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- 125th Street Corridor
- 2nd Avenue Subway
- 421-a tax incentive program
- 980 Madison Tower
- Access to the Region's Core (ARC)
- Albee Square Mall Tower
- Atlantic Yards
- Bayside Rezoning
- Bayswater/Far Rockaway Rezoning
- Bedford Stuyvesant Rezoning
- Briarwood Rezoning
- Bricktown Centre
- Brig Redevelopment, Wallabout Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District
- Brooklyn Greenway
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Bush Terminal Park
- Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene Rezoning
- College Point Police Academy
- Columbia University Expansion
- Columbus Circle
- Con Ed Site Redevelopment
- Coney Island Development
- Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area
- Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel
- Domino Sugar Factory
- Downtown Brooklyn
- Downtown JFK-LIRR Link
- DUMBO Rezoning
- Dyker Heights/Fort Hamilton Rezoning
- East River Plaza
- East River Science Park
- East River Waterfront
- East Side Access
- Far Rockaway and Mott Creek Rezoning
- Far West Village Rezoning
- Federal Housing Policy
- Fieldston Landmark Designation
- Flushing Development
- Fordham Expansion
- Forest Hills Rezoning
- Fresh Kills Master Plan
- Fulton Street Transit Center
- Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station
- Garment District Rezoning
- Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market
- General Theological Seminary Tower (Chelsea)
- Governors Island
- Gowanus Development
- Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning
- High Line Redevelopment + Whitney Museum
- HUB Retail and Office Center
- Hudson Railyards
- Hudson River Park
- Hudson Yards Rezoning & Development
- Hunter College Health-Professions Tower
- Hunts Point Vision Plan
- Inwood/Sherman Creek Waterfront Rezoning
- Jamaica, Queens Development and Rezoning
- Javits Convention Center Expansion
- JetBlue JFK Terminal
- Kingsbridge Armory
- Kissena Park Rezoning
- Lincoln Center Redevelopment
- Long Island City
- Lower East Side Rezoning
- Lower Manhattan Development
- Maspeth - Woodside Rezoning
- Mets Stadium Construction
- Middle Village-Glendale Rezoning
- Midwood Rezoning
- Mott Haven School Campus
- Moynihan Station
- Museum for African Art
- New Madison Square Garden
- New Rego Park, Queens Mall
- New York City Building Code
- New York City Hospital Redevelopment
- New York Diamond Tower
- New York Historical Society Tower
- No. 7 Line Extension
- North Brother Island
- North Tribeca Rezoning
- NYC 2012 Olympic Bid
- NYU Development
- One Madison Ave Clocktower
- P.S. 64 Redevelopment
- PlaNYC 2030
- Plaza Hotel Redevelopment
- Policy Developments - Landmarks
- Public Place
- Queens Botanical Garden
- Queens Plaza
- Queens West
- Randalls Island Water Park and Playing Fields
- Red Hook Cruise Terminal
- Red Hook Development
- Renaissance Ballroom and Renaissance Casino
- Seventh Regiment Armory (Park Ave.)
- Silvercup West
- SoHo Sanitation Garage
- Solid Waste Management Plan
- South Bronx Jail Plan
- South Ferry Terminal Project
- South Street Seaport Redevelopment
- South Village Historic District
- Springfield Gardens Rezoning
- St. Vincent’s Expansion
- Stapleton Waterfront District
- Starrett City
- Staten Island NASCAR Track
- Staten Island North Shore Light Rail
- Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
- Sunnyside Yards Platform
- The Caledonia (Chelsea)
- Trump Soho Hotel Condominiums
- Union Square Redesign
- Union-Utopia Rezoning
- United Nations Renovation
- Upper West Side Rezoning Proposal
- Uptown New York (East Harlem)
- Van Cortlandt Park Filtration Plant
- Via Verde - New Housing New York Legacy Project
- Washington Square Park Redesign
- West-Park Presbyterian Church Tower
- White Plains Courtyard
- Whitestone Rezoning
- Willets Point Development
- World Trade Center Redevelopment
- Yankee Stadium Construction
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Fordham Expansion
In 2005, Fordham University announced plans to expand its Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan to serve over 10,000 students, adding 2.5 million gross square feet to their current campus. The university’s student population had outgrown the campus, which originally accommodated 3,500 students but served 8,000 students in the 2007 academic year. The campus currently includes most of the superblock between 60th and 62nd Streets and Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues.
