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>156,748</td><td></td><td>−1.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>156,542</td><td></td><td>−0.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>142,546</td><td></td><td>−8.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>141,686</td><td></td><td>−0.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>139,529</td><td></td><td>−1.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>144,229</td><td></td><td>3.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>148,654</td><td></td><td>3.1%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">Population 1840–1970<sup id="cite_ref-Earliest_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earliest-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />2018 Estimate<sup id="cite_ref-2018_Pop_Estimate_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2018_Pop_Estimate-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <caption><b>Bridgeport, Connecticut – Racial and ethnic composition</b><br /><small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><i>Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.</i></span></small> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race / Ethnicity <small>(<i>NH = Non-Hispanic</i>)</small> </th> <th>Pop 2000<sup id="cite_ref-2000CensusP004_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CensusP004-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Pop 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Pop 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>% 2000 </th> <th>% 2010 </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">% 2020 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino whites">White</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>43,158 </td> <td>32,794 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">24,404 </td> <td>30.93% </td> <td>22.74% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">16.42% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_African_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans">Black or African American</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>40,974 </td> <td>46,472 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">48,690 </td> <td>29.37% </td> <td>32.22% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">32.75% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native">Alaska Native</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>352 </td> <td>286 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">228 </td> <td>0.25% </td> <td>0.20% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>4,459 </td> <td>4,781 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">4,024 </td> <td>3.20% </td> <td>3.31% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2.71% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>102 </td> <td>66 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">31 </td> <td>0.07% </td> <td>0.05% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.02% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States census">Some Other Race</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>1,218 </td> <td>1,930 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2,938 </td> <td>0.87% </td> <td>1.34% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1.98% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed Race or Multi-Racial</a> (NH) </td> <td>4,788 </td> <td>2,800 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">5,486 </td> <td>3.43% </td> <td>1.94% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">3.69% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (any race) </td> <td>44,478 </td> <td>55,100 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">62,853 </td> <td>31.88% </td> <td>38.20% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">42.28% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>139,529</b> </td> <td><b>144,229</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>148,654</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>100.00%</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">2010 census</a>, there were 144,229 people living in the city. The racial makeup of the city residents was 39.6% <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a>; 34.6% <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">Black</a> or African American; 3.4% <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a>; and 4.3% from two or more races. A total of 38.2% of the population were <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic</a> or Latino of any race. </p><p>There were 50,307 households, out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.0% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 24.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families. 29.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.34. </p><p>In the city, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.3 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the city was $34,658, and the median income for a family was $39,571. Males had a median income of $32,430 versus $26,966 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the city was $16,306. About 16.2% of families and 18.4% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 24.8% of those under age 18 and 13.2% of those age 65 or over. </p><p>According to the 2020 five-year community survey, 48.2% of Bridgeport's population speaks a different primary language at home other than English, 33.8% percent of the city's total population speaks Spanish at home, and 22.5% speak English less than very well.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport has the largest percentage and population of <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic Americans</a> in the state of Connecticut. The city is known for having one of the largest communities of <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans" title="Puerto Ricans">Puerto Ricans</a> in the United States; Bridgeport has <a href="/wiki/List_of_Stateside_Puerto_Rican_communities" title="List of Stateside Puerto Rican communities">the 7th largest Puerto Rican population in the United States</a>, with 30,250 people claiming Puerto Rican heritage in 1990, that number has grown to about 31,900 (22.10% of the population) in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 45,270 people (31%)<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of Bridgeport's population is foreign born in 2010. Other than Puerto Ricans, 5.4% of Bridgeport's population was noted under <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Americans" title="Mexican Americans">Mexican</a> in 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a number that has grown to 5.8% (8,479 people) in the 2020 five-year American Community Survey, meaning Bridgeport has the largest <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Americans" title="Mexican Americans">Mexican</a> population in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Americans" title="Dominican Americans">Dominicans</a> are 5,248 (3.53%) of Bridgeport's population. The total <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Latino</a> <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central American</a> population (<a href="/wiki/Guatemalan_Americans" title="Guatemalan Americans">Guatemalans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salvadorans" title="Salvadorans">Salvadorians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicaraguan_Americans" title="Nicaraguan Americans">Nicaraguans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honduran_Americans" title="Honduran Americans">Hondurans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Costa_Ricans" title="Costa Ricans">Costa Ricans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panamanians" title="Panamanians">Panamanians</a>) is 6,701 people total in the city (4.507%). 8,454 South Americans (5.697%); 4,020 <a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian_Americans" title="Ecuadorian Americans">Equadorians</a>, 2,326 <a href="/wiki/Colombian_Americans" title="Colombian Americans">Colombians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Americans" title="Peruvian Americans">Peruvians</a>, and then populations from every Latin American nation except <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> can be found, with the smallest group being <a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_Americans" title="Paraguayan Americans">Paraguayans</a> at 16 people according to the census.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport also has the largest <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Americans" title="Cuban Americans">Cuban</a> population in the state, with more than 1,000 of the state's 10,600 Cubans living in Bridgeport, although down from the at least 5,000 Cubans in Bridgeport in 1980, and even more before that time in the 1950s according to the CTPost. Bridgeport was once a major destination for migrating Cubans, but many families have since moved to the city's suburbs or Florida. Bridgeport, along with <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury, CT</a> were considered as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_the_United_States" title="List of diplomatic missions in the United States">potential locations</a> for a new <a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian_Americans" title="Ecuadorian Americans">Ecuadorian</a> <a href="/wiki/Consulate" title="Consulate">consulate</a>, but it instead opened in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, CT</a>, due to its immigrant welcoming mayor, in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As for <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>-speaking peoples, the city also has the 12th largest <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Americans" title="Cape Verdean Americans">Cape Verdean</a> population in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-auto5_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto5-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group settled in <a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">the Hollow</a> to work in factories and established a social club in the 1940s. The Cape Verdean Association of Bridgeport is located in the Hollow today.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Americans" title="Portuguese Americans">Portuguese</a> community in the city is the largest in the state and the population primarily hails from the <a href="/wiki/Tr%C3%A1s-os-Montes" title="Trás-os-Montes">Tras Os Montes</a> region of Portugal according to a 2018 research study, and the <a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">Hollow</a> is considered the "Portuguese section" of Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large Brazilian population in Bridgeport and Danbury led to the opening of a Brazilian consulate in the state capital of <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Migration to Connecticut began in the 90s, social networks brought immigrants from <a href="/wiki/Governador_Valadares,_Minas_Gerais" title="Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais">Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais</a> in Brazil to Bridgeport, CT and <a href="/wiki/Framingham,_Massachusetts" title="Framingham, Massachusetts">Framingham, MA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fairfield County has the 7th largest Brazilian population of the United States, and 1/3rd of them live within Bridgeport's city limits, most of whom reside in the city's North End and <a href="/wiki/Little_Italy_(Bridgeport)" title="Little Italy (Bridgeport)">St. Vincent</a> neighborhood. </p><p>A small population of people from various majority-<a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a> <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">nations</a> exists along with Kurds, at least 4,000 according to an estimate by a local <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Islamic_Community_Center" title="Bridgeport Islamic Community Center">mosque</a> in 2008. Bridgeport Public Schools now observes <a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr" title="Eid al-Fitr">Eid al-Fitr</a>, effective 2024, thanks to a campaign by city 8th graders from Park City Magnet School, which found 10% of the school body was Muslim in a school project. <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a> in 2022 was the fifth most common primary language for Bridgeport Public School students (behind <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Creole" title="Haitian Creole">Haitian Creole</a>, and is followed by <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> at sixth place).<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also a sizeable <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_population" title="Kurdish population">Kurdish</a> population in Bridgeport, primarily from <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In total (and counting East and Southeast Asians), Bridgeport had 7,725 <a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian residents</a> according to the 2021<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 5 year American Community Survey, up from 2020's count, 5,553 Asians. The largest national origin groups and their estimated populations are <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_Americans" title="Vietnamese Americans">Vietnamese</a> (1,258 people), <a href="/wiki/Indian_Americans" title="Indian Americans">Indian</a> (1,153 people), <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Americans" title="Chinese Americans">Chinese</a>, excluding Taiwanese and <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistanis</a> (both 982 people), and <a href="/wiki/Filipinos" title="Filipinos">Filipinos</a> (729 people). Other groups with over 500 people include <a href="/wiki/Laotian_Americans" title="Laotian Americans">Laotians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Americans" title="Cambodian Americans">Cambodians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bangladeshi_Americans" title="Bangladeshi Americans">Bangladeshi Americans</a> in the city numbered 385 people in the survey.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jamaican_Americans" title="Jamaican Americans">Jamaicans</a>, the state's largest foreign-born group,<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have a significant presence in Bridgeport, with 6.3% of Bridgeport's population being Jamaican in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport in 2013 was 10.2% <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_Americans" title="West Indian Americans">non-Hispanic West Indian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg/220px-BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg/330px-BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg/440px-BridgeportCT_EastMainStreetHD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption>Bridgeport's East Side became the center of Puerto Rican migration in the 1950s. Shown here is East Main Street.</figcaption></figure> <p>At least 92 languages are spoken as primary languages by Bridgeport Public School students according to district data in 2022. 3,145 students are missing data in primary language.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Bridgeport-Stamford</a> metropolitan area (i.e.: Fairfield County) is home to the 7th largest percentage of Italian ancestry in the country (the population is 16.5% Italian). <a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans" title="Italian Americans">Italian Americans</a> until 1985 were the largest ethnic group in Bridgeport itself, and had been since the 1920s.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to 2010 census data, the Bridgeport MSA, containing all of Fairfield County, is the most economically unequal region in America, with 57% of the wealth going to the top income quintile.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a> of 2000, there were 139,529 people, 50,307 households, and 32,749 families living in the city. The population density was 8,720.9 inhabitants per square mile (3,367.2/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 54,367 housing units at an average density of 3,398.1 per square mile (1,312.0/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the city was 45.0% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 30.8% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 3.3% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.1% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> people of any race were 31.9% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/European_Americans" title="European Americans">European</a> (<a href="/wiki/White_Americans" title="White Americans">white</a>) ancestry groups include: <a href="/wiki/Italian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian American">Italian</a> (8.6%), <a href="/wiki/Irish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish American">Irish</a> (5.1%), <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese American">Portuguese</a> (2.9%), <a href="/wiki/Polish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish American">Polish</a> (2.8%), and <a href="/wiki/German_American" class="mw-redirect" title="German American">German</a> (2.4%). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Bridgeport_Center.jpg/220px-Bridgeport_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Bridgeport_Center.jpg/330px-Bridgeport_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Bridgeport_Center.jpg/440px-Bridgeport_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Center" title="Bridgeport Center">People's United Financial headquarters</a>, the city's biggest non-medical employer</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the decline of its industrial sector beginning in the middle of the 20th century, Bridgeport has gradually adjusted to a service-based economy. As late as 1985, the city was still home to company plants such as <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a>, with 1,900 employees, and Remington Products, with 900, both of which are now closed. <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Electric_Company" title="Bryant Electric Company">Bryant Electric</a> didn't close its plant until 1988. The last major factory to close was the <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft" title="Sikorsky Aircraft">Sikorsky</a> <a href="/wiki/Helicopter" title="Helicopter">helicopter plant</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various famous industrial companies, that were founded and based in Bridgeport, such as <a href="/wiki/Acme_United_Corporation" title="Acme United Corporation">ACME Sheer</a>, Fortune 1000 <a href="/wiki/Hubbell_Incorporated" title="Hubbell Incorporated">Hubbell Incorporated</a>, etc. are now based in suburban <a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a>, two towns away. Subway, which started out in Bridgeport in 1965, is now based in <a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a>. </p><p>Though a level of industrial activity continues, healthcare, finance, and education have become the centerpieces of Bridgeport's economy. </p><p>The two largest employers in the city are Bridgeport's primary hospitals, <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Hospital" title="Bridgeport Hospital">Bridgeport Hospital</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Vincent%27s_Medical_Center_(Bridgeport)" title="St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport)">St. Vincent's Medical Center</a>. Park City Hospital in the South End closed in 1993 and was reopened in 2010 as elderly and homeless housing units.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2022, <a href="/wiki/M%26T_Bank" title="M&T Bank">M&T Bank</a> of <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>, merged with Bridgeport-based <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Financial" title="People's United Financial">People's United Financial</a>. The combined company is now the 11th largest bank in the United States, and gave M&T a foothold in the <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> market, in total serving 12 states. Although M&T laid off Bridgeport employees (which made national headlines),<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the company as part of this effort made <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Center" title="Bridgeport Center">Bridgeport Center</a> the regional M&T headquarters of New England.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Top_employers">Top employers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Top employers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Top employers in Bridgeport according to the city's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report:<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG/220px-Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG/330px-Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG/440px-Bridgeport_Hospital_2015.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Bridgeport Hospital, an affiliate of the <a href="/wiki/Yale_School_of_Medicine" title="Yale School of Medicine">Yale School of Medicine</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SVMC-Bridgport.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/SVMC-Bridgport.JPG/220px-SVMC-Bridgport.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/SVMC-Bridgport.JPG/330px-SVMC-Bridgport.