Afterlives of San Juan Hill
In 1958, the Black and Brown community of San Juan Hill in New York City was destroyed to make way for the Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project. Designated as a slum by the powerful, yet unelected, city planner Robert Moses, the eighteen-block neighborhood located on Manhattan’s west side (from 60th to 70th streets), was home to approximately 7,000 residents and 800 businesses. The neighborhood was taken through eminent domain to construct the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and to establish a Manhattan campus for Fordham University – dramatically shifting the cultural and demographic landscape of the neighborhood, the city, and our university. This exhibit contemplates Fordham’s role in the destruction of this community.



 
Exhibition Sponsors

American Studies Program, Fordham University

Center for Asian Americans and the Law, Fordham Law School

Clinical and Experiential Programs, Fordham Law School

Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University

Feerick Center for Social Justice, Fordham Law School

Fordham Law School

History Department, Fordham University

Initiative on Migrants, Migration and Human Dignity, Fordham University

Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work, Fordham Law School

Latin American and Latino Studies Department, Fordham University

Legal Writing Department, Fordham Law School

Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity, Fordham University

Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University

Political Science Department, Fordham University

Sociology and Anthropology Department, Fordham University

Theatre and Visual Arts Department, Fordham University

Theology Department, Fordham University

Urban Studies Program, Fordham University