New York University Residence Halls - Undergraduate Halls

Undergraduate Halls

There are currently twenty-one buildings in the New York University undergraduate housing community.

• Alumni Hall is located at 33 Third Avenue. It houses only single rooms. Alumni staff and hall council are paired with the 7th Street dorm (this arrangement is commonly called the "7-A Partnership"). Alumni has 452 residents and 12 Resident Assistants. It is the only residence hall to only offer single bedroom suites.
• Brittany Hall is located at 55 East 10th Street. Brittany houses 566 freshman and 15 RAs. It is home to the "Big Apple Big Screen" and "FAME" Explorations floors. This is also the only "haunted" dorm as it is home to the "Brittany Hall ghost". For the 2012-13 school year, Brittany will only be open to upperclassmen during the fall semester due to massive renovations happening in the spring.
• Broome Street is located at 400 Broome Street and houses many sophomores and juniors. In whole, Broome holds 353 students and nine RAs. In the fall of 2007, it became a "residential college".
• Carlyle Court is located at 25 Union Square West. It houses 736 students and 15 RAs - mostly sophomores.

• Coral Towers is located at 129 Third Avenue. It, along with Carlyle Court, was once notable for having balconies to which the students no longer have access due to safety concerns. Coral holds 410 students and 13 RAs.
• Founders Hall is a freshman hall and the newest addition to the system. It first opened for the Fall 2009 semester. It is located at 120 East 12th Street, houses over 700 students, and is known for its clean facilities, large windows, and extra large rooms. It is home to the "The Meaning of Food", "NYU C.O.R.P.S.", "Global Citizen", and "Media Revolution" Explorations floors.
• Goddard Hall is a small freshman hall located on 79 Washington Square East. This hall is regularly shown on NYU campus tours. Goddard houses 212 students and six RAs. In the fall of 2007, it became a "residential college".
• Gramercy Green is one of the newest residence halls in the system, located on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and 3rd Avenue (entrance on 3rd). Gramercy Green features a new addition to the University's residence halls: it has two Chaplains in Residence.
• Greenwich Hotel is largely a sophomore residence hall and is located at 636 Greenwich Street. Greenwich holds 314 students and seven RAs.
• Hayden Hall Formerly a law school residence, Hayden was one of the university's first residence halls. It is now exclusively for freshmen like most of the residence halls closest to the park. It is located at 33 Washington Square West. The president of NYU, John Sexton, owns the penthouse that takes up the entire 18th floor. Hayden holds 674 students and 15 RAs.
• Lafayette Hall is located at 80 Lafayette Street. "Laf" is primarily inhabited by juniors and seniors. Most NYU fraternities are housed here. Lafayette holds 1062 students and 29 RAs.
• Palladium Hall is located at 140 East 14th Street and houses upperclassmen and Stern's full time MBA students. It contains a dining area and an athletic center, which is open to the general NYU community. Palladium Hall is named after the night club, The Palladium, owned by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager (both former owners of Studio 54) and formerly known as the Academy of Music. NYU purchased the land and built the Palladium Residence Hall in 2001. Palladium holds over 900 students with 22 RAs.
• Rubin Hall is located at 35 Fifth Avenue, across from Church of the Ascension (New York). Prior to its purchase by NYU in the 1960s, the building was the Grosvenor Hotel. It houses 688 students and 13 RAs.
• Second Street is a small residence hall with a large percentage of its residents being returning students. It is located at 1 East Second Street. Second Street has 282 residents and eight RAs.
• Seventh Street is a small residence hall that houses mostly juniors and seniors. Its address is 40 East Seventh Street. It is known as the Green Dorm. Seventh Street is the smallest hall on campus, housing 82 students and two RAs, and so shares its staff and hall council with nearby Alumni Hall in what is commonly called the "7-A Partnership."
• Third Avenue North is one of the largest all-freshman residence halls at NYU and in the United States, housing 952 freshmen. "Third North" is located at 75 Third Avenue and is split into three towers. Third North has 29 RAs and 1 RCA.
• 13th Street is located at 47 West 13th Street. It has four RAs and 180 residents. As of Fall 2010, 13th street became the Senior House, a residence hall open to only seniors.
• 26th Street houses mostly juniors and graduate students primarily from the medical school. It has a negative reputation due to small rooms and its distance from the main campus. As of fall 2010, 26th street will be pulled out of the undergraduate housing system and be used only for medical students. It is located at 334 East 26th Street. 26th Street holds 528 residents and has 11 RAs.
• University Court is located at 334 East 25th Street. "U-Court" houses returning students, and shares the negative reputation with 26th Street. As of fall 2010, U-Court will also be pulled out of the undergraduate housing system and be used only for medical students. It is located at 334 East 25th Street. University Court houses 135 students and four RAs.
• University Hall is located in Union Square at 110 East 14th Street and was converted in the 2005-06 school year to all-freshmen, and was then converted back to upperclassmen in Fall 2009. For the 2012-2013 school year, it will house freshmen once more due to massive renovations at Brittany Hall. There was a small campus general store in the building, which in the Spring of 2006 was converted to a Dunkin' Donuts. "U-Hall" had a dining hall which was closed in 2005. The primary dining hall in U-Hall is currently operating in the general store located in "The Commons". University Hall holds 603 students and 14 RAs.
• Weinstein Hall is the only pre-1980 residence hall that was built as a residence hall specifically for NYU students. It is located at 5-11 University Place. This freshman residence hall has a two level dining hall; the upper level's food court (which features a Quiznos and a Chick-fil-A Express) is known as "Upstein" and is adjacent to the kosher eatery. The lower level is known as "Downstein," or "DS." Weinstein houses 554 students and 30 RAs. Weinstein is notable for being the dorm in which Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons founded Def Jam Records.