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Fordham Plaza is a major commercial and transportation hub in the Fordham section of the Bronx in New York City. It is located on the south side Fordham Road at Third and Webster Avenues, at the eastern end of the commercial strip along Fordham Road ("Fordham Center") that runs past Grand Concourse and Jerome Avenue to about Grand Avenue, and to the west of the Bronx's Little Italy district on Arthur Avenue in nearby Belmont. The plaza is located across from Fordham University's Rose Hill campus, and above the Fordham station of the Metro-North Railroad. The Fordham Plaza name refers specifically to two locations in the area: the office building One Fordham Plaza on the east side of Third Avenue, and the Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal on the west side. It is the largest shopping strip in the Bronx, and the third largest in New York City. ==Location== The name "Fordham Plaza" refers to a two-block-long area on the south side of Fordham Road between Webster Avenue to the west and Washington Avenue to the east. The area is bounded to the south by East 189th Street. Third Avenue runs up the middle of the area to Fordham Road; Park Avenue avenue formerly ran north through the plaza as well, but currently ends at 189th Street.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fordhamroadbid.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/map2014_BID_HR_6-FINAL.pdf )〕 There are two primary structures on the site. On the southeast corner of Fordham Road and Webster Avenue is Fordham Place (400 East Fordham Road), a brick structure occupying half of the western block. Existing since the 1910s,〔 it is owned by Retail Properties of America, Inc., and consists of a 7-story building and an adjacent 14-story building with mixed retail and office use. Several stores occupy the complex including a Best Buy location and until 2014 a Sears location (leading to the nickname of the "Sears Building"), which has since been leased by Macy's.〔〔〔 The second is One Fordham Plaza (also stylized as 1 Fordham Plaza),〔 a 14-story office complex which occupies the entire eastern block on Fordham Road and Washington Avenue. It is constructed in a "layer-cake" design with yellow stone, black marble, and polished chrome. Opened in 1986 and owned by Chase Enterprises, it also features stores on its lower levels including a T.J.Maxx, the Family Health Center for Montefiore Medical Center, the Union Health Care Center for the New York City Housing Authority run by St. Barnabas Hospital, and a multi-level parking garage.〔 In between the two buildings is the Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal (4750 Third Avenue),〔 encompassing Third Avenue and the former right-of-way of Park Avenue on a "bridge-structure" over the Metro-North Railroad tracks. From 1997 to early 2013, this was also the location of a cobblestone-paved outdoor market space. This included tents and stands for items such as fruit. At its north end were two concession stands built into the southern entrance stairs to the Metro-North station. Throughout the plaza were several obelisk-like pillars, some of which were combined with canopies and glass bricks to form bus shelters. The market area, concession stands, and the remainder of Park Avenue in the Plaza (used only for bus turnarounds and layovers, as well as local deliveries to Fordham Place) were demolished as part of the current "Fordham Plaza Reconstruction Project", which constructed a bus loop on Third Avenue (used to turn buses) and closed the street to all traffic except buses.〔〔〔 Located across from the plaza to the north is Fordham University's Rose Hill campus and its associated William D. Walsh Family Library and Fordham Preparatory School. Across Washington Avenue to the east is Theodore Roosevelt Educational Campus (formerly Theodore Roosevelt High School). The Bronx Library Center of the New York Public Library is located nearby at Kingsbridge Road. The plaza is located near several attractions of Bronx Park, including the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.〔 Fordham Plaza is part of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District, which extends west to around Jerome Avenue past Grand Concourse and includes much of the "Fordham Center" commercial district.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fordham Plaza, Bronx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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