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15 Best Things to Do in Stamford (CT)

An hour out of New York from Penn Station, Stamford has an urban, big city feel downtown, where nine Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered. Head south and you’ll hit Long Island Sound and almost 20 miles of shoreline with waterside parks and beaches. And if you go north, Stamford is my idea of a New …

A town sculpted from pale limestone, Stamford became the first designated conservation area in all of England and Wales back in 1967. Stamford doesn’t have a dominant monument that you have to see as a priority, but rather there’s a whole streetscape of stone-built townhouses, churches, almshouses, cottages and imposing civic buildings to take in. …