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 * Single rooms for freshmen, which is almost unheard of at most colleges.
 * Connected to [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] and [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]], so you can use the Hartley computer lab and LLC laundry room (when the John Jay laundry room is full) without going outside. If you forget your key, you will not have to walk across campus to Housing Services
-* Nice and spacious floor lounges.
+* Nice floor lounges.
 * Beautiful campus views from rooms on the higher floors that face campus.
 * Some of the rooms have nice views of [[St. John the Divine]] or [[midtown]], etc.
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 * The 2 elevators are abysmally slow, if they're running. People routinely take the stairs even from the 8th or 9th floor just out of frustration.
 * The entire building is older, and therefore feels somewhat shabby, especially the bathrooms.
 * No kitchens besides pathetic little "floor kitchens." This means a microwave and sink.
 * Floors are not as immediately sociable as in [[Carman Hall]].
 * Walls are thin, so soundproofing isn't as good as in [[Carman Hall]].
 == Photos ==

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 *[[Spencer Treat Clark]] (2006-2007), actor
 *[[Jake Gyllenhaal]] (1998-2000), actor
 ==Architecture and Design==

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 {{Infobox reshall
 |Name=John Jay
-|Image=JohnJay.jpg
+|Image=[[File:JohnJay.jpg]]
 |Built=[[1927]]
 |Renovated=

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	* Floors 5-15: residential floors		* Floors 5-15: residential floors

		+	=== Living Arrangements ===
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		+	====Single Room====
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		+	====Double Rooms====
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		+	====Walkthrough Doubles====
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		+	===Bathrooms===

	===Elevators===		===Elevators===

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 This space one walks though is as richly ornamented as John Jay’s upper stories are plain.
-===Interior: public rooms, dining hall===
+=== Interior ===
 [[File:Lobby.jpg|thumb|John Jay's Lobby as it appeared in 1927]]
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 The set directors of the Harry Potter movies, when they created Harry’s school, were after the same mixture of history, tradition, and comfort as McKim, Meade and White were when they created the opulent public spaces on John Jay’s main floor. The grand dining hall, carved all of wood a century ago, with richly paneled walls and a coffered ceiling, is a classic, as are the posh sitting rooms and reception areas, with their giant fireplaces and Hogwarts-like pictures of vanished royalty. (Though the pictures don’t talk.)
 ''[[The New York Times]]'' immediately dubbed John Jay "the Skyscraper Dorm." To understand what McKim, Meade and White intended by raising the fifteen story, block-long colossus upstairs, one has to live in the rooms (as this author did for four years.) Then it becomes clear that John Jay is all about the views, and using them to enlarge the rooms.  The architects had seen that this site would afford, looking north, Low Library set in one of the most beautiful campus views in America; and looking south, dramatic views of Cathedral bell towers, Manhattan rooftops, distant skyscrapers and their lights at night—great New York City “sense of place.” Above the eighth floor, as the sun’s arc sinks towards the horizon in December, the sun pours almost horizontally into Jay’s windows, crossing left to right but never leaving.

