Gothamist: NYU Dorms: Wanted, Converted, Hated,

Gwin

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:13:18 -0500

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.

mmonk

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:28:55 -0500

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.

ariel

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:59:24 -0500

College parent, where is this dorm?

ccchhzzz

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:00:59 -0500

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.

Anon

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:56:57 -0500

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.

collegeparent

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:43:24 -0500

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.

nicola

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:36:51 -0500

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.

Eric

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:12:32 -0500

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".

Banana

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:09:29 -0500

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.

Think twice

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:05:50 -0500

Maybe they should repurchase the old University Heights Campus and pay for it by building a new Bronx Community College closer to downtown Bronx.

Dude

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:53:37 -0500

#5 - Agree, at least report on the dorming situation up in Columbia. Those Columbia alumni in charge are SO lame.

Dude

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:39:05 -0500

Dorming are for freshmen and clueless midwest transplants. I heard there are vacancies on the top floor of the Bobst Library.

nick

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:01:15 -0500

wtf is that columbia link?? who cares about a mini race car???

streets

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:39:06 -0500

streets r clogged cuz da streets r da campus.

andrew

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:06:52 -0500

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.

Gwin

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:35:23 -0500

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).

bob

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:49:41 -0500

a lot of students are finding viable housing options at subway stations across the city.