The campus housing crunch is so bad that NYU has some students who are living in a fairly expensive hotel.

The New York Times reports.

$300-a-Night Hotel Houses N.Y.U. Students

Each fall, thousands of students take up residence in New York City to attend colleges and universities, exacerbating the city’s housing crunch. Many live in dormitories on campus. Others double or triple up in apartments farther afield to save on rent. This year a lucky few are living in $300-a-night hotel rooms.

An increase in the number of students wanting to live in dorms at New York University this fall created something of a housing shortage for some 145 of the approximately 12,000 students the university houses each year. To accommodate the overflow, N.Y.U. gave some upperclassmen the option to live at Manhattan NYC, an Affinia Hotel, with 618 rooms near Madison Square Garden.

Anton Sorkin, a 19-year-old sophomore studying business and Russian, was among them. The hotel room he shares with a roommate is outfitted with two double beds, a desk, a flat-screen TV, a coffee maker, a two-burner Miele gas cooktop, a microwave, and an iPhone docking station. Housekeeping comes twice a week to clean the room, change the sheets and refresh the bathroom, including changing the towels and refilling the shampoo and conditioner, which are dispensed via pump bottles.

The basement has a 24-hour gym and a Ping-Pong table. Room service, while not part of the meal plan, is available to students who leave a credit card on file with the front desk. Mr. Sorkin said this amenity is beyond his student budget. (“Two eggs your way,” which comes with a side of bacon or sausage, is $14, in addition to the 17 percent service charge.) He has considered using the dry-cleaning service, however, as it’s only a few dollars more than the place down the block.