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/SVMC-Bridgport.JPG/440px-SVMC-Bridgport.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>St Vincent's Medical Center, affiliated with <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quinnipiac_University" title="Quinnipiac University">Quinnipiac University</a> medical schools</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeportindustry.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Bridgeportindustry.JPG/220px-Bridgeportindustry.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Bridgeportindustry.JPG/330px-Bridgeportindustry.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Bridgeportindustry.JPG/440px-Bridgeportindustry.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>A portion of the harbor in Bridgeport. Facilities shown are part of the <a href="/wiki/United_Illuminating" class="mw-redirect" title="United Illuminating">United Illuminating</a> coal-fired power plant.</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Employer </th> <th># of employees </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Bridgeport Hospital </td> <td>3,243 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>St. Vincent's Medical Center </td> <td>1,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M%26T_Bank" title="M&T Bank">M&T Bank</a> </td> <td>1,117 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Jewish Senior Services Center </td> <td>358 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>Goodwin University </td> <td>526 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft" title="Sikorsky Aircraft">Sikorsky Aircraft</a> </td> <td>383 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Community College">Housatonic Community College</a> </td> <td>343 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>Lacey Manufacturing Co. </td> <td>350 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>Bridgeport Healthcare Center </td> <td>297 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>alphabroder Prime Line </td> <td>253 </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CLOSE_UP_VIEW_SOUTH_OF_BRIDGE_OVER_ORGAN_STREET_BETWEEN_BUILDING_24_AT_LEFT_AND_BUILDING_7_AT_RIGHT_OF_PHOTOGRAPH_-_Bryant_Electric_Company,_Building_No._24,_80_Organ_Street,_HAER_CONN,1-BRIGPO,5A-7.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/CLOSE_UP_VIEW_SOUTH_OF_BRIDGE_OVER_ORGAN_STREET_BETWEEN_BUILDING_24_AT_LEFT_AND_BUILDING_7_AT_RIGHT_OF_PHOTOGRAPH_-_Bryant_Electric_Company%2C_Building_No._24%2C_80_Organ_Street%2C_HAER_CONN%2C1-BRIGPO%2C5A-7.tif/lossy-page1-220px-thumbnail.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/CLOSE_UP_VIEW_SOUTH_OF_BRIDGE_OVER_ORGAN_STREET_BETWEEN_BUILDING_24_AT_LEFT_AND_BUILDING_7_AT_RIGHT_OF_PHOTOGRAPH_-_Bryant_Electric_Company%2C_Building_No._24%2C_80_Organ_Street%2C_HAER_CONN%2C1-BRIGPO%2C5A-7.tif/lossy-page1-330px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/CLOSE_UP_VIEW_SOUTH_OF_BRIDGE_OVER_ORGAN_STREET_BETWEEN_BUILDING_24_AT_LEFT_AND_BUILDING_7_AT_RIGHT_OF_PHOTOGRAPH_-_Bryant_Electric_Company%2C_Building_No._24%2C_80_Organ_Street%2C_HAER_CONN%2C1-BRIGPO%2C5A-7.tif/lossy-page1-440px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="4001" /></a><figcaption>Bridgeport Bryant Electric Company, building 24 on left, building 7 on right, 80 Organ Street</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Arts and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif/lossy-page1-155px-LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif/lossy-page1-232px-LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif/lossy-page1-310px-LOEW%27S_PALACE_THEATRE_LCCN2016861794.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10059" data-file-height="8054" /></a><figcaption> Palace Theatre in downtown Bridgeport, now abandoned</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG/186px-Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG" decoding="async" width="186" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG/279px-Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG/372px-Palace_and_Majestic_Theaters.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2864" /></a><figcaption> Palace and Majestic Theater exterior in Bridgeport, on Main Street, with failed renovation proposals over the years. Savory Hotel was upstairs.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Performing_arts">Performing arts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Performing arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Theater_and_music">Theater and music</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Theater and music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Venues for live theater and music events include:<sup id="cite_ref-globe2008_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe2008-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Downtown Cabaret Theatre – cabaret, children's theater, concerts</li> <li>The Stress Factory (300 seats) – comedy club with national and local acts</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klein_Memorial_Auditorium" title="Klein Memorial Auditorium">Klein Memorial Auditorium</a> (1,400 seats) – home to the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, touring shows and concerts</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_Mortgage_Arena" title="Total Mortgage Arena">Total Mortgage Arena</a> – sporting events venue, but also hosts large concerts</li> <li>Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater - outdoor concert venue</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Music_festivals_and_concert_series">Music festivals and concert series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Music festivals and concert series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Special:EditPage/Bridgeport, Connecticut">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Bridgeport was the annual home to <a href="/wiki/Gathering_of_the_Vibes" title="Gathering of the Vibes">Gathering of the Vibes</a>, a weekend-long arts, music and camping festival, until it ended in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 2022, Bridgeport played host to the Sound on Sound Music Festival, at Seaside Park. Past performers included; <a href="/wiki/John_Mayer" title="John Mayer">John Mayer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers" title="Red Hot Chili Peppers">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band" title="Dave Matthews Band">Dave Matthews Band</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hozier" title="Hozier">Hozier</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Roots" title="The Roots">The Roots</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Greater Bridgeport Symphony, established in 1945, performs at Bridgeport's 1,400-seat Klein Memorial Auditorium. <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Meier" title="Gustav Meier">Gustav Meier</a> directed the orchestra from 1972 to 2013. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Museums_and_zoos">Museums and zoos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Museums and zoos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Museum_and_Planetarium" title="Discovery Museum and Planetarium">Discovery Science Center and Planetarium</a> emphasizes exhibits on science, with the state's only <a href="/wiki/Challenger_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Challenger Center">Challenger Center</a>, affiliated with the national space program. Opened in 1962 and run by <a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_University" title="Sacred Heart University">SHU</a> as of 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Museum_of_Art" title="Housatonic Museum of Art">Housatonic Museum of Art</a> at <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Community College">Housatonic Community College</a> has the largest collection of art of any two-year college in the nation. Founded in 1967 by collage art director Bob Chernow. Shows both western and non-western art from different eras, including sculptures.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Barnum_Museum" title="Barnum Museum">Barnum Museum</a> celebrates the showman, circuses and Bridgeport history. Currently under renovation, a room is open to visitors every Thursday.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Beardsley_Zoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Beardsley Zoo">Beardsley Zoo</a>, opened 1922, is the only such center in Connecticut,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and is the state's largest zoo.<sup id="cite_ref-globe2008_174-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe2008-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Greater Bridgeport</a> metropolitan area is home to the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Aquarium_at_Norwalk" title="Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk">Maritime Aquarium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a>, 30 minutes from downtown Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the two aquariums in Connecticut, the aquarium focuses on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> as well as creatures and conservation efforts from around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historic_districts">Historic districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Historic districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Special:EditPage/Bridgeport, Connecticut">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Bridgeport has five local historic districts, where exterior changes to structures are under the control of two Historic District Commissions: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_Historic_District" title="Black Rock Historic District">Black Rock</a> Harbor Historic District</li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">Pembroke City</a> Historic District</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratfield_Historic_District" title="Stratfield Historic District">Stratfield Historic</a> District</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnum%E2%80%93Palliser_Historic_District" title="Barnum–Palliser Historic District">Barnum-Palliser</a> Development Historic District</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marina_Park_Historic_District" title="Marina Park Historic District">Marina Park Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_North_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown North Historic District">Downtown North Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Downtown_South_Historic_District" title="Bridgeport Downtown South Historic District">Downtown South Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remington_City_Historic_District" title="Remington City Historic District">Remington City Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_Gardens_Historic_District" title="Black Rock Gardens Historic District">Black Rock Gardens Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaside_Village_Historic_District" title="Seaside Village Historic District">Seaside Village Historic District</a></li> <li>AMFAB Art Building</li></ul> <p>Bridgeport was once home to a <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_enclave" title="Ethnic enclave">Little Asia</a> along Wood Avenue in the West Side, established in 2012 by local business owners with a sign and a festival every year. By 2016 the name had fallen out of use, and the committee no longer exists. The more or less 3 or 4 block area is still home to Asian restaurants, an insurance and tax agency with Vietnamese, Mandarin, Laotian, Cantonese as well as Spanish language services,<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Vietnamese grocery store.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Cuisine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/NerdWallet" title="NerdWallet">NerdWallet</a> ranked Bridgeport the 100th most foodie city in the United States, 2nd in Connecticut behind <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> (which was ranked #97). Nerdwallet in 2022 ranked Bridgeport as the 17th most ethnically diverse city in the United States, making it the most diverse in New England, and the third most diverse in the New York Metropolitan Area in an annual ranking. It ranked 23rd in 2021, and #22 in 2015. It is #28 on <a href="/wiki/Niche_(company)" title="Niche (company)">Niche</a>.com "2022 Most Diverse Cities in America" list. Bridgeport's <a href="/wiki/Little_Italy_(Bridgeport)" title="Little Italy (Bridgeport)">Madison Avenue</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">Hollow</a> Brazilian restaurants, located alongside various Portuguese ones, have been mentioned by publications such as the <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times"><i>New York Times</i></a>. Examples include <a href="/wiki/Churrascaria" title="Churrascaria">churascaria</a> restaurants.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is "among the top cities in the state to immerse yourself in Brazilian traditions" according to CTBites.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azteca was ranked among the best Mexican restaurants in Connecticut in 2020 according to <i><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Magazine" title="Connecticut Magazine">Connecticut Magazine</a></i>, along with Pho Hong Thom and Pho Saigon in Bridgeport's Little Asia on the West Side for best <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_cuisine" title="Vietnamese cuisine">Vietnamese</a> places in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport,_Connecticut_(8428766274).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg/220px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg/330px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg/440px-Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_%288428766274%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1827" data-file-height="1482" /></a><figcaption>Total Mortgage Arena (then Webster Bank Arena)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg/220px-20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg/330px-20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg/440px-20011_MAAC_Tournament_at_Webster_Bank_Arena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption>2011 MACC Tournament at the Webster Bank Arena (Total Mortgage Arena)</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Club </th> <th scope="col">League </th> <th scope="col">Venue </th> <th scope="col">Established </th> <th scope="col">Championships </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Islanders" title="Bridgeport Islanders">Bridgeport Islanders</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Hockey_League" title="American Hockey League">AHL</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Total_Mortgage_Arena" title="Total Mortgage Arena">Total Mortgage Arena</a> </td> <td>2001 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_United_FC" title="Connecticut United FC"><b>CT United FC</b></a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/MLS_Next_Pro" title="MLS Next Pro">MLS Next Pro</a> </td> <td>New Waterfront Stadium </td> <td>2024 </td> <td>0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Total_Mortgage_Arena" title="Total Mortgage Arena">Total Mortgage Arena</a> serves as the city's sports and hospitality center. Seating 10,000, the Arena serves as the home rink of the <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Islanders" title="Bridgeport Islanders">Bridgeport Islanders</a> <a href="/wiki/American_Hockey_League" title="American Hockey League">American Hockey League</a> team, the <a href="/wiki/Farm_team" title="Farm team">farm team</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Islanders" title="New York Islanders">New York Islanders</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">National Hockey League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting in 2024, it also serves as the home of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Sirens" title="New York Sirens">New York Sirens</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Professional_Women%27s_Hockey_League" title="Professional Women's Hockey League">Professional Women's Hockey League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The arena served as the temporary home of the <a href="/wiki/Westchester_Knicks" title="Westchester Knicks">Westchester Knicks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a> (the farm team for the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a>) from 2021 to 2023 when the team's home stadium, <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County_Center" title="Westchester County Center">Westchester County Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/White_Plains,_New_York" title="White Plains, New York">White Plains</a>, NY iwas being used as a vaccination clinic.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For college teams, Total Mortgage serves as the home court of <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_University" title="Fairfield University">Fairfield University</a>'s basketball team. </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Ballpark_at_Harbor_Yard" title="The Ballpark at Harbor Yard">The Ballpark at Harbor Yard</a> served as a minor-league baseball stadium from 1998 to 2017. It was built in 1998 to serve as the homefield of the <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Bluefish" title="Bridgeport Bluefish">Bridgeport Bluefish</a>. From 2001 to 2003 it was the homefield for the Bridgeport Barrage, a Major League Lacrosse team. It is downtown on a former <a href="/wiki/Brownfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Brownfield">brownfield</a> site. It is visually prominent to commuters on <a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 95 in Connecticut">I-95</a> or on passing trains. On August 8, 2017, Mayor <a href="/wiki/Joe_Ganim" title="Joe Ganim">Joe Ganim</a> announced that the Bluefish would be ending their 20-year stint at the ballpark at the end of the 2017 season. The ballpark was converted into an <a href="/wiki/Amphitheatre" title="Amphitheatre">amphitheatre</a>. The Bluefish played their final home game at the park on September 17, 2017, losing by a score of 9–2 to the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Patriots" title="Somerset Patriots">Somerset Patriots</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Stadium_(Bridgeport)" title="John F. Kennedy Stadium (Bridgeport)">Kennedy Stadium</a> serves as a community sports facility. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was the home of an <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Football_League" title="Atlantic Coast Football League">Atlantic Coast Football League</a> minor league football team, the Bridgeport Jets, a <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> <a href="/wiki/Farm_team" title="Farm team">farm team</a> also known locally as the Hi-Ho Jets due to their sponsorship by the (Hi-Ho) D'Addario construction company. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kennedy_Stadium,_behind_Central_High_School,_Bridgeport,_CT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/220px-Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/330px-Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/440px-Kennedy_Stadium%2C_behind_Central_High_School%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4030" data-file-height="1312" /></a><figcaption>John F. Kennedy stadium in Bridgeport</figcaption></figure> <p>Fairfield University is in the neighboring town of <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a>, and many of the athletic teams play on campus. Only the men's and women's basketball teams play in Bridgeport. </p><p>Nutmeg Curling Club, one of two <a href="/wiki/Curling" title="Curling">curling</a> clubs in Connecticut, is in Bridgeport. It is the home club of the 2013 USA Mixed National Champions,<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> led by club members Derek Surka and Charissa Lin. The club is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_National_Curling_Club" title="Grand National Curling Club">Grand National Curling Club</a> Region. </p><p>Bridgeport native <a href="/wiki/Jim_O%27Rourke_(baseball)" title="Jim O'Rourke (baseball)">Jim O'Rourke</a> was the first baseball player to earn a hit in <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> history in 1876. The founder and original owner of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ebbets" title="Charles Ebbets">Charles Ebbets</a>, married his second wife in Bridgeport in 1922, five years before his death. </p><p>In early 2024, <a href="/wiki/MLS_Next_Pro" title="MLS Next Pro">MLS Next Pro</a> awarded an expansion team to Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_United_FC" title="Connecticut United FC">Connecticut United FC</a> plan to play at a new stadium to be located on the waterfront at a former dog-racing track, as stadium plans were approved by the Bridgeport government in November 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Amateur soccer team GZS Bridgeport play in the <a href="/wiki/UPSL" class="mw-redirect" title="UPSL">UPSL</a>, playing home games at Kennedy Stadium. