Watt Hall

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Watt

Built	1908 (Converted 1996)
Renovated
Population	144
University Residence Halls
600 West 113th Street • Broadway • Carman • East Campus • 47 Claremont • Furnald • Harmony • Hartley • Hogan • John Jay • McBain • River • Ruggles • Schapiro • Wallach • Watt • Wien • Woodbridge

Watt offers a great apartment-style setting with both studio singles and doubles. This building is a pre-war construction, converted to a graduate residence hall in 1977 and into an undergraduate residence in 1996. Since its inception, it has been one of the most popular and desired residence halls on campus. Seniors and Juniors with high lottery numbers usually pick into the spacious singles and one and two bedroom doubles while lucky juniors and sophomores are sometimes able to snag the studio doubles.

1 Facilities
- 1.1 Suites
2 Advantages and disadvantages
- 2.1 Advantages
- 2.2 Disadvantages
3 Photos
4 Floor plans
5 Map
6 Building address
7 External links

[edit] Facilities

[edit] Suites

12 apartments for 2 with 1 bedroom
11 apartments for 2 with 2 bedrooms
28 studio singles
35 studio doubles

[edit] Advantages and disadvantages

[edit] Advantages

Watt 1O is an often-overlooked large double. On other floors it would be a one-bedroom.
Can travel room to room via the fire escape.

[edit] Disadvantages

No common lounges.
No computer labs or printers so you have to walk to McBain to print anything out.
No vending machines
Elevator sometimes gets stuck between floors.
Fire engine based at 113th and Amsterdam frequently blares sirens and horn late at night.

[edit] Photos

First suite bedroom, view 1	First suite bedroom, view 2	Second suite bedroom, view 1	Second suite bedroom, view 2
Suite bathroom, view 1	Suite bathroom, view 2	Suite lounge, view 1	Suite lounge, view 2
Suite kitchen	Studio double