Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Bridgeport, CT

Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut, with a population of 148,654 in the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous city in New England.

Bridgeport is a port city in Fairfield County, in the Greater Bridgeport planning region, at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, about 60 miles from Manhattan.

Bridgeport was incorporated as a town in 1821 and as a city in 1836, and it was named for a drawbridge over the Pequonnock River.

Showman P. T. Barnum lived in Bridgeport and served as its mayor in 1871, and he housed his circus in the city during the winter.

Bridgeport was the site of the world's first mutual telephone exchange in 1877, and inventor Harvey Hubbell II invented the first American electric plug outlet there in 1912.

The Frisbie Pie Company was founded and operated in Bridgeport, and the world's first Subway restaurant opened in the city's North End in 1965.

Bridgeport became Connecticut's chief manufacturing city by 1905, but after World War II industrial decline and suburbanization cost it major employers and affluent residents.

The city covers 19.4 square miles, of which 16.0 square miles is land, and it sits just 3.3 feet above sea level at the mouth of the Pequonnock River.

Bridgeport is nicknamed the "Park City" because its 35 public parks cover 1,300 acres, including Seaside Park on Long Island Sound.

Bridgeport is home to the University of Bridgeport, Housatonic Community College, and part of Sacred Heart University, as well as the state's only zoo.