Freshpeople Housing 2025: Wallach

Crucial reading for the class of 2029.

Location: Southeast corner of campus, between 115th and 116th.

Nearby dorms: Hartley and John Jay
Stores and restaurants: John Jay and JJs Place. Depending on your definition of “close,” also near Amsterdam stores and restaurants (Apple Tree Deli, Dunkin, etc.) and Symposium.
Close to pretty much all campus buildings, libraries, and dining halls. A bit of a walk to places on the North side of campus (Chefs Don and Mike, Uris Library, NOCO library, etc.) but it’s all within the campus gates!

Amenities:

Bathrooms: Seven single-use private bathrooms per floor(three in each of the two main hallways, and one in the center of the floor), with their own showers, toilet, and sinks.
AC/Heating: Window unit AC, no control over the heat
Lounges: One lounge located in the middle of every floor containing a kitchen with an oven, a stovetop, a sink, a microwave
Laundry: One room with twelve washers and twelve dryers, shared with Hartley, and located in the bowels of the basement tunnels underneath Wallach and Hartley
Printing: There is a PawPrint printer in the lobby of Wallach
Elevators: One on each side of the building
Other: Wallach Sky Lounge, Wallach Gamer Lounge, pavilion/seating area right outside the doors of Wallach, with several tables and benches available.

Room variety:

Nine residential floors, 141 singles ranging roughly from 100 to 125 square feet. 51 doubles, each at around 200 square feet.
The views from windows facing into campus (overlooking Butler Library and Butler Lawn) are very pleasant. Views that face east have a great sunrise view.

Bwog recommendations:

Wallach is nice to live in (though it definitely depends on your floormates). Especially with the communal kitchen areas, some people may not clean up after themselves, but as long as you have a respectful floor, that should be no problem. The location is perfect for quick access to the dining halls. The singles are spacious as well.
Wallach is a pretty solid place to live! It offers a private quality, but also one interconnected to a majority of the First Year class through passageways to Hartley and John Jay.
Like Hartley and John Jay, being located so close to several dining halls is very convenient, and it is generally centrally located and never a far walk from anything located immediately on campus.
The size, privacy, and relative cleanliness of our bathrooms are a consistent source of jealousy from friends in other buildings.
I have personally never seen a cockroach on my floor, only some in the basement when doing my laundry, though I do have friends that have seen some.
There have been reports of mice, and I did see a centipede once.
The walls and doors are fairly soundproof (when walking in the hallway, I will hear noises from other rooms, but upon entering my room, I can only hear very loud sounds from outside); however, the rooms closest to the lounges do seem to be susceptible to sound, especially when the door to the lounge is kept open.
Wallach is pretty understated since it is less communal and (seemingly) quieter than Hartley, its companion building, but it is overall very clean and spacious and a chill and enjoyable place to live.
There are constant fire alarms, most of which are caused by cooking incidents (they get old real fast).

Read past Wallach reviews here!