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parks_and_recreation">Parks and recreation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Parks and recreation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default"><div class="title"><div>Photos from Bridgeport's public parks</div></div><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Soldiers and Sailors Monument – Seaside Park"><img alt="Soldiers and Sailors Monument – Seaside Park" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg/135px-Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg/202px-Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg/270px-Seaside_Park_-_Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Soldiers and Sailors Monument – Seaside Park</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seaside Park – Spanish American War memorial"><img alt="Seaside Park – Spanish American War memorial" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg/180px-Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg/270px-Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg/360px-Seaside_Park_-_Spanish_American_War_memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Seaside Park – Spanish American War memorial</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport,_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="The beach at Seaside Park"><img alt="The beach at Seaside Park" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif/lossy-page1-180px-Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif/lossy-page1-270px-Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif/lossy-page1-360px-Seaside_Park_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut_LCCN2012630314.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6144" data-file-height="4096" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The beach at Seaside Park</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_W._Beardsley_Monument_(1909),_Beardsley_Park,_Bridgeport,_CT_-_April_2016.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="James Beardsley Monument at Beardsley Park in Bridgeport"><img alt="James Beardsley Monument at Beardsley Park in Bridgeport" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG/135px-James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG" decoding="async" width="135" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG/202px-James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG/269px-James_W._Beardsley_Monument_%281909%29%2C_Beardsley_Park%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT_-_April_2016.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1712" data-file-height="2288" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">James Beardsley Monument at Beardsley Park in Bridgeport</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Nathaniel Wheeler Fountain on Park Avenue"><img alt="Nathaniel Wheeler Fountain on Park Avenue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_WheelerFountain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Wheeler_Memorial_Fountain" title="Nathaniel Wheeler Memorial Fountain">Nathaniel Wheeler Fountain on Park Avenue</a></div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <p>The city has 1,300 acres of public space, with a pocket park in nearly every neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bridgeport's public park system led to its official nickname, "the Park City". The city's first public park was the westerly portion of McLevy Green, first set aside as a public square in 1806;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a277_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a277-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Clinton Park Militia Grounds (1666) and Old Mill Green (1717) were set aside earlier as public commons by the towns of Fairfield and Stratford, respectively. Washington Park in 1850 was located in the center of East Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the city rapidly grew in population, residents recognized the need for more public parks and by 1864, Barnum and other residents had donated approximately 44 acres (18 ha) to create <a href="/wiki/Seaside_Park_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaside Park (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">Seaside Park</a>, now increased by acquisition and landfill to 375 acres (152 ha).<sup id="cite_ref-time2002_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time2002-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1878, over 100 acres (40 ha) of land bordering the <a href="/wiki/Pequonnock_River" title="Pequonnock River">Pequonnock River</a> was added as <a href="/wiki/Beardsley_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Beardsley Park">Beardsley Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a280_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWaldo1917a280-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a>, who designed New York City's <a href="/wiki/Central_Park" title="Central Park">Central Park</a>, designed both Seaside and Beardsley Parks.<sup id="cite_ref-olmsted_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olmsted-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over time, more parks were added including 35-acre (14 ha) Beechwood Park and <a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Beach" title="Pleasure Beach">Pleasure Beach</a>, home to an amusement park for many years. Went Field on the West End, between Wordin Avenue and Norman Street, used to be the winter headquarters of Barnum's circus. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architecture">Architecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="title"><div>Notable buildings and architectural styles in Bridgeport</div></div><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bridgeport Center – An 18-floor postmodern building designed by Richard Meier and built 1989. It is the tallest building in Bridgeport."><img alt="Bridgeport Center – An 18-floor postmodern building designed by Richard Meier and built 1989. It is the tallest building in Bridgeport." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg/180px-M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg/270px-M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg/360px-M%26T_Bank_Bridgeport_Center_regional_headquarters.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1402" data-file-height="1229" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Center" title="Bridgeport Center">Bridgeport Center</a> – An 18-floor <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodern</a> building designed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Meier" title="Richard Meier">Richard Meier</a> and built 1989. It is the tallest building in Bridgeport.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Park_City_Plaza.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Park City Plaza – an 18-story modernist style building completed in 1973. Originally the headquarters for the State National Bank, it was designed by Palestinian born architect Victor Bisharat and built by the F.D. Rich Company of Stamford.[203]"><img alt="Park City Plaza – an 18-story modernist style building completed in 1973. Originally the headquarters for the State National Bank, it was designed by Palestinian born architect Victor Bisharat and built by the F.D. Rich Company of Stamford.[203]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Park_City_Plaza.jpg/161px-Park_City_Plaza.jpg" decoding="async" width="161" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Park_City_Plaza.jpg/241px-Park_City_Plaza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Park_City_Plaza.jpg/321px-Park_City_Plaza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="1261" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Park_City_Plaza" title="Park City Plaza">Park City Plaza</a> – an 18-story <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">modernist</a> style building completed in 1973. Originally the headquarters for the State National Bank, it was designed by Palestinian born architect Victor Bisharat and built by the F.D. Rich Company of Stamford.<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hotel Beach, a 13-story Art Deco building built downtown in 1927 on Fairfield Avenue"><img alt="Hotel Beach, a 13-story Art Deco building built downtown in 1927 on Fairfield Avenue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_HotelBeach_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Hotel_Beach" title="Hotel Beach">Hotel Beach</a>, a 13-story <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco_in_the_United_States" title="Art Deco in the United States">Art Deco</a> building built downtown in 1927 on Fairfield Avenue</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Apartment house on Milne Street, in Sterling Hill, settled by the Irish. Three deckers, brick tenerments and small houses are found here."><img alt="Apartment house on Milne Street, in Sterling Hill, settled by the Irish. Three deckers, brick tenerments and small houses are found here." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_SterlingHillHD_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Apartment house on Milne Street, in <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Hill_Historic_District_(Bridgeport,_Connecticut)" title="Sterling Hill Historic District (Bridgeport, Connecticut)">Sterling Hill</a>, settled by the Irish. <a href="/wiki/Three-decker_(house)" title="Three-decker (house)">Three deckers</a>, brick <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenerments</a> and small houses are found here.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Remington City rowhouses on Bond Street. Built for workers during WW1, emulates European cottage styles."><img alt="Remington City rowhouses on Bond Street. Built for workers during WW1, emulates European cottage styles." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_RemingtonCityHD_BondStreet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Remington_City_Historic_District" title="Remington City Historic District">Remington City</a> <a href="/wiki/Terraced_house" title="Terraced house">rowhouses</a> on Bond Street. Built for workers during WW1, emulates European cottage styles.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Queen Anne style tenements within the Barnum Palliser historic district in the South End, built by Barnum in the 1880s for working class families"><img alt="Queen Anne style tenements within the Barnum Palliser historic district in the South End, built by Barnum in the 1880s for working class families" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_BarnumPalisserHD_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture_in_the_United_States" title="Queen Anne style architecture in the United States">Queen Anne</a> style <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenements</a> within the Barnum Palliser historic district in the South End, built by Barnum in the 1880s for working class families</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1870s Victorian residences around Washington Park on the East Side"><img alt="1870s Victorian residences around Washington Park on the East Side" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_EastBridgeportHD_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1870s <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> residences around Washington Park on the <a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">East Side</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport,_Connecticut.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Golden Hill United Methodist Church in between Downtown and the Hollow near City Hall"><img alt="Golden Hill United Methodist Church in between Downtown and the Hollow near City Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/180px-Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/270px-Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/360px-Golden_Hill_UMC_-_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Golden Hill <a href="/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">United Methodist Church</a> in between Downtown and the Hollow near City Hall</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="CityTrust Bank building, finished 1929. Today a Citi Bank branch and apartments above."><img alt="CityTrust Bank building, finished 1929. Today a Citi Bank branch and apartments above." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg/180px-BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg/270px-BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg/360px-BridgeportCT_DowntownSouthHD_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">CityTrust Bank building, finished 1929. Today a Citi Bank branch and apartments above.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="McLevy Hall, built 1854, 3 stories, the original Bridgeport City Hall and County Courthouse. Renamed after Mayor McLevy."><img alt="McLevy Hall, built 1854, 3 stories, the original Bridgeport City Hall and County Courthouse. Renamed after Mayor McLevy." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg/180px-BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg/270px-BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg/360px-BridgeportCityHall_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/McLevy_Hall" title="McLevy Hall">McLevy Hall</a>, built 1854, 3 stories, the original Bridgeport City Hall and County Courthouse. Renamed after Mayor McLevy.</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <p>Bridgeport was largely bypassed by Fortune 500 companies moving to <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield County</a> in the second half of the 20th century, due to the city's growing reputation for having a rough industrial character. Thus was also largely bypassed by the skyscraper construction boom of the 70s and 80s, resulting in fewer modern skyscrapers than otheir cities<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tallest building in Bridgeport is currently the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Meier" title="Richard Meier">Richard Meier</a>-designed 16-story, 248-foot (76 m) <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Center" title="Bridgeport Center">Bridgeport Center</a>, which was completed in 1989 and surpassed the 18-story <a href="/wiki/Park_City_Plaza" title="Park City Plaza">Park City Plaza</a>, which was completed in 1973. </p><p>Bridgeport in the early 20th century banned further construction of the <a href="/wiki/Three-decker_(house)" title="Three-decker (house)">triple decker</a>, very common in the <a href="/wiki/The_Hollow,_Bridgeport" title="The Hollow, Bridgeport">Hollow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Italy_(Bridgeport)" title="Little Italy (Bridgeport)">Madison Avenue</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/East_Bridgeport_Historic_District" title="East Bridgeport Historic District">East Side</a> with other working class housing styles and <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> mansions, the West Side with <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture" title="Queen Anne style architecture">Queen Ann</a> multifamily homes, parts of <a href="/wiki/Black_Rock,_Bridgeport" title="Black Rock, Bridgeport">Black Rock</a>, and the East End neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto10_107-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto10-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:290px;max-width:290px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:183px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_City_Hall,_Connecticut.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg/288px-Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg" decoding="async" width="288" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg/432px-Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg/576px-Bridgeport_City_Hall%2C_Connecticut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3600" data-file-height="2295" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">City Hall</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:290px;max-width:290px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport,_Connecticut.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/288px-Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg" decoding="async" width="288" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/432px-Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg/576px-Margaret_Morton_Government_Center_in_Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3600" data-file-height="1193" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Margaret Morton Government Center</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:144px;max-width:144px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:94px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg/142px-BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="142" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg/213px-BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg/284px-BridgeportCT_FormerFairfieldCountyCourthouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">District Courthouse, one of three courthouses in the city (local, state and federal)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:144px;max-width:144px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:94px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridgeport_Public_Library,_Connecticut.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg/142px-Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg" decoding="async" width="142" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg/213px-Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg/284px-Bridgeport_Public_Library%2C_Connecticut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3600" data-file-height="2400" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Bridgeport Public Library Main Branch</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The city is governed by the mayor-council system. Twenty members of the city council are elected from districts. Each district elects two members. The mayor is elected at-large by the entire city </p><p>Bridgeport is notable for having had a <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America" title="Socialist Party of America">socialist</a> mayor for 24 years, <a href="/wiki/Jasper_McLevy" title="Jasper McLevy">Jasper McLevy</a>, who served from 1933 to 1957. </p><p>The city's current mayor, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_P._Ganim" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph P. Ganim">Joseph P. Ganim</a>, is a convicted <a href="/wiki/Felon" class="mw-redirect" title="Felon">felon</a> who was sentenced to nine years in prison after conviction in 2003 of 16 federal counts including <a href="/wiki/Racketeering" title="Racketeering">racketeering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Extortion" title="Extortion">extortion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy (law)">conspiracy</a>, bribery, <a href="/wiki/Mail_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail fraud">mail fraud</a>, and filing false <a href="/wiki/Tax_return_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax return (United States)">tax returns</a> arising from Ganim's "role in a six-year scheme to shake down city contractors…".<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTCR_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTCR-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2006, Mayor <a href="/wiki/John_M._Fabrizi" title="John M. Fabrizi">John M. Fabrizi</a> admitted that he had used <a href="/wiki/Cocaine" title="Cocaine">cocaine</a> while in office.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bridgeport is recognized for its polarizing political culture. Mayor Ganim has served the city seven terms since first taking office in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTCR_208-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTCR-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his release from prison in 2015, Ganim announced his mayoral campaign to serve a sixth term in office. His campaign ran on a theme of providing him with a "second-chance," as he was renowned for his work of escaping the city from bankruptcy and build its economy from a post-industrial standpoint.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_211-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a divisive primary election between him, the city's mayor at the time, Bill Finch, and University of Bridgeport professor and real estate developer, Mary-Jane Foster, Ganim was able to receive the endorsement of the politically volatile Democratic Town Committee, paving the way to his victory for being reelected mayor at the end of year.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_211-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bridgeport's Democratic Town Committee has the authority to nominate and endorse Democratic candidates running for local office, and they have the resources to outperform challenger slates that may compete with them. The chairman is former state representative and local restaurateur, Mario Testa.