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 ''[[The New York Times]]'' immediately dubbed John Jay "the Skyscraper Dorm." To understand what McKim, Meade and White intended by raising the fifteen story, block-long colossus upstairs, one has to live in the rooms (as this author did for four years.) Then it becomes clear that John Jay is all about the views, and using them to enlarge the rooms.  The architects had seen that this site would afford, looking north, Low Library set in one of the most beautiful campus views in America; and looking south, dramatic views of Cathedral bell towers, Manhattan rooftops, distant skyscrapers and their lights at night—great New York City “sense of place.” Above the eighth floor, as the sun’s arc sinks towards the horizon in December, the sun pours almost horizontally into Jay’s windows, crossing left to right but never leaving.
 Artists from [[Federico Garcia Lorca]] to [[Jack Kerouac]] have exclaimed over the views McKim, Meade and White created from their Columbia dorms. Photographs of the rooms themselves show only the room itself, a simple, narrow, almost monastic cell.  The experience of living in that room is quite different, because all the space outside the window, beside the student’s desk, becomes part of the room. Mentally, one lives outside the room, looking down on the City. Like Spiderman.
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 However, [[John Erskine]], the guy behind Lit-Hum was not a big fan of John Jay.  In his novel ''[[Bachelor of Arts]]'', he wrote of the dorm:<blockquote>[He] had never as yet seen a jail, but he suspected that his narrow cubicle, and the still narrower bed, the wash-stand, the undersize desk, the one chair, and the inadequate clothes closet, were what you would get in Sing Sing, if you weren't violent. The length of the dormitory corridor bore out this prison impression—except that from the dormitory the inmates departed early in the day and returned only under the compulsion of nature to sleep.</blockquote> <ref>Erskine, John. 'Bachelor of Arts' (1934).  p 13 </ref>
 === John Jay Lounge ===
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 * Floors 5-15: residential floors
-=== Stairs to JJ's place ===
-The staircase that runs from the lobby to the basement is very interesting, featuring nice brickwork and a fancy wooden sign that contrasts with the usual bland white wall, carpet, and fluorescent lighting everywhere else. This staircase is probably entered no more than once a week as everyone uses the elevator instead. Most John Jay residents don't know of its existence.
+===Elevators===
 === Elevator trivia ===
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 In November [[2007]], residents of John Jay 6 ordered [[John Jay 6 T-shirts|t-shirts]] with the words "I TAKE THE ELEVATOR" screen-printed on the front.
 == Advantages and disadvantages ==

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 <gallery>
-Image:Jj 5001.jpg|Floor 5
+Image:JJH FL 05.jpg|Floor 5
-Image:Jj 6001.jpg|Floor 6
+Image:|Floor 6[Broken Link]
-Image:Jj 7001.jpg|Floor 7
+Image:JJH FL 07.jpg|Floor 7
-Image:Jj 8001.jpg|Floor 8
+Image:JJH FL 08.jpg|Floor 8
-Image:Jj 9001.jpg|Floor 9
+Image:JJH FL 09.jpg|Floor 9
-Image:Jj 10001.jpg|Floor 10
+Image:JJH FL 10.jpg|Floor 10
-Image:Jj 11001.jpg|Floor 11
+Image:JJH FL 11.jpg|Floor 11
-Image:Jj 12001.jpg|Floor 12
+Image:JJH FL 12.jpg|Floor 12
-Image:Jj 13001.jpg|Floor 13
+Image:JJH FL 13.jpg|Floor 13
-Image:Jj 14001.jpg|Floor 14
+Image:JJH FL 14.jpg|Floor 14
-Image:Jj 15001.jpg|Floor 15
+Image:JJH FL 15.jpg|Floor 15
 </gallery>

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 * Floors 5-15: residential floors
 === Elevator trivia ===
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 The roof is the slanted copper style, so you can't stand on it, except for a small section near the edge of the roof, if you have a friend on the 15th floor. However, you are six inches away from a 160 ft drop; it's not worth it. In any case, the access hatch is easily located on the roof of the fifteenth floor, but good luck opening it without anyone noticing. If you want a good view of the campus from a roof, try [[Mudd Hall]], [[Pupin Hall]], or [[Butler Library]].
-==Stairs to JJ's place==
 ==References==

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 '''John Jay''' is a first year [[residence hall]]. It also contains the [[John Jay Dining Hall]], the offices of [[Health Services]], and [[JJ's Place]], a basement snack bar. The building is located at the corner of 114th Street and [[Amsterdam Avenue]], with its entrance on the campus side. It is named for Founding Father and alumnus [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]]. Not, therefore, to be pronounced Juan Jé or John Jizzle.
 == History ==
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 </gallery>
-=== Incidents in the building ===
+== Incidents in the building ==
 *[[1934]]: Anti-Semitic demonstration interrupts the [[1934 Purim dance|Purim dance]] being held in the building

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	* Floor 4: administrative offices for Health Services.		* Floor 4: administrative offices for Health Services.
		+	* Floor 6: the highest floor.
	* Floors 5-15: residential floors		* Floors 5-15: residential floors