North Stamford
Coordinates: 41°08′17″N 73°32′38″W / 41.138°N 73.544°W
North Stamford is section of Stamford, Connecticut, USA, north of the Merritt Parkway. Often hilly and wooded, it is less densely developed than the rest of the city, containing about one-third of the land area within the city but only about 12% of the total population (per the 2000 Census).North Stamford was a village until 1949, when it became part of the City of Stamford.
To the southeast is the Springdale section of Stamford, to the south is the Turn of River section and to the southwest is the Westover section of Stamford. To the west is the "back country" of Greenwich and to the north is Pound Ridge, New York. To the east is New Canaan.
High Ridge Road, in the area just south of the Merrit Parkway, is the largest shopping district near North Stamford. A shopping plaza and some surrounding stores are also nearby on Newfield Avenue, and downtown Springdale also offers nearby stores.
When Stamford's population began to grow during and after World War II, 30,000 new residents arrived from 1940 to 1960. "North Stamford developed with one- and two-acre zoning, looking just like Wilton or New Canaan," Janice Green, the manager of the William Pitt Real Estate office, told The New York Times in 1989. "Executives moved up there who had no connection with the factories and ethnic working-class neighborhoods downtown."
City reservoirs are located in North Stamford, as are the Bartlett Arboretum and the Stamford Historical Society headquarters and museum.
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