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6">Voter registration and party enrollment as of October 29, 2019<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Active voters </th> <th>Inactive voters </th> <th>Total voters </th> <th>Percentage </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E81B23; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Republican_Party" title="Connecticut Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">4,505 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">205 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">4,710 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">6.06% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#3333FF; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Connecticut" title="Democratic Party of Connecticut">Democratic</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">48,117 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2,154 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">50,271 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">64.73% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DDDDBB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unaffiliated_voter" class="mw-redirect" title="Unaffiliated voter">Unaffiliated</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">20,922 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1,136 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">22,058 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">28.40% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FED105; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td>Minor parties </td> <td style="text-align:center;">589 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">32 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">621 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">0.80% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Total </th> <th style="text-align:center;">74,133 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">3,527 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">77,660 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">100% </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>Bridgeport votes Democratic at the presidential level. In 1972 <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> was the last Republican to win the city; since then Democrats have prevailed, often by comfortable margins, the lone exception being 1984 when <a href="/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Walter Mondale</a> carried the city by just 76 votes (0.16 percent) over <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"> <caption>Bridgeport city vote<br /> by party in presidential elections<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr style="background:lightgrey;"> <th>Year </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third party (United States)">Third parties</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>79.44%</b> <i>33,515</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">19.60% <i>8,269</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.96% <i>404</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>80.98%</b> <i>32,035</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">16.67% <i>6,596</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">2.35% <i>929</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election">2012</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>85.75%</b> <i>32,135</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">13.79% <i>5,168</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.46% <i>173</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>83.52%</b> <i>33,976</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">15.99% <i>6,507</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">4.89% <i>199</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election" title="2004 United States presidential election">2004</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>70.66%</b> <i>26,280</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">27.76% <i>10,326</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">1.57% <i>585</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election" title="2000 United States presidential election">2000</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>72.68%</b> <i>24,303</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">22.15% <i>7,406</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">5.18% <i>1,731</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election" title="1996 United States presidential election">1996</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>69.16%</b> <i>22,883</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">20.51% <i>6,785</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">10.33% <i>3,419</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election" title="1992 United States presidential election">1992</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>53.20%</b> <i>22,321</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">31.34% <i>13,149</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">15.46% <i>6,486</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election" title="1988 United States presidential election">1988</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>57.50%</b> <i>23,831</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">41.22% <i>17,084</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">1.27% <i>527</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election" title="1984 United States presidential election">1984</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>49.75%</b> <i>24,332</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">49.59% <i>24,256</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.66% <i>321</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election" title="1980 United States presidential election">1980</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>51.24%</b> <i>23,505</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">41.82% <i>19,185</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">6.94% <i>3,185</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election" title="1976 United States presidential election">1976</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>55.37%</b> <i>26,330</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">43.79% <i>20,824</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.83% <i>397</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election" title="1972 United States presidential election">1972</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">43.67% <i>24,572</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>54.09%</b> <i>30,436</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">2.25% <i>1,265</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election" title="1968 United States presidential election">1968</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>53.27%</b> <i>30,065</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">37.23% <i>21,014</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">9.50% <i>5,363</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election" title="1964 United States presidential election">1964</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>69.90%</b> <i>43,710</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">30.10% <i>18,818</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.00% <i>0</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>61.14%</b> <i>41,950</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">38.86% <i>26,667</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.00% <i>0</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election" title="1956 United States presidential election">1956</a> </td> <td align="center" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">38.57% <i>26,560</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>61.43%</b> <i>42,308</i> </td> <td align="center" style="background-color:#DCDCDC">0.00% <i>0</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxes">Taxes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Taxes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bridgeport has one of the highest <a href="/wiki/Property_tax" title="Property tax">property tax</a> rates in Connecticut.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2017 <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Institute_of_Land_Policy" title="Lincoln Institute of Land Policy">Lincoln Institute of Land Policy</a> and Minnesota Center of Fiscal Excellence study determined that Bridgeport had the second-highest property tax burden of any U.S. city (after Detroit), and the fourth-highest for commercial properties valued at more than $1 million (after Detroit, New York City, and Chicago).<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Bridgeport enacted a 29% increase in the property tax rate, among the highest one-year property tax rate increases in recent U.S. history, in an effort to reduce the municipal deficit.<sup id="cite_ref-HusseyFoderaro_218-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HusseyFoderaro-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A citywide reassessment in 2015 determined that the value of taxable property in the city was $6 billion, a decline of $1 billion; the property tax increases, combined with property value decreases, have been a consistent political issue in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-HusseyFoderaro_218-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HusseyFoderaro-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Education in Bridgeport, Connecticut">Education in Bridgeport, Connecticut</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Higher_education">Higher education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Higher education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bridgeport is home to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">University of Bridgeport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Community College">Housatonic Community College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paier_College" title="Paier College">Paier College</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Vincent%27s_Medical_Center_(Bridgeport)#St._Vincent's_College" title="St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport)">St. Vincent's College</a>, and the Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport. The Yeshiva Gedola is the home of the Bridgeport Community Kollel, a rabbinic fellowship program.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The University of Bridgeport's Ernest C. Trefz School of Business offers undergraduate and graduate programs. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_University" title="Sacred Heart University">Sacred Heart University</a> is located in the neighboring suburb of Fairfield on the town line, with its campus extending into the North End of Bridgeport on Park Avenue. Many of its students live in the city's North End. It is the second largest Catholic University in New England (behind <a href="/wiki/Boston_College" title="Boston College">Boston College</a>). <sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sacred Heart has campuses in nearby <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Griswold,_Connecticut" title="Griswold, Connecticut">Griswold, CT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dingle" title="Dingle">Dingle, Ireland</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/St._Vincent%27s_Medical_Center_(Bridgeport)" title="St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport)">St. Vincent's College</a> in Bridgeport. The University of Bridgeport has secondary campuses in Waterbury and Stamford. <a href="/wiki/Paier_College" title="Paier College">Paier College</a> near the University of Bridgeport is the only Private Arts college in Connecticut. Founded in 1946 in <a href="/wiki/West_Haven,_Connecticut" title="West Haven, Connecticut">West Haven</a> and previously located in Hamden, the college recently relocated to <a href="/wiki/Seaside_Park_(Connecticut)" title="Seaside Park (Connecticut)">Seaside Park</a> in Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Greater Bridgeport Area</a> (made up of the surrounding towns) is home to <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_University" title="Fairfield University">Fairfield University</a> in neighboring <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut_State_University" title="Western Connecticut State University">Western Connecticut State University</a> in Danbury. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_education">Public education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Public education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Public_Schools" title="Bridgeport Public Schools">Bridgeport Public Schools</a></div> <p>The city's public school system has 30 elementary schools, three comprehensive high schools, two alternative programs and an interdistrict vocational aquaculture school. The system has about 20,800 students, making the Bridgeport Public Schools the second largest school system in Connecticut after <a href="/wiki/Hartford" class="mw-redirect" title="Hartford">Hartford</a>. It is ranked #158 out of the 164 Connecticut school districts.<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school system employs a professional staff of more than 1,700. </p><p>The city has started a large school renovation and construction program, with plans for new schools and modernization of existing buildings. </p><p><b>Public high schools</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bassick_High_School" title="Bassick High School">Bassick High School</a> was established in 1929. It serves students residing south of Route 1, in the Black Rock, the Hollow, Downtown, West End and South End neighborhoods. 1181 Fairfield Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06605.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_High_School_(Connecticut)" title="Central High School (Connecticut)">Central High School</a> (CHS) was established in 1876. The current building was built in 1964. It houses the Central <a href="/wiki/Magnet_school" title="Magnet school">magnet</a> program. Serves students from north of Route 1, including the North End, part of Brooklawn and St. Vincent neighborhoods. 1 Lincoln Blvd, Bridgeport, CT 06606.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Harding_High_School" title="Warren Harding High School">Warren Harding High School</a> is home to the <a href="/wiki/International_Baccalaureate" title="International Baccalaureate">International Baccalaureate</a> Program (IBO) and the Health Magnet Program in association with <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Hospital" title="Bridgeport Hospital">Bridgeport Hospital</a>, St. Vincent's Medical Center, and Bridgeport Manor. It is the alma mater of <a href="/wiki/Walt_Kelly" title="Walt Kelly">Walt Kelly</a>, creator of <i>Pogo</i>. It serves East End, East Side, Mill Hill and North Bridgeport students. 379 Bond St, Bridgeport, CT 06610.</li> <li>Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School (BRVAS) is a half-day school specializing in marine and aquaculture curricula near Captain's Cove and open to students from surrounding towns. It serves all Bridgeport applicants and applicants from neighboring towns' (<a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a>, Fairfield, <a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monroe,_Connecticut" title="Monroe, Connecticut">Monroe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Easton,_Connecticut" title="Easton, Connecticut">Region 9</a>) school districts. 60 St. Stephens Rd, Bridgeport, CT.</li></ul> <p><b>Public magnet high schools</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairchild_Wheeler_Interdistrict_Multi-Magnet_High_School" title="Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Multi-Magnet High School">Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Multi-Magnet High School</a> is three specialIzard <a href="/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics" title="Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics">STEM</a> high schools in one building: an <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">IT</a> and software technology school, <a href="/wiki/Aerospace_engineering" title="Aerospace engineering">aerospace</a>/hydrospace school, and biotechnology school. It serves all Bridgeport applicants and applicants from neighboring towns (Trumbull, Stratford, Fairfield, Milford, Shelton, Monroe, Region 9). Acceptance is by public lottery. 840 Old Town Road, Bridgeport, CT 06606.</li> <li>Central Magnet (part of <a href="/wiki/Central_High_School_(Connecticut)" title="Central High School (Connecticut)">Central High School</a>) is a public preparatory magnet school. It serves all Bridgeport applicants, who must meet grade requirements to enter the lottery. 1 Lincoln Blvd, Bridgeport, CT 06606.</li></ul> <p><b>Public military/trade high schools</b> </p> <ul><li>Bridgeport Military Academy (BMA) is for students looking for a career in public safety. Partnerships with local <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Fire_Department" title="Bridgeport Fire Department">fire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Police_Department" title="Bridgeport Police Department">police</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Department of Homeland Security">Homeland Security</a> and other departments. It is open to all Bridgeport applicants. 160 Iranistan Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullard-Havens_Technical_High_School" title="Bullard-Havens Technical High School">Bullard-Havens Technical High School</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Vocational_education" title="Vocational education">vocational</a> high school. It is a state school, not part of Bridgeport Public Schools.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charter_schools">Charter schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Charter schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Bridge Academy: Bridgeport Charter High School</li> <li>Achievement First Bridgeport Charter High School</li> <li>Great Oaks Charter School</li> <li>Park City Prep Charter School</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Private_education">Private education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Private education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bridgeport is also home to private schools including Bridgeport Hope School (K–8), <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_International_Academy" title="Bridgeport International Academy">Bridgeport International Academy</a> (grades 9–12), Catholic Academies of Bridgeport (Pre-K–8), <a href="/wiki/Kolbe_Cathedral_High_School" title="Kolbe Cathedral High School">Kolbe Cathedral High School</a> (9–12), St. Andrew Academy (Pre-K–8), and St. Ann Academy (Pre-K–8). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WCUM" title="WCUM">WCUM</a> AM 1450; 1,000 watts (formerly WJBX-AM, and before that, WNAB-AM) Spanish Format station better known as Radio Cumbre.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WICC_(AM)" title="WICC (AM)">WICC-AM</a> 600; 1,000 watts (daytime), 500 watts (nighttime) – WICC began broadcasting on November 21, 1926, when a previous radio station, WCWS, was given a new name, WICC. The last three letters standing for Industrial Capitol of Connecticut. The Bridgeport Broadcasting Company Inc. was the new station's owner. Back then, the station was powered at 500 watts. From 1951 to 1956 one of the station's radio hosts was <a href="/wiki/Bob_Crane" title="Bob Crane">Bob Crane</a>, who later went on to play Col. Robert Hogan on the <i>Hogan's Heroes</i> television comedy series.<sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WICC's transmitter is on <a href="/wiki/Pleasure_Beach" title="Pleasure Beach">Pleasure Beach</a> in Bridgeport on a peninsula extending into <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEBE" title="WEBE">WEBE</a>-FM 107.9; 50,000 watts. WEBE108 is Connecticut's Best Music Variety! The station is owned by Connoisseur Media. Licensed to Westport, CT with studios in Milford and WEBE's transmitter is located in Shelton. Besides a standard <a href="/wiki/Analog_transmission" title="Analog transmission">analog transmission</a>, WEBE broadcasts over one <a href="/wiki/HD_Radio" title="HD Radio">HD Radio</a> channel, and is available online.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEZN-FM" title="WEZN-FM">WEZN-FM</a> 99.9; 27,500 watts (formerly WJZZ-FM). Star 99.9 is Today's Best Mix! The station is owned by Connoisseur Media. Lincensed to Bridgeport, CT with studios in Milford and WEZN's transmitter is located in Trumbull.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPKN" title="WPKN">WPKN</a>-FM 89.5; 10,000 watts<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Elsolnews.com, a community Spanish-language weekly newspaper covering news and events, based in <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a>.</li> <li>HaitianVoice.com, a Bridgeport-based newspaper covering local news in English, <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Creole" title="Haitian Creole">Haitian Creole</a> and French.</li> <li><i>Brazil News</i> covers stories from Bridgeport in Portuguese.