Campus Life

I enjoyed the food they had for breakfast but there did not seem like a lot off variety for lunch.

over priced stale

It is located in downtown Brooklyn so every time you are hungry just go one or two blocks away from the dorms and buy food (most of them fast food though). The Poly restaurant is good for the first two or three months, after that you get bored of the food.

Poly's food is known for not being the greatest. We just opened up a sandwich shop that's pretty decent and you can use your meal plan on. For part of the semester we also had sushi chefs which were also pretty good, but other than that the food is subpar. Keep in mind though, that if you're willing to spend a little bit of your own money there are some amazing places to eat near campus.

Ask anyone if they like Lackmann, the restaurant service for NYU-Poly, and they will more-than-likely say Only because of my meal plan. I've had friends complain across the board and one even suffered from food poisoning there, but I must say that they have quite a nice set of staff.

Avoid Lackman for everything but coffee and prepackaged candy bars.

If you don't like the cafeteria food, there are TONS of places right around the corners to get food. It's Brooklyn, so there's a huge variety as well.

Lackman food services is a joke. I enjoy the people working there, guys running the grill start calling you honey sometime around welcome week, however the actual food is much to expensive to eat at. especially when it's itemized, and weighed. When meals are $0.45 an ounce you don't eat right,especially when the apartment style dorm boils down to $7.00 a day. This is something overlooked by commuters because they simply don't notice.

The cafeteria is a good hangout place but get your food from outside.

food is absolutely horrible. same food all the time, they renewed the cafeteria but food is the same. since there is no competition they do not care to serve better food.

little bit

There are a few fraternities on campus, and NYU has many.

I know several people pledging. Frats at poly are a joke. Being branded as socially awkward, and the enigma behind it makes it more difficult to get bids from the NYU sector. Most people drop it when they see their grades start to dip. It's not easy, and the commute doesn't get any easier once rush week is over.

Poly does have coed and all male Fraternities, but I suggest not to actually pledge until after your 1st semester. That way you can get a feel for how to manage work, school, and extracurricular. For historically black Greek life unfortunately there aren't any chapters on campus but you will be able to join the city wide chapter.

There is only one frat. Not too big on greek life here, although you are allowed to join the ones at the main campus

several fraternities and sororities. i am in lamda chi alpha and is a great opportunity to meet great people and be involved in many different activities.