NYU Summer Housing: The Best and The Worst?

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<p>I am planning on doing NYU Summer housing and wanted to get some feedback from any NYU students. Last summer, I lived in Broome Street apartments and LOVED it! Great location and the rooms were relatively nice and very spacious. </p>

<p>The choices for non-NYU students are:</p>

<p>2nd Street
400 Broome Street
Alumni Hall
Brittany Hall
Coral Tower
Goddard Hall
Greenwich Hotel
Hayden Hall
Third North
Lafayette</p>

<p>I don't really want to live in Broome again. I want to try something new. I already know I don't want to live in Lafayette (not a fan of the location). Which places have the best location for restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping, grocery stores, etc? Which ones are the worst? I'm 21 and will be living with one other friend.</p>

<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated :)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Your best bets for location would be Third North, Alumni Hall and Coral Tower, according to the criteria you stated you want.</p>

<p>1) Third North is 12th and Third Ave., 2 blocks from the bustling 14th St. area with all the criteria you stipulated. Plus, it is also not far from St. Mark’s Place with all the shops and eateries there. This has a kitchen and common area? but they look small.</p>

<p>2) Alumni Hall is at 9th St. and Third Ave., again close to the St. Marks, East Village area (probably slightly closer than Third North). Rated high but the most expensive during the year, maybe because they offer the most single bedrooms in a suite? Common area and kitchen sizes seem OK.</p>

<p>3) Coral Tower, right on Third Ave. and 14th St. Again a great area for all kinds of shopping, fresh farmers market nearby, as well as Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, I think. Rooms are said to be spacious and decent size for kitchens. But it is not one of the newer or more glamorous buildings.</p>

<p>4) Do not go for Brittany if you cannot stand a dorm without air conditioning in the summer!</p>

<p>Look at pictures, descriptions, and ratings at the following link (Click on dorm name to see pictures of the dorm):</p>

<p><a href=“http://nyunews.com/housingguide/[/url]”>http://nyunews.com/housingguide/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’m not familiar with all of these, but I agree about Lafayette.</p>

<p>Greenwich Hotel is way over by the Hudson, maybe a little south of Washington Sq Park. Not as much nearby as some of the others.</p>

<p>I think Coral Tower is right around Union Square. Alot going on there, esp for restaurants, shopping and grocery stores. Third North is pretty close, too.</p>

<p>Brittany doesn’t have a/c, which can be brutal. Not bad during the school year, but unpleasant in the summer.</p>

<p>Hayden, Goddard and Brittany are all freshman dorms. No kitchens.</p>

<p>There’s a link somewhere to the Washington Square News that has good descriptions of the dorms and locations. Livejournal and wiki also have info.</p>

<p>Looks like they have the newer dorms for NYU students in the summer.</p>

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<p>Coral towers, as far as I know, is laid out similarly to Carlyle (meaning it’s one bedroom + bathroom + kitchen + living room) However the “living room” functions as bedroom number two. So it’s 4 people living in a relatively small space. </p>

<p>Someone said Greenwhich Hotel is far?
Well… Lafayette is even farther.
I would search for dorms in rank of space/niceness rather than location. Simply because you can walk from almost all dorms to campus. (Really, it’s not that far)</p>

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<p>NYU2013,</p>

<p>The OP was asking about, “Which places have the best location for restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping, grocery stores, etc? Which ones are the worst?” It was not about close proximity to NYU. If that were the case, Hayden and Goddard would win hands down (though, you are right, minus a kitchen for these traditional style dorms).</p>

<p>It is interesting info about Coral Tower having the living room serve as a second bedroom. OP should definitely inquire if this is also the case in the summer (may be not because there should be more vacant rooms in the summer so they do not have to squeeze people together as tightly, but who knows what NYU’s summer policy is?). So, this might be a factor if OP definitely wants a living room/ common area to live/entertain in.</p>

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<p>Haha, Bonnie, For a moment there, I was wondering if I was writing to myself. Your post was almost an exact duplicate of mine or maybe I should say my post was almost an exact duplicate of yours. :)</p>

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<p>Agree with most posts. Hayden is the only dorm right on Washington Square Park. Close to classic Greenwich Village, Mcdougal and Bleeker st. If a kitchen is a criterion, then this wouldnt work, but the location is a dream.</p>

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<p>Ah, but evolv, I knew nothing about Alumni Hall. Didn’t know it was relatively close to Union Sq. And you had that great link.</p>

<p>NYU summer housing seems really expensive. Is it that hard to get a summer sublet? I’d think some students with apartments might be in a different location for the summer.</p>

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<p>Yes. NYU housing is very expensive, esp if you are not taking an NYU class. They charge weekly and you have to take a meal plan in some of the dorms.</p>

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<p>For those looking for summer housing what is it for? Just to stay in NYC for the summer or is because you’re taking classes?
Also do you know what dorm the kids for tisch summer high school stay at?</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the responses and feedback. My friend and I are interning in NYC this summer. We do not want to live in dorms. We want an apartment style room with the best location and proximity to clubs, bars, restaurants, and shopping. Thanks :)</p>

