* Thank you for your editorial supporting the proposed plans for Fordham University’s new buildings next to Lincoln Center (“Let Fordham Grow,” Feb. 16).
As an alumna of Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, I hope that its plans become a realization.
More classes and dormitories are needed, as they will enrich the lives of new students seeking to attend Fordham. Fordham enhances the lives of the people in the nearby communities who love to attend the many lectures and various programs at the school.
Fordham has a warm, welcoming environment, and, as you state, “The expansion would also reinforce New York’s status as an intellectual capital – and shore up the city’s capacity to churn out a sufficient supply of talented labor to satisfy the businesses that rely on it.”
Grace Jacobs
Cliffside Park, NJ
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Your endorsement reflects Fordham’s excellent public-relations machine, not The Post’s interest in sound development.
The floor area proposed by the Fordham plan is more than the square footage of the Time Warner Center, the Empire State Building and the approved Freedom Tower.
The entirety of the Fordham project is planned to be accessible only by stairs or indoor elevators – hardly an invitation for the neighborhood to “enjoy the open spaces,” if any remain.
The plan is too dense, too high, exclusionary to the neighborhood, and crushingly greedy.
It is a source of pollution from cars attracted by the unnecessary garages, and it is a zoning disaster for the Lincoln Center cultural zone.
Evelyn Konrad
Manhattan