Ranking the Dorms at Stony Brook University

Thankfully a cleaning crew comes every week to maintain communal areas like taking out trash, recycling, vacuuming, and cleaning the bathrooms. You keep your own room clean.

The bedroom carpets are nasty. You can request them to be deep cleaned or buy a rug.

The bathrooms and kitchen are dated. You share with roommates. No washing machine. Washer and dryers are available for students.

There is a small playground for families with kids. The ‘common area’ has a gym, a mini self-service shop, study area with two private rooms to study in, two printers, and a package room.

Students who require a handicapped accessible bathroom stall with a shower can find these bathrooms in the commons if they are unable to book a dorm with an accessible bathroom.

There is a student bus that takes students to the main campus or you can easily walk to campus (10-20 minutes). The hospital is 6 minute walk away from these dorms!

Pro:
Location
Family friendly
Quiet
Parking
Laundry
Weekly cleaning
Closets

Con:
Dated
Walls are thin
Sucks if you share a room with a roommate
Most dorm rooms don’t have an ac
Fire alarms go off because students are used to cooking 🙄
- 2 years ago

Roth quad is the nicest and closest dorm to the academic buildings for lower-classman. Most of the buildings in the quad have A/C. Hendrix is the closest to Javits (literally can roll out of bed 10 mins. before class). The building layout is more open than other buildings (like Gershwin and Whitman). The common lounge is nice when you want to watch movies with your friends. I also think Hendrix is the only building in the quad that has a functioning elevator for daily use.

Only con is the mold problem on the carpets. Chose the second floor if you don't want bugs during the beginning of the fall semester. - 5 years ago

Suite style, kitchen in suite, rooms kinda small. Be prepared for flies and heat/dampness. Closest building on Tabler Quad to campus. Also close to Tabler Center and the lawn which was very nice - 4 years ago

Suite style with 3 doubles. Bedrooms are a bit small. The bathroom is built for multiple people which is nice. There is an elevator (albeit a bit slow). Worst part is the 4 flights of stairs you have to climb to get into the community and how far you are from WSD and the LIRR station. - 1 year ago

It’s an alright housing location, but sometimes the wifi is buggy. Also, watch out for those people who throw their laundry in the machines and forget about them till 6 hours later.. - 4 years ago

Public lounge areas are nice and clean. The suites are nice, but small. The elevator at Eisenhower seems a bit outdated because doors take a long time to close and shakes sometimes. - 2 years ago

My room is a double so I share it with a roommate. The room is surprisingly spacious, and the window is big. My suite has a balcony which is nice. - 2 years ago

Lauterbur is pretty great to live in. Rooms are usually suites of 6 people where there's 3 doubles. The sinks are in the hallway but its pretty annoying that the toilet and shower are in separate rooms. The rooms are dorm sized as usual but there's pretty good natural light that comes into the room. The location is great because West Side Dining is right in front of you and the SAC/center of campus is not far from there either. The bus stop is also right in front of the building. Overall great place to live. - 2 years ago

The location is great as it's very close to West Dining, it's within a 10 min walk to the main buildings of the campus, and a lot of the buses stop right in front of the building. The bedrooms are a bit small. The living rooms in the suites are a nice size. The bathroom I think is the best part as it's great for multiple people. The lounges are a little bit depressing, but maybe because the building is quite old. There is also an elevator in the building. Not sure about the differences between all the buildings in the Kelly community though. - 2 years ago

It's one of the newer dorms, so it's definitely cleaner than the older buildings. There's great sun exposure and I like how the shower and toilet are in separate rooms with the sinks in the hallway. Kind of far from the rec center though, but at least west dining is across the street. I had some bad stink bug and lady bug infestations back in the spring semester though. - 1 year ago