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We were perusing the Washington Square News, the NYU student paper, and this week, it's covering the housing situation. Some interesting articles:
- Five hundred NYU students didn't get housing at the close of the school year, but all are in housing now. But not necessarily all of them went to NYU housing - apparently the lottery system and waiting for a dorm assignment can actually drive people into the NYC rental market. One junior who was finally placed said she would leave NYU housing for her senior year, explaining, "My roommate and I are planning on living in New York after graduation, so it would make that transition that much easier."
- Which brings us to a story about the 26th Street dorm converting its doubles to singles. Doubles (two people, a set of bunk beds) would run $1,000 per person. For NYU, that's low-cost housing, but the former doubles/new singles go for $2,000 per person - definitely not low-cost housing.
Now, for $1,000 per person, you could probably end up with a decent apartment, though perhaps one in Brooklyn and with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears after searching on craigslist. This is also why many students probably move out or try to become RA's.
- And the community loves SVA more than NYU: The School of Visual Arts is building a dorm at 10th Street and Third Avenue where NYU had once hoped to build one. And the neighborhood hasn't filed a lawsuit against SVA! Why the warm welcome for SVA when NYU is getting raked over the coals? The Greenwich Village Society for Historcial Preservation said that SVA wasn't building to the zoning limits and would have had a floor area ratio of 3.44, versus NYU's ratio of 9 for its proposed 12th Street building.
In short, there's a reason why the streets clogged with NYU students - their dorm rooms are too crowded! And uptown, Columbia's Society of Automotive Engineers built a miniature Formula One race car.
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a lot of students are finding viable housing options at subway stations across the city.
I lived in the 26th Street dorm my first year of grad school at NYU... in a shared studio. It was tiny, and my roommate (a dental student) watched TV all. the. time. Even if I was already in there studying!
On the plus side, the whole space was $1000 so my rent was $500/month... this was back in 1992, mind you... however the commute to campus was quite inconvenient (the "purple trolley" ran once an hour Mondays-Thursdays).
I should point out here that the dorm in that picture is *huge*.
If that's really a NYU dorm, I'm seriously jealous. Maybe that $50,000 tuition is actually worth it.
On the other hand, I kind of like the idea of financing my entire state-school education for about the same cost as one year of NYU.
streets r clogged cuz da streets r da campus.
wtf is that columbia link?? who cares about a mini race car???
Dorming are for freshmen and clueless midwest transplants. I heard there are vacancies on the top floor of the Bobst Library.
#5 - Agree, at least report on the dorming situation up in Columbia. Those Columbia alumni in charge are SO lame.
Maybe they should repurchase the old University Heights Campus and pay for it by building a new Bronx Community College closer to downtown Bronx.
I'm an NYU alum and ended up in an apt junior year because of their ridiculous rents. Going to grad school, I'm using studenhousing.org (currently in Towers) which has locations in Brooklyn Heights too.
Gwin, I lived at the 25th Street NYU dorm for three semesters, and I just walked to campus. It took about 25 minutes- much better than waiting for the "trolley".
In the old housing system, you built up points for every year you lived in housing. So, by Senior year, you could pretty much have your pick of any building. That encouraged people to stay in the system. Freshman, being new, weren't part of the process, and we assigned dorms 'close' to campus. So, Sophomores usually got the bottom of the barrel. Now, I'm not sure how it works, only that Sophomores are now at the top.
Basically, it's just enouraging more people to move out of housing. Which is actually brilliant, since NYU has such a housing crunch.
The trend in dorms is going upscale. http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/09/14/college.posh.life.ap/index.html
Just dropped off little brother at a brand new dorm (4 single rooms, 2 bathrooms + LR and kitchen in each unit) with gym, business center, Barnes & Noble, Starbucks and dining hall. We're happy to see him in good housing, and feel that the $46K in tuition is more worthwhile.
You can get a two bedroom apartment in Jersey City for 800 dollars, or you can share an apartment monthly for a low as 250 per person per room. And it is only 10 minutes from NYU by PATH train.
NYU dorm housing is really a ripoff compared to that.
That's downright nutty. I guess if you can afford to go to NYU, renting a house in Queens for the price of a cramped dorm is not a particular necessity.
What are we going to do with all these well-educated, terminally inexperienced lightweights? Soft-minded people with "pseudo-Ivy" degrees. We need more of those in our society.
College parent,
where is this dorm?
in 2003, i rented a 600sq feet one bedroom with a huge balcony in the washington square village from a NYU professor. i paid him $1250 a month.
i found the listing on the NYU off campus housing database.
Eric: I was going to NYU in the early 90's, when it was still slightly dubious for a female to walk home 20 blocks into that neighborhood late at night (all grad school classes in my program were 6-8 or 8-10 PM). Walking was therefore not considered a safe option, if you can believe it.