My D scored a job in midtown Manhattan for summer 2025. NYU offers summer housing at a variety of dorms, but which is best?
She hasn’t lived in a dorm in the last four years. She seeks either a single within a suite, or a studio. She wants a kitchen and not a meal plan. Access to the gym or library are not important to her. She is not an NYU student. Advice, please!
She should look at the dorms that are usually upperclassmen dorms as those are mostly suite style with kitchen; these are the ones listed as “apartment style” on the summer housing site. It looks like a bunch of these are already full for the single rooms so you may need to take what you can get - the ones I have seen or have knowledge are are full already. I think Coral Towers is quite popular and that seems to still have singles.
Check out availability at the NYU Law dorms. My understanding is that they are nicer than the regular NYU dorms and have a kitchen:
Thanks all for the info. She put in an application to the NYU law dorms. She has no backup plan so fingers-crossed she gets a space. She said in her application she’d be fine with a suite with multiple bedrooms so I hope this helps. The dates don’t exactly work out - she’ll have to find housing for a week before the NYU dorms open but that’s a problem for another day!
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There are so many summer sublets in NYC - just not advertised yet, as it is early. We have found they are significantly less vs the dorms and privately managed furnished temp units. If she ends up not getting a dorm - finding summer housing will
work out - notices showing up in April are more common.
Agree. But some of the dorms have significantly more robust security than a random three bedroom walk up with just a buzzer at the front door. If security is a concern, you often get what you pay for!
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Sure, but many New Yorkers live just as you described and the summer sublets are from students and others that have safely lived in the city and their apartments. Just tossing out an option and everyone can go with their own comfort zone and budget.
It might be full already…but the 92nd Street YMHA used to have summer lodging available for summer interns. Well worth checking.
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Of course. My kids have lived in sketchy buildings with zero security (and no issues) and have lived in a wide range of NYC sublets ranging from super budget to merely frugal. I never slept as well as when one of them was in a university owned and managed dorm with 24 hour human security and no entry after 8 pm without a resident escorting visitors upstairs!