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Post" title="Connecticut Post">Connecticut Post</a></i> – Formerly the <i>Bridgeport Post and Bridgeport Telegram</i>, which covers Bridgeport and the surrounding area. The newspaper is printed daily. It is owned by <a href="/wiki/Hearst_Communications" title="Hearst Communications">Hearst Connecticut Media</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bridgeport was <a href="/wiki/National_Broadcasting_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="National Broadcasting Company">NBC's</a> pioneer <a href="/wiki/Ultra_high_frequency" title="Ultra high frequency">UHF TV</a> test site from December 29, 1949, to August 23, 1952;<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the equipment from the <a href="/wiki/KC2XAK" title="KC2XAK">"Operation Bridgeport"</a> tests was later deployed commercially at <a href="/wiki/KPTV" title="KPTV">KPTV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a> (1952–1957). While Bridgeport is primarily served by <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> or <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_television_markets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States television markets">New Haven-Hartford</a> stations, some local UHF broadcasters operate today: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Public_Television" title="Connecticut Public Television">WEDW</a> channel 49; one of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Public_Television" title="Connecticut Public Television">Connecticut Public Television</a> stations, broadcasts from Bridgeport and can be seen in Hartford.</li> <li>In 2011, <a href="/wiki/WTNH-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WTNH-TV">WTNH-TV</a> opened a satellite studio in the offices of the Connecticut Post Downtown on State Street.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WZME" title="WZME">WZME</a> channel 43; a <a href="/wiki/Story_Television" title="Story Television">Story Television</a> affiliate, currently channel sharing with WEDW and licensed to Bridgeport</li></ul> <p>Cable: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/News_12_Networks" title="News 12 Networks">News 12 Connecticut</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Altice_USA" title="Altice USA">Altice</a>-only cable news channel for local news and weather in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Greater Bridgeport</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Movies_filmed_in_Bridgeport">Movies filmed in Bridgeport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Movies filmed in Bridgeport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A list of films shot or partially filmed in the city:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col div-col-small div-col-rules" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i>Officer Down</i> (2012)</li> <li><i>A Dance for Grace</i> (2010)</li> <li><i>Ironmen</i> (2010)</li> <li><i>3 Weeks to Daytona</i> (2009)</li> <li><i>Accidental Mayor</i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Good_Things_(film)" title="All Good Things (film)">All Good Things</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Shopaholic_(film)" title="Confessions of a Shopaholic (film)">Confessions of a Shopaholic</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i>Dear Beautiful</i> (2009)</li> <li><i>The Godfather Musical Part III: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes</i> (2009)</li> <li><i>House of Satisfaction</i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Made_for_Each_Other_(2009_film)" title="Made for Each Other (2009 film)">Made for Each Other</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i>The Music of Erich Zann</i> (2009/II)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_Dogs_(film)" title="Old Dogs (film)">Old Dogs</a></i> (2009/I)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/College_Road_Trip" title="College Road Trip">College Road Trip</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull" title="Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull">Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pistol_Whipped" title="Pistol Whipped">Pistol Whipped</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Righteous_Kill" title="Righteous Kill">Righteous Kill</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants_2" title="The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2">The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Just_Happened_(2008_film)" title="What Just Happened (2008 film)">What Just Happened</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i>Bobby Dogs</i> (2007)</li> <li><i>Dear Beautiful</i> (2007)</li> <li><i>Praying to Hendrix</i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance" title="Die Hard with a Vengeance">Die Hard with a Vengeance</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i>A Walk with Death</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>Route One USA</i> (1989)</li> <li><i>There's a Nightmare in My Closet</i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace_(1983_film)" title="Without a Trace (1983 film)">Without a Trace</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i>The Case of the Cosmic Comic</i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Effect_of_Gamma_Rays_on_Man-in-the-Moon_Marigolds" title="The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds">The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Light_that_Failed" class="mw-redirect" title="The Light that Failed">The Light that Failed</a></i> (1916)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television_shows_filmed_in_Bridgeport">Television shows filmed in Bridgeport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Television shows filmed in Bridgeport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col div-col-small div-col-rules" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kitchen_Nightmares" title="Kitchen Nightmares">Kitchen Nightmares</a></i> (Season 4, Episode 7, "Tavolini Restaurant", 2011)</li> <li><i>Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular</i> (2010) (TV)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Adventures" title="Ghost Adventures">Ghost Adventures</a></i>:"Remington Arms Factory" (Episode 21, November 2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/WWE_Raw" title="WWE Raw">WWE Raw</a></i> (November 18, 2002; March 8, 2004; December 26, 2005; August 21, 2006; April 9, 2007; April 27, 2009; June 21, 2010, April 11, 2011, and September 17, 2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/WWE_Smackdown" class="mw-redirect" title="WWE Smackdown">WWE Smackdown</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/ECW_(WWE)" class="mw-redirect" title="ECW (WWE)">ECW</a>, and <a href="/wiki/WWE_NXT_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="WWE NXT (TV series)">NXT</a> (May 7, 2002; March 4, 2003; August 2, 2005; December 9, 2008; November 24, 2009; November 2, 2010; and November 15, 2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey_Presents:_Mitch_Albom%27s_For_One_More_Day" title="Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day">Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day</a></i> (2007)</li> <li>WWE Raw's 15th Anniversary Special (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flip_This_House" title="Flip This House">Flip This House</a></i>: "Burning Down the House" (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Extreme_Makeover:_Home_Edition" title="Extreme Makeover: Home Edition">Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</a></i> (2003 & 2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Made_in_America_(TV_program)" title="Made in America (TV program)">Made in America</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i>U.S. Bounty Hunter</i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Muggsy_(TV_series)" title="Muggsy (TV series)">Muggsy</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Century_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Twentieth Century (TV series)">The Twentieth Century</a></i> (1957, The Class of '58 episode)</li> <li><i>Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye</i> (TV movie, 1977), bar scene of JFK campaigning with local workers filmed in the Ideal Bar on Barnum Avenue across from the former Singer Building</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_PD" title="Live PD">Live PD</a></i> (2016–2017)</li> <li><i>Family Guy</i> 2010</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sneaky_Pete" title="Sneaky Pete">Sneaky Pete</a></i> (2015–), although shot in the state of New York, much of the show takes place in Bridgeport</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Airports">Airports</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Airports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg/220px-Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg/330px-Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg/440px-Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport_CT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="486" /></a><figcaption>Sikorsky Memorial Airport (BDR), in neighboring Stratford; no longer offers commercial flights.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Sikorsky Memorial Airport</a> in neighboring <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a> was previously owned by the City of Bridgeport before closing a deal in 2016 that sold the land to Stratford. It once provided regional flights to major cities, but commercial operations at the airport were terminated in November 1999. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>General aviation airports</th> <th>Distance from Downtown/location </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_Memorial_Airport" title="Sikorsky Memorial Airport">Sikorsky Memorial Airport</a></td> <td>3 miles east in <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford, Connecticut</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Danbury_Municipal_Airport" title="Danbury Municipal Airport">Danbury Municipal Airport</a></td> <td>20 miles northwest in <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury, Connecticut</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waterbury%E2%80%93Oxford_Airport" title="Waterbury–Oxford Airport">Waterbury–Oxford Airport</a></td> <td>21 miles north in <a href="/wiki/Oxford,_Connecticut" title="Oxford, Connecticut">Oxford, Connecticut</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Teterboro_Airport" title="Teterboro Airport">Teterboro Airport</a></td> <td>50 miles southwest in <a href="/wiki/Teterboro,_New_Jersey" title="Teterboro, New Jersey">Teterboro, New Jersey</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Regional airports</th> <th>Distance form Downtown/location </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tweed_New_Haven_Airport" title="Tweed New Haven Airport">Tweed New Haven Airport</a></td> <td>17 miles east in <a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven, Connecticut</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Westchester_County_Airport" title="Westchester County Airport">Westchester County Airport</a></td> <td>28 miles west in <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County,_New_York" title="Westchester County, New York">Westchester County, New York</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>International airports</th> <th>Distance from Downtown/location </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">LaGuardia Airport</a></td> <td>45 miles southwest in <a href="/wiki/Queens,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens, New York">Queens, New York</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a></td> <td>48 miles southwest in Queens, NY </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stewart_International_Airport" title="Stewart International Airport">Stewart International Airport</a></td> <td>52 miles northwest in <a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">Newburgh, New York</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bradley_International_Airport" title="Bradley International Airport">Bradley International Airport</a></td> <td>58 miles northeast in <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Locks,_Connecticut" title="Windsor Locks, Connecticut">Windsor Locks, Connecticut</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport" title="Newark Liberty International Airport">Newark Liberty International Airport</a></td> <td>61 miles southwest in <a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark, New Jersey</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Roads">Roads</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Roads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thorme_Street,_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport,_CT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/220px-Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/330px-Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/440px-Thorme_Street%2C_a_street_sign_in_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>A typical Bridgeport street sign, from Thorme Street in the North End</figcaption></figure> <p>Bridgeport has several major roadways. <a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 95 in Connecticut">Interstate 95</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Route_8_(Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 8 (Connecticut)">Route 8</a>/<a href="/wiki/Route_25_(Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 25 (Connecticut)">Route 25</a> Connector meet in Downtown Bridgeport. I-95 runs east–west near the coast heading towards New York City to the southwest and <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a> to the northeast. Routes 8 and 25 run north–south across the city, with the two routes splitting just north of the city. Route 8 continues towards <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a> and Route 25 continues towards the <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a> area. Both Routes 8 and 25 connect to the <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Parkway" title="Merritt Parkway">Merritt Parkway</a> in the adjacent town of <a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a>. </p><p>Other major surface arteries are <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_1_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 1 in Connecticut">U.S. 1</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Post_Road" title="Boston Post Road">Boston Post Road</a>), which runs east–west north of Downtown, and Main Street, which runs north–south towards Trumbull center. The city also has several secondary state highways, namely, <a href="/wiki/Route_127_(Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 127 (Connecticut)">Route 127</a> (East Main Street), <a href="/wiki/Route_130_(Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 130 (Connecticut)">Route 130</a> (Connecticut Avenue, Stratford Avenue, Fairfield Avenue and Water Street), and the <a href="/wiki/Huntington_Turnpike" class="mw-redirect" title="Huntington Turnpike">Huntington Turnpike</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Railroad_and_ferries">Railroad and ferries</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Railroad and ferries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport,_CT_station_eastbound,_December_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg/220px-New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg/330px-New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg/440px-New_Haven_Line_train_approaches_Bridgeport%2C_CT_station_eastbound%2C_December_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/New_Haven_Line" title="New Haven Line">New Haven Line</a> train approaching the intermodal transit hub at <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_(Metro-North_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridgeport (Metro-North station)">Bridgeport Station</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Traction_Company" title="Bridgeport Traction Company">Bridgeport Traction Company</a> provided streetcar service in the region until 1937. The Housatonic Railroad carried passengers North through the Pequonnock and Housatonic Valleys prior to 1933. </p><p>The city is connected to nearby New York City by both <a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metro-North_Railroad" title="Metro-North Railroad">Metro-North</a> commuter trains, which serve <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_(Metro-North_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridgeport (Metro-North station)">Bridgeport's Metro-North station</a>. Many residents commute to New York jobs on these trains, and the city to some extent is developing as an outpost of New York–based workers seeking cheaper rents and larger living spaces. Connecting service is also available to <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a> via Metro-North, and <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> via Amtrak and Metro-North. <a href="/wiki/Shoreline_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoreline East">Shoreline East</a> service links <a href="/wiki/Old_Saybrook" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Saybrook">Old Saybrook</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a> with New Haven, which extends to Bridgeport and Stamford during weekday rush hours only. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_%26_Port_Jefferson_Ferry" title="Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry">Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry</a> service runs from Bridgeport across <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> to <a href="/wiki/Port_Jefferson,_New_York" title="Port Jefferson, New York">Port Jefferson</a>, New York; the three vessels <i>Grand Republic</i>, <i>P.T. Barnum</i>, and <i>Park City</i> transport both automobiles and passengers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Buses">Buses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Buses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:North_Avenue_facing_east,_the_Hollow,_Bridgeport,_CT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/165px-North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/248px-North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg/331px-North_Avenue_facing_east%2C_the_Hollow%2C_Bridgeport%2C_CT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption> A GBTA bus driving past North Avenue in the Hollow section of Bridgeport</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport_Transit_Authority" title="Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority">Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority</a> (GBTA) provides bus service to Bridgeport and its immediate suburbs. Route 2 the Coastal Link goes west to Norwalk and east to the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Post_Mall" title="Connecticut Post Mall">Connecticut Post Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a>, from where <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut Transit">Connecticut Transit</a> can bring passengers to the New Haven Green. <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_Lines" title="Greyhound Lines">Greyhound</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Pan_Bus_Lines" title="Peter Pan Bus Lines">Peter Pan Bus Lines</a> both offer intercity bus service to points throughout the Northeast and points beyond. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emergency_services">Emergency services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Emergency services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fire_department">Fire department</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Fire department"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Fire_Department" title="Bridgeport Fire Department">Bridgeport Fire Department</a></div> <p>The Bridgeport Fire Department provides <a href="/wiki/Fire_protection" title="Fire protection">fire protection</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services" title="Emergency medical services">emergency medical services</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Basic_life_support" title="Basic life support">Basic life support</a> level to the city of Bridgeport. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Police_department">Police department</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Police department"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_Police_Department" title="Bridgeport Police Department">Bridgeport Police Department</a></div> <p>The Bridgeport Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is responsible for most law enforcement within the geographical boundaries of City of Bridgeport. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_State_Police" title="Connecticut State Police">Connecticut State Police</a> Troop G barracks is located in Bridgeport but they do not primarily perform law enforcement functions in the city. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Emergency_medical_services">Emergency medical services</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Emergency medical services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Emergency medical services are provided by <a href="/wiki/American_Medical_Response" title="American Medical Response">American Medical Response</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Paramedic" title="Paramedic">paramedic</a> level. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York,_New_York.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg/190px-Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg/285px-Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg/380px-Mark_Twain_Bridgeport_Plaque_on_Library_Way_in_New_York%2C_New_York.