For more than a decade, Fordham University officials have been trying to figure out how to address overcrowding at their Manhattan campus and fill the coffers of their relatively small endowment. They thought the answers to both could be found in one of their most valuable assets: their Manhattan real estate.
So for four years, Fordham officials have been trying to win support from community groups and city officials for plans to turn their four-building site into a far denser 12-building campus in the same space between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues and 60th and 62nd Streets. Fordham uses the site for various graduate programs and has a larger campus in the Bronx.
New York City 2010