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<p>second street is an underrated gem in my opinion. the rooms are new, and the location is killer. equidistant from the soho bars and the east village bars. </p>

<p>third north is fine, but it’s so close to alumni which has substantially bigger rooms (if price isn’t a concern). both are pretty conveniently located to a lot of amenities like trader joe’s, relatively cheap restaurants, and relatively cheap shops, but personally i feel like soho is more fun.</p>

<p>i’ve never been in coral towers but i’ve heard consistently negative things about the building itself being in relative disrepair and union square honestly doesn’t have such a hoppin’ nightlife scene. </p>

<p>greenwhich hotel is nice, but the area is kind of dead unless you’re a mom or a middle aged gay dude with tons of money to blow. plus, i know you said it wasn’t a huge concern, but, like lafayette, it’s far from nyu buildings. but hey, alleged room service and a beautiful view of the hudson. </p>

<p>the others are basically dorms, so that seems pretty undesirable.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I definitely don’t want to live in a dorm this summer. I’ve had enough of that already my freshman year! :)</p>

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<p>To be frank, I think you’re overlooking something. You lived in Broome, “LOVED” it, want “restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping, grocery stores,” but aren’t going back? Let me offer a counter-perspective. Go back to Broome.</p>

<p>I live here during the year. I’m fighting to get back there for the summer. You are in SoHo. At what other point in your life will you get the opportunity to live in such an expensive, trendy neighborhood in such a nice place for such a small sum? You want restaurants? Little Italy, Chinatown, Lowest East Side, Soho, and Tribeca are spread around you, the epicenter. Bars? Same, only go north a bit closer to school. Shopping? Apart from midtown with all the flagship stores, there is nothing in the city that compares to Soho for variety, price range, boutique selection, franchise selection, and accessibility. Grocery? Whole Foods, Met Grocer’s, all the hole-in-the-wall family shops in Little Italy … and Trader Joe’s 3 stops away on the 6.</p>

<p>I cannot fathom wanting something other than Broome, and that’s coming from a kid who gets to pick which of all these buildings you’re discussing he wants to spend the entire year in. Honestly, I’m taking it over buildings that are closer to work, even with 80+ hour work weeks I don’t care that it’s 3 or 4 stops further on a train, everything else makes it unbeatable. Gramercy, (<em>maybe</em> Palladium) is the only other option that could compare, and it would lose in my book. Plus, since it’s only for credit-bearing residents, it’s out.</p>

<p>Broome? And honestly, if you don’t know the neighborhood that well, I’ll show you around sometime, you’ll just have to wait until I’m out of work. Ugh.</p>

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<p>For those looking for summer housing what is it for? Just to stay in NYC for the summer or is because you’re taking classes?
Also do you know what dorm the kids for tisch summer high school stay at?</p>

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<p>nasali, you already asked that, but some are going for internships (not nyu) and some are taking classes this summer. as for where the tisch students stay, i’m not sure…if you’re not getting your questions answered on this thread, try making one of your own! </p>

<p>lindsey…broome sounds like the best option (ya, if you LOVED it, why not go back?) but maybe hellodocks’ comment persuaded me too much :slight_smile: have fun this summer!</p>

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<p>@nasali
Reasons people might be in summer housing:

  • NYU classes
  • Classes at another school that doesn’t offer student housing
  • Internships launching a career
  • Other academic pursuits (research with a prof, independent research)
  • Regular part-time work
  • Location (tons of people can’t stand leaving the city for an extended period of time, you’d be amazed at how much stuff you want to do each and every day but can’t because of school/work during the year, people stay just to enjoy life in the city without the routine pressures)</p>

<p>@lorraine
Haha, I tend to be persuasive about the things I’m passionate about. Also, I don’t buy into the idea that I love something but want to try something new. Maybe it’s just my personality, but if I enjoy something thoroughly, there has to be something I KNOW is better to persuade me to leave where I am. Knowing NYU as a current student and being someone who calls the city home, other summer housing options for non-credit-bearing residents don’t compare to Broome.</p>

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<p>The onky problem is the cost. If yiu take a class it is slightly reduced. But even so it is quite expensive and you pay weekly.</p>

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<p>milkandsugar, yikes, </p>

<p>This is exactly what I am thinking about for sonny. He is likely to do an internship this summer in NYC. It will be paid but I think all of it will go to housing if it is for 3 months (not sure of the duration or where yet). </p>

<p>I am trying to set him up in grandma’s living room for the summer. She has a great location near South St. Seaport/ Financial District. But I hope it will work out, because otherwise, the internship does not make sense, except if it is seen as sonny working for the internship solely to enrich NYU for providing summer housing. So senseless to work all summer just to pay rent. :frowning: Maybe for a Stern summer intern doing work for GS or MS. But for a humanities/ social science person???</p>

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<p>I am going to follow up my own thought with this: If the situation will not work out for sonny at grandma’s place, it would be more economical to try to find a room to share with people who already have apartment leases in NYC and even going out towards Brooklyn to look for cheaper places to share.</p>

<p>The idea is to learn from the internships but also to save money towards school expenses, not spend it all towards summer housing. Makes no sense to me at all except for cases cited previously or if someone is actually working for mega bucks.</p>