Gramercy Residence Hall – School of Visual Arts

I am one to usually write positive reviews or none at all but I feel as if I have to share some information with possible future residents. This place has gone downhill lately and my experience this past summer was extremely poor. I was here for 10 weeks and I shared a doorless bedroom (essentially a living room) with one person and had two other roommates in another bedroom. The four of us shared a mini kitchen and a bathroom. This all sounds nice except we were also accompanied by countless amounts of mice (and I mean countless) and black mold. Our place wreaked of mice no matter how much we tried to get rid of them or remove the smell. The administrators did absolutely nothing about this as well. All in all, it was poor. I would use my $ 3,900 elsewhere if I were you.

This is a gorgeous residence hall! These students don’t know how good they have it!
It’s all female during the academic year, but then SVA opens it up to non-​SVA students and interns in the city for the summer. They have 24-​security and it’s an incredibly safe neighborhood.
The building is prewar, which means it has gorgeous parquet flooring, huge closets, big bedrooms, nice sized kitchens, and a charming elevator. They leave the rooftop open for their residents year-​round. They have a grill for the students to use, lounge chairs, picnic tables and chairs, oh, and an amazing view of Gramercy Park. The residents also share a key to the park as well. There’s a homey little lounge for the students to chill out in, watch tv, play a game, etc.
This is definitely not your typical college residence hall!

I have only visited here because some friends live in the dorm. Compared with the new res building Id have to say id prefer to live here rather than two blocks away haha.
Even though its a really old building with a kinda sketchy elevator its clean and really roomy ~
Like the other dorms I dont like turning in my ID at the door and having to sign in and out and all the other rules that govern the dorm.
Its safety, I know~~
Its all female which kinda makes it a nice enviroment… haha
The key word there is ‘kinda’

if you go to SVA and you are female… if you dont try to get into gramercy you are stupid.
unless you want to gang bang in the all freshman new rez dorm. well. thats your own problem.
if you want to live in the nicest building /​neighborhood that SVA has to offer. (and youre female) then you MUST try to get into Gramercy. end of story.
did i mention its all girls?
trust me it doesnt ruin you «college experience»
just sign the men in before 11pm
you will get plenty of ass if thats what youre worried about =P