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2781" data-file-height="1815" /></a><figcaption> Mark Twain quote on Library Way in Midtown Manhattan</figcaption></figure> <p>Novels set in Bridgeport include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court" title="A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court">A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</a></i>, written 1889, a classic novel by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, contains the line "Bridgeport?" Said I." "Camelot", said he." when a man from <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>, who does not yet know his has been transported to early medieval times, arrives with his escort to <a href="/wiki/Camelot" title="Camelot">Camelot</a>, confusing it for Bridgeport.</li> <li>Bridgeport is the setting of <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Howard" title="Maureen Howard">Maureen Howard</a>'s novel <i>Natural History</i>, which includes scenes from the city's history and depicts historical figures such as <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P. T. Barnum</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace" title="David Foster Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a> mentions Bridgeport in his novel <i><a href="/wiki/Infinite_Jest" title="Infinite Jest">Infinite Jest</a></i>, calling it the "true lower intestine of North America".<sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bridgeport,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut">List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Dennehy" title="Brian Dennehy">Brian Dennehy</a> (1938–2020), actor of stage, film and television</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Ganim" title="Joe Ganim">Joe Ganim</a> (born 1959), multiple term mayor and convicted felon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadie_Griffin" title="Sadie Griffin">Sadie Griffin</a> (1877–1958), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1939–1941</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_L._Lehninger" title="Albert L. 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Lehninger</a> (1917–1986), biochemist known for work in bioenergetics and for his textbook <i>Biochemistry</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mayer" title="John Mayer">John Mayer</a> (born 1977), guitarist and singer/songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mitchum" title="Robert Mitchum">Robert Mitchum</a> (1917–1997), actor<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_229-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-229"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alyssa_Naeher" title="Alyssa Naeher">Alyssa Naeher</a> (born 1988), goalkeeper for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States women's national soccer team">United States national soccer team</a><sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Quiles" title="Justin Quiles">Justin Quiles</a> (born 1990), 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University of Illinois Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-252-02687-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-252-02687-4"><bdi>978-0-252-02687-4</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230930093105/https://books.google.com/books?id=5sqULah9Jj0C">Archived</a> from the original on September 30, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Bridgeport: City Plan Commission. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230930093106/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9sAAAAAYAAJ">Archived</a> from the original on September 30, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Bridgeport: Fairfield County Historical Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+Old+Town+of+Stratford+and+City+of+Bridgeport+Connecticut&rft.place=Bridgeport&rft.pub=Fairfield+County+Historical+Society&rft.date=1886&rft.aulast=Orcutt&rft.aufirst=Samuel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fhistoryofoldtown01orcu%23page%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABridgeport%2C+Connecticut" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOrcutt1886b" class="citation book cs1">Orcutt, Samuel (1886b). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/ahistoryoldtown01conngoog#page/n5/mode/2up"><i>A History of the Old Town of Stratford and City of Bridgeport Connecticut</i></a>. Vol. II. Bridgeport: Fairfield County Historical Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+Old+Town+of+Stratford+and+City+of+Bridgeport+Connecticut&rft.place=Bridgeport&rft.pub=Fairfield+County+Historical+Society&rft.date=1886&rft.aulast=Orcutt&rft.aufirst=Samuel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fahistoryoldtown01conngoog%23page%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABridgeport%2C+Connecticut" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWaldo1917a" class="citation book cs1">Waldo, George Curtis (1917a). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/historyofbridgep01wald#page/n7/mode/2up"><i>History of Bridgeport and Vicinity</i></a>. Vol. I. S. J. 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newtown_(borough),_Connecticut" title="Newtown (borough), Connecticut">Newtown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">CDPs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ball_Pond,_Connecticut" title="Ball Pond, Connecticut">Ball Pond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethel_(CDP),_Connecticut" title="Bethel (CDP), Connecticut">Bethel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bigelow_Corners,_Connecticut" title="Bigelow Corners, Connecticut">Bigelow Corners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogus_Hill,_Connecticut" title="Bogus Hill, Connecticut">Bogus Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botsford,_Connecticut" title="Botsford, Connecticut">Botsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branchville,_Connecticut" title="Branchville, Connecticut">Branchville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookfield_Center,_Connecticut" title="Brookfield Center, Connecticut">Brookfield Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byram,_Connecticut" title="Byram, Connecticut">Byram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlewood_Isle,_Connecticut" title="Candlewood Isle, Connecticut">Candlewood Isle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlewood_Knolls,_Connecticut" title="Candlewood Knolls, Connecticut">Candlewood Knolls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlewood_Lake_Club,_Connecticut" title="Candlewood Lake Club, Connecticut">Candlewood Lake Club</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlewood_Orchards,_Connecticut" title="Candlewood Orchards, Connecticut">Candlewood Orchards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candlewood_Shores,_Connecticut" title="Candlewood Shores, Connecticut">Candlewood Shores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannondale,_Connecticut" title="Cannondale, Connecticut">Cannondale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coleytown,_Connecticut" title="Coleytown, Connecticut">Coleytown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compo,_Connecticut" title="Compo, Connecticut">Compo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cos_Cob,_Connecticut" title="Cos Cob, Connecticut">Cos Cob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniels_Farm,_Connecticut" title="Daniels Farm, Connecticut">Daniels Farm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darien_Downtown,_Connecticut" title="Darien Downtown, Connecticut">Darien Downtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodgingtown,_Connecticut" title="Dodgingtown, Connecticut">Dodgingtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Village,_Connecticut" title="East Village, Connecticut">East Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_University,_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairfield University, Connecticut">Fairfield University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Connecticut" title="Georgetown, Connecticut">Georgetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenville,_Connecticut" title="Glenville, Connecticut">Glenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greens_Farms,_Connecticut" title="Greens Farms, Connecticut">Greens Farms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich_(CDP),_Connecticut" title="Greenwich (CDP), Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawleyville,_Connecticut" title="Hawleyville, Connecticut">Hawleyville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Field,_Connecticut" title="Indian Field, Connecticut">Indian Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inglenook,_Connecticut" title="Inglenook, Connecticut">Inglenook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kellogg_Point,_Connecticut" title="Kellogg Point, Connecticut">Kellogg Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knollcrest,_Connecticut" title="Knollcrest, Connecticut">Knollcrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakes_East,_Connecticut" title="Lakes East, Connecticut">Lakes East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakes_West,_Connecticut" title="Lakes West, Connecticut">Lakes West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeside_Woods,_Connecticut" title="Lakeside Woods, Connecticut">Lakeside Woods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Hill,_Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Long Hill, Trumbull, Connecticut">Long Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordship,_Connecticut" title="Lordship, Connecticut">Lordship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamanasco_Lake,_Connecticut" title="Mamanasco Lake, Connecticut">Mamanasco Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mill_Plain,_Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Mill Plain, Fairfield, Connecticut">Mill Plain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray,_Connecticut" title="Murray, Connecticut">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Canaan_(CDP),_Connecticut" title="New Canaan (CDP), Connecticut">New Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noroton,_Connecticut" title="Noroton, Connecticut">Noroton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noroton_Heights,_Connecticut" title="Noroton Heights, Connecticut">Noroton Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Old Greenwich, Connecticut">Old Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hill,_Connecticut" title="Old Hill, Connecticut">Old Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oronoque,_Connecticut" title="Oronoque, Connecticut">Oronoque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemberwick,_Connecticut" title="Pemberwick, Connecticut">Pemberwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plattsville,_Connecticut" title="Plattsville, Connecticut">Plattsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poplar_Plains,_Connecticut" title="Poplar Plains, Connecticut">Poplar Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redding_Center,_Connecticut" title="Redding Center, Connecticut">Redding Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridgebury,_Connecticut" title="Ridgebury, Connecticut">Ridgebury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridgefield_(CDP),_Connecticut" title="Ridgefield (CDP), Connecticut">Ridgefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverside,_Connecticut" title="Riverside, Connecticut">Riverside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_Ridge,_Connecticut" title="Rock Ridge, Connecticut">Rock Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Route_7_Gateway,_Connecticut" title="Route 7 Gateway, Connecticut">Route 7 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Downtown, Connecticut">Stratford Downtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tashua,_Connecticut" title="Tashua, Connecticut">Tashua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_Corners,_Connecticut" title="Taylor Corners, Connecticut">Taylor Corners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokeneke,_Connecticut" title="Tokeneke, Connecticut">Tokeneke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topstone,_Connecticut" title="Topstone, Connecticut">Topstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumbull_Center,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull Center, Connecticut">Trumbull Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Mountain,_Connecticut" title="West Mountain, Connecticut">West Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weston_(CDP),_Connecticut" title="Weston (CDP), Connecticut">Weston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westport_Village,_Connecticut" title="Westport Village, Connecticut">Westport Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilton_Center,_Connecticut" title="Wilton Center, Connecticut">Wilton Center</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="Connecticut">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Connecticut" title="History of Connecticut">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Images_of_Connecticut" title="Category:Images of Connecticut">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Connecticut" title="List of people from Connecticut">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_state_symbols" title="List of Connecticut state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Connecticut" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Connecticut">Tourist attractions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Connecticut" title="Abortion in Connecticut">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Connecticut" title="Climate change in Connecticut">Climate change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Connecticut_culture" title="Category:Connecticut culture">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Connecticut" title="Crime in Connecticut">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut#Demographics" title="Connecticut">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut#Economy" title="Connecticut">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Connecticut" title="Education in Connecticut">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Connecticut" title="Gun laws in Connecticut">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Connecticut">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Connecticut" title="Political party strength in Connecticut">Party strength</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Connecticut" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Councils of governments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Connecticut" title="Coastal Connecticut">Coastal Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmington_Valley" title="Farmington Valley">Farmington Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_(Connecticut)" title="Gold Coast (Connecticut)">Gold Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Greater Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Greater Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Hartford" title="Greater Hartford">Greater Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">Tri-State area</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_panhandle" title="Connecticut panhandle">Connecticut panhandle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">Greater New Haven</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Valley">Housatonic Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_Hills" title="Litchfield Hills">Litchfield Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Connecticut_River_Valley" title="Lower Connecticut River Valley">Lower Connecticut River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Naugatuck_Valley" title="Central Naugatuck Valley">Central Naugatuck Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_River_Valley" title="Naugatuck River Valley">Naugatuck River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiet_Corner" title="Quiet Corner">Quiet Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Connecticut" title="Southeastern Connecticut">Southeastern Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Planning regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut">Capitol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut">Greater Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Connecticut_River_Valley_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut">Lower Connecticut River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_Valley_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut">Naugatuck Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Northeastern Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Hills_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut">Northwest Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Central_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">South Central Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Southeastern Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Western Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford_County,_Connecticut" title="Hartford County, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield County, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Connecticut" title="Middlesex County, Connecticut">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven_County,_Connecticut" title="New Haven County, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London_County,_Connecticut" title="New London County, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolland_County,_Connecticut" title="Tolland County, Connecticut">Tolland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windham_County,_Connecticut" title="Windham County, Connecticut">Windham</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Connecticut">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansonia,_Connecticut" title="Ansonia, Connecticut">Ansonia</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Connecticut" title="Bristol, Connecticut">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton_(city),_Connecticut" title="Groton (city), Connecticut">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut" title="New Britain, Connecticut">New Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Haven,_Connecticut" title="West Haven, Connecticut">West Haven</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Connecticut">All towns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andover,_Connecticut" title="Andover, Connecticut">Andover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansonia,_Connecticut" title="Ansonia, Connecticut">Ansonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Connecticut" title="Ashford, Connecticut">Ashford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avon,_Connecticut" title="Avon, Connecticut">Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barkhamsted,_Connecticut" title="Barkhamsted, Connecticut">Barkhamsted</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beacon_Falls,_Connecticut" title="Beacon Falls, Connecticut">Beacon Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin,_Connecticut" title="Berlin, Connecticut">Berlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethany,_Connecticut" title="Bethany, Connecticut">Bethany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethel,_Connecticut" title="Bethel, Connecticut">Bethel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethlehem,_Connecticut" title="Bethlehem, Connecticut">Bethlehem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bloomfield,_Connecticut" title="Bloomfield, Connecticut">Bloomfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton,_Connecticut" title="Bolton, Connecticut">Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bozrah,_Connecticut" title="Bozrah, Connecticut">Bozrah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford,_Connecticut" title="Branford, Connecticut">Branford</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater,_Connecticut" title="Bridgewater, Connecticut">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Connecticut" title="Bristol, Connecticut">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookfield,_Connecticut" title="Brookfield, Connecticut">Brookfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_Connecticut" title="Brooklyn, Connecticut">Brooklyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Connecticut" title="Burlington, Connecticut">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canaan,_Connecticut" title="Canaan, Connecticut">Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canterbury,_Connecticut" title="Canterbury, Connecticut">Canterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton,_Connecticut" title="Canton, Connecticut">Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaplin,_Connecticut" title="Chaplin, Connecticut">Chaplin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester,_Connecticut" title="Chester, Connecticut">Chester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton,_Connecticut" title="Clinton, Connecticut">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colchester,_Connecticut" title="Colchester, Connecticut">Colchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colebrook,_Connecticut" title="Colebrook, Connecticut">Colebrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Connecticut" title="Columbia, Connecticut">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall,_Connecticut" title="Cornwall, Connecticut">Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coventry,_Connecticut" title="Coventry, Connecticut">Coventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cromwell,_Connecticut" title="Cromwell, Connecticut">Cromwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darien,_Connecticut" title="Darien, Connecticut">Darien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_River,_Connecticut" title="Deep