The expansion plan calls for selling or leasing the two corner parcels of the campus along Amsterdam Avenue for construction of two luxury residential buildings – 47 and 57 stories tall – to help finance the proposed development of their educational facilities. In addition, Fordham plans to build several new high-rise dormitories and a new law school, as well as new classroom space. Under the proposal, much of the development will occur on the perimeter of the site. Father McShane, Fordham’s President, said this concentration was to “maintain at the center of campus the green space that has been so much a community resource for the last 40 years.” (As quoted in the NYT, 2/23/05)
Local residents and several local politicians are concerned about the height, bulk, and location of the development. Community Board 7 has stated that they believe that the plan as currently envisioned will create a “fortress-like” feeling that will negatively affect the surrounding area. (See CB 7’s comments on the plan.) Many also feel that the plan calls for too many parking spaces and will encourage more vehicular traffic surrounding the site. In addition, Fordham is asking DCP to allow it to compare the environmental impacts of the proposed developments to the environmental impacts of building three residential buildings that can be built “as of right”. Manhattan Community Board 7 feels that Fordham should instead compare the environmental impacts of the proposed development to not building any more buildings, which is the traditional baseline (or no-action alternative) for Environmental Impact Statements.
Currently the Department of City Planning (DCP) is reviewing Fordham’s Draft Scope of Work for preparation of an EIS for the expansion. After it issues the final scope of work, the University will prepare a Draft EIS of their proposal. Once DCP is satisfied the DEIS is complete, it will issue a “Notice of Completion,” which will begin the ULURP review of the project. It is not yet clear when the environmental review process will be completed.
Fordham Observer Backs University Expansion Plan
Thursday, September 27, 2007 | | Topic: Land Use
Citing the cramped conditions of the current Lincoln Center campus, the student-run newspaper of Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, the Fordham Observer, announces their support for the University’s expansion plan. While acknowledging the community’s concern over the character of the development, the paper cites Fordham’s need to accommodate its current student population and continue to compete for future students by upgrading and expanding its facilities.
DCP Holds Hearing on Scope of EIS for Fordham University’s Expansion
Thursday, September 27, 2007 | | Topic: Land Use
At a hearing to discuss the scope of the Enivoronmental Impact Statement that Fordham University must prepare for its Expansion Plans, community members called Fordham’s plan “appaling” and resembling a “fortress”. Residents were also concerned about the plan to convert two parcels of land on the campus into luxury housing, fearing a negative impact on the diversity of the neighborhood.
Fordham University has said that it desparately needs to expand because the campus is undersized for the student population it is serving. It says it is committed to working with the community, but that it is committed to expanding and to preserving the open space that is the center of the campus.
Politicians Oppose Fordham Expansion Plan
Monday, September 10, 2007 | New York Sun | Topic: Land Use
In a letter to Fordham University Representative Jerrold Nadler, as well as State Senator Thomas Duane, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal ask the University to move some of the development into the superblock, as opposed to on the perimeter. The politicians are concerned with the height of the buildings along the perimeter of the site, especially along Amsterdam Avenue, which is directly across the street from a public housing project. These concerns echo community concerns about the “fortress” like quality of the proposed development. In the past, Fordham has said that it developed the proposal to preserve the open space within the superblock and make more of the land publicly accessible.
Fordham University Announces Plan to Expand its Lincoln Center Campus
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 | New York Times | Topic: Land Use
Fordham University announced plans to expand its Lincoln Center campus to house 7 new buildings including new classrooms, a new law school, new dormitories, and an expanded library. The campus is generally bounded by the superblock between 60th and 62nd Streets and Amsterdam and Columbus Avenue. The expansion would be partially financed by the sale or lease of two corner parcels of the superblock along Amsterdam Avenue for luxury residential development.