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Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating between New London, Connecticut and Orient, New York on Long Island.. The service is privately owned and operated by Cross Sound Ferry Services, headquartered in New London and run by the Wronowski family, which also owns and operates the Block Island Express ferry service and the Thames Shipyard and Repair Company.
The growing season is quite long in New London. Like much of coastal Connecticut and Long Island, NY, it averages close to 200 frost free days. The new 2023 USDA Garden Zone Map has New London in zone 7a. New London falls into the same garden zone as locations like Trenton, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, or Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. By the ...
Purchased in 1983 by Cross Sound Ferry Services, Inc. [1] of New London, Connecticut, she underwent a total refurbishment before entering service between Orient, New York (Long Island) and New London, perhaps making it the only D-Day veteran ship to still be in active service .
It was 280 feet long and 44 feet wide with capacity for 85 cars. It was sold to Cross Sound Ferry in March 2003, who renamed it the Mary Ellen and placed it back in service on their route between New London, Connecticut and Orient, New York that June, where it remains in service as of 2024.
Aug. 19—NEW LONDON — Express ferry services from the city waterfront to Block Island resumed late Saturday morning after a massive fire at an historic hotel led to a state of emergency for the ...
The island is connected year-round by a ferry to Point Judith, [46] and in summer to New London, Connecticut; Orient and Montauk, New York; and Newport, Rhode Island. [46] The traditional ferry takes about an hour to reach the island from Point Judith and is the only way to bring a car to the island as it is able to carry them.
New London Union Station is a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor located in downtown New London, Connecticut, United States.Union Station is a station stop for most Amtrak Northeast Regional trains and all CT Rail Shore Line East commuter rail trains, making it the primary railroad station in southeastern Connecticut.
Nelseco Navigation Company (a.k.a. Interstate Navigation Co.) operates ferry service to Block Island in Rhode Island. At least two ferries have been named NELSECO. One was launched in 1917 and scrapped circa 1972 and the other was launched in 1981 and scrapped circa 2010.