Schapiro Hall

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Schapiro Hall

Morris A. Schapiro Hall, popularly known as Schapiro, is an undergraduate residence hall that mostly houses juniors in singles and sophomores in doubles. It has yet to earn the nickname "The Schap." It's on 115th St between Broadway and Riverside Drive. Schapiro was built in 1988 for $18m, making it the second newest residence hall after Broadway. When it was completed, Schapiro enabled Columbia to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for all 4 years for the first time in its history.

Schapiro singles usually go to rising seniors, and rising juniors with a lottery number better than 1600.

Facilities

Each floor has a lounge and kitchen. Schapiro has 17 floors that accommodate 245 singles and 85 doubles. Schapiro also has several music practice rooms, a laundry room, and access to the Schapiro Black Box Theater.

Floors

  • Floor 17: faculty-in-residence penthouse.

Rooms

  • 55 doubles
  • 245 singles
  • 30 walk-through doubles (05 and 07 line)

Advantages

  • 04, 20 and 22 lines on floors 10-16 are large singles with south views onto 115th St.
  • Nice first floor lounge and skylounge.

Disadvantages

  • North-facing rooms on lower floors are in a shaft so they get little light.
  • 02-line: very small walk-through doubles, with noise from elevator, next to the trash chute.
  • 07-line: small walk-through doubles, again with noise from elevator.
  • Watch out for room 902.
  • Nauseating combo of pale neon lighting and peeling pure-white paint.
  • Ben Teitelbaum's frequent hallway jaunts in boxers and flip-flops.
  • Malfunctioning heating system.
  • No modular shelves.

Photos

  • Double (room 605), view 1

  • Double (room 605), view 2

  • The largest single, view 1

  • The largest single, view 2

  • The largest single, view 3

  • The largest single, view 4

  • Floor lounge, view 1

  • Floor lounge, view 2

  • Floor kitchen

  • First floor lounge

  • View out of the first floor lounge

  • Skylounge

  • View out of the skylounge, north

  • View out of the skylounge, north-west

  • View out of the skylounge, south

Floor plans

  • Floor 2

  • Floor 3

  • Floor 4

  • Floor 5

  • Floor 6

  • Floor 7

  • Floor 8

  • Floor 9

  • Floor 10

  • Floor 11

  • Floor 12

  • Floor 13

  • Floor 14

  • Floor 15

  • Floor 16

Map

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