Bridgeport station (Connecticut) suspected pending completion of an investigation. As of August 2006, average weekday commuter ridership was 3,120 passengers. Bridgeport is the busiest Metro-North station between and New Haven's Union Station. The station has 1,453 parking spaces, with 950 owned by the state. Bridgeport station (Connecticut) The Bridgeport station is a shared Amtrak, Metro-North Railroad, and Shore Line East train station along the Northeast Corridor serving Bridgeport, Connecticut and nearby towns. On Metro-North, the station is the transfer point between the Waterbury Branch and the New Haven mainline. Amtrak's inter-city "Northeast Regional" and "Vermonter" service also stop at the station, as do
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut the course of a few months, Bridgeport was transformed into an eight-hour day city. Bridgeport came out of World War I and its wartime strikes with a radicalized labor force which, in combination with the labor troubles of the Great Depression, ultimately led to socialist Jasper McLevy occupying city hall from 1933 to 1957. Bridgeport's industrial growth was fueled by, and attracted, immigration from overseas. By 1920, 32.4 percent of the population was foreign born with another 40.4 percent being the children of immigrants. As for the labor force, 73 percent were foreign born. The immigrant neighborhoods were located mostly