92Y Residence

The staff and facilities are great, but it’s super expensive and it seems that they’re always trying to find ways to take more money from the residents. I have lived here 3 years and at first we were allowed one free guest a month and music practice rooms were free to use after hours for the residents. Since then, they have taken away free overnight guests (now it’s $ 10 which is kind of crazy considering the cost of the rooms) and there is a charge to use the practice rooms. Honestly, finding a roommate online seems to be the better option until they start providing better service.

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A lot of issues I am referring to happened in 2014. I have seen some changes in the span of a couple of months and told of some drastic changes made. I also got a personal message from the Resident Liaison that I really appreciated, thus I changed the review to reflect how I feel. I have one more year with 92Y so who knows, maybe I might change it to five stars.
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I will be frank. I do not really like living at the 92Y. I am only here to have a single room. I lived at 92Y for 2 years.
The girls who lived on my floor were filthy. The shared fridge I used had black goop at the bottom for many months until someone complained. People stole my food (my ice cream with my name written all over the box!!), people refused to wash their own dishes, and people were always leaving their crap everywhere. The community bathroom was one of the biggest issues for me. There was this one time the showers only had brown gritty water coming out. I believe many people complained about that. There was also someone who always left their bloody tampons floating in the toilet. I saw roaches! GROSS! Oh, and there was a bunch of Brazilian exchange students who smoked pot and cigarettes every freaking day in their rooms. The smell permeated the halls. I complained to the RA, but he never did anything about it. (That incident was during my first year stay — I learned complaining really didn’t get any results). However, it is a shared space and the problems that arise from it are not at fault with the 92Y.
My biggest gripe is the laundry machines. They are almost ALWAYS BROKEN.
GET NEW ONES. STOP DRAGGING YOUR FEET.
Do not stay at 92Y if you detest Waspy New York Moms and their privileged children. They are the rudest people I have ever met in my entire life. Period.
Most of all, DO NOT stay at 92Y if you’re a shy pooper. This girl would not ever do her business until she was completely alone. I know it was her b/​c of her crazy slippers peaking out from under the stall doors. I couldn’t understand why she was always sitting so silently every time I saw her (or rather her slippered feet). This was until, I walked in on said girl pooing (assuming the plopping noises I heard was poo). Literally as soon as she realized another human was in the toilet room, she immediately stopped. lol ok.
So Shy Poopers beware.

Stayed here for a very enjoyable 16 weeks during the summer. The staff here are extremely friendly. A lot of things have been renovated, so I did not experience any moldy or broken showers and did not see any roaches. Also, it’s a 5 min walk to the 4÷5÷6.
The rooms are pretty average in size of a college dorm, which I didn’t mind. Having housekeepers clean the rooms was definitely nice!
However, if you’re in the north building (I was in the south) you might have to wait a bit for the elevators. Also, there’s not much going on in the area (very close to a bunch of museums though).

Don’t stay here. It is really overpriced and low quality. I even saw a bug in the kitchen. Also look for another place if you are going to have visitors. They have weird procedures for this, which is not written anywhere. My experience was that you can have a guest for four nights a week but then you are not allowed to have a guest for the whole following week, although it was written that we can have guests for four days a week. So be ready to expect anything if you stay here. They were never helpful with anything.

My 6′ 6″ little brother rented a small single bedroom with a twin bed here and paid over $ 2200 for a 39 night stay in March. The 92Y was recommded to us by the NYFA and at such short notice, ended up being his most convenient option for that price range. I communicated with the staff st 92Y, helped fill out his paperwork, and paid for his room with my credit card.
The room was very small with very little walking space. It was equipped with a small wooden desk and a chair that was almost as uncomfortable as the twin bed they provided.
There is a common kitchen and shared bathroom on every floor.
The security here requires use of a special ID and the signing in of guests, which gave me the added peace of mind of knowing that my brother was in a relatively safe place.
I personally would have never been able to stay here and think that if you have the time to look for better options, it would be significantly more comfortable and cost effective to rent a bedroom at an apartment near your school/​job.

The room it self is rather small. You get a small desk, a drawer a closet and a bed. You will only have enough room to walk in and out of the room.
If you plan on cooking, do not live here. you share one kitchen between 20 – 40 people. Food gets stolen all the time, appliances get stolen as well. Not a good experience trying to cook here.
If you live here you might get moved around. As in you will have to pack up and move to another room for a few days to a couple weeks before they move you again. It has happened to a couple of people i know here.
The mandatory apartment cleaning are annoying as they the cleaning people have a tendency to take your pillows and bed sheets.
Do you want to have friends over? NOPE. You can only check in one person at a time.
do you want to have a beer? NOPE. No alcohol policy. not even in your room.
want to do laundry? Maybe. One machine per floor, 20 – 40 people per floor. good luck!
do not recommend

Since I wasn’t able to find a suitable temporary sublet, I applied to stay here while I was in the city temporarily. This place has a security system similar to the Pentagon… and you have to personally sign your guests in and out each time they come by. I must say the lobby entrance looks really nice and the good thing is they have elevators too.
However, their single rooms are TINY. They provide you with a twin bed, table, chair and walking space the size of another twin bed. There is a tiny one door «kinda walk-​in» closet space. By walk-​in I mean you can stand there, not the luxurious walk-​ins you might imagine. Furniture is very basic. Since this was in between the school year, I also drove up my own bar fridge and TV (which I eventually sold off to a new tenant when I moved out the next month — didn’t need those as I was planning to move out of the school dorm after I leave NYC and head back to school, so I guess it was all well-​planned). There was laundry in the building (on the floor I believe, so I didn’t have to deal with the hassle of heading to the laundromat at least.
Did I mention that I had a friend visit from London while I was here… and I had to request for a rollaway. Once that was set up, there was literally NO walking space left in the room. Facilities here are basic, you get use of the common kitchen and bathrooms. Oh well, I kinda didn’t want to deal with a sublet and living in a space with other people’s things. At the Y, you get cleaning included in the stay plus, it was relatively cheaper, but I definitely had to make concessions.