Pace Out of Clark Hall, St. George Rooms Reduced

By on April 19, 2007 11:29 am in News

weller.jpgPace University will be downsizing the number of dorm rooms available to students at the St. George Hotel and eliminating student housing at Clark Hall (55 Clark Street), the Pace Press reports. The school recently signed a lease for new, state of the art facility at 55 John Street in Manhattan with Educational Housing Services.  The new dorm features, among other things, a plasma screen television and central heat and air conditioning in every room.

For students, the move means an increase in housing costs — almost $2,000 more for a double room compared to Clark Hall and St. George.

"It messes up a lot of people's housing plans. It's horrendous that most students are going to be stuck paying over $7,000 for housing," sophomore Kimberly Egge tells Pace Press. 

A spokesperson for the university tells the paper that the cost differential is not that significant and is more than made up for by the amenities offered at the new dorm.

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  • Mik

    I am new to the neighborhood and the only blight in the neighborhood is a handful of hooligans who live in the St. George. They are giving a bad name to what I am sure are a number of very decent young people. In the last two months, to name a few incidents, I saw some drunk students tear a tree guard out of the ground around a tree on Hicks Street, was awakened by a noisy fight at 3 in the morning among students who then went back to the St. George and saw a student intentionally damage a stopped taxi with his skateboard. These kids are really bad for the neighborhood, depressing property values and frightening to other residents.

  • Poulenc

    I’m relatively new to BH, which I find serene but lifeless.

    I welcome the kids who hang out on Henry in front of the dorm as they seem–to me–to bring a bit of hip, albeit less than deluxe, to the nabe.

    I’ve seen no destructive nor rowdy behavior; I expect I’ll see little student behavior at all as the weather gets colder

  • JL

    Poulenc, try living on Clark St, or the corner of clark/henry/hicks and you will find that the students can be incredibly loud and noisy late at night into the early morning (not talking 10 PM, more like between 1 AM and 4 AM). I don’t mind them hanging out to smoke or to get out of their stuffy dorms, but please, be quiet and talk softly!

  • Quiet and Softly

    The students NEED some place to live. Are you currently a student JL? I’m going to be in Grad school in Brooklyn at Pratt and the housing is damn near 11,000 for the year. The Clark St. place is one of the cheaper places to live. Maybe they are loud because they are cramped into a small space and paying out of the ears for it and need to blow off some seteam.

  • Quiet and Softly

    I meant steam…well you get the point. Finding student housing in NYC blows chunks.

  • Frank

    Mik you said that the Residence hall is “depressing property values and frightening to other residents”

    I guess you didn’t live here before the students came and the hotel was filled with homeless crack addicts and people dying from AIDS not to mention the stripper bar in the hotel. If students scare you more then drug addicts and the crowd strippers brought then you don’t belong in NY sir. And please don’t worry about property value going down, it has done nothing but go up in the years that students have filled the building.

    Not to mention the money they are brining to the local merchants. The students whether you enjoy them being there or not have done nothing but improve the neighborhood.

    I live directly across from 55 Clark Street and sure the kids can be a little loud but the staff does a pretty good job keeping it under check. They have put signs up on occasion informing the students to respect the neighborhood. I have talked to the staff personally and they ensured me that they do their best. After the fire in the Clark in 1995 I used to stare at a burnt shell of a building that was unsightly. I will take the students that live here now any day rather then that burnt out shell of a building that existed prior. I will also take the small amount of noise then the homeless filled building that was previously there any day.

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