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In 1800, the village became the Borough of Bridgeport, the first so incorporated in the state. It was named for the Newfield or Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, connecting the wharves on its east and west banks. In 1821, the township of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford. Other major surface arteries are U.S. 1 , which runs east–west north of Downtown, and Main Street, which runs north–south towards Trumbull center. The city also has several secondary state highways, namely, Route 127 , Route 130 , and the Huntington Turnpike. The city's public school system has 30 elementary schools, three comprehensive high schools, two alternative programs and an interdistrict vocational aquaculture school.
Both parks were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, known for creating Central Park. These two large public parks gave Bridgeport the nickname "The Park City". The West India trade died down around 1840, but by that time the Bridgeport Steamship Company and Bridgeport Whaling Company had been incorporated and the Housatonic Railroad chartered .
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Apartment house on Milne Street, in Sterling Hill, settled by the Irish. Three deckers, brick tenerments and small houses are found here. For college teams, Total Mortgage serves as the home venue for Sacred Heart University's men's hockey team and as the home court of Fairfield University's basketball team.
1922 was the year the elegantly designed Majestic and Poli Palace theatures, were built downtown, along with the Savory Hotel. The Poli Palace theatre was the largest theater in the state of Connecticut, with guided hand carved moldings and vaulted cealings. In 1928, the city bought an 800-acre racetrack and landing field in Lordship to construct Bridgeport Airport. Between 1910 and 1920, during World War I, the city's population exploded from 102,054 to 143,555, due to the city's role in the First World War.
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A committee of five ended up choosing Waggener's property because it made sense with the project and its cost. He registered his current house as historic through local, state and national organizations. The connection the house itself has to the community was highlighted by Historic New England on its website describing the grant. Gerber spent a lot of his childhood at the home, which belonged to his godfather, Wright's nephew.
The Greater Bridgeport Symphony, established in 1945, performs at Bridgeport's 1,400-seat Klein Memorial Auditorium. Though a level of industrial activity continues, healthcare, finance, and education have become the centerpieces of Bridgeport's economy. According to 2010 census data, the Bridgeport MSA, containing all of Fairfield County, is the most economically unequal region in America, with 57% of the wealth going to the top income quintile. The first telephone banking service in the United States was provided by People's Bank to its clients. The first daily UHF television station, KC2XAK aired in Bridgeport. It was a test conducted by NBC and was known as "Operation Bridgeport".
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The last major factory to close was the Sikorsky helicopter plant in 2015. Various famous industrial companies, that were founded and based in Bridgeport, such as ACME Sheer, Fortune 1000 Hubbell Incorporated, etc are now based in suburban Shelton, two towns away. Subway, which started out in Bridgeport in 1965, is now based in Milford. A small population of people from various majority-muslim nations exists along with Kurds, at least 4,000 in 2008 according to a local mosque. Bridgeport Public Schools observes Eid al-Fitr starting 2024, thanks to a campaign by city 8th graders from Park City Magnet School, which found 10% of the school body was Muslim in a school project. Bengali in 2022 was the 4th most common primary language for Bridgeport Public School students, followed by Arabic at 5th.
By this point, Remington Arms was producing 50% of America's cartrages during the war, with 17,000 employees, and homes for new workers were needed. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Bridgeport has begun extensive redevelopment of its downtown and other neighborhoods. Bridgeport is officially nickednamed "Park City", due to its public parks, 35 public parks taking up 1,300 acres, inclduing two large ones. Although none are headquarted within the city itself, more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies are based in its metropolitan area, which it shares with Stamford. Bridgeport by various sites has been consistently ranked as among the 25 most ethnicly and culturaly diverse American cities.
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Bridgeport's Madison Avenue, and Hollow Brazilian restaurants, located alongside various Portuguese ones, have been mentioned by publications such as the New York Times. It is"among the top cities in the state to emerse yourslef in Brazilian traditions" according to CTBites. Azteca was ranked among the best Mexican restaurants in Connecticut in 2020 according to Connecticut Magazine, along with Pho Hong Thom and Pho Saigon in Bridgeport's Little Asia on the West Side for best Vietnamese places in the state.
A new proposed train station in East Bridgeport, meant to be completed in 2021, was postponed in 2019. New waves of migrants, from places such as Brazil, Vietnam, Laos, Mexico, etc. settled in Bridgeport. Immigrants from Brazil, after the nation's inflation crisis, established themselves in the city due to the large Portuguese population already present, easing the language barrier. Bridgeport was a common second US destination for Vietnamese refugees "There's already an established community here, so that's why they come," from the New York Times in 1996. Along with them, Thai, Koreans, Taiwanese, Laotians, Chinese, Cambodians are the Asian American groups are groups mentioned in the city.
The Cape Verdean Association of Bridgeport is located in the Hollow today.Bridgeport in 2013 was 10.2% West Indian. The median income for a household in the city was $34,658, and the median income for a family was $39,571. Males had a median income of $32,430 versus $26,966 for females.
Route 8 continues towards Waterbury and Torrington and Route 25 continues towards the Danbury area. Both Routes 8 and 25 connect to the Merritt Parkway in the adjacent town of Trumbull. Sacred Heart University is located in the neighboring suburb of Fairfield on the town line, with its campus extending into the North End of Bridgeport on Park Avenue. It is the second largest Catholic University in New England . Sacred Heart has campuses in nearby Stamford, as well as Griswold, CT and Dingle, Ireland, as well as St. Vincent's College in Bridgeport.
The smallest group was Paraguayans at 16 people accoridng to the census. The Portuguese community in the city, is the largest in the state and primarily hail from the Tras Os Montes region of Portugal according to a 2018 research study. In the city, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.3 males.
Street scene in downtown Bridgeport, intersection of State and Main St. In a proposal in 1995, Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn was to build a large casino, but that project failed due to traffic concerns. The project was opposed as rival Donald Trump feared a Bridgeport casino would harm his Atlantic City properties and proposed to build a theme park and potencial casino on the same site. In September 1978, Bridgeport teachers went on a 19-day strike due to deadlocked contract negotiations. A court order, as well as a state law that made strikes by public workers illegal in Connecticut, resulted in 274 teachers being arrested and jailed. The county's Roman Catholic seat, St. Augustine Cathedral was finished in 1869, built by the Irish who had arrived 30 year earlier.
The city is connected to nearby New York City by both Amtrak and Metro-North commuter trains, which serve Bridgeport's Metro-North station. Many residents commute to New York jobs on these trains, and the city to some extent is developing as an outpost of New York–based workers seeking cheaper rents and larger living spaces. Connecting service is also available to Waterbury via Metro-North, and New Haven via Amtrak and Metro-North.
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