<p>does anyone know which SUNY, if any, is near NYC, preferably manhattan? any info would be great.</p>
<p>Manhattan: College of Optometry
Bronx: Maritime College</p>
<p>Plenty of others within 1 - 1.5 hrs from NYC.</p>
<p>Besides the two mentioned above, and just sticking to four-year schools: Stony Brook and Old Westbury are in Nassau County, Long Island. SUNY Purchase next to White Plains.
New Paltz is within 1.5 hours from Manhattan.</p>
<p>Though it is a VERY specialized program, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a SUNY and is in Manhattan. Suny Farmingdale on Long Island is undergoing a campus expansion.</p>
<p>Hunter College is a CUNY with some housing available in NYC itself.</p>
<p>Stony Brook is in Suffolk county.</p>
<p>My understanding is that housing at Hunter is EXTREMELY limited. None of the CUNY's are considered residential campuses. All of the SUNY's mentioned above are within 1.5 hours to NYC. New Paltz is a bit further away- probably about 90 miles from NYC. Might be able to do it within 1.5 hours without any traffic- but there is always traffic.</p>
<p>Hunter has a thing this year (I don't know if it's a new policy or if I've just heard of it) where students can only have housing for two years.</p>
<p>good to know my friend was going to go to hunter b/c it was near her horse and it had housing(she wanted her horsey on long island and i know how 5 yr old ish i said horse like but i love charley)</p>
<p>Word of note, housing at Hunter is not located by their main campus on the Upper East Side, rather it is located by their school of nursing in lower Manhattan. Still readily accessible by public transportation, I think they may even have shuttle buses as well, but I do know for a fact that housing at Hunter is very limited and priority is given to the students enrolled in the CUNY Honors program, and then to the college's individual honors program.</p>
<p>I was always under the impression that Purchase is very close to the city.</p>
<p>You might want to consider other CUNY schools like Baruch, City College, Brooklyn, and possibly Queens College. (The last three have real campuses.) Speaking from experience theres even your traditional quad on the QC campus. I know that City College has housing...Queens College does not, of the top of my head I can't say for the other CUNYs.</p>
<p>Stonybrook isn't that far from the city, but you would definitely need a car (good luck with parking), unless the LIRR or metro north runs through...</p>
<p>Stony Brook LIRR station stops right at the campus. so, you dont need a car to get there. having a car for other things is entirely optional.</p>
<p>The College of Staten Island has a stunning, new campus and has some nice programs as well. There is a lot of off campus housing available for college students because there are two other colleges right in the area.</p>
<p>thank you this has been so helpful! i'd love to be in or around the city but would really like housing for at least 2 years and preferably some type of campus-kind of a best of both worlds scenario. i'll look into the schools you all mentioned, thanks!</p>
<p>K123- If you want to be near NYC and not necessarily at a SUNY school, you may want to check out Montclair State in New Jersey. I believe it is an easy commute into NYC by NJ Transit which has a station right by campus. There may be other Jersey schools that are easily commutable into NYC- but I am not too familiar with Jersey schools. Let us know if Jersey is ok. Maybe others can give you suggestions.</p>
<p>You might check out Fordham too.</p>
<p>I am not aware of any traditional 4-year senior SUNY colleges or Universities in the City of New York. Others have mentioned other 'traditional college' SUNY campuses within a 2-hour drive of Manhattan, but don't be misled, traveling into NYC from these campuses can be a hassle, even by train when there is traffic or a transit delay.</p>
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<p>Among the SUNY mentioned, SUNY Purchase, Old Westbury, and Farmingdale are the only campuses within driving distance. I can sure that I can drive down from Purchase to Manhattan in less than one hour on a weekend morning. Old Westbury and Farmingdale are in Long Island. There are always traffics in Long Island. It may take more time to get to Manhattan from Long Island. Farmingdale is further away. Nevertheless you can drive or take the train to Manhattan from both campuses. Stony Brook is definitely too far to do it on a weekly basis.</p>
<p>Hope that help.</p>
<p>Fordham was a great suggestion. There are also plenty of private schools in Long Island and New Jersey. If you have good stats, money would probably be possible.</p>
<p>I just visited City university's website. Wow, is all I can say about the new towers that have just opened for students. But ya gotta move fast cuz they are filling up even as I looked at the web site. Brand new and gorgeous and a bargain for Manhattan. Fordham has housing but the tuition is high, unlike the CUNY/SUNY schools. Pace has housing there too, as does Eugene Lang but the same problem. All housing there is on a limited basis except for NYU and Columbia who do guarantee housing for all 4 years if you stay in their system, but admissions for those schools is tough and the cost is sky high. Hunter's housing is limited, but it does have an extensive off campus network that can yield some decent student housing with other HUnter students as all of the schools in NYC have. So visiting the off campus housing offices would probably be worthwhile to see the availabiltiy costs, and the students', who are using the systems, experiences. They even have housing blogs at some of these colleges!</p>
<p>Purchase also has limited housing and it is a good 45min-1 hr drive into the heart of Manhattan. Manhattan College in Riverdale is probably the closest to the City--Riverdale is in the Bronx. It is a Catholic school that is reasonably priced for its location, and the campus is very nice. Fordham in the Bronx runs a shuttle regularly to its downtown location, and it is also right on a direct train line to Grand Central. Iona College is in New Rochelle, and is a mile or so from the train station, and a train ride or drive into the city would be about a half hour to Grand Central. Pace has campuses in the Westchester suburbs that are about the same distance as Purchase is.</p>
<p>From Purchase , I used to take a bus to the train station in White Plains . It was a very short train ride - about 40 minutes .</p>