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Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut [7] and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. [3] Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is a port city 60 miles (97 km) from Manhattan and 40 miles (64 km) from The Bronx.
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The Great Fish Market, painted by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Fish markets were known in antiquity. [2] They served as a public space where large numbers of people could gather and discuss current events and local politics. Selling fish in a Quebec Market, c. 1845. Fish Market, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1890
The urbanized areas of Stamford and Bridgeport are contiguous and considered by the U.S. Census Bureau as a single urban core. [8] The towns containing this merged urbanized area, plus surrounding towns with significant commuter interchange to the central towns, are grouped together as the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk New England City and Town Area.
Bridgeport Harbor is bordered by Long Island Sound and is formed by the estuary of the Pequonnock River and Yellow Mill and Johnson's Creeks, both tidal inlets. Between the estuary and Yellow Mill Pond is a peninsula, East Bridgeport, also known as the East Side, which was once the site of some of the largest manufacturing establishments in Connecticut, most of which no longer exist.
The Maine Avenue Fish Market has been in continuous operation since 1805, [5] making it the oldest operating fish market in the United States and 17 years older than New York City's Fulton Fish Market, [6] [1] which was moved to the Bronx in 2005. The Maine Avenue Market was moved a few blocks along the Washington Channel in the 1960s.
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Black Rock is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut.It borders Fairfield and the Ash Creek tidal estuary on the west, the West Side/West End of Bridgeport on the north and east, and Black Rock Harbor and Long Island Sound on the south.