<p>only 7th doesn’t have an elevator.</p>
<p>@nate</p>
<p>sophomores get priority in the lottery, yeah. HOWEVER, where your pick time lies within that group can vary wildly. </p>
<p>i only did lottery once so i can’t attest to how fast things go. i think Gramercy was gone by the afternoon of the second day. </p>
<p>RAing is also a crapshoot because you can just as easily end up in Rubin or 26th street as you are to end up somewhere like Gramercy or Palladium.</p>
<p>^ hm… is Rubin that bad?</p>
<p>No, it’s just that Gramercy and Palladium are nice and new.</p>
<p>ANy feedback on Broome–top floor? I understand it was added to the original structure. Better or bigger than the lower floors? Bus reliable to get to WSP when the weather is bad? Doesn’t seem like too bad a walk in nice weather. ANy feedback great-thx</p>
<p>Rubin is a great dorm. RA’s rooms were pretty large. Oh, and the Gramercy RA room was huge.</p>
<p>My daughter was in Rubin, a low cost triple. The location is absolutely amazing and she had a beautiful view on fifth ave.</p>
<p>I thought you had to be a junior or senior to be an RA?</p>
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<p>Hey, you could have gotten assigned to Lafayette. 
I was as raging as you were when I was forced kicking and screaming into Lafayette. I’m changing out ASAP.</p>
<p>Note to all future upperclassmen: avoid Lafayette like the PLAGUE. Stay out of that building at all costs. There’s been 3 robberies in the area so far, and the building’s a block away from the Manhattan Detention Center (read: county jail). Yeah, totally safe. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I like living in Lafayette. Sure, the area is a bit shady, but there’s a lot of culture. You’re in Chinatown and a walk away from Little Italy. </p>
<p>The rooms are spacious and have high ceilings/hardwood floors. What’s so bad?</p>
<p>You’ve obviously never seen Rooms -06A. Go visit the 06A room on your floor and let me know if that’s “spacious”. They’re tiny. The hardwood floors in my room are so scratched up we might as well have carpet or tile. High ceilings don’t matter when your room is the size of a postage stamp. AND I have a lovely view of the gray state government building across the street. Laundry costs $1.75 and the first two weeks all my whites turned blue, in turn forcing me to spend $150 to replace them. I share a midget sized closet with my roommate. The area’s shady. I have to revolve my schedule around getting in before 8PM so I don’t get robbed/shot. It’s far away from campus (and everything else for that matter). I missed the bus 3 times this morning (read: 40 minutes wasted trying to catch the bloody bus) before I gave up and took the subway. I waited 30 minutes for the bus to show up on campus yesterday morning (and 10 minutes last night). And I REFUSE to trudge through 3 miles in -30 weather to get to class. And btw, Chinatown is SEVERELY overrated (save for the bubble tea, but I’ll just come down here from Union Square to get it). Which is to say, I’ll take any room change offer that results in me NOT living in Laf or Greenwich. I’ll take living in a safe area with no culture over a shady area with culture any day.</p>
<p>I gave myself a month for the area and the room to grow on me. It didn’t, so I’m outta here. Different tastes I guess.</p>
<p>Oh btw, Gramercy this year was full like the first day or something. Damn, I wish I had gotten Carlyle again.</p>
<p>“I have to revolve my schedule around getting in before 8PM so I don’t get robbed/shot. It’s far away from campus (and everything else for that matter).”
What? You’re crazy. I’ve come back to Lafayette at 2-4AM in the morning multiple times and I’ve yet to be shot/mugged. In fact, I’ve not once felt threatened. That’s life in a big city. Welcome to New York.</p>
<p>You’re right. I’ve never seen a -06A room, but I doubt it’s that small – at least in comparison to other NYU dorms. Perhaps I lucked out? All the rooms in my suite are huge.</p>
<p>It’s really not far from campus. The subway system is pretty efficient. It takes me about 10 minutes to get to campus from Lafayette (6 to Astor Place). Sure, it’s a bit of an expense having to buy an unlimited metro card, but it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Regarding the laundry costs: I agree. It’s a too expensive.</p>
<p>i’ll give it to you that the rooms in Lafayette vary WILDLY. i was in an -09B room and my room was the size of almost the entire Palladium room i’m staying in now. yeah, the area is shady, but people get robbed in front of Palladium too. and that’s Union Square. five girls were robbed at once last May in front of Bobst. it’s never -30 in Manhattan, and it’s ONE MILE one way to campus. it’s the exact same distance from Palladium to 194 Mercer Street. </p>
<p>i was in Lafayette for two years, so i can understand the things you’re saying, but i also wanted to offer a balanced viewpoint.</p>
<p>laundry totally does suck, but i don’t know why your laundry turned blue. that’s a mystery.</p>
<p>Either way I’ve been there 3 weeks and I can’t stand the place. If my room change doesn’t come through, I’m buying a sleeping bag and camping out in Bobst. Think what you want, but there’s a first for everything and getting robbed is a big city experience I’d rather forgo.</p>
<p>The way I look at it, I’m doing everything short of moving off campus tomorrow to move out of Laf as soon as possible. It’s nothing personal, I’d just rather live somewhere else. I’ll take living in Westchester over Chinatown. Seriously.</p>
<p>For the record liberate, the room I have now is smaller than the room I had in Hayden freshman year and maybe possibly 1/4 the size of the room I had last year in Carlyle. That is shocking. I was thoroughly disgusted the second I walked into my room, I gave it a chance, I’m still thoroughly (if not MORE thoroughly) disgusted. If housing put me back in Carlyle I’d be a very happy person. But I’m not counting on it.</p>
<p>@futurenyustudent, I live in a 06-A room too. My room is so small, Me and my roommate are like touching back to back when we are on our computer desk. I want to leave also, but it’s just a hassle to move everything.</p>
<p>@nyu: maybe we should meet up a commiserate lol. I’m prepared to pack and unpack my stuff a thousand times to get the hell out of here. I wanna get out of here so badly I was dreaming about praying to the flying spaghetti monster for an assignment in Carlyle (or anywhere else for that matter).</p>
<p>futurenyustudent: My apologies. The couple rooms I have seen in Lafayette (including my own) are nice and roomy. It sounds like you got the short end of the stick. It may help that my suite is in the corner.</p>
<p>That’s okay. My suite’s in the corner too. Just in the wrong corner. Either way, that still doesn’t solve the fact that it’s a nightmare to get to campus.</p>
<p>Back to back??? I wish. If I stretch too far from my chair, I fall into my roommate’s bed.</p>
<p>@futurenyustudent lol. Yeah we should meet up and talk about this horrid situation haha. I think I’m going to fill out an application tomorrow. So I can get the hell out of here. What floor are you on?</p>