River, Connecticut">Deep River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham,_Connecticut" title="Durham, Connecticut">Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Granby,_Connecticut" title="East Granby, Connecticut">East Granby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haddam,_Connecticut" title="East Haddam, Connecticut">East Haddam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hampton,_Connecticut" title="East Hampton, Connecticut">East Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hartford,_Connecticut" title="East Hartford, Connecticut">East Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lyme,_Connecticut" title="East Lyme, Connecticut">East Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Windsor,_Connecticut" title="East Windsor, Connecticut">East Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastford,_Connecticut" title="Eastford, Connecticut">Eastford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easton,_Connecticut" title="Easton, Connecticut">Easton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellington,_Connecticut" title="Ellington, Connecticut">Ellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enfield,_Connecticut" title="Enfield, Connecticut">Enfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex,_Connecticut" title="Essex, Connecticut">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmington,_Connecticut" title="Farmington, Connecticut">Farmington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Connecticut" title="Franklin, Connecticut">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury,_Connecticut" title="Glastonbury, Connecticut">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goshen,_Connecticut" title="Goshen, Connecticut">Goshen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granby,_Connecticut" title="Granby, Connecticut">Granby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griswold,_Connecticut" title="Griswold, Connecticut">Griswold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton,_Connecticut" title="Groton, Connecticut">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guilford,_Connecticut" title="Guilford, Connecticut">Guilford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haddam,_Connecticut" title="Haddam, Connecticut">Haddam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Connecticut" title="Hampton, Connecticut">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartland,_Connecticut" title="Hartland, Connecticut">Hartland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harwinton,_Connecticut" title="Harwinton, Connecticut">Harwinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebron,_Connecticut" title="Hebron, Connecticut">Hebron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent,_Connecticut" title="Kent, Connecticut">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killingly,_Connecticut" title="Killingly, Connecticut">Killingly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killingworth,_Connecticut" title="Killingworth, Connecticut">Killingworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Connecticut" title="Lebanon, Connecticut">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ledyard,_Connecticut" title="Ledyard, Connecticut">Ledyard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisbon,_Connecticut" title="Lisbon, Connecticut">Lisbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyme,_Connecticut" title="Lyme, Connecticut">Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison,_Connecticut" title="Madison, Connecticut">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Connecticut" title="Manchester, Connecticut">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield,_Connecticut" title="Mansfield, Connecticut">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Connecticut" title="Marlborough, Connecticut">Marlborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlebury,_Connecticut" title="Middlebury, Connecticut">Middlebury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlefield,_Connecticut" title="Middlefield, Connecticut">Middlefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe,_Connecticut" title="Monroe, Connecticut">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montville,_Connecticut" title="Montville, Connecticut">Montville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris,_Connecticut" title="Morris, Connecticut">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck, Connecticut">Naugatuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut" title="New Britain, Connecticut">New Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Canaan,_Connecticut" title="New Canaan, Connecticut">New Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="New Fairfield, Connecticut">New Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hartford,_Connecticut" title="New Hartford, Connecticut">New Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Milford,_Connecticut" title="New Milford, Connecticut">New Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newington,_Connecticut" title="Newington, Connecticut">Newington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Connecticut" title="Norfolk, Connecticut">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Branford,_Connecticut" title="North Branford, Connecticut">North Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Canaan,_Connecticut" title="North Canaan, Connecticut">North Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Haven,_Connecticut" title="North Haven, Connecticut">North Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Stonington,_Connecticut" title="North Stonington, Connecticut">North Stonington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Lyme,_Connecticut" title="Old Lyme, Connecticut">Old Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Saybrook,_Connecticut" title="Old Saybrook, Connecticut">Old Saybrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_Connecticut" title="Orange, Connecticut">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_Connecticut" title="Oxford, Connecticut">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainfield,_Connecticut" title="Plainfield, Connecticut">Plainfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainville,_Connecticut" title="Plainville, Connecticut">Plainville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Connecticut" title="Plymouth, Connecticut">Plymouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomfret,_Connecticut" title="Pomfret, Connecticut">Pomfret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Connecticut" title="Portland, Connecticut">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Connecticut" title="Preston, Connecticut">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospect,_Connecticut" title="Prospect, Connecticut">Prospect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putnam,_Connecticut" title="Putnam, Connecticut">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redding,_Connecticut" title="Redding, Connecticut">Redding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridgefield,_Connecticut" title="Ridgefield, Connecticut">Ridgefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Hill,_Connecticut" title="Rocky Hill, Connecticut">Rocky Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxbury,_Connecticut" title="Roxbury, Connecticut">Roxbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salem,_Connecticut" title="Salem, Connecticut">Salem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury,_Connecticut" title="Salisbury, Connecticut">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotland,_Connecticut" title="Scotland, Connecticut">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour,_Connecticut" title="Seymour, Connecticut">Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharon,_Connecticut" title="Sharon, Connecticut">Sharon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman,_Connecticut" title="Sherman, Connecticut">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simsbury,_Connecticut" title="Simsbury, Connecticut">Simsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somers,_Connecticut" title="Somers, Connecticut">Somers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Windsor,_Connecticut" title="South Windsor, Connecticut">South Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southbury,_Connecticut" title="Southbury, Connecticut">Southbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southington,_Connecticut" title="Southington, Connecticut">Southington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprague,_Connecticut" title="Sprague, Connecticut">Sprague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stafford,_Connecticut" title="Stafford, Connecticut">Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sterling,_Connecticut" title="Sterling, Connecticut">Sterling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonington,_Connecticut" title="Stonington, Connecticut">Stonington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffield,_Connecticut" title="Suffield, Connecticut">Suffield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomaston,_Connecticut" title="Thomaston, Connecticut">Thomaston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompson,_Connecticut" title="Thompson, Connecticut">Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolland,_Connecticut" title="Tolland, Connecticut">Tolland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union,_Connecticut" title="Union, Connecticut">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon,_Connecticut" title="Vernon, Connecticut">Vernon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voluntown,_Connecticut" title="Voluntown, Connecticut">Voluntown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren,_Connecticut" title="Warren, 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Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunterdon_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hunterdon County, New Jersey">Hunterdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Kings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield County, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Mercer County, New Jersey">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Middlesex County, New Jersey">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_County,_New_Jersey" title="Monmouth County, New Jersey">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Monroe County, Pennsylvania">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_County,_New_Jersey" title="Morris County, New Jersey">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven_County,_Connecticut" title="New Haven County, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_County,_New_Jersey" title="Ocean County, New Jersey">Ocean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_New_York" title="Orange County, New York">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaic_County,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic County, New Jersey">Passaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pike_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Pike County, Pennsylvania">Pike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putnam_County,_New_York" title="Putnam County, New York">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockland_County,_New_York" title="Rockland County, New York">Rockland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_County,_New_Jersey" title="Somerset County, New Jersey">Somerset</a></li> <li><a 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/>over 100,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylon,_New_York" title="Babylon, New York">Babylon</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookhaven,_New_York" title="Brookhaven, New York">Brookhaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edison,_New_Jersey" title="Edison, New Jersey">Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hempstead,_New_York" title="Hempstead, New York">Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntington,_New_York" title="Huntington, New York">Huntington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islip,_New_York" title="Islip, New York">Islip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakewood_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Lakewood Township, New Jersey">Lakewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hempstead,_New_York" title="North Hempstead, New York">North Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oyster_Bay,_New_York" title="Oyster Bay, New York">Oyster Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithtown,_New_York" title="Smithtown, New York">Smithtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodbridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Woodbridge Township, New Jersey">Woodbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York" title="Yonkers, New York">Yonkers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />over 25,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" title="Bayonne, New Jersey">Bayonne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergenfield,_New_Jersey" title="Bergenfield, New Jersey">Bergenfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernards_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bernards Township, New Jersey">Bernards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford,_Connecticut" title="Branford, Connecticut">Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brick_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Brick Township, New Jersey">Brick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bridgewater Township, New Jersey">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmel,_New_York" title="Carmel, New York">Carmel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton,_New_Jersey" title="Clifton, New Jersey">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cortlandt,_New_York" title="Cortlandt, New York">Cortlandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastchester,_New_York" title="Eastchester, New York">Eastchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="East Brunswick, New Jersey">East Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Orange,_New_Jersey" title="East Orange, New Jersey">East Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Windsor,_New_Jersey" title="East Windsor, New Jersey">East Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Englewood,_New_Jersey" title="Englewood, New Jersey">Englewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewing_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Ewing Township, New Jersey">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Lawn,_New_Jersey" title="Fair Lawn, New Jersey">Fair Lawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey" title="Fort Lee, New Jersey">Fort Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Somerset_County,_New_Jersey" title="Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey">Franklin Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freehold_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Freehold Township, New Jersey">Freehold Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garfield,_New_Jersey" title="Garfield, New Jersey">Garfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenburgh,_New_York" title="Greenburgh, New York">Greenburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackensack,_New_Jersey" title="Hackensack, New Jersey">Hackensack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Hillsborough Township, New Jersey">Hillsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Howell Township, New Jersey">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Jackson Township, New Jersey">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearny,_New_Jersey" title="Kearny, New Jersey">Kearny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston,_New_Jersey" title="Livingston, New Jersey">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_New_York" title="Long Beach, New York">Long Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Branch,_New_Jersey" title="Long Branch, New Jersey">Long Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahwah,_New_Jersey" title="Mahwah, New Jersey">Mahwah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamaroneck,_New_York" title="Mamaroneck, New York">Mamaroneck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manalapan_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Manalapan Township, New Jersey">Manalapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maplewood,_New_Jersey" title="Maplewood, New Jersey">Maplewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlboro_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Marlboro Township, New Jersey">Marlboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Middletown Township, New Jersey">Middletown, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Orange_County,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Middletown, Orange County, New York">Middletown, NY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_Township,_Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Monroe Township, 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Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Old Bridge Township, New Jersey">Old Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_New_Jersey" title="Orange, New Jersey">Orange, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossining_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Ossining (town), New York">Ossining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Tree,_New_York" title="Palm Tree, New York">Palm Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramus,_New_Jersey" title="Paramus, New Jersey">Paramus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsippany%E2%80%93Troy_Hills,_New_Jersey" title="Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey">Parsippany–Troy Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaic,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic, New Jersey">Passaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_Amboy,_New_Jersey" title="Perth Amboy, New Jersey">Perth Amboy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piscataway,_New_Jersey" title="Piscataway, New Jersey">Piscataway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainfield,_New_Jersey" title="Plainfield, New Jersey">Plainfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie, New York">Poughkeepsie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahway,_New_Jersey" title="Rahway, New Jersey">Rahway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph,_New_Jersey" title="Randolph, New Jersey">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverhead,_New_York" title="Riverhead, New York">Riverhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Rockaway Township, New Jersey">Rockaway Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rye_(town),_New_York" title="Rye (town), New York">Rye (town)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="South Brunswick, New Jersey">South Brunswick</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Colonies" title="New England Colonies">New England Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England" title="Dominion of New England">Dominion of New England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Confederation" title="New England Confederation">New England Confederation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literature_of_New_England" title="Literature of New England">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Native_American_origin_in_New_England" title="List of place names of Native American origin in New England">Place names of Native-American origin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_New_England" title="Politics of New England">Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_New_England" title="Sports in New England">Sports</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/125px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/188px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/250px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg 2x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="461" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Major cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />over 100,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylon,_New_York" title="Babylon, New York">Babylon</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookhaven,_New_York" title="Brookhaven, New York">Brookhaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edison,_New_Jersey" title="Edison, New Jersey">Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hempstead,_New_York" title="Hempstead, New York">Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntington,_New_York" title="Huntington, New York">Huntington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islip,_New_York" title="Islip, New York">Islip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakewood_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Lakewood Township, New Jersey">Lakewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hempstead,_New_York" title="North Hempstead, New York">North Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oyster_Bay,_New_York" title="Oyster Bay, New York">Oyster Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithtown,_New_York" title="Smithtown, New