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In 1683, New York and Connecticut reached a final agreement regarding their common border. This resulted in the cession of the town of Rye and all claims to the Oblong to New York. From the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several new towns were incorporated in western Connecticut and added to Fairfield County, namely Danbury (1687 ...
Stamford (/ ˈ s t æ m f ər d /) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 34 miles (55 kilometers) outside of New York City. It is the sixth- most populous city in New England . Stamford is also the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region , and Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport .
Danbury Hospital is a 456-bed [91] hospital, serving patients in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Putnam County, New York. [92] The hospital is the home of the new Praxair Regional Heart and Vascular center, [ 93 ] providing state of the art cardiovascular care to this growing region including open heart surgery and coronary angioplasty .
Connecticut (/ k ə ˈ n ɛ t ɪ k ə t / ⓘ kə-NET-ih-kət) [10] is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south.
The area is numbered as part of the New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area NY-NJ-CT-PA by the United States Census Bureau. [4] [5] The combined metropolitan area is the fourth largest of New England (behind the Boston, Providence, and Hartford areas). The area includes Connecticut's two largest cities: Bridgeport and Stamford.
Specifically, we compared data for close to 500 suburbs located within 15 minutes to an hour by car of a large city (those with a population of 250,000 or more).
For years, I spent hours stuck in traffic driving to the Hamptons from my home in New York City.. I got fed up and started spending weekends in Madison, a coastal town in Connecticut. Madison's ...
In exchange, New York received an equivalent area consisting of a 1.81-mile-wide (2.91 km) strip of land known as the "Oblong" running northwards from Ridgefield, Connecticut to the Massachusetts border, alongside the New York counties of Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess. New York was also given undisputed claim to Rye, New York. [2] [3] [4 ...