All MD-PhD students are guaranteed housing in one of several buildings, all within a few minutes walking distance to the classrooms, labs, and libraries of the Tri-I campus.
First Year Housing
Olin Hall houses 1st-Year year MD-PhD students along with their 1st-Year MD and PhD cohorts.
Situated a literal stone's throw from the main Medical College building on York Avenue, Olin Hall offers dormitory style rooms with bathrooms shared with one other resident. There are also shared kitchen/lounge areas on each floor where residents can prepare meals.
Olin Hall also offers a student lounge, fitness center, and one of very few underground basketball courts on the Upper East Side.
Housing Beyond the First Year
After their first year, MD-PhD students enter the Weill Cornell housing lottery and move to one of the other residential buildings, such as Lasdon House or Stahl.
Lasdon House is a recently renovated high-rise apartment building for MD, MD-PhD, and PhD students offering furnished apartments (from studios, up to three bedrooms), each with its own kitchen, a newly expanded student lounge, and a fitness center in the building.
New WCM Housing
Weill Cornell Medicine is constructing a modern new student residence that, when it opens in 2025, will expand the scope of the institution’s Upper East Side campus and nearly double the existing student residential living space.
The new $260 million, 16-story, 173,000-square-foot residence is located on the northwest corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue, four blocks from Weill Cornell Medicine’s existing campus of clinical, research and educational buildings. The light-filled and eco-friendly building will house 272 students and feature 163 studios, seven one-bedrooms and 51 two-bedroom apartments, all equipped with a full kitchen. The residence hall will also include several spaces for study, collaboration, recreation, fitness and socialization.
Housing Beyond the Sixth Year
After the 6th sixth year, MD-PhD students are housed in Rockefeller University housing. Assignments are made via the Rockefeller Univeristy Housing Lottery.
Rockefeller offers furnished and partially furnished apartments ranging from studios to two bedrooms in buildings that house students, post-docs, and faculty.
Off-Campus Housing
Some of our students choose to live off-campus in various parts of NYC and its surrounds. There are, of course, a plethora of housing options in New York and with our robust public transportation system, getting to the Tri-I campus from another part of the city can be quite easy.
WCM offers some advice and resources for conducting a New York City housing search.