BRIDGEPORT — There will soon be a new ferry plying Long Island Sound. The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, which daily operates three, roughly 300-foot-long, car-carrying vessels ...

The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson ferry’s newest vessel, The Long Island, docked in the Suffolk village on Sunday afternoon after a five-day journey through treacherous storms in North Carolina ...

Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry company to add a fourth vessel to fleet crossing Long Island Sound By Brian Lockhart, Staff Writer Updated Dec 17, 2024 1:15 p.m.

The release notes the ferry stretches 302 feet long. It will join two other vessels in Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company's fleet that also were built by Eastern Shipbuilding.

At 5 a.m., Francesca Ripani can be found starting up generators and the main engines on the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry’s Park City vessel. Then she makes her rounds on the boat, making sure ...