Lafayette dorm at NYU

OHS1979
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:50:25 +0000

Help! My daughter just called me and is frantic, since she pulled the short straw in the housing lottery and all she could get was either a dorm on 2nd Street or Lafayette. She will be a junior in the fall, so had a low priority housing number. She is upset due to the distance from the NYU main campus and is worried it will be difficult to get back and forth in time for classes and also will be far from the library, gym, and grocery stores. Does anyone have anything positive to say about this dorm? It would set my mind at ease and I could tell her reasons to look on the bright side. From what I’ve seen online, there seem to be pluses and minuses to this address. Over 1,000 students live there, so they are all in the same boat in terms of distance from campus. The website says there is an exercise room in the building. Is this true?

The good news is that she will be living with two friends, so she is glad about that. She is just disappointed that she had so few choices this time around. I’m looking for some positives here that I can relay to her. Anyone??

Thanks!