Short-Term
Options
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to learn more.
Long-Term
Options
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to learn more.
These options have a minimum stay ranging from 1 night to 30 days. Move
in dates can be exible and pricing varies. This type of accommodation
usually has fully furnished private or shared rooms, sometimes access to
a kitchen and other amenities. Many are for students/interns only.
• Common Hamilton: Private apartments and coliving units. (Hamilton Heights)
• Educational Housing Services: Private rooms rented by the semester. (Various NYC
locations including Upper West Side, Midtown, Downtown & Brooklyn)
• Hyatus Harlem:
Fully furnished apartments, no minimum stay. (Harlem and
Morningside Heights)
• June Homes: Fully furnished rooms and apartments. (Manhattan & Brooklyn)
• NY Habitat: Furnished and unfurnished rooms and apartments, 3 day minimum stay.
(Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens)
• NYCintern.org:
Furnished apartments. (Downtown Manhattan & Brooklyn)
• 92 Street Y: Furnished shared rooms and apartments. (Upper East Side)
• CU Housing FB: Facebook group of Columbia afliates renting/selling apartments
across NYC.
These options provide longer term lease options as well as residencies
specically for students and interns in New York City. Pricing and
furnishing varies.
• International House NYC: Private non-prot residence for graduate students and
scholars. (Morningside Heights)
• Monarch Heights: Apartments for long term housing. (Morningside Heights)
• Student Housing Works: Student apartments with 30 day minimum reservation.
(Upper West Side, Downtown Manhattan, Queens)
• Student Housing Associates: Furnished single units with 30 day minimum reservation.
(Downtown & Midtown Manhattan)
• Student Apartment Solutions: Flexible leases from 1 month to 2 years. (Upper West
Side, Financial District)
Student Housing
Resources
Off-Campus Housing Assistance (OCHA)-Columbia University
OCHA manages a Housing Registry which includes available rooms and apartments
in non-Columbia-owned buildings and sublets of units in Columbia-managed housing.
Learn more ocha.facilities.columbia.edu
Office of Student Life
* Columbia assumes no responsibility in connection with any rental agreement or services provided by our cooperating real estate/relocation agencies and
recommends that all agreements between tenant and landlord be put in writing. Columbia expressly disclaims any and all responsibility for any problems
that may arise with regard to such property, rental unit, or roommate posting or with regard to disputes between landlords and tenants, or between
roommates, concerning such property or rental units. All prospective tenants are encouraged to exercise their own good judgment when evaluating a
prospective rental unit, landlord or roommate.
Accommodations
by Not-for-Prots
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to learn more.
Apartment/
Room Rental
Aggregate Sites
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to learn more.
Roommate
Finders
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to learn more.
Hotel
Accomodations
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to learn more.
Usually private, furnished rooms with a shared bath. Cooking facilities are
usually not available, but may have up to two meals provided. Reservations
should be made a few months in advance.
• Kolping NYC: Male only residence, aged 21-35. Maximum stay is 3 months, lunch
or dinner provided. (Upper East Side)
• Sacred Heart: Women only residence, aged 18 - 30. Stays longer than 1 month must
be renewed on a monthly basis, breakfast and dinner provided. (Lower East Side)
• Saint Joseph Immigrant Home: Affordable rooms provided for students and
professional women, between the ages of 18 and 40. (Midtown West)
• YMCA NYC: Affordable accommodations across all 5 boroughs of New York City.
The following online residence websites have direct listings from owners
of apartments with rooms or entire apartments to buy, rent or sublease for
both short and long term options. The locations, availability and pricing
vary considerably. Most of these websites have minimal oversight.
Locations are across all 5 boroughs and the surrounding Tri-State area.
• Apartment List
• Frele
• Leasebreak
• New York City Sublet
• Padmapper
• Street Easy
• Sublet
• Trulia
The following websites can aid in your search for a roommate or room in
New York City.
• Diggz: Find a room or roommate.
• Roomi App: Find a room or roommate.
• Room Zoom: Sorts and ranks compatible roommates.
• Spare Room: Find a room or roommate.
Columbia has negotiated rates for preferred hotels located throughout
Manhattan that offer competitive pricing and a variety of amenities to
guests. Additional information on the Columbia Preferred Hotels, including
rates, can be found by viewing the 2020 Hotel Rates. The approx. distance
between each Preferred Hotel and the Morningside Campus is listed below.
• Aloft Harlem (.06mi)
• Arthouse Hotel (2.1mi)
• Hotel Beacon (2.3m)
• Belleclaire (2.4mi)
• Edge Hotel (2.7mi)
• The Lucerne (2.2mi)
• Warwick New York (4.1mi)
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