Nice set. I appreciate the picture of the Subway in Subway's home town.

 

I must admit though, Bridgeport is one of the most depressing cities I've been to.

Connecticut is such a state of contrasts for being so small.  From Bridgeport, a couple of miles away is one of the largest collections of wealth in the world.  Then you go a bit further...Hartford...then West Hartford...then New London...then Mystic...it's all so...American.

great to see a piece of bridgeport, i have a bronx friend who lives there now and i was just there a couple weekends ago. in the past, i almost went to grad school in bridgeport and sure am glad i didn't. the town has a lot of contrasts. most of it is alright, but it has a seriously ghetto side as well. my friend tends to go fishing or bbq at home -- they have a frank pepe's new haven pizza place there, so i sure don't complain!

^ Well, technically the Pepe's is in Fairfield, not Bridgeport...continuing that theme of contrasts

^ oh yeah i should have said near bridgeport. the whole state all kind of blurs together though, same with rhode island as well as the suburban towns before them in ny state like port chester and rye. i don't really feel like i'm somewhere else until massachusetts. well, i guess rhode island does feel like kind of a bridge state.

they have a frank pepe's new haven pizza place there, so i sure don't complain!

 

I wish I had known that. I wanted to try New Haven style pizza, but ended up trying Shake Shack in Westport.

Wow, this looks kind of ghetto, almost like a small Rust Belt city. I thought Connecticut was overall really wealthy? Is all the money outside the state's largest city?

Wow, this looks kind of ghetto, almost like a small Rust Belt city. I thought Connecticut was overall really wealthy? Is all the money outside the state's largest city?

Ghetto??? Hmm.

Wow, this looks kind of ghetto, almost like a small Rust Belt city. I thought Connecticut was overall really wealthy? Is all the money outside the state's largest city?

 

Connecticut is very wealthy, but it is also very segregated. Most of the wealth is concentrated in western Fairfield County, Litchfield County, and areas around New Haven and Hartford. The cities themselves and much of the rural areas are actually quite poor. New Haven has Yale which has helped its downtown really come around in recent years and Hartford has also seen some investment downtown. And Stamford benefits from basically being a suburb of New York City. Bridgeport, however, has not really seen much revitalization in its core. Bridgeport is also a much younger city than the others and was built on industry and shipping, so it suffered from a similar type trajectory during the 20th century as did many Rust Belt cities