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Stamford ( / ˈstæmfərd /) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 34 miles (55 kilometers) outside of New York City. It is the sixth- most populous city in New England. Stamford is also the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region, and Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport.
Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Siwanoy Native American inhabitants to the region, and the very first European settlers to the area also referred to it that way. On July 1, 1640, Nathaniel Turner of the New Haven Colony signed an agreement to purchase the land comprising present-day Stamford, Darien, western New Canaan, and Pound Ridge and Bedford in present-day New York with Siwanoy ...
Stamford retains its strong-mayor form of government today. The mayor appoints the departments heads, acts as chief executive officer of the city, and is responsible for presenting the budget to the board of finance, city council, and planning board. The city council approves the budget and passes ordinances and resolutions.
Stamford Hospital. / 41.05500°N 73.55250°W / 41.05500; -73.55250. Stamford Hospital, residing on the Bennett Medical Center campus, is a 305-bed, not-for-profit hospital and the central facility for Stamford Health. The hospital is regional healthcare facility for Fairfield and Westchester counties, and is the only hospital in the ...
Downtown Stamford, or Stamford Downtown, is the central business district of the city of Stamford, Connecticut, United States.It includes major retail establishments, a shopping mall, a university campus, the headquarters of major corporations and Fortune 500 companies, as well as other retail businesses, hotels, restaurants, offices, entertainment venues and high-rise apartment buildings.
Stamford Town Center is an urban shopping mall located in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut. The 761,000-square-foot (70,700 m 2) mall is the eighth largest in Connecticut, with space for about 130 stores and restaurants. [citation needed] The mall's two anchors are a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) [citation needed] Macy's and a Barnes and Noble ...
The congregation's second synagogue, now a church, completed in the Romanesque Revival style. The congregation worships in its third synagogue building (not listed). 2. Church of the Holy Name. Church of the Holy Name. December 24, 1987. ( #87002131) 325 Washington Blvd., in the South End. 41°02′41″N 73°32′34″W.
In November 1965, the state of Connecticut bought the 64-acre (260,000 m 2) estate of Dr. Francis A. Bartlett, a dendrologist who had planted the site with tree and bush specimens from all over the world. The Arboretum opened to the public for the first time in 1966 and was transferred to the City of Stamford in 2001.