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'Coffee Talk' with Frederick Hall of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat company

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By Published: March 19 2020

LongIsland.com

The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat company transports 450,000 cars and 1M people each year.

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Photo by: Kevin Wood

'Coffee Talk' with Frederick Hall of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat company. Did you know the ferry was first used to bring animals over from CT by PT Barnum? The system now transports 450,000 cars and 1,000,000 people each year!