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

Revision as of 21:19, 18 February 2009

Watt
Watt.jpg
Built 1908
(Converted 1996)
Renovated
Population 144
University Residence Halls
548 West 113th Street600 West 113th StreetBroadwayCarlton ArmsCarmanEast Campus47 ClaremontFurnaldHarmonyHartleyHoganJohn JayMcBainRiverRugglesSchapiroWallachWattWienWoodbridge

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.


Facilities

Suites

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

Advantages and disadvantages

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.

Disadvantages

  • No common lounges.


Photos

Floor plans

Map

<googlemap lat="40.805876" lon="-73.964604" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small"> 40.805876, -73.964604, Watt residence hall </googlemap>

Building address

549 W. 113th St.
New York, NY 10025

External links