The City of Stamford Fire Department has over 270 career firefighters, staffing nine fire stations city-wide. Stamford is located 35 miles Northeast of New York City in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and covers 39.9 square miles from its shoreline on Long Island Sound, north to the New York State border. Connecticut's third largest City has a permanent population of over 128,000 residents that swells daily to over 205,000, as people commute into Stamford to work. Each day, 80,000 commuters use an elaborate transportation network to reach Stamford. The Stamford Train Station boasts the greatest number of user with approximately 38,000 riders between Metro-North and Amtrak using the station, making it the busiest station outside of Grand Central Terminal. The largest portion of commuter traveling to Stamford come by car using either the Connecticut Turnpike (I‑95), the Merritt Parkway, and US Route 1, which passes through the downtown area.