<p>After finding a $56 roundtrip flight to Ft. Lauderdale, Newsday travel writer Scott Vogel took a 24-hour trip.</p>


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The Hampton Jitney — which started in 1974 — has grown from a small van shuttling East End residents to a multimillion-dollar business with a total annual ridership of about 500,000.

From Lauren Bacall to 'Sex and the City': Looking back at 50 years of the Hampton Jitney

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