Fordham Plaza

ONE FORDHAM PLAZA

About the Building

Fordham Plaza is a 12-story office complex at the southeast corner of Fordham Road and Third Avenue located on Fordham Road, the largest shopping district in the Bronx, New York City’s northernmost borough. The L-shaped, Neo Art Deco-style plaza’s tenants include TJ Maxx, Applebee’s, Starbucks and Chipotle; neighboring retailers include Macy’s Backstage, Best Buy and Walgreens. Fordham Plaza is across the street from Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus, with more than 6,500 students and 1,000 staff members, and Fordham Station, the busiest Metro-North station in the Bronx and the third busiest rail station outside Manhattan.

About the Bronx

Home to Yankee Stadium and the birthplace of hip-hop, the Bronx has been called New York City’s greenest borough, with 7,000 acres of parkland. In fact, Pelham Bay Park, in northeast corner of the Bronx, is more than triple the size of Manhattan’s Central Park; it is the largest property in the City’s park system.

Though more than 200,000 people live within a mile of Fordham Plaza, it’s easy to connect with nature. The plaza sits across from Fordham University at Rose Hill, featuring tree-lined walkways and Gothic architecture on an 85-acre campus that has appeared in major films. The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), one of New York’s biggest tourist attractions, is about a mile from the plaza. At the 250-acre horticultural oasis, visitors can see the largest remaining tract of old-growth forest that once covered most of New York City, a conservatory with lush tropical rainforests, and more than a million flowers and fungi specimens.

The busy local Metro-North train stop, Fordham Station, also highlights the natural world. The Northbound platform features four “rose windows” (the circular type found in Gothic cathedrals) depicting orchids, bonsai and other plants and flowers seen at the NYBG, along with Gothic imagery inspired by Fordham’s campus. The gold and black window installation, known as “Eureka,” was created by Brooklyn artist Dan Funderburgh. It is one of 400 permanent public art displays in subways and commuter rail stations operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).