bushwick – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png bushwick – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 Students Take In a Most Public Art Gallery https://now.fordham.edu/arts-and-culture/students-take-in-a-most-public-art-gallery/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:07:57 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=66349 The Jefferson Avenue subway stop in Bushwick, Brooklyn is less than seven miles from Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, but may as well be a world away in terms of architecture and aesthetics.

On March 23, Colin Cathcart,  associate professor of architecture, led a dozen students through a two hour-long jaunt that touched on graffiti and street art, an active freight line, the oldest standing Dutch Colonial stone home just across the border in Queens, and finally, a tortilla factory-turned-restaurant serving some of the best tacos in the city.

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