<p>Well yeah, obviously just having your own bathroom in a suite, even with 6 people, is better than communal (to me, anyway). I guess my problem is that even in those public-type dorms you don’t have 6 people running around in one tiny area. It just sounds very… busy.</p>
<p>you develop a rhythm to everyday life. some people shower at night, some people shower in the morning. i shower in the early morning and my roommate showers right before class. it all falls into place so you rarely have “six people running around in one tiny area”.</p>
<p>Yea, I’m sure the bathrooms will be fine. I’m just spoiled lol.</p>
<p>I was in a 6person suite in 3rd north last year and we had one bathroom. It got pretty nasty, but it was rare that there were showering conflicts. Good luck. I’m in Gramercy (movin’ on up)!</p>
<p>^ohh how is Gramercy by the way? I think Gramercy will be my top choice for next year and I hear the dorms are more expensive but really amazing.</p>
<p>yea i really want gramercy too. Is it ridiculously hard to get into it?</p>
<p>I lived in Gramercy this past year. Thought I would share this, in case it’s not already known with all the hype and all. Typed this up to give to a friend and I’ve added some things.</p>
<p>All freshman may ignore of course, though you’ll want to keep your ears open for applying in the spring to explorations for the following year if you want to guarantee yourself a spot in this building. </p>
<p>"It’s really great. Located at the North West corner of 23rd and 3rd avenue. The Madison Square Park area is really cool and you’re not that far from the East River, though you can barely see it even on the top floors of Gramercy. There’s a nice park on the East River if you follow it South though that’s not as close. There’s also a smaller park with basketball courts on 25th I believe, past first Avenue heading towards the river. </p>
<p>If you’re in a room facing to the west, and in the high rise part of the building, you’ll have a killer view of the Empire state building only a dozen blocks away, as well as several other tall buildings, and they light up really nicely at night. </p>
<p>The sub-cellar is awesome, and it wasn’t even that crowded half the time. The gym is superb, all new equipment and nice big screen TV’s, as well as big screens in the lounges, full of nice touches and tables, and one in the game room, with a pool table and Foosball. There are also mini TV’s on a lot of the equipment. Plus a bike room and study rooms and food and drink vending machines. There is a nice laundry room in the basement and two-set washer dryer laundry rooms on scattered floors, one dollar wash one dollar dry. Plus a nice mac computer lab with free printing (bring your own paper, though the printer is almost always out of ink) on the fourth floor and a study lounge on the fifth floor, as well as a huge sky rise ceiling study and social lounge on the second floor, where there are also building events, with a courtyard (though it was closed all year.). One time they brought in a bunch of dogs to play with, during testing. </p>
<p>I believe that the roof was intended to be a outside area when the building was built though I doubt they’ll ever open it if that is true. The high rise starts at the seventeenth floor, where there is a terrace that some of the NYU housing employees and like the CDE that live there can go on, though it was closed to students except during a few events (I think…) The high rise goes to floor 21 and then the 22nd floor which is called the penthouse, even marked PH in the elevator. </p>
<p>The elevators are quite fast, though they are less efficient since people started using them to go to the sub-cellar. </p>
<p>Every room I saw was the same in terms of appliances: touch screen microwaves, brand new ovens, brand new (and very good) refrigerators, etc. There are not couches like in some upper class dorms, though there are these colorful plastic chairs and a big white table. </p>
<p>The only problem I had was that in the five-person suite set up (two sets of two and a single, and that single is impossible to get! I couldn’t and I had one of the first choosing times), two of the desks are in the common room, which posed a lot of complications since that was a social area for almost everyone. </p>
<p>There are additional closets (two or three in my suite) outside the bedrooms, plus a pantry and lots of cabinet space. The suite window is tall and wide, as are those in the room. To anyone in Gramercy, I would suggest getting there asap to snag the bed next to the window and the desk that is in the room, cause you’ll want that and the other bed in every arrangement I saw was right next to the closets, and the closets pull outward. It’s about a twenty minute walk to class walking at a normal speed, and the bus comes frequently (E Route) and will take you to the Tisch building on 721 Broadway. The dorm is in close proximity to 26th street and Coral (also on bus stop route) is just nine blocks down 3rd avenue. The walk to class was rather enjoyable, it’s through some cool enough areas that you won’t hate it and it’s good exercise if you don’t want to take the bus. </p>
<p>I should mention the intersection of 23rd and 3rd is very very busy all the time, and that’s saying a lot in New York, so if you leave your windows open you’ll get a lot of traffic noise. No reason to though really, every room has an individual A/C where you can set the temp., as high as 74 and at least down to the mid 60’s if not lower. The windows are virtually soundproof when closed all the way. The walls and doors are more soundproof to any dorm I’ve been to, though you’ll still be able to hear parties going on in your suite from your bedroom. From the hallways its much harder to hear into the suites, although that didn’t seem to stop the RA’s from noticing what was going on. </p>
