David Dubinsky Student Center / Business & Liberal Arts Center

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8-story modernist/brutalist university building completed in 1977. Designed by DeYoung & Moscowitz, the Dubinsky Center is home to FIT's dining hall, as well as a Starbucks and Barnes & Noble at the ground floor. The upper floors house many academic facilities, including arts and crafts studios, the student radio room, a game room, lounge, and student government and club offices. Dubinsky's labs and studios include lighting design, cosmetics and fragrance development, textiles, millinery, toy, and jewelry design, as well as support offices and a health center.

The Dubinsky Center is clad in cream-colored limestone. With the intention to make 27th Street the center of the campus, the back of the building faced 8th avenue, interrupting the largely commercial corridor. The south facade has a large recessed area at the middle, with a glass curtain wall and the main entrance. The lower two floors at the east end is also open to the curtain wall, with three thin stone piers supporting the upper floors. At the east end the 3rd floor has four very narrow windows, the middle two paired together; the 4th floor has two bays of wide windows; the 5th floor has two narrow paired windows at the middle; and the 6th floor has two square windows paired at the middle of the east end. The recessed area in the center of the facade ends at the 7th floor, which has two pairs of very narrow windows and a single narrow window to either side, the western one paired with a square window to the left. Below this window is a bay of square openings back to the recessed curtain wall, running down the facade with a double-height openings at the bottom. The 8th floor has another square window at this bay, with a second one to the east. There are no openings at the west end of the south facade.

The west facade on the avenue also has no openings at its south end. South of the center is a loading dock, with the upper floors above having a bay of very narrow windows. The north half of the west facade features a recessed area at the lower two floors, with its south end angling back into the recessed area, which has a larger loading dock. To the north of this loading dock there is a short stone wall and a sloping metal roof that angles back into the recessed area, the upper part of which is clad in brown brick. Three stone piers support the floors above the recessed area. The 3rd & 4th floors above the recessed area have seven bays of double-windows. The 5th floor has only two such bays, plus a very narrow window to the left. The 6th floor has only one double-window, and a narrow window to the left, and another narrow window to the right (above the double-window below). The 7th floor has two narrow windows to go along with the one at the bay farther to the south, and the 8th floor does as well, except that the northern window is placed farther south. The north end of the building only rises seven floors, and is visually separated by a thin groove.

The north facade of the Dubinsky Center has no openings at the west end. Near the middle is a recessed bay of double-windows, and the east half has four bays of double-windows beginning at the 3rd floor.

The 9-story Business and Liberal Arts Center is connected to the east side of the Dubinsky Center, and houses academic classrooms and labs, athletic facilities, and the dean's offices. It is clad in the same limestone as the Dubinsky Center but with many more windows in a regular fenestration pattern and a recessed arcade at the base. The top floor is set back, without windows. The main building section is 12 bays wide (double-wide bays at the base), and there is a smaller 6-story connecting section that is recessed on both north and south sides that spans 7 bays.