Looking to live near campus in an air-conditioned single? Love spending the afternoon in Riverside Park? Schapiro could be the place for you.

Location: 605 West 115th Street

• Nearby:
  • Dorms: Furnald, Woodbridge, River
  • Stores and Restaurants: Morton Williams, Pret, Shake Shack, Sweetgreen, Starbucks, Halal cart, UPS Store
  • Riverside Park

Cost: $11,026/year (projected rate for 2022-2023)

Amenities:

• Bathrooms: Floors 2-9 have four bathrooms each (two for females, one for males, and one gender-neutral/single-use/disability bathroom). Floors 10-16 have two bathrooms, one of which is either male or female and the other of which is a single-use/disability one.
• AC/Heating: Not only are there both, but you can control them!
• Kitchen: Every floor has a kitchen.
• Lounge: There are lounges on each floor. There is also a building lounge on the first floor, as well as the Stephen Donaldson Lounge, which is a dedicated space for LGBTQ+ students. The top floor also has a sky lounge.
• Laundry: You can launder your clothing in the basement.
• Computers/Printing: There’s a computer lab on the first floor with two PawPrint printers.
• Gym: You’re out of luck.
• Intra-transportation: Three surprisingly nice elevators.
• Hardwood/carpet: Hardwood.
• Bonus: Schapiro has several music practice rooms open 24 hrs/day, as well as a dance room on the first floor.

Room Variety:

• 245 singles that range from 100 to 120 square feet
• 55 regular doubles that range from 170 to 200 square feet
• 30 walk-through doubles (two per floor). On floors 2-9, there’s one ~79/115 square foot double and one ~100/114 square foot double. On floors 10 and above, there’s one ~85/117 square foot double and one ~98/114 square foot double.

Numbers:

• For 2018-2019, the cutoffs were 10/2953 for a double, 11.667/349 for a single and 10/2505 for a walk-through double.
• If you’re a sophomore, even with a pretty bad number, you’ll likely be able to get into Schapiro.

Bwog Recommendation:

Schapiro Hall is a solid choice, especially for students on the hunt for a decent single with AC.  Just steps away from Riverside Park and within a short distance of both campus and multiple stores on Broadway, it’s hard to find another dorm with a more convenient location. Building amenities like the sky lounge, music practice rooms, and the Steven Donaldson Lounge provide unique benefits to living in Schapiro that you won’t find anywhere else. 

Resident Opinions:

• “Schapiro is to Broadway what Miu Miu is to Prada.” (Whatever that means)
• “Great location between campus and Riverside.”
• “The bathrooms are sometimes a little gross depending on your floor, but having a single with AC is great.”
• “The elevators are super sexy.”
• “The higher floors have a great view.”
• “Nothing to complain about.”
• “Schapiro is fine. It’s pretty clean, the elevators are awesome, and it’s never too loud. The room can feel a little small and getting shafted isn’t ideal, but people complain about living here way too much.”
• “A lot of people kind of keep to themselves, so there’s not a super strong sense of community, but people were generally nice and I still got to know some of my neighbors.”

All photos via Bwog Archives.