This week, NYU Shanghai Residential Life announced the school will be opening a new dorm in the Lao Xi Men neighborhood in Puxi.

The dormitories are currently located in the Jin Qiao neighborhood in Pudong. Shanghai is divided in the middle by the Huangpu River; the western side, Puxi, is the older part of the city and the cultural city center. The Eastern side, Pudong, where the students currently live, only began developing into an industrial center around 15 years ago.

As NYUSH has already expanded its incoming class size and a new influx of study away students are enrolling next semester, the school needs another place to house students. The BASE Residence is an apartment building but is designed to mimic a dorm community. NYUSH will send around 65 students to the new facilities as a test run of the new dorm. Students currently living in the Jin Qiao dormitory that would like to move must fill out an application form for consideration.

The new dorm will offer large double, standard double, large double as a single and single rooms. The current Jin Qiao dorm offers the aforementioned in addition to triples and apartment style dormitories. The new dorm rooms will all have their own bathrooms as well as a communal kitchen on each floor.

The BASE living option is already popular among students and many have already applied to live there. However, the lack of a shuttle bus to campus is proving to be a drawback for some. At the Jin Qiao residence, NYUSH provides shuttle bus services back and forth from the dorms to the Century Avenue campus. The new dorm will not offer this service. Instead, students will need to take a taxi or the metro to school.