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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.
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 .
Orient is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.The CDP's population was 743 at the 2010 census. [2]Orient and Orient Point are used almost interchangeably.
Ferries provide service between Long Island and Connecticut, notably the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry (between Port Jefferson and Bridgeport), and the Cross Sound Ferry (between Orient Point and New London). The ferries that cross Long Island Sound carry automobiles, trucks and buses, as well as foot passengers.
The route extends along the central parts and North Shore of Long Island for just over 105 miles (169 km) from east midtown Manhattan in New York City to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of Long Island's North Fork. NY 25 is carried from Manhattan to Queens by way of the double-decked Queensboro Bridge over the East River.
Long Island Sound at night, with nearby settlements marked. The Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island Sound east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. The project has been studied and debated since the mid-20th century.
Map showing JFK (1) and LaGuardia (2) airports, both in Queens. Long Island is the location of three large airports with regularly scheduled commercial jet airline service. These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport ...
At the tip of the fork are Orient Point County Park and Orient Beach State Park as well as a ferry terminal connecting Long Island and eastern Connecticut. West to East, Wading River , Baiting Hollow , Calverton , Aquebogue , Jamesport , Laurel , Mattituck , Cutchogue , New Suffolk , Peconic , Southold , Greenport , East Marion , Orient , and ...