If you want a single near campus, Hewitt may be the option for you!

• Location: Barnard Quad (3009 Broadway)

• Nearby dorms: other quad buildings (Sulz, Reid, Brooks). Across the street from the 600s.

• Nearby stores/restaurants: Hooda Halal on 116th, any of the other food trucks around Broadway/116th, Shake Shack, Pret, Morton-Williams.

• Cost per year: $12,438 (plus a required 150 meal swipe plan, which is $5,590)

Amenities: 

• Furniture: Every student is provided an XL twin bed, a desk, a chair, and two dressers that can fit below the bed. Some rooms come with wardrobes, and most rooms have (pretty large) closets. 
• Common Areas: Sulzberger lounges on floors (other than the second floor) and Brooks Lounge, which is more of a study space but does have couches and comfy chairs.
• Security: 24-hour attendant at the front desk.
• Internet: Wireless internet access (both Barnard Secure and Barnard Guest).
• Bathrooms: There is a common bathroom on each floor, with even floors being gender-inclusive and odd floors being women-only.  
• Kitchens: There aren’t any Hewitt-specific kitchens, but there is usually a microwave in the center of the hallway, and you can go to the Sulzberger lounges if you want a full kitchen!
• Flooring: Linoleum (that somehow always looks dirty)
• Laundry: Laundry is available on all floors (except for the second floor, you have to go up a floor before the buildings in the quad are all connected).
• Mail/Packages: All students receive mail and packages at the Student Mail Room in Altschul.
• Accessibility: The Sulz entrance is wheelchair accessible, and there are ways of accessing all of the rooms from there.
• Intra-transportation: Hewitt is eight floors high, with the elevator only going up to the seventh floor. The second floor is cut off from the rest of the building, so you have to go up to the third floor (or back down to the first floor or basement) to access the other quad buildings.
• Air Conditioning/Heating: There is no AC, but suites have radiators for heating and a portable fan is provided. 

Room types:

• Hewitt is almost entirely singles, with one double on floor 2. 
  • Half the rooms face in towards the quad and half face out towards Riverside Avenue.
  • Hewitt rooms are approximately 16×8 feet.
  • 70 singles, 1 double 

Numbers:

• 10 rising seniors, 30 rising juniors, and two rising sophomores. Although Hewitt is a first-year dorm on some floors, the second, third, and fourth floors are for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
  • Lottery number 238 was the last Hewitt single taken and was taken by one member of a three-person rising Junior group. Lottery number 437 (two rising sophomores) took the only Hewitt double last year.

Bwog recommendation:

If you want a single, Hewitt is a great option! It is convenient to live right on campus, although you can’t actually access Hewitt dining hall without going into Barnard Hall first. It’s very nice to live in the same building as Brooks Lounge, which is one of my favorite study spots on campus! One note is that you don’t have as much of an ability to cook (especially on the second floor) and you have to sign up for 150 meal swipes, so there are some tradeoffs. It’s pretty quiet most nights as well, so if that’s important to you definitely consider it!

Resident opinions:

• “It’s nice to be back on campus and have a single, but the second floor is not connected to the rest of the building so you have to go up to other floors to access laundry/Sulz amenities.” 
• “You have to sign up for at least the 150 meal swipe plan, which is doable but definitely something to consider.”
• “The rooms are quite big for a single, haven’t had any problems with the walls being too thin. The carpets are painful to look at and bring the value of the floor down.”
• “It was the kind of environment that I needed for the past semester, and was overall a good experience.” 

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