All MD-PhD students have access to housing in one of several buildings, all within a few minutes walking distance to the classrooms, labs, and libraries of the Tri-I campus.
Housing
First Year Housing
Olin Hall houses 1st-Year year MD-PhD students along with their 1st-Year MD and PhD cohorts.
Across the street 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, Stahl, or the new Feil Family and Weill Family Student Residence Hall.
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 their own kitchen. There is also a newly expanded student lounge and fitness center in the building.
New WCM Housing
In August 2025, Weill Cornell opened the Feil Family and Weill Family Student Residence Hall ("FiWi"), a 16-story, 173,000-square-foot residence located on the northwest corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue, four blocks from Weill Cornell Medicine’s campus. The light-filled and eco-friendly building houses 272 students and features 163 studios, seven one-bedrooms and 51 two-bedroom apartments, all equipped with a full kitchen. The residence hall also includes several spaces for study, collaboration, recreation, fitness and socialization.
Housing Beyond the Sixth Year
Starting in year 7, 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.