The Office of Housing Services
The goal of the Office of Housing Services is to provide on-campus housing for as many incoming students as possible with priority given to student’s coming to the University from outside the metropolitan area. The University maintains housing for students seeking housing solely for themselves (single student housing) and for students seeking housing for themselves and their spouse or domestic partner (student couples housing).

Address:
Office of Housing Services
Bard Hall
50 Haven Ave.
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-HELP (4357)

Email: cumc.housing@columbia.edu
Web site: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/hshousing

Identification Card

The Medical Center Campus and the Morningside Campus have security personnel on duty at building entrances. All personnel and students are required to wear an ID above their waists at all times. Anyone without an ID, including new students, must sign in and receive a pass before entering a building. Identification cards can be secured 24 hours after students complete their first registration. There will be detailed information on how to secure identification cards at the new student orientation.

The Off-Campus Housing Office
The Off-Campus Housing Office was established in 1999 to help students, staff and faculty find housing in the Tri-State area.

Acting as a resource, the office maintains a list of landlords, brokers, and others who can offer affordable housing.  In addition, the office will give advice on where to look, what to look for, what to avoid, and how to look for suitable accommodations.  The office maintains an e-mail list of latest listings, which is sent out to all those who wish to receive the weekly listings, mostly in the Washington Heights/Inwood area.

In addition, the Off-Campus Housing Office is up to date on the latest New York City rent laws, so that Columbia University personnel and students having landlord issues can check to see if there may be a remedy.  Information will be provided, but it is not binding legal information.  If an attorney is needed, the office will indicate that as well.

The Off-Campus Housing Office is located in the Black Building, 650 West 168th Street, Room 126C. Their phone number is 212-305-4930, and the e-mail address for the Director, Adele R. Selik, is as1034@columbia.edu.