Bridgeport
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S.
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The population was 148,654 in 2020, making it the fifth-most populous city in New England. It is a port city in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, 60 miles (97 km) from Manhattan and 40 miles (64 km) from The Bronx. Bridgeport and other towns in Fairfield County make up the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, as well as the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, the second largest metropolitan area in Connecticut and a component of the greater New York metropolitan area.
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Worth seeing in and around Bridgeport
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University is a private Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1963 by Walter W. Curtis, bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
5.5 km · private Roman Catholic university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 02Fairfield University
Fairfield University is a private Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942.
7.9 km · university located in Fairfield, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 03Diocese of Bridgeport
The Diocese of Bridgeport is a diocese of the Catholic Church located in the southwestern part of the state of Connecticut in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford.
3.3 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 04University of Bridgeport
The University of Bridgeport is a private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
2.4 km · private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 05L'Ambiance Plaza
The L'Ambiance Plaza collapse was one of the worst disasters in modern Connecticut history. L'Ambiance Plaza was a 16-story residential project under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Coleman Street.
900 m · 1987 building collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 06St. Augustine Cathedral
St. Augustine Cathedral, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport.
700 m · church in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 07Total Mortgage Arena
Total Mortgage Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It was the home venue of the Bridgeport Islanders of the American Hockey League from 2001 to 2026.
1.6 km · building in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 08Penfield Reef Light
Penfield Reef Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, on Penfield Reef at the south side of Black Rock Harbor entrance on the Long Island Sound, off the coast of Fairfield, Connecticut. Constructed in 1874, it was one of the last offshore masonry lights.
8.1 km · lighthouse in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 09Stratford Point Light
Stratford Point Light is a historic lighthouse in the Lordship neighborhood of Stratford, Connecticut, United States, at the mouth of the Housatonic River. The second tower was one of the first prefabricated cylindrical lighthouses in the country and remains active.
8.6 km · lighthouse in Stratford, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 10Washington Bridge
The Washington Bridge, also known as the Devon Bridge, carries U.S. Route 1 over the Housatonic River in the U.S. state of Connecticut, connecting the city of Milford to the town of Stratford. Its geographic location is N 41.20037 by W −73.11039.
7.3 km · bridge in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bridgeport
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 73 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 78 km · Bradley (BDL), 94 km
- Stations
- Sikorsky Memorial Airport, 6.4 km · Fairfield–Black Rock station, 4.3 km · Fairfield station, 7.1 km · Southport station, 9.4 km · Stratford station, 5.5 km
- New York → Bridgeport86 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $8–11
- Hartford → Bridgeport77 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · $7–9
- Newark → Bridgeport96 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · $9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bridgeport
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bridgeport. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are no commercial airlines or flights available at this airport, although Tailwind Air Service offers seasonal air taxi from Boston and New Bedford, as well as New York City via seaplane.
- Get inCompanies such as Air Charter Advisors can arrange flights on-demand to BDR using light aircraft due to its shorter runways.
- Get inThe Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry runs approximately every hour between Bridgeport and Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island.
From Wikivoyage: Bridgeport (Connecticut), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bridgeport
- Lordshipneighborhood in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States7.9 km
- Black Rockneighborhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut4 km
- Greenfield Hill Historic Districthistoric district in Connecticut, United States8.2 km
- Stratford Center Historic Districthistoric district in Connecticut, United States5.5 km
- Bridgeport Downtown South Historic Districthistoric district in Connecticut, United States1.1 km
- Pleasure BeachGhost town in Connecticut, United States3.6 km