Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the northeastern United States and the third-oldest university in New York State.
John Hughes, Archbishop of New York and founder of St. John's College
John McCloskey, first president of St. John's College and later Cardinal-Archbishop of New York
1839 deed to St. John's College and St. Joseph's Seminary
St. John's College, 1846
Fordham Manor is a neighborhood located in the western Bronx, New York City. Fordham is roughly bordered by East 196th Street to the north, the Harlem River to the west, Fordham Road to the south, and Southern Boulevard to the east. The neighborhood's primary thoroughfares are Fordham Road and Grand Concourse.
Looking south across Fordham Road and along Walton Avenue at Monroe College
One Fordham Plaza
Fordham near New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo
46th Police Precinct