York">Smithtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodbridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Woodbridge Township, New Jersey">Woodbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York" title="Yonkers, New York">Yonkers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />over 25,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" title="Bayonne, New Jersey">Bayonne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergenfield,_New_Jersey" title="Bergenfield, New Jersey">Bergenfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernards_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bernards Township, New Jersey">Bernards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford,_Connecticut" title="Branford, Connecticut">Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brick_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Brick Township, New Jersey">Brick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bridgewater Township, New Jersey">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmel,_New_York" title="Carmel, New York">Carmel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton,_New_Jersey" title="Clifton, New Jersey">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cortlandt,_New_York" title="Cortlandt, New York">Cortlandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastchester,_New_York" title="Eastchester, New York">Eastchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="East Brunswick, New Jersey">East Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Orange,_New_Jersey" title="East Orange, New Jersey">East Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Windsor,_New_Jersey" title="East Windsor, New Jersey">East Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Englewood,_New_Jersey" title="Englewood, New Jersey">Englewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewing_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Ewing Township, New Jersey">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Lawn,_New_Jersey" title="Fair Lawn, New Jersey">Fair Lawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey" title="Fort Lee, New Jersey">Fort Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Somerset_County,_New_Jersey" title="Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey">Franklin Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freehold_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Freehold Township, New Jersey">Freehold Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garfield,_New_Jersey" title="Garfield, New Jersey">Garfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenburgh,_New_York" title="Greenburgh, New York">Greenburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackensack,_New_Jersey" title="Hackensack, New Jersey">Hackensack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Hillsborough Township, New Jersey">Hillsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Howell Township, New Jersey">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Jackson Township, New Jersey">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearny,_New_Jersey" title="Kearny, New Jersey">Kearny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston,_New_Jersey" title="Livingston, New Jersey">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_New_York" title="Long Beach, New York">Long Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Branch,_New_Jersey" title="Long Branch, New Jersey">Long Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahwah,_New_Jersey" title="Mahwah, New Jersey">Mahwah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamaroneck,_New_York" title="Mamaroneck, New York">Mamaroneck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manalapan_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Manalapan Township, New Jersey">Manalapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maplewood,_New_Jersey" title="Maplewood, New Jersey">Maplewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlboro_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Marlboro Township, New Jersey">Marlboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Middletown Township, New Jersey">Middletown, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Orange_County,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Middletown, Orange County, New York">Middletown, NY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_Township,_Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montclair,_New_Jersey" title="Montclair, New Jersey">Montclair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olive_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Mount Olive Township, New Jersey">Mount Olive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York" title="Mount Vernon, New York">Mount Vernon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck, Connecticut">Naugatuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="New Brunswick, New Jersey">New Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Milford,_Connecticut" title="New Milford, Connecticut">New Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Rochelle,_New_York" title="New Rochelle, New York">New Rochelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">Newburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="North Brunswick, New Jersey">North Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Old Bridge Township, New Jersey">Old Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_New_Jersey" title="Orange, New Jersey">Orange, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossining_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Ossining (town), New York">Ossining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Tree,_New_York" title="Palm Tree, New York">Palm Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramus,_New_Jersey" title="Paramus, New Jersey">Paramus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsippany%E2%80%93Troy_Hills,_New_Jersey" title="Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey">Parsippany–Troy Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaic,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic, New Jersey">Passaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_Amboy,_New_Jersey" title="Perth Amboy, New Jersey">Perth Amboy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piscataway,_New_Jersey" title="Piscataway, New Jersey">Piscataway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainfield,_New_Jersey" title="Plainfield, New Jersey">Plainfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie, New York">Poughkeepsie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahway,_New_Jersey" title="Rahway, New Jersey">Rahway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph,_New_Jersey" title="Randolph, New Jersey">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverhead,_New_York" title="Riverhead, New York">Riverhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Rockaway Township, New Jersey">Rockaway Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rye_(town),_New_York" title="Rye (town), New York">Rye (town)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="South Brunswick, New Jersey">South Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teaneck,_New_Jersey" title="Teaneck, New Jersey">Teaneck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toms_River,_New_Jersey" title="Toms River, New Jersey">Toms River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_City,_New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey">Union City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Township,_Union_County,_New_Jersey" title="Union Township, Union County, New Jersey">Union Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Wall Township, New Jersey">Wall Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne,_New_Jersey" title="Wayne, New Jersey">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Haven,_Connecticut" title="West Haven, Connecticut">West Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Orange,_New_Jersey" title="West Orange, New Jersey">West Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Windsor,_New_Jersey" title="West Windsor, New Jersey">West Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield,_New_Jersey" title="Westfield, New Jersey">Westfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westport,_Connecticut" title="Westport, Connecticut">Westport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Plains,_New_York" title="White Plains, New York">White Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorktown,_New_York" title="Yorktown, New York">Yorktown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catskill_Mountains" title="Catskill Mountains">Catskills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Jersey" title="Central Jersey">Central Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Connecticut" title="Coastal Connecticut">Coastal Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Greater Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gateway_Region" title="Gateway Region">Greater Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">Greater New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Torrington" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Torrington">Greater Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Naugatuck_Valley" title="Central Naugatuck Valley">Greater Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Valley">Housatonic Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_Valley" title="Hudson Valley">Hudson Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Shore" title="Jersey Shore">Jersey Shore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_Hills" title="Litchfield Hills">Litchfield Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Jersey" title="North Jersey">North Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocono_Mountains" title="Pocono Mountains">Poconos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raritan_River" title="Raritan River">Raritan Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skylands_Region" title="Skylands Region">Skylands Region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Hills" title="Somerset Hills">Somerset Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watchung_Mountains" title="Watchung Mountains">Watchung Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Connecticut">Western Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis" title="Northeast megalopolis">Northeast megalopolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Northeast_megalopolis_major_urban_regions" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Northeast_Megalopolis" title="Template:Northeast Megalopolis"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Northeast_Megalopolis" title="Template talk:Northeast Megalopolis"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Northeast_Megalopolis" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Northeast Megalopolis"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Northeast_megalopolis_major_urban_regions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis" title="Northeast megalopolis">Northeast megalopolis</a> major urban regions</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Core cities are metropolitan core cities of at least a million people. The other areas are urban areas of cities that have an urban area of 150,000+ or of a metropolitan area of at least 250,000+. Satellite cities are in italics.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mid-Atlantic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Core cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_metropolitan_area" title="Baltimore metropolitan area">Baltimore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_Valley" title="Delaware Valley">Delaware Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia" title="Virginia Beach, Virginia">Virginia Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Richmond_Region" title="Greater Richmond Region">Richmond</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area" title="Washington metropolitan area">Washington</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hagerstown_metropolitan_area" title="Hagerstown metropolitan area">Hagerstown</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hagerstown,_Maryland" title="Hagerstown, Maryland">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg%E2%80%93Carlisle_metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area">Harrisburg</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania" title="Lancaster, Pennsylvania">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lehigh_Valley" title="Lehigh Valley">Lehigh Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allentown,_Pennsylvania" title="Allentown, Pennsylvania">Allentown</a>–<a href="/wiki/Bethlehem,_Pennsylvania" title="Bethlehem, Pennsylvania">Bethlehem</a>-<a href="/wiki/Easton,_Pennsylvania" title="Easton, Pennsylvania">Easton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Pennsylvania" title="Northeastern Pennsylvania">Northeastern Pennsylvania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Valley" title="Wyoming Valley">Scranton/Wilkes-Barre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie%E2%80%93Newburgh%E2%80%93Middletown_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area">Poughkeepsie–Newburgh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie, New York">city 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">city 2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania" title="Reading, Pennsylvania">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury_metropolitan_area" title="Salisbury metropolitan area">Salisbury</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury,_Maryland" title="Salisbury, Maryland">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York,_Pennsylvania" title="York, Pennsylvania">York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Combined areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington%E2%80%93Baltimore_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area">Washington–Baltimore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New England</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Core cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston">Boston</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Hartford" title="Greater Hartford">Hartford</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence_metropolitan_area" title="Providence metropolitan area">Providence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">city</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk</a> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">city 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">city 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">city 3</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Danbury</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="New Bedford, Massachusetts">New Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">New Haven</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a>–<a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_metropolitan_area,_Maine" title="Portland metropolitan area, Maine">Portland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield_metropolitan_area,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts">Springfield</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Combined areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston">Boston–Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">Bridgeport–Stamford–New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford%E2%80%93Springfield" title="Hartford–Springfield">Hartford–Springfield</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_States" title="Megaregions of the United States">Other megaregions</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Northeastern_United_States" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federal_district" title="Federal district">Federal districts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population" title="List of United States cities by population">Major cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allentown,_Pennsylvania" title="Allentown, Pennsylvania">Allentown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Vermont" title="Burlington, Vermont">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erie,_Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania">Erie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts" title="Quincy, Massachusetts">Quincy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania" title="Reading, Pennsylvania">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scranton,_Pennsylvania" title="Scranton, Pennsylvania">Scranton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York" title="Syracuse, New York">Syracuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">State capitals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annapolis,_Maryland" title="Annapolis, Maryland">Annapolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Maine" title="Augusta, Maine">Augusta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover,_Delaware" title="Dover, Delaware">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">Harrisburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montpelier,_Vermont" title="Montpelier, Vermont">Montpelier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis" title="Northeast megalopolis">Northeast megalopolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Special:EditPage/Template:Connecticut county seats"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="County_seats_of_Connecticut" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">County seats</a> of <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockville,_Connecticut" title="Rockville, Connecticut">Rockville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willimantic,_Connecticut" title="Willimantic, Connecticut">Willimantic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><small>These are the archival county seats of Connecticut, effective until 1960, when county governance was disestablished.</small></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Radio_stations_in_the_Bridgeport,_Connecticut,_metropolitan_area" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Bridgeport_Radio" title="Template:Bridgeport Radio"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Bridgeport_Radio" title="Template talk:Bridgeport Radio"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Bridgeport_Radio" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Bridgeport Radio"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Radio_stations_in_the_Bridgeport,_Connecticut,_metropolitan_area" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Radio stations in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bridgeport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">metropolitan area</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/wiki/AM_broadcasting" title="AM broadcasting">AM frequency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WICC_(AM)" title="WICC (AM)">600</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WADS" title="WADS">690</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WCUM" title="WCUM">1450</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WFIF" title="WFIF">1500</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM frequency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WMNR" title="WMNR">88.1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WVOF" title="WVOF">88.5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPKN" title="WPKN">89.5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WMNR" title="WMNR">90.1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WSHU-FM" title="WSHU-FM">91.1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEZN-FM" title="WEZN-FM">99.9</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Translators" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Broadcast_relay_station" title="Broadcast relay station">Translators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>91.9 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W220AC" class="mw-redirect" title="W220AC">W220AC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W220CF" class="mw-redirect" title="W220CF">W220CF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W270DL" class="mw-redirect" title="W270DL">101.9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W277DP" class="mw-redirect" title="W277DP">103.3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W283BS" class="mw-redirect" title="W283BS">104.5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W287AZ" class="mw-redirect" title="W287AZ">105.3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W297CP" class="mw-redirect" title="W297CP">107.3</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/HD_Radio" title="HD Radio">Digital radio</a><br />by frequency and subchannel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WSHU-FM" title="WSHU-FM">91.1-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WSHU-FM" title="WSHU-FM">91.1-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WJMJ" title="WJMJ">91.1-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WEZN-FM" title="WEZN-FM">99.9-1</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By <a href="/wiki/Call_signs_in_North_America" title="Call signs in North America">call sign</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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