Watt Hall

Watt offers a great apartment-style setting with both studio singles and doubles. This building is a pre-war construction, converted to a graduate residence hall in 1977, and into an undergraduate residence in 1996 when Furnald Hall was closed for renovations. Since its inception, it has been one of the most popular and desired residence halls on campus. Seniors and Juniors with high lottery numbers usually pick into the spacious singles and one and two bedroom doubles while lucky juniors and sophomores are sometimes able to snag the studio doubles.

Facilities

Suites

• 12 apartments for 2 with 1 bedroom
• 11 apartments for 2 with 2 bedrooms
• 28 studio singles
• 35 studio doubles

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

• Watt 1O is an often-overlooked large double. On other floors it would be a one-bedroom.
• Can travel room to room via the fire escape.

Disadvantages

• No common lounges.
• No computer labs or printers so you have to walk to McBain to print anything out.
• No vending machines
• Elevator sometimes gets stuck between floors.
• Fire engine based at 113th and Amsterdam frequently blares sirens and horn late at night.
• No ventilation for bathrooms.

Photos

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  First suite bedroom, view 1

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  First suite bedroom, view 2

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  Second suite bedroom, view 1

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  Second suite bedroom, view 2

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  Suite bathroom, view 1

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  Suite bathroom, view 2

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  Suite lounge, view 1

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  Suite lounge, view 2

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  Suite kitchen

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  Studio double

Floor plans

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  Floor 1

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  Floor 2

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  Floor 3

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  Floor 4

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  Floor 5

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  Floor 6

Map

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Building address

549 W. 113th St.
New York, NY 10025

External links

• Columbia Housing - Watt