<p>All the hallways are really nice and you can just tell how new the building is. The floors are all tile or hardwood in the room, and the hallways are thin carpet. </p>
<p>Note: There are no lights in the bedrooms, you’ll need to bring a lamp (there is the desk light though). There are multiple sets of lights in the common room of most of the suites that I saw. </p>
<p>The bathrooms are excellent. Very nice looking and the showers heat up and cool down almost instantly. Three mirrors/three medicine cabinets combine into one very large mirror. </p>
<p>There was a problem with an absurd amount of fire drills, including five in the first week of classes-- and I heard it was like that welcome week as well. They lessened the amount of the drills, though there were still too many… it was quite a hassle. Sometimes the alarm would ring and then just turn off (and not during the designated testing time, which was like Tuesday at 1 I believe.) I took too long to get back in sometimes and everyone would wander into the Duane Reade that occupies the South face of the building. </p>
<p>The Duane Reade has become really successful and students go there all the time. There is another one a couple blocks away. There are great restaurants in the area and the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park is one of the best places ever, for everything. Get there at 11 when it opens or prepare to wait in line, except sometimes its short in the winter, or when its raining, since its all outside. Chipotle and a bunch of burger joints as well as a 7-11 are on the one to two blocks of 23rd street west of Gramercy. Lots of news stands around obviously. </p>
<p>The 6 train is next to the 7-11 two blocks away at Lexington. The NRWQ is a couple more blocks away, across the park where 5th avenue hits it, near the old Flatiron building. </p>
<p>Near the end of the year in the spring there were farmer’s market type things outside the building, once from 23rd down to 15th on 3rd ave, with the avenue closed down there, and once from 23rd up to 34th, which meant 3rd was closed outside the building and there were an epic amount of people that day. </p>
<p>I’d also say the price of the dorm is fairly reasonable. The single room in the high rises cost the same as someone in a double, or at least it did this year. And though the single was quite tiny, the doubles were also very small. That was also a problem at first but I got used to it. The beds are going to be close together no matter what and there is almost no space in the middle of the room. Compared to my room at home and at Rubin it was small."</p>
<p>I do have pictures if anyone wants them but I’m guessing most people here are freshmen. Figured I’d put this up anyway.</p>
<p>remy-ender, don’t fret. Did your roomate get his housing assignment? You can always email or call the housing department and see if they can make the changes. If that doesn’t work, there is a timeout for room changes in the fall, after eveything is settled, you can then make a requested change.</p>
<p>I’m seriously ****ed off. I feel like I randomly got shoved into a dorm that no one even heard off. Who the hell has heard of Seventh Street Dorm? And it also seems like no other transfers even got stuck into this dorm except me.</p>
<p>Thank you wing2871x! I’m 100% set on a gramercy single for next year lol. I know it’ll be hard to get but I’ll badger housing everyday if that’s what it takes haha. From what you’ve said it seems the dorms live up to expectations. Now I don’t know how the RA system works but, I’m considering applying for an RA position at the end of freshman year. If I was selected what is the likelyhood I would be placed in gramercy?</p>
<p>Dayamn, Gramercy Green sounds amazing.</p>
<p>hey guys,</p>
<p>what does “double / Loft / 10” mean?</p>
<p>How many bathrooms and fridges?</p>
<p>@nate</p>
<p>to be selected as an RA is ridiculously difficult. . . and you have little to no choice about where you’ll be put in for your assignment. you have to go through a multiple week group interview/learning session and in the end, you might not even get selected for the position. you have to fill out a long application and you pretty much have to knock the socks off of the RA selection committee.</p>
<p>for the lottery:</p>
<p>it all comes down to your pick time. if you have a great lottery number (randomly selected), you’ll be able to place yourself in gramercy. badgering housing won’t change your lottery number. </p>
<p>the two people i know who are RAs are spectacularly driven people. one is in UHall and the other one is stuck at 26th street.</p>
<p>@wing2871x put up some pics, im really curious to see what gramercy looks like on the inside</p>
<p>^I googled it. the rooms are amazing.</p>
<p>I love how I’m worried about sophomore dorms lol but while I’m were at it, about this whole lottery, I heard sophomores get priority in the lottery right?</p>
<p>Can someone give me the website that has the reviews of each residence hall and that has the photos with it? </p>
<p>oh btw: I am in a triple, but its not a low cost triple. It is a “studio”. Can someone tell me the difference between a low cost triple and a studio triple? confused. </p>
<p>and does rubin have elevators? because I am on the 11th floor.</p>
<p>Yes all the dorms have elevators.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>No some dont, the smaller ones dont</p>
<p>[Washington</a> Square News - HousingGuide](<a href=“http://www.nyunews.com/housingguide]Washington”>http://www.nyunews.com/housingguide)</p>
<p>^^^ Best housing guide I’ve found so far. Enjoy :)</p>