Lafayette Hall — Local services in New York

For starters, COCKROACHES everywhere. I live on the 17th floor and we had a cockroach infestation of large sized cockroaches and someone even had them coming out their drain! Security may be the rudest bunch of people I have ever met. They treat residents like criminals. The security guard literally hates his job and makes everyone he comes into contact with miserable. I brought a coworker over for dinner, and he claimed her two different photo ideas were not qualified for her to enter the building. I understand security procedures for all the real criminals that lurk outside this building, but it ridiculous not to let a resident’s coworker/best friend in when the resident is begging and the person has two photo ids. The guard forced her to stand outside while I spoke with the resource center. The area outside the building is filled with homeless people, delusional people on crazy drugs, and drunken men verbally harassing young girls. The residence hall director ruled that my situation was not enough of an emergency to accept her two photo ids instead of a state id. She directly endangered my friend’s safety by making her stay outside, and mine as well since I stayed outside with her. It is humiliating when you pay to live somewhere and get treated like a criminal for trying to bring your best friend over for dinner. You pay all money up front to live here, and then the entire semester the security guards and resource center employees will treat you like poorly since they already have your money. In addition, the building is falling apart. Elevators are constantly broken and are not air conditioned. Some of our cabinet doors fell off just from opening them and only half the burners work on our stove. When we moved in there was dead bugs everywhere and water bugs in...

Triple room had two bathrooms, a kitchen living room combo and two bedrooms for four people. The high ceilings and hardwood floors made the unit seem warm and spacious. There was lots of light too. All the units in the building are different. It's a safe neighborhood surrounded by courthouses so there's police around all the time. There's a little sandwich shop right next door and the food was good and reasonably priced. Of course Lafayette is in Chinatown so getting food is not a problem. This dorm was on the lower end of the NYU price list. Our favorite dorm was on 2nd Street. Much smaller and much more...

Lafayette's major drawbacks are its distance from campus and its crumbling infrastructure. Be prepared to send lots of work requests. The rooms are pretty good, an adequate amount of space for two people in each room, and the two bathrooms is a big plus. Another downside is that you'll probably be cooking your own food, but the kitchen is too cramped for more than one person to cook at a time. Some people complain that the neighborhood is "dangerous" but almost all the time when they say that what they mean is "I hate homeless people" so don't worry. Overall it's not a bad place to live but also not that...