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Our first residence hall was purchased in 1983, which then sparked a boom of purchasing for the then named, NYU Department of Housing and Residence Life. By 1987, halls Brittany, Rubin, Hayden, Weinstein, Goddard, Alumni, Alumni, WSV, and 26th Street were all in place. In 1988, Third North, 7th Street, and Carlyle were purchased. There was an increase in staff in our department over the next three years, and then in 1993, a decline in residential population occurred, as well as staff. However, by 1996, a housing boom occurred once again, and by 1998, Broome Street and Greenwich Hotel were purchased. In 1999, University Hall opened, Water Street was leased, and the residential population exceeded 6,500. By the year 2001, Lafayette was purchased, Coral Towers opened, and staff additions were made again. In 2002, Palladium opened, and in 2003, Second Street, Stuyvesant Town, and West 13th Street also opened. In the summer of 2003, the formally named NYU Department of Housing and Residence Life developed into two different departments: University Housing, and Residential Education. In 2005, the total residential student population exceeds 12,500 and continues to expand. Since the summer 2003, the NYU Department of Residential Education has taken off and fully developed into a completely new department, with a focus on academics, intellectual and personal growth, diversity, and community, as our guiding principles state. As you will see throughout our website, the resources and initiatives in our department abound. The NYU residential student is provided with an extremely wide variety of programs offered to help assist them, as well as engage, help them grow, and learn more about themselves, others, and the world around them. We are an evolving and involving department and look forward to a future of development, growth, and improvement of programs offered.