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Under Connecticut's Home Rule Act, any town is permitted to adopt its own local charter and choose its own structure of government. The three basic structures of municipal government used in the state, with variations from place to place, are the selectman–town meeting, mayor–council, and manager–council. [5]
The Stamford Police Department (SPD) is Stamford's only police force, and has lost four officers in the line of service since 1938. The police force has about 280 sworn police officers making it the fifth largest police force in Connecticut after Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Waterbury. [ 96 ]
Stamford station, officially known as the Stewart B. McKinney Transportation Center [5] or the Stamford Transportation Center, is a major railroad station in the city of Stamford, Connecticut, serving passengers traveling on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
The station has one four-car-long high-level side platform with two waiting shelters to the east of the track. [3]: 25 The platform is situated between the grade crossings of Glenbrook Road to the south and Crescent Street to the north. [4]
CT Transit (styled as CTtransit) is a public transportation bus system serving many metropolitan areas and their surrounding suburbs in the state of Connecticut. CT Transit is a division of the Connecticut Department of Transportation , although it contracts a number of private companies for most of its operations.
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An earlier Stamford Town Hall had been constructed in 1871 and destroyed in a fire in 1904. [8] To replace it, the City of Stamford (which then had about 19,000 inhabitants) commissioned a new town hall, designed by architects Edgar Josselyn and Nathan Mellen. [8] Designed in 1905, [2] the building opened in 1906. [3]
Cummings Park is located in Stamford, Connecticut, US.It is made up of about 79 acres (320,000 m 2) of shorefront property on Long Island Sound. [1]The main attraction of the park is Cummings Beach, which once had a seasonal harbor seal colony of which only a